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1 143 FERC ¶ 62,164, Order Granting Exemption 

from Licensing (Conduit). 

When we publish and distribute the 

EIS, copies will be sent to the 

environmental mailing list for public 

review and comment. If you would 

prefer to receive a paper copy of the 

document instead of the CD version or 

would like to remove your name from 

the mailing list, please return the 

attached Information Request 

(Appendix 2). 

Becoming an Intervenor 

Once LLNGE files its application with 

the Commission, you may want to 

become an ‘‘intervenor’’ which is an 

official party to the Commission’s 

proceeding. Intervenors play a more 

formal role in the process and are able 

to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be 

heard by the courts if they choose to 

appeal the Commission’s final ruling. 

An intervenor formally participates in 

the proceeding by filing a request to 

intervene. Instructions for becoming an 

intervenor are in the User’s Guide under 

the ‘‘e-filing’’ link on the Commission’s 

Web site. Please note that the 

Commission will not accept requests for 

intervenor status at this time. You must 

wait until the Commission receives a 

formal application for the project. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

Project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web 

site at www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Click on the eLibrary 

link, click on ‘‘General Search’’ and 

enter the docket number, excluding the 

last three digits in the Docket Number 

field (i.e., PF14–17). Be sure you have 

selected an appropriate date range. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov 

or toll free at (866) 208–3676, or for 

TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. The 

eLibrary link also provides access to the 

texts of formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission now 

offers a free service called eSubscription 

which allows you to keep track of all 

formal issuances and submittals in 

specific dockets. This can reduce the 

amount of time you spend researching 

proceedings by automatically providing 

you with notification of these filings, 

document summaries, and direct links 

to the documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/esubscription.asp. 

Finally, public meetings or site visits 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

calendar located at www.ferc.gov/

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Dated: October 3, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24296 Filed 10–10–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14498–001] 

Lucid Energy, Inc. and The City of 

Portland Water Bureau, Conduit 3, 

LLC; Notice of Transfer of Exemption 

1. By letter filed September 2, 2014 

and supplemented on October 3, 2014, 

Lucid Energy, Inc. and The City of 

Portland Water Bureau informed the 

Commission that the exemption from 

licensing for the Conduit 3 

Hydroelectric Project, FERC No. 14498, 

originally issued June 3, 2013,1 has been 

transferred from Lucid Energy, Inc. and 

The City of Portland Water Bureau as 

co-exemptees to Conduit 3, LLC and 

The City of Portland Water Bureau as 

co-exemptees. The new co-exemptee is 

wholly owned by Lucid Energy, Inc. 

The proposed project would be located 

on The City of Portland Water Bureau’s 

Conduit 3 pipeline, an existing 50-inch 

diameter water supply pipeline, in the 

City of Portland, Multnomah County, 

Oregon. The transfer of an exemption 

does not require Commission approval. 

2. Conduit 3, LLC and The City of 

Portland Water Bureau are now the coexemptees of the Conduit 3 

Hydroelectric Project, FERC No. 14498. 

All correspondence should be 

forwarded to: Mr. Greg Semler, 

President and CEO, Lucid Energy, Inc. 

2420 NE Sandy Blvd., Suite 203, 

Portland, OR 97232. 

Dated: October 7, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24344 Filed 10–10–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 12496–002; Rugraw, LLC] 

Notice of Joint Scoping Meetings With 

the California State Water Resources 

Control Board and Environmental Site 

Review and Soliciting Scoping 

Comments 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric applications have been 

filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (FERC or Commission) and 

are available for public inspection: 

a. Type of Application: Major Original 

License. 

b. Project No.: 12496–002. 

c. Date filed: April 21, 2014. 

d. Applicant: Rugraw, LLC. 

e. Name of Project: Lassen Lodge 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the South Fork Battle 

Creek, nearby the Town of Mineral, 

Tehama County, California. No federal 

lands or Indian reservations are located 

within the proposed project boundary. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Charlie Kuffner, 

70 Paseo Mirasol, Tiburon, CA 94920; 

(415) 652–8553. 

i. FERC Contact: Adam Beeco at (202) 

502–8655; email–adam.beeco@ferc.gov. 

