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Reliability Standard was approved the Commission 

did not go to OMB for approval. It is assumed that 

the changes made did not substantively affect the 

information collection and therefore a formal 

submission to OMB was not needed. 

6See Reliability Standard NUC–001–3 at http://

www.nerc.com/files/NUC-001-3.pdf. 

7The Commission defines burden as the total 

time, effort, or financial resources expended by 

persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal agency. For 

further explanation of what is included in the 

information collection burden, reference 5 Code of 

Federal Regulations 1320.3. 

8Published in the Federal Register at 79 FR 

61068. 

NUC–001–3, was filed with the 

Commission by NERC on September 15, 

2014. 

The purpose of Reliability Standard 

NUC–001–3 is to require ‘‘coordination 

between nuclear plant generator 

operators and transmission entities for 

the purpose of ensuring nuclear plant 

safe operation and shutdown.’’ 6

Reliability Standard NUC–001–3 applies 

to nuclear plant generator operators 

(generally nuclear power plant owners 

and operators, including licensees) and 

‘‘transmission entities,’’ defined in the 

Reliability Standard as including a 

nuclear plant’s suppliers of off-site 

power and related transmission and 

distribution services. Reliability 

Standard NUC–001–3 requires a nuclear 

power plant operator and its suppliers 

of back-up power and related 

transmission and distribution services 

to coordinate concerning nuclear 

licensing requirements for safe nuclear 

plant operation and shutdown and 

system operating limits. Information 

collection requirements include 

establishing and maintaining interface 

agreements, including record retention 

requirements. 

Type of Respondents: Nuclear 

operators, nuclear plants, transmission 

entities. 

Estimate of Annual Burden 7: The 

Commission estimates for the annual 

public reporting burden for the 

information collection are unchanged 

from the public notice issued for 

Reliability Standard NUC–001–2 on 10/ 

30/2014 8 in Docket No. IC14–16–000. 

Reliability Standard NUC–001–3 

represents the implementation of 

recommendations made by the NERC 

Five Year Review Team to revise 

Reliability Standard NUC–001–2. These 

recommendations include clarifying and 

conforming changes to update the 

standard for current use of terminology 

implemented in other area of the 

Reliability Standards, as well as 

updated Violation Risk Factors and 

Violation Severity Levels for the 

evaluation of violations of the 

Reliability Standard. The burden of 

complying with the requirements under 

Reliability Standard NUC–001–3 will 

not change as the changes from the 

previous Reliability Standard NUC– 

001–2 are substantially administrative 

in nature. 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(1) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden and cost of the collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility 

and clarity of the information collection; 

and (4) ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Dated: November 13, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27549 Filed 11–20–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP14–545–000] 

Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Proposed Bailey East Mine Panel 2l 

Project and Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

the Bailey East Mine Panel 2L Project in 

Docket No. CP14–545–000 (project). The 

project involves the excavation, 

abandonment, replacement, temporary 

elevation, and reburial of pipeline 

facilities currently operated by Texas 

Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas 

Eastern) in Greene County, 

Pennsylvania to facilitate the 

underground longwall mining of coal. 

The Commission will use this EA in its 

decision-making process to determine 

whether the project is in the public 

convenience and necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies on the project. 

Your input will help the Commission 

staff determine what issues they need to 

evaluate in the EA. Please note that the 

scoping period will close on December 

17, 2014. 

You may submit comments in written 

form. The details on how to submit 

written comments are in the Public 

Participation section of this notice. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this project. State and 

local government representatives should 

notify their constituents of the proposed 

project and encourage them to comment 

on their areas of concern. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, a pipeline company 

representative may contact you about 

the acquisition of a temporary easement 

to abandon, replace, elevate and 

monitor the proposed activities. The 

company would seek to negotiate a 

mutually acceptable agreement. 

However, if the Commission approves 

the project, that approval conveys with 

it the right of eminent domain. 

Therefore, if easement negotiations fail 

to produce an agreement, the pipeline 

company could initiate condemnation 

proceedings where compensation would 

be determined in accordance with state 

law. 

