Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 186 / Wednesday, September 27, 2017 / Notices 45013 

OSEP to monitor State agencies and for 

Congressional reporting. 

Dated: September 22, 2017. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy 

Officer, Office of Management. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20660 Filed 9–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–438] 

Application for Presidential Permit; 

Central Maine Power Company 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: Central Maine Power 

Company (CMP) has applied for a 

Presidential permit to construct, 

operate, maintain, and connect an 

electric transmission line across the 

United States border with Canada. 

DATES: Comments or motions to 

intervene must be submitted on or 

before October 27, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Comments or motions to 

intervene should be addressed as 

follows: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability (OE–20), U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Lawrence (Program Office) 

at 202–586–5260 or via electronic mail 

at Christopher.Lawrence@hq.doe.gov; 

Rishi Garg (Program Attorney) at 202– 

586–0258. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

construction, operation, maintenance, 

and connection of facilities at the 

international border of the United States 

for the transmission of electric energy 

between the United States and a foreign 

country is prohibited in the absence of 

a Presidential permit issued pursuant to 

Executive Order (EO) 10485, as 

amended by EO 12038. 

On July 27, 2017, Central Maine 

Power Company (CMP or ‘‘The 

Applicant’’) filed an application with 

the Office of Electricity Delivery and 

Energy Reliability of the Department of 

Energy (DOE) for a Presidential permit 

for the New England Clean Energy 

Connect (NECEC) project. CMP has its 

principal place of business in Augusta, 

Maine. CMP Group, Inc. owns 100% of 

outstanding shares of CMP’s common 

stock. CMP Group, Inc. is a whollyowned subsidiary of Avangrid 

Networks, Inc., which in turn is a 

wholly-owned subsidiary of 

AVANGRID, a New York corporation 

listed on the New York Stock Exchange 

(NYSE: AGR). Iberdrola, a corporation 

(sociedad ano ́nima) organized under the 

laws of the Kingdom of Spain (BME: 

IBE), directly owns approximately 

81.5% of the outstanding shares of 

AVANGRID common stock, with the 

remaining shares publicly traded on the 

New York Stock exchange. Iberdrola’s 

shares are listed in the Madrid, Bilbao, 

Barcelona, and Valencia (Spain) stock 

exchanges. 

CMP proposes to construct, operate, 

maintain, and connect the NECEC 

project, which would cross the U.S.- 

Canada (Que ́bec-Maine) international 

border in Beattie Township, Maine. 

From that point, the NECEC’s 

transmission facilities would extend to 

the point of first interconnection with 

the ISO-New England operated power 

grid at CMP’s Larrabee Road Substation 

in Lewiston, Maine. The proposed 

project includes (1) a 100-foot segment 

crossing the border; (2) approximately 

145.3 miles of +/¥320 kilovolt (kV) 

overhead high-voltage direct current 

(HVDC) transmission line from the 

border crossing to (3) a new 345 kV 

alternating current (AC) to +/¥320 kV 

HVDC 1,200 megawatt (MW) converter 

station at the Merrill Road Substation in 

Lewiston, Maine (Merrill Road 

Converter Station), which would 

convert the electrical power from DC to 

AC; (4) a 1.2-mile, above-ground 345 kV 

AC transmission line from Merrill Road 

Converter Station to the existing 

Larrabee Road Substation (and 

associated rebuild of 0.8 mile of lowervoltage 34.5 kV transmission line to 

make room in the corridor for the new 

1.2-mile line); and (5) a 345 kV line 

terminal at the Larrabee Road 

Substation. The proposed project 

facilities would be capable of 

transmitting up to 1200 MW of power. 

Since the restructuring of the electric 

industry began, resulting in the 

introduction of different types of 

competitive entities into the 

marketplace, DOE has consistently 

expressed its policy that cross-border 

trade in electric energy should be 

subject to the same principles of 

comparable open access and nondiscrimination that apply to 

transmission in interstate commerce. 

DOE has stated that policy in export 

authorizations granted to entities 

requesting authority to export electric 

energy over international transmission 

facilities. Specifically, DOE expects 

transmitting utilities owning border 

facilities to provide access across the 

border in accordance with the 

principles of comparable open access 

and non-discrimination contained in the 

Federal Power Act and articulated in 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(FERC) Order No. 888 (Promoting 

Wholesale Competition Through Open 

Access Non-Discriminatory 

Transmission Services by Public 

Utilities; FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,036 

(1996)), as amended. 

Procedural Matters: Any person may 

comment on this application by filing 

such comment at the address provided 

above. Any person seeking to become a 

party to this proceeding must file a 

motion to intervene at the address 

provided above in accordance with Rule 

214 of FERC’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214). Two copies 

of each comment or motion to intervene 

should be filed with DOE on or before 

the date listed above. 

Additional copies of such motions to 

intervene also should be filed directly 

with: Randall S. Rich, Pierce Atwood 

LLP, 1875 K Street NW., Suite 700, 

Washington, DC 20006, rrich@

pierceatwood.com, AND Bernardo 

Escudero Morandeira, Central Maine 

Power Company, 83 Edison Drive, 

Augusta, Maine 04336, 

bernardo.escudero@cmpco.com, AND 

Jared S. des Rosiers, Pierce Atwood LLP, 

254 Commercial Street, Portland, Maine 

04101, jdesrosiers@pierceatwood.com. 

