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SUMMARY: Scotia Capital Energy Inc. 

(Scotia Capital) has applied for 

authority to transmit electric energy 

from the United States to Canada 

pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal 

Power Act. 

DATES: Comments, protests, or requests 

to intervene must be submitted on or 

before July 6, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, protests, or 

requests to intervene should be 

addressed as follows: Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability, Mail Code: OE–20, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0350 (FAX 202– 

586–8008). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Russell (Program Office) 202–586– 

9624 or Michael Skinker (Program 

Attorney) 202–586–2793. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Exports of 

electricity from the United States to a 

foreign country are regulated by the 

Department of Energy (DOE) pursuant to 

sections 301(b) and 402(f) of the 

Department of Energy Organization Act 

(42 U.S.C. 7151(b), 7172(f)) and require 

authorization under section 202(e) of 

the FPA (16 U.S.C. 824a(e)). 

On May 26, 2009, DOE received an 

application from Scotia Capital for 

authority to transmit electric energy 

from the United States to Canada as a 

power marketer using international 

transmission facilities located at the 

United States border with Canada. 

Scotia Capital does not own any electric 

transmission facilities nor does it hold 

a franchised service area. The electric 

energy which Scotia Capital proposes to 

export to Canada would be surplus 

energy purchased from electric utilities, 

Federal power marketing agencies, and 

other entities within the United States. 

Scotia Capital has requested an 

electricity export authorization with a 5- 

year term. 

Procedural Matters: Any person 

desiring to become a party to these 

proceedings or to be heard by filing 

comments or protests to this application 

should file a petition to intervene, 

comment, or protest at the address 

provided above in accordance with 

§§ 385.211 or 385.214 of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s Rules 

of Practice and Procedures (18 CFR 

385.211, 385.214). Fifteen copies of each 

petition and protest should be filed with 

DOE on or before the date listed above. 

Comments on the Scotia Capital 

application to export electric energy to 

Canada should be clearly marked with 

Docket No. EA–355. Additional copies 

are to be filed directly with Cecilia 

Williams, Managing Director and Head 

of Compliance, Scotia Capital, 40 King 

Street West, 33rd Floor, Toronto, ON, 

M5H 1H1, Canada and David J. Levine, 

McDermott Will & Emery LLP, 600 13th 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005– 

3096. A final decision will be made on 

this application after the environmental 

impacts have been evaluated pursuant 

to the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969, and a determination is 

made by DOE that the proposed action 

will not adversely impact on the 

reliability of the U.S. electric power 

supply system. 

Copies of this application will be 

made available, upon request, for public 

inspection and copying at the address 

provided above, by accessing the 

program website at http:// 

www.oe.energy.gov/ 

permits_pending.htm, or by e-mailing 

Odessa Hopkins at 

Odessa.hopkins@hq.doe.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 29, 

2009. 

Anthony J. Como, 

Director, Permitting and Siting, Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. E9–12922 Filed 6–2–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP09–415–000] 

Northwest Pipeline GP; Notice of 

Application 

May 27, 2009. 

Take notice that on May 20, 2009, 

Northwest Pipeline GP (Northwest), 295 

Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 

84108, filed in Docket No. CP09–415– 

000, an application pursuant to section 

7 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 

157 of the Commission’s Regulations 

thereunder, requesting the Commission 

to grant a certificate of public 

convenience and necessity authorizing 

Northwest to construct and operate its 

Sundance Trail Expansion Project 

(Project), all as more fully set forth in 

the application which is on file with the 

Commission and open to public 

inspection. This filing is accessible online 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 e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

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

(202) 420–5589. 

Specifically, Northwest’s states that 

its proposed Project consists of: (1) The 

construction of new expansion capacity; 

and (2) replacement and reliability work 

related the Northwest’s existing system 

capacity. The proposed Project will 

provide 150,000 Dth/d of firm 

transportation capacity from the 

Greasewood and Meeker/White River 

Hubs in Rio Blanco County, Colorado to 

the Opal Hub area in Lincoln County, 

Wyoming which is created by utilizing 

new facilities as well as available 

unsubscribed capacity on Northwest’s 

system. The new Project facilities 

consist of: (1) Approximately 15.5 miles 

of 30-inch diameter pipeline loop 

between milepost 422.2 to 437.7 in 

Lincoln County, Wyoming and (2) the 

replacement, construction and operation 

of compression facilities (net 3,980 ISO 

horsepower increase), at the Vernal 

Compressor Station in Uintah County, 

Utah. The replacement and reliability 

work consists of abandonment of the 

two Allison Delaval centrifugal 

compressor units (3,165 horsepower 

each) at the Vernal Compressor Station 

with a new Solar Taurus 70 turbine 

driven centrifugal compressor unit 

(10,310 horsepower). In addition, 

Northwest requests a pre-determination 

of roll-in for costs associated with the 

Project. Northwest states that the 

estimated total cost of the Project, 

including the removal costs of the 

existing facilities is approximately $59.4 

million, of which approximately $46.7 

million reflects the cost of expansion 

capacity and $12.7 million reflects the 

costs of replacement and reliability 

work at the Vernal Compressor Station. 