Texas Eastern provided landowners 

with a fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need 

To Know?’’ This fact sheet addresses a 

number of typically-asked questions, 

including the use of eminent domain 

and how to participate in the 

Commission’s proceedings. It is also 

available for viewing on the FERC Web 

site (www.ferc.gov). 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

Texas Eastern is seeking authorization 

from the FERC pursuant to Sections 7(b) 

and 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act for the 

project, which includes work to be 

performed for the planned longwall coal 

mining activities of CONSOL Energy, 

Inc. (CONSOL) in Panel 2L of its Bailey 

East Mine. Texas Eastern designed the 

project to ensure the safe and efficient 

operation of its existing pipeline 

facilities at their certificated design 

capacities during the planned longwall 

mining activities which include mining 

coal below the pipelines and then 

allowing the mine roof to collapse after 

removing the mine braces. 

Texas Eastern proposes to excavate 

and elevate sections of Lines 10, 15, and 

25 totaling about 7,726 feet in length 

over Panel 2L to monitor and mitigate 

potential strains and stresses on these 

pipeline sections. Texas Eastern would 

also replace with like-diameter pipeline 

the excavated segments of Lines 10, 15, 

and 25 during pipe elevation. Also, 

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1The appendices referenced in this notice will 

not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of 

appendices were sent to all those receiving this 

notice in the mail and are available at www.ferc.gov 

using the link called ‘‘eLibrary’’ or from the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888 First 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call (202) 

502–8371. For instructions on connecting to 

eLibrary, refer to the last page of this notice. 

2 ‘‘We,’’ ‘‘us,’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to the 

environmental staff of the Commission’s Office of 

Energy Projects. 

3The Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations addressing cooperating agency 

responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 1501.6. 

4The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s 

regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 800. Those regulations define 

historic properties as any prehistoric or historic 

district, site, building, structure, or object included 

in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register 

of Historic Places. 

Texas Eastern would conduct 

maintenance on Line 30 and would 

install a temporary 2,735-foot-long 

section of pipeline above-ground to 

ensure continued service from Line 30 

during mining. 

The four mainline segments would 

remain elevated using sandbags and 

skids for about 2 years until the 

longwall mining activities have been 

completed and the area is allowed time 

to settle. During the actual subsidence 

event, all segments would be monitored 

with strain gauges, and adjustments to 

sandbags and skids would be made, as 

necessary, to minimize pipeline 

stresses. After mining and allowing for 

a settlement period, the pipelines would 

be reburied within Texas Eastern’s 

existing easements. 

The general location of the project 

facilities is shown in appendix 1.1

Land Requirements for Construction 

The project would disturb about 34.0 

acres of land for the excavation, 

abandonment, replacement, elevation, 

and reburial at the CONSOL mine, most 

of which consists of existing previously 

disturbed easements. The acreages 

include permanent and temporary 

construction right-of-way, access roads, 

and wareyard. Following pipeline 

reburial and restoration, Texas Eastern 

would continue to maintain its existing 

9.8 acres of easement at the CONSOL 

mine for the continued permanent 

operation of its pipelines; the remaining 

acreage would be restored and allowed 

to revert to former uses. 

The EA Process 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) requires the Commission to 

take into account the environmental 

impacts that could result from an action 

whenever it considers the issuance of a 

Certificate of Public Convenience and 

Necessity. NEPA also requires us 2 to 

discover and address concerns the 

public may have about proposals. This 

process is referred to as ‘‘scoping.’’ The 

main goal of the scoping process is to 

focus the analysis in the EA on the 

important environmental issues. By this 

notice, the Commission requests public 

comments on the scope of the issues to 

address in the EA. We will consider all 

filed comments during the preparation 

of the EA. 

In the EA we will discuss impacts that 

could occur as a result of the 

excavation, abandonment, replacement, 

temporary elevation, and reburial of 

Texas Eastern’s existing pipeline 

facilities under these general headings: 

• Geology and soils; 

• land use; 

• water resources, fisheries, and 

wetlands; 

• cultural resources; 

• vegetation and wildlife; 

• air quality and noise; 

• endangered and threatened species; 

• public safety; and 

• cumulative impacts. 

We will also evaluate reasonable 

alternatives to the proposed project or 

portions of the project, and make 

recommendations on how to lessen or 

avoid impacts on the various resource 

areas. 

The EA will present our independent 

analysis of the issues. The EA will be 

available in the public record through 

eLibrary. Depending on the comments 

received during the scoping process, we 

may also publish and distribute the EA 

to the public for an allotted comment 

period. We will consider all comments 

on the EA before making our 

recommendations to the Commission. 

