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subsurface bedrock during Project 

construction. 

• Biological Resources—Effects on 

threatened and endangered species and 

sensitive habitats potentially occurring 

within or adjacent to the Project rightof-way. 

• Water Resources—Effects on 

waterbodies and wetlands. 

• Land Use—Effects on residential 

areas and agricultural lands during 

construction and operation of Project 

facilities. 

• Cultural Resources—Effects on 

archaeological sites and historic 

resources. 

• Air Quality and Noise—Effects on 

the local air quality and noise 

environment from construction and 

operation and maintenance of Project 

facilities. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the Project. 

Your comments should focus on the 

potential environmental effects, 

reasonable alternatives, and measures to 

avoid or lessen environmental impacts. 

The more specific your comments, the 

more useful they will be. To ensure that 

your comments are timely and properly 

recorded, please send your comments so 

that the Commission receives them in 

Washington, DC on or before December 

20, 2014. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to submit your 

comments to the Commission. In all 

instances, please reference the Project 

docket number (PF14–10–000) with 

your submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has expert staff available 

to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or 

efiling@ferc.gov. 

(1) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 

feature located on the Commission’s 

Web site (www.ferc.gov) under the link 

to Documents and Filings. This is an 

easy method for interested persons to 

submit brief, text-only comments on a 

project; 

(2) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eFiling feature 

located on the Commission’s Web site 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to 

Documents and Filings. With eFiling, 

you can provide comments in a variety 

of formats by attaching them as a file 

with your submission. New eFiling 

users must first create an account by 

clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You must select 

the type of filing you are making. If you 

are filing a comment on a particular 

project, please select ‘‘Comment on a 

Filing’’; or 

(3) You can file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

following address: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Environmental Mailing List 

The environmental mailing list 

includes federal, state, and local 

government representatives and 

agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American Tribes; other 

interested parties; and local libraries 

and newspapers. This list also includes 

all affected landowners (as defined in 

the Commission’s regulations) who are 

potential right-of-way grantors, whose 

property may be used temporarily for 

Project purposes, or who own homes 

within certain distances of aboveground 

facilities, and anyone who submits 

comments on the Project. We will 

update the environmental mailing list as 

the analysis proceeds to ensure that we 

send the information related to this 

environmental review to all individuals, 

organizations, and government entities 

interested in and/or potentially affected 

by the planned Project. 

Copies of the EA 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 Transco 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 (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– 

10). 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 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/docsfiling/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: November 14, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13563–003] 

Juneau Hydropower, Inc.; Notice of 

Intent To Prepare Environmental 

Impact Statement and Soliciting 

Comments, and Final 

Recommendations, Terms and 

Conditions, and Prescriptions 

November 17, 2014. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application and applicantprepared environmental assessment has 

been filed with Commission and is 

available for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Original Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 13563–003. 

c. Date filed: May 29, 2014. 

d. Applicant: Juneau Hydropower, 

Inc. 

e. Name of Project: Sweetheart Lake 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On Lower Sweetheart 

Lake and Sweetheart Creek in the City 

and Borough of Juneau, Alaska. The 

project would occupy about 2,058 acres 

of federal lands located in the Tongass 

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National Forest administered by the 

U.S. Forest Service. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Duff W. 

Mitchell, Business Manager, Juneau 

Hydropower, Inc., P.O. Box 22775, 

Juneau, AK 99802; (907) 789–2775. 

i. FERC Contact: John Matkowski at 

(202) 502–8576, john.matkowski@

ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, final 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and prescriptions: 60 days 

from the issuance date of this notice; 

reply comments are due 105 days from 

the issuance date of this notice. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments, 

and final recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and prescriptions 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 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The first page of any filing should 

include docket number P–13563–003. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

require all intervenors 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 intervenor 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. 

k. This application has been accepted 

for filing and is now ready for 

environmental analysis. 

l. The Commission intends to prepare 

an Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) on the project in accordance with 

the National Environmental Policy Act. 