Any questions regarding this 

application should be directed to Lynn 

Dahlberg, Manager Certificates and 

Tariffs, Northwest Pipeline GP, 295 

Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 

84108, at 801–584–6851. 

Pursuant to section 157.9 of the 

Commission’s rules, 18 CFR 157.9, 

within 90 days of this Notice the 

Commission staff will either: complete 

its environmental assessment (EA) and 

place it into the Commission’s public 

record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or 

issue a Notice of Schedule for 

Environmental Review. If a Notice of 

Schedule for Environmental Review is 

issued, it will indicate, among other 

milestones, the anticipated date for the 

Commission staff’s issuance of the final 

environmental impact statement (FEIS) 

or EA for this proposal. The filing of the 

EA in the Commission’s public record 

for this proceeding or the issuance of a 

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Review will serve to notify Federal and 

State agencies of the timing for the 

completion of all necessary reviews, and 

the subsequent need to complete all 

Federal authorizations within 90 days of 

the date of issuance of the Commission 

staff’s FEIS or EA. 

There are two ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project. First, any person wishing to 

obtain legal status by becoming a party 

to the proceedings for this project 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below, file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

a motion to intervene in accordance 

with the requirements of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the NGA (18 

CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 

status will be placed on the service list 

maintained by the Secretary of the 

Commission and will receive copies of 

all documents filed by the applicant and 

by all other parties. A party must submit 

14 copies of filings made with the 

Commission and must mail a copy to 

the applicant and to every other party in 

the proceeding. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

However, a person does not have to 

intervene in order to have comments 

considered. The second way to 

participate is by filing with the 

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as 

possible, an original and two copies of 

comments in support of or in opposition 

to this project. The Commission will 

consider these comments in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken, but the filing of a comment alone 

will not serve to make the filer a party 

to the proceeding. The Commission’s 

rules require that persons filing 

comments in opposition to the project 

provide copies of their protests only to 

the party or parties directly involved in 

the protest. 

Persons who wish to comment only 

on the environmental review of this 

project should submit an original and 

two copies of their comments to the 

Secretary of the Commission. 

Environmental commentors will be 

placed on the Commission’s 

environmental mailing list, will receive 

copies of the environmental documents, 

and will be notified of meetings 

associated with the Commission’s 

environmental review process. 

Environmental commentors will not be 

required to serve copies of filed 

documents on all other parties. 

However, the non-party commentors 

will not receive copies of all documents 

filed by other parties or issued by the 

Commission (except for the mailing of 

environmental documents issued by the 

Commission) and will not have the right 

to seek court review of the 

Commission’s final order. 

Comments, protests and interventions 

may be filed electronically via the 

Internet in lieu of paper. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site under the 

‘‘e-Filing’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

intervenors to file electronically. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on June 17, 2009. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–12870 Filed 6–2–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 12576–004] 

CRD Hydroelectric, LLC; Notice of 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Motions To Intervene and 

Protests 

May 27, 2009. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Original 

License. 

b. Project No.: 12576–004. 

c. Date Filed: February 24, 2009. 

d. Applicant: CRD Hydroelectric, LLC. 

e. Name of Project: Red Rock 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the Des Moines River, 

in Marion County, Iowa. The project 

would be located at U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineer facilities. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Douglas A. 

Spaulding, Nelson Energy LLC, 8441 

Wayzata Blvd., Suite 101, Golden 

Valley, MN 55426; (952) 544–8133. 

i. FERC Contact: Timothy Konnert, 

(202) 502–6359 or 

timothy.konnert@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing motions to 

intervene and protests: 60 days from the 

issuance date of this notice. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

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. 

Motions to intervene and protests may 

be filed electronically via the Internet in 

lieu of paper. The Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filings. See 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the 

‘‘e-Filing’’ link. 

k. This application has been accepted, 

but is not ready for environmental 

analysis at this time. 

l. The proposed Red Rock 

Hydroelectric Project would be located 

at the existing U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (Corps) Red Rock dam, which 

was constructed by the Corps in 1969 

for flood control. The existing Corps 

facilities consist of: (1) A 110-foot-high, 

6,260-foot-long earth-fill dam with a 

241-foot-long gated ogee spillway 

equipped with five 45-foot-high tainter 

gates; and (2) a 15,253-acre reservoir at 

a normal conservation pool water 

surface elevation of 742.0 feet National 

Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929. 

The proposed project would utilize 

the head created by the existing Corps 

dam and consist of: (1) A new, 127-footlong by 19-foot-wide intake structure 

connected to; (2) three new 19-footdiameter, 211-foot-long penstocks 

passing through the left side of the 

spillway leading to; (3) a new 59-footlong by 132-foot-wide powerhouse 

located directly downstream of the 

existing spillway structure containing 

three new 12.13-megawatt (MW) 

generating units with a total installed 

capacity of 36.4 MW; (4) a new 8.4-milelong, 69-kilovolt transmission line; and 

(5) appurtenant facilities. The estimated 

average annual generation would be 

158,000 megawatt hours. 

The project would be operated in runof-river mode in that it would have no 

storage and only use flows released by 

the Corps in accordance with its present 

operations. 

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 


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