California State Water Board Contact: 

Michelle Lobo at (916) 327–3117; 

email—michelle.lobo@

waterboards.ca.gov. 

j. With this notice, we are soliciting 

comments on the Commission’s staff 

Scoping Document 1 (SD1). Deadline for 

filing scoping comments: December 5, 

2014 (5:00 p.m. EST; 2:00 p.m. PST). 

Scoping comments should be filed 

separately with the Commission and the 

California State Water Resources 

Control Board (State Water Board), as 

noted below. 

Commission 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file scoping 

comments using the Commission’s 

eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/

docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can 

submit brief comments up to 6,000 

characters, without prior registration, 

using the eComment system at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 

208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 

(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please 

send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal 

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Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The first page of any filing should 

include docket number P–12496–002. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all interveners 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 

each person on the official service list 

for the project. Further, if an intervener 

files comments or documents with the 

Commission relating to the merits of an 

issue that may affect the responsibilities 

of a particular resource agency, they 

must also serve a copy of the document 

on that resource agency. 

State Water Board 

Written comments should be 

provided as noted below. When 

submitting your comments, provide the 

contact person’s name and phone 

number. The State Water Board is 

seeking information regarding what type 

of environmental document should be 

prepared (i.e., negative declaration, 

mitigated negative declaration, or 

environmental impact report), as well as 

scoping comments. 

State Water Resources Control Board, 

Division of Water Rights, Water 

Quality Certification Program, 

Attention: Michelle Lobo, P.O. Box 

2000, Sacramento, CA 95812–2000, 

Phone: (916) 327–3117, Fax: (916) 

341–5400, Email: Michelle.Lobo@

waterboards.ca.gov. 

k. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. The proposed Lassen Lodge Project 

consists of: (1) A 6-foot-high and 94- 

foot-long diversion dam; (2) an 

impoundment of approximately 0.5 

acre; (3) a 20 by 10 foot enclosed 

concrete intake structure; (4) a 7,258- 

foot-long pipeline and a 5,230-foot-long 

penstock with a net head of 791 feet; (5) 

a 50 by 50 foot powerhouse containing 

one generating unit with a 5,000- 

kilowatt capacity; (6) a 50 by 50 foot 

substation area; (7) a 40 by 35 foot 

switchyard; (8) 100 by 100 foot 

multipurpose area; and (9) a new 12- 

mile-long, 60-kilovolt transmission line. 

The project is estimated to produce 

approximately 25,000,000 kilowatt 

hours annually. 

m. A copy of the application is 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. A copy is also available 

for inspection and reproduction at the 

address in item ‘‘h.’’ above. 

You may also register online at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

esubscription.asp to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

n. Scoping Process 

The Commission intends to prepare 

an Environmental Assessment (EA) on 

the project in accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act. The 

EA will consider both site-specific and 

cumulative environmental impacts and 

reasonable alternatives to the proposed 

action. 

The State Water Board has not 

determined what type of environmental 

document it will prepare at this time 

and is seeking input from agencies and 

interested parties as part of the scoping 

process. 

Scoping Meetings 

In addition to written comments 

solicited by this SD1, we will hold two 

public scoping meetings and an 

Environmental Site Review in the 

vicinity of the project. A daytime 

meeting will focus on concerns of the 

resource agencies, nongovernmental 

organizations (NGOs), and Indian tribes. 

An evening meeting will focus on 

receiving input from the public. We 

invite all interested agencies, Indian 

tribes, NGOs, and individuals to attend 

one or both of the meetings to assist us 

in identifying the scope of 

environmental issues that should be 

analyzed in the EA and the State Water 

Board’s environmental document. 