To ensure we have the opportunity to 

consider and address your comments, 

please carefully follow the instructions 

in the Public Participation section 

beginning on page 5. 

With this notice, we are asking 

agencies with jurisdiction by law and/ 

or special expertise with respect to the 

environmental issues of this project to 

formally cooperate with us in the 

preparation of the EA.3 Agencies that 

would like to request cooperating 

agency status should follow the 

instructions for filing comments 

provided under the Public Participation 

section of this notice. 

Consultations Under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

In accordance with the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation’s 

implementing regulations for section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act, we are using this 

notice to initiate consultation with the 

Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation 

Office (SHPO), and to solicit their views 

and those of other government agencies, 

interested Indian tribes, and the public 

on the project’s potential effects on 

historic properties.4 We will define the 

project-specific Area of Potential Effects 

(APE) in consultation with the SHPO as 

the project develops. On natural gas 

facility project, the APE at a minimum 

encompasses all areas subject to ground 

disturbance (examples include 

construction right-of-way, contractor/

pipe storage yards, compressor stations, 

and access roads). Our EA for this 

project will document our findings on 

the impacts on historic properties and 

summarize the status of consultations 

under section 106. 

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 

17, 2014. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods which you can use to submit 

your comments to the Commission. In 

all instances please reference the 

appropriate project docket number 

(CP14–545–000) 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 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 

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 

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(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 proposed project. 

If we publish and distribute the EA, 

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 

In addition to involvement in the EA 

scoping process, 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. 

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., CP14–545). 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. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27611 Filed 11–20–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14628–000] 

Minnesota Leased Housing Associates 

IV, Limited Partnership; Notice of 

Scoping Meeting, Initial Information 

Meeting, and Soliciting Scoping 

Comments for an Applicant Prepared 

Environmental Assessment Using the 

Alternative Licensing Process 

a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to 

File License Application and PreApplication Document for an Original 

License. 

b. Project No.: 14628–000. 

c. Applicant: Minnesota Leased 

Housing Associates IV, Limited 

Partnership (Minnesota Housing 

Associates). 

d. Name of Project: A-Mill Artists Loft 

Hydroelectric Project (A-Mill Project). 

e. Location: On the Mississippi River, 

in the city of Minneapolis, Hennepin 

County, Minnesota. 

f. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

g. Applicant Contact: Owen Metz, 

2905 Northwest Blvd., Suite 150, 

Plymouth, MN 55441; (763) 354–5618; 

email ometz@dominiuminc.com. 

h. FERC Contact: Janet Hutzel at (202) 

502–8675; or email at janet.hutzel@

ferc.gov. 

i. Deadline for filing scoping 

comments: January 3, 2015. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file 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 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The first page of any filing should 

include docket number P–14628–000. 

j. The proposed project would consist 

of: (1) Removal of the existing concrete 

bulkhead blocking the existing intake 

structure and installation of a new trash 

rack at the intake; (2) an existing 

headrace tunnel that would be 

rehabilitated and sleeved with a new 

horizontal 600-foot-long, 5-footdiameter steel penstock; (3) a new 

vertical 50-foot-long, 5-foot diameter 

steel pipe installed in an existing 

downstream drop-shaft; (4) a new sluice 

gate; (5) a new 650-kilowatt turbine/

generator set and related control system; 

(6) a new outlet structure consisting of 

a 4-foot-high by 6-foot-wide concrete 

box culvert installed on the invert of the 

existing downstream tailrace; and (7) 

appurtenant facilities. 

k. Scoping Process: Minnesota 

Housing Associates intends to utilize 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission’s (Commission) alternative 

licensing process (ALP). Under the ALP, 

Minnesota Housing Associates will 

prepare an Applicant Prepared 

Environmental Assessment (APEA) and 

license application for the A-Mill 

Project. 

Minnesota Housing Associates 

expects to file with the Commission, the 

APEA and the license application for 

the A-Mill Project by January 2015. 

Although the Commission’s intent is to 

prepare an environmental assessment 

(EA), there is the possibility that an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

will be required. Nevertheless, this 

meeting will satisfy the NEPA scoping 

requirements, irrespective of whether an 

EA or EIS is issued by the Commission. 

The purpose of this notice is to inform 

you of the opportunity to participate in 

the upcoming scoping meetings and 

environmental site review identified 

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