The EIS will consider both site-specific 

and cumulative environmental impacts 

and reasonable alternatives to the 

proposed action. 

m. The proposed Sweetheart Lake 

Project would consist of the following 

new features: (1) A 280-foot-long, 111- 

foot-high roller compacted concrete 

gravity dam with a 125-foot-long 

spillway located at the outlet of 

Sweetheart Lake; (2) a 128,019 acre-foot 

impoundment at normal-maximum 

water level; (3) a 525-foot-long, 10-foothigh, 10-foot-wide arched reservoir 

outlet tunnel at the right dam abutment; 

(4) a 45-foot-long, 25-foot-wide, 16-foothigh rectangular concrete intake 

structure with six 7-foot-diameter, 10- 

foot-high cylindrical fish screens 

adjacent to the right dam abutment; (5) 

a 9,621-foot-long, 15-foot-wide,15-foothigh arched, unlined power tunnel; (6) 

a 9-foot-diameter, 896-foot-long saddlesupported steel penstock installed 

within the lower power tunnel; (7) 

three, 3- to 7-foot-diameter, 

approximately 160-foot-long buried 

steel penstocks connecting the lower 

portion of the power tunnel to the 

powerhouse; (8) a 160-foot-long, 60-footwide, 30-foot-high powerhouse; (9) 

three 6.6-megawatt (MW) horizontalaxis Francis turbine/generator units 

having a total capacity of 19.8 MW; (10) 

a 541-foot-long, 30- to 90-foot-wide 

tailrace discharging into Sweetheart 

Creek; (11) a 4,400-foot-long coastal 

access road; (12) a dock/landing site for 

aerial and marine vehicle access located 

on the east shore of Gilbert Bay; (13) a 

45,900-foot-long, 138-kilovolt (kV) 

transmission line traversing Gilbert Bay, 

the Snettisham Peninsula, and Port 

Snettisham, consisting of: (a) Two 

buried segments totaling 4,800 feet in 

length, (b) two submarine segments 

totaling 25,700 feet in length, and (c) 

one 15,400-foot-long overhead segment; 

(14) a 14,800-foot-long, 12.47-kV service 

transmission line and communication 

cable providing electricity and 

communications to Sweetheart Dam; 

(15) an approximately 22,000-squarefoot fenced switchyard; (16) a 25-footlong, 5-foot-wide, 4-foot-deep smolt 

reentry pool adjacent to the 

powerhouse; (17) a 4,225-square-foot 

caretaker facility; (18) a 400-square-foot 

dam site shelter facility; and (19) 

appurtenant facilities. The project is 

estimated to generate an average of 116 

gigawatt-hours annually. 

n. 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. 

All filings must (1) bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS’’, ‘‘REPLY 

COMMENTS’’, 

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS,’’ ‘‘TERMS 

AND CONDITIONS,’’ or 

‘‘PRESCRIPTIONS;’’ (2) set forth in the 

heading the name of the applicant and 

the project number of the application to 

which the filing responds; (3) furnish 

the name, address, and telephone 

number of the person submitting the 

filing; and (4) otherwise comply with 

the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 

through 385.2005. All comments, 

recommendations, terms and conditions 

or prescriptions must set forth their 

evidentiary basis and otherwise comply 

with the requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). 

Agencies may obtain copies of the 

application directly from the applicant. 

Each filing must be accompanied by 

proof of service on all persons listed on 

the service list prepared by the 

Commission in this proceeding, in 

accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b), and 

385.2010. 

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. 

o. Public notice of the filing of the 

initial development application, which 

has already been given, established the 

due date for filing competing 

applications or notices of intent. Under 

the Commission’s regulations, any 

competing development application 

must be filed in response to and in 

compliance with public notice of the 

initial development application. No 

competing applications or notices of 

intent may be filed in response to this 

notice. 

p. Procedural Schedule: 

The application will be processed 

according to the following hydro 

licensing schedule. Revisions to the 

schedule may be made as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Filing of final recommendations, terms and conditions, and prescriptions.January 2015. 

Commission issues Draft EIS August 2015. 

Comments on Draft EIS ........ October 2015. 

Commission Issues Final EIS March 2016. 

q. A license applicant must file no 

later than 60 days following the date of 

issuance of this notice: (1) A copy of the 

water quality certification; (2) a copy of 

the request for certification, including 

proof of the date on which the certifying 

agency received the request; or (3) 

evidence of waiver of water quality 

certification. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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