These scoping meetings are being 

coordinated with the State Water Board 

and are considered joint scoping 

meetings for the purposes of both the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) and the California 

Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), 

should the State Water Board prepare an 

environmental impact report (EIR). (See 

Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, 15083, 15223, 

15226.) This notice is intended to 

provide notice of the State Water 

Board’s informal consultation with 

responsible and trustee agencies 

pursuant to section 15063 of the CEQA 

Guidelines as to the potential for the 

proposed action to cause a significant 

impact to the environment. (Cal. Code 

Regs., tit. 14, 15063, subd. (g).) 

Recipients of this notice are invited to 

comment on whether an EIR, negative 

declaration, or mitigated negative 

declaration should be prepared. In 

addition, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines 

section 15083, subdivision (c), these 

meetings are intended to simultaneously 

serve the purposes identified in 

California Code of Regulations, title 14, 

section 15082, subdivision (c). Any 

responsible or trustee agency or other 

interested parties that believes an EIR 

should be prepared should identify the 

scope and content of any environmental 

information it believes should be 

required, should the State Water Board 

prepare an EIR. 

The times and locations of the 

meetings are as follows: 

Daytime Scoping Meeting 

Date and Time: Wednesday, 

November 5, 2014, 9:00 a.m. (PST). 

Location: Cal/EPA Building at 1001 I 

Street, Sacramento, California. Byron 

Sher Auditorium on the 2nd floor. 

Phone number: Michelle Lobo—(916) 

327–3117, Webcast: http://www.calepa.

ca.gov/Broadcast/. 

Paid parking is available in the 

parking garage across from the Cal/EPA 

Building. Metered parking is available 

on nearby and adjacent streets. 

Information on traveling to the Cal/EPA 

Building is available online at: http://

www.calepa.ca.gov/EPABldg/

location.htm. 

Please enter the Cal/EPA Building 

through the public entrance at the 

corner of 10th Street and I Street. Once 

you enter the building, go to the 

Visitor’s Center located on the left. You 

will need to sign-in at the Visitor’s 

Center and receive a badge for the 1st 

and 2nd floors. The Byron Sher 

Auditorium is on the 2nd floor and may 

be accessed by using the elevator or 

stairs. 

Evening Scoping Meeting 

Date and Time: Wednesday, 

November 5, 2014, 7:00 p.m. (PST). 

Location: Holiday Inn Express Hotel, 

2810 Main St., Red Bluff, California. 

Phone number: Front Desk—(530) 

528–1600. 

Copies of the SD1 outlining the 

subject areas to be addressed in the EA 

were distributed to the parties on the 

Commission’s mailing list. Copies of the 

SD1 will be available at the scoping 

meeting or may be viewed on the web 

at http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link (see item m above). 

Environmental Site Review 

The Applicant and FERC staff will 

conduct a project Environmental Site 

Review beginning at 8:00 a.m. (PST) on 

Thursday, November 6, 2014. All 

interested individuals, organizations, 

and agencies are invited to attend. All 

participants should meet at the Walmart 

Parking Lot, 1025 S. Main St., Red Bluff, 

California. All participants are 

responsible for their own transportation 

to the meeting site. Anyone with 

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questions about the Environmental Site 

Review (or needing directions) should 

contact Charlie Kuffner of Rugraw, LLC 

at (415) 652–8553 or email at 

charlie.kuffner@gmail.com. Those 

individuals planning to participate in 

the Environmental Site Review should 

notify Mr. Kuffner of their intent, no 

later than Friday, October 31, 2014. For 

more details about the Environmental 

Site Review, including meeting 

locations, transportation options, meal 

options, and the itinerary, please see the 

information in Appendix A of the SD1. 