Before a Presidential permit may be 

issued or amended, DOE must 

determine that the proposed action is in 

the public interest. In making that 

determination, DOE considers the 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

project pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended, determines the project’s 

impact on electric reliability by 

ascertaining whether the proposed 

project would adversely affect the 

operation of the U.S. electric power 

supply system under normal and 

contingency conditions, and any other 

factors that DOE may also consider 

relevant to the public interest. Also, 

DOE must obtain the concurrences of 

the Secretary of State and the Secretary 

of Defense before taking final action on 

a Presidential permit application. 

Copies of this application will be 

made available, upon request, for public 

inspection and copying at the address 

provided above, by accessing the 

program Web site at http://energy.gov/ 

oe/services/electricity-policycoordination-and-implementation/ 

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45014 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 186 / Wednesday, September 27, 2017 / Notices 

Issued in Washington, DC, on September 

21, 2017. 

Christopher A. Lawrence, 

Electricity Policy Analyst, National Electricity 

Delivery Division, Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20681 Filed 9–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER17–694–001. 

Applicants: California Independent 

System Operator Corporation. 

Description: Compliance filing: 2017– 

09–21 Compliance—Transmission 

Control Agreement Notice of Effective 

Date to be effective 9/15/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/21/17. 

Accession Number: 20170921–5095. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/12/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–1639–002. 

Applicants: AEP Generation 

Resources Inc. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: AEP 

GR Stuart Station Unit 1 Reactive Filing 

RS3 to be effective 10/1/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/21/17. 

Accession Number: 20170921–5123. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/12/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–1717–002. 

Applicants: Dynegy Conesville, LLC. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

Response to Second Deficiency Letter to 

be effective 5/9/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/20/17. 

Accession Number: 20170920–5175. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/11/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–1718–002. 

Applicants: Dynegy Dicks Creek, LLC. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

Response to Second Deficiency Letter to 

be effective 8/1/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/20/17. 

Accession Number: 20170920–5176. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/11/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–1719–002. 

Applicants: Dynegy Killen, LLC. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

Response to Second Deficiency Letter to 

be effective 8/1/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/20/17. 

Accession Number: 20170920–5177. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/11/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–1720–002. 

Applicants: Dynegy Miami Fort, LLC. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

Response to Second Deficiency Letter to 

be effective 8/1/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/20/17. 

Accession Number: 20170920–5178. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/11/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–1840–000. 

Applicants: Canton Mountain Wind, 

LLC. 

Description: Fourth Supplement to 

June 15, 2017 Canton Mountain Wind, 

LLC tariff filing. 

Filed Date: 9/20/17. 

Accession Number: 20170920–5215. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/2/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2523–000. 

Applicants: Southwest Power Pool, 

Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Revisions to Attachment Y to Add A 

Competitive Project Minimum 

Threshold to be effective 11/19/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/20/17. 

Accession Number: 20170920–5146. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/11/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2524–000. 

Applicants: Alabama Power 

Company. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Florida Power & Light Company 

Interconnection Contract Filing to be 

effective 8/15/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/20/17. 

Accession Number: 20170920–5187. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/11/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2525–000. 

Applicants: Georgia Power Company. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Florida Power & Light Company 

Interconnection Contract Filing to be 

effective 8/15/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/20/17. 

Accession Number: 20170920–5188. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/11/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2526–000. 

Applicants: Gulf Power Company. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Florida Power & Light Company 

Interconnection Contract Filing to be 

effective 8/15/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/20/17. 

Accession Number: 20170920–5189. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/11/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2527–000. 

Applicants: Mississippi Power 

Company. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Florida Power & Light Company 

Interconnection Contract Filing to be 

effective 8/15/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/20/17. 

Accession Number: 20170920–5190. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/11/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2528–000. 

Applicants: Lathrop Irrigation 

District. 

Description: Petition for Limited 

Waiver of Tariff Provisions of Lathrop 

Irrigation District. 

Filed Date: 9/20/17. 

Accession Number: 20170920–5207. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/11/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2529–000. 

Applicants: Southwest Power Pool, 

Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

2888R2 Arkansas Electric Cooperative 

Corp. NITSA and NOA to be effective 9/ 

1/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/21/17. 

Accession Number: 20170921–5028. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/12/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2529–001. 

Applicants: Southwest Power Pool, 

Inc. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

2888R2 Arkansas Electric Cooperative 

Corp. NITSA and NOA) to be effective 

9/1/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/21/17. 

Accession Number: 20170921–5097. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/12/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2530–000. 

Applicants: Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Ameren Illinois Company. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Ameren Illinois-Wabash Valley-EnerStar 

Switching Agreement to be effective 8/ 

22/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/21/17. 

Accession Number: 20170921–5055. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/12/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2531–000. 

Applicants: PJM Interconnection, 

L.L.C. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Original Service Agreement No. 4794; 

Queue AC1–116 (WMPA) to be effective 

8/22/2017. 

Filed Date: 9/21/17. 

Accession Number: 20170921–5068. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/12/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2532–000. 

Applicants: Massachusetts Electric 

Company. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 2017 

Rate Update Filing for Massachusetts 

Electric Borderline Sales Agreement to 

be effective 8/1/2014. 

Filed Date: 9/21/17. 

Accession Number: 20170921–5079. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/12/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2533–000. 

Applicants: ISO New England Inc., 

New England Power Pool Participants 

Committee. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: ISO– 

NE and NEPOOL—Clarifying Revisions 

to Force Majeure to be effective 11/21/ 

2017. 

Filed Date: 9/21/17. 

Accession Number: 20170921–5094. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/12/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2534–000. 

Applicants: Arizona Public Service 

Company. 


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