Objectives 

At the scoping meetings, the staff will: 

(1) Summarize the environmental issues 

tentatively identified for analysis in the 

EA and CEQA document; (2) solicit 

from the meeting participants all 

available information, especially 

quantifiable data, on the resources at 

issue; (3) encourage statements from 

experts and the public on issues that 

should be analyzed in the EA, and 

CEQA document, including viewpoints 

in opposition to, or in support of, the 

staffs’ preliminary views; (4) determine 

the resource issues to be addressed in 

the EA and CEQA document; (5) 

identify those issues that require a 

detailed analysis, as well as those issues 

that do not require a detailed analysis; 

(6) solicit from the meeting participants, 

input to the State Water Board on the 

type of CEQA document that should be 

prepared, and (7) solicit from any 

responsible or trustee agency or other 

interested parties that believes an EIR 

should be prepared, environmental 

information to identify the scope and 

content of an EIR should the State Water 

Board determine an EIR should be 

prepared. 

Procedures 

The meetings will be recorded by a 

stenographer and become part of the 

formal record of the Commission and 

State Water Board proceedings on the 

project. 

Individuals, organizations, and 

agencies with environmental expertise 

and concerns are encouraged to attend 

the meeting(s) and to assist the staff in 

defining and clarifying the issues to be 

addressed in the EA and CEQA 

document. 

Dated: October 3, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24299 Filed 10–10–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL15–2–000] 

UIF GP, LLC; Notice of Petition for 

Declaratory Order 

Take notice that on October 3, 2014, 

pursuant to Rule 207(a)(2) of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s 

(Commission) Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207(a)(2), UIF 

GP, LLC (UIF) filed a petition for 

declaratory order requesting that the 

Commission: (1) Disclaim jurisdiction 

over UIF as a public utility under 

section 201(e) of the Federal Power Act 

(FPA) and (2) disclaim jurisdiction over 

future transfers of the Class A–1 

Interests or Class B Interests in Neptune 

Regional Transmission System, LLC 

under section 203(a)(1) of the FPA., as 

more fully explained in the petition. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. On or before the 

comment date, it is not necessary to 

serve motions to intervene or protests 

on persons other than the Petitioner. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 5 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on November 3, 2014. 

Dated: October 6, 2014. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24316 Filed 10–10–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14636–000] 

Glacial Energy, LLC; Notice of 

Preliminary Permit Application 

Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 

Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 

Competing Applications 

On September 19, 2014, Glacial 

Energy, LLC filed an application for a 

preliminary permit, pursuant to section 

4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), 

proposing to study the feasibility of the 

Talkeetna River Dam Hydroelectric 

Project (Talkeetna River Project or 

project) to be located on the Talkeetna 

River, near Talkeetna in MatanuskaSusitna Borough, Alaska. The sole 

purpose of a preliminary permit, if 

issued, is to grant the permit holder 

priority to file a license application 

during the permit term. A preliminary 

permit does not authorize the permit 

holder to perform any land-disturbing 

activities or otherwise enter upon lands 

or waters owned by others without the 

owners’ express permission. 

The proposed project would consist of 

the following: (1) A 2,300-foot-long, 

370-foot-high dam located at an 

elevation of 970 feet mean sea level on 

the Talkeetna River; (2) a 2,700-footlong, 12-foot-diameter steel penstock; 

(3) a 1,500-foot-long, 50-foot-wide, 20- 

foot-tall concrete open channel spillway 

exiting downstream from the dam; (4) a 

75-foot long, 125-foot-wide powerhouse 

with three Francis turbine units rated 

for 25 megawatts (MW) each or 75 MW 

total at 320 feet of net head; (5) a 100- 

foot-wide, 30-foot-deep, 35-foot-long 

concrete tailrace emptying into the 

Talkeetna River; (6) an 11-mile, 69- 

kilovolt transmission line; (7) a 

substation; ; and (8) appurtenant 

facilities. 

The estimated annual generation of 

the Talkeetna River Project would be 

311 gigawatt-hours. 

Applicant Contact: Mr. Brent L. 

Smith, Manager, Northwest Power 

Services, Inc., P.O. Box 872316, Wasilla, 

AK 99687; phone: (907) 414–8223. 

FERC Contact: Julia Kolberg; phone: 

(202) 502–8261. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

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