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Commission will issue a notice 

requesting comments, protests, and 

motions to intervene in that proceeding. 

Dated: October 5, 2017. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22005 Filed 10–11–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13371–002] 

Town of West Stockbridge; Notice of 

Application Tendered for Filing With 

the Commission and Soliciting 

Additional Study Requests 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Exemption 

from Licensing. 

b. Project No.: 13371–002. 

c. Date Filed: September 21, 2017. 

d. Applicant: Town of West 

Stockbridge (West Stockbridge). 

e. Name of Project: Shaker Mill Dam 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the Williams River, in 

the Town of West Stockbridge, 

Berkshire County, Massachusetts. No 

federal or tribal lands would be 

occupied by project works or located 

within the project boundary. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utility 

Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, 16 

U.S.C. 2705, 2708 (2012), amended by 

the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency 

Act of 2013, Public Law 113–23, 127 

Stat. 493 (2013). 

h. Applicant Contact: Town of West 

Stockbridge, c/o Earl B. Moffatt, 

Chairman, Board of Selectmen, 21 State 

Line Rd., P.O. Box 525, West 

Stockbridge, MA 01266; (413) 232–0300, 

extension 319. 

i. FERC Contact: Michael Watts, (202) 

502–6123 or michael.watts@ferc.gov. 

j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, 

local, and tribal agencies with 

jurisdiction and/or special expertise 

with respect to environmental issues 

that wish to cooperate in the 

preparation of the environmental 

document should follow the 

instructions for filing such requests 

described in item l below. Cooperating 

agencies should note the Commission’s 

policy that agencies that cooperate in 

the preparation of the environmental 

document cannot also intervene. See, 94 

FERC 61,076 (2001). 

k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of the 

Commission’s regulations, if any 

resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person 

believes that an additional scientific 

study should be conducted in order to 

form an adequate factual basis for a 

complete analysis of the application on 

its merit, the resource agency, Indian 

Tribe, or person must file a request for 

a study with the Commission not later 

than 60 days from the date of filing of 

the application, and serve a copy of the 

request on the applicant. 

l. Deadline for filing additional study 

requests and requests for cooperating 

agency status: November 20, 2017. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file additional 

study requests and requests for 

cooperating agency status using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 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–13371–002. 

m. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. The proposed Shaker Mill Dam 

Hydroelectric Project would consists of: 

(1) An existing 43-foot-long, 16.3-foothigh concrete gravity dam that includes 

a 10-foot-wide non-overflow section and 

a 33-foot-long ogee spillway section 

with two discharge pipes, and a crest 

elevation of 895.3 feet mean sea level 

(msl); (2) existing east and west concrete 

abutments; (3) existing east and west 

masonry training walls that extend 

downstream of the dam; (4) an existing 

32.3-acre impoundment with a normal 

water surface elevation of 895.3 feet 

msl; (5) an intake structure that includes 

an existing 12-inch-diameter gate 

opening and a proposed 24-inchdiameter gate opening; (6) a proposed 

powerhouse with a 3-kilowatt (kW) 

Kaplan turbine-generator unit and a 6- 

kW Kaplan turbine-generator unit, for a 

total installed capacity of 9 kW; (7) two 

proposed draft tubes to discharge water 

from the powerhouse; and (8) 

appurtenant facilities. 

West Stockbridge proposes to operate 

the project in a run-of-river mode with 

an estimated annual energy production 

of approximately 67.5 megawatt-hours. 

o. 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. 

p. Procedural schedule and final 

amendments: The application will be 

processed according to the following 

preliminary schedule. Revisions to the 

schedule will be made as appropriate 

(e.g., if there are no deficiencies and/or 

scoping is waived, the schedule would 

be shortened). 

Issue Deficiency Letter—November 

2017. 

Issue Notice of Acceptance—March 

2018. 

Issue Scoping Document—April 2018. 

Issue Notice of Ready for 

Environmental Analysis—June 2018. 

Issue Notice of the Availability of the 

EA—October 2018. 

Dated: October 5, 2017. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22010 Filed 10–11–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. CP17–56–000, CP17–57–000] 

Texas Eastern Transmission, L.P.; 

Brazoria Interconnector Gas Pipeline, 

LLC; Notice of Availability of the 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Proposed Stratton Ridge Expansion 

Project 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared an 

environmental assessment (EA) for the 

Stratton Ridge Expansion Project 

(Project), proposed by Texas Eastern 

Transmission, L.P. and Brazoria 

Interconnector Gas Pipeline, LLC 

(together referred to as Applicants) in 

the above-referenced dockets. The 

Applicants request authorization to 

construct certain facilities designed to 

transport up to 322 million cubic feet 

per day of natural gas on a firm basis 

from Texas Eastern Transmission, L.P.’s 

existing interconnections to a delivery 

point on the Brazoria Interconnector Gas 

Pipeline near Stratton Ridge, Texas. 

The EA assesses the potential 

environmental effects of the 


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1A pig is an internal pipeline device used to 

clean or inspect the pipeline. 

2See the previous discussion on the methods for 

filing comments. 

construction and operation of the 

Project in accordance with the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The 

FERC staff concludes that approval of 

the proposed project, with appropriate 

mitigating measures, would not 

constitute a major federal action 

significantly affecting the quality of the 

human environment. 

The proposed Project includes the 

following facilities: 

• A 0.5-mile-long new pipeline lateral 

(BIG Interconnect) connecting the 

proposed new Angleton Compressor 

Station to the existing BIG Pipeline in 

Brazoria County, Texas; 

• the new Angleton Compressor 

Station, a 12,500 horsepower 

electrically-powered compressor station 

in Brazoria County, Texas; 

• pressure regulation modifications at 

the existing Joaquin Compressor Station 

in Shelby County, Texas; 

• installation of Clean Burn 

technologies at the existing Mont 

Belvieu Compressor Station in 

Chambers County, Texas; 

• modifications to existing pig 1

launchers at the existing Huntsville 

Compressor Station, in San Jacinto 

County, Texas; and Hempstead 

Compressor Station in Waller County, 

Texas; 

• modifications to an existing pig 

launcher/receiver, facility crossover 

piping and a valve at the existing 

Provident City Station in Lavaca 

County, Texas: 

• a new aboveground wire-line 

launcher/receiver assembly site and 

interconnect valve site near milepost 0.5 

of the BIG Interconnect Pipeline in 

Brazoria County, Texas; and 

• replacement of existing 16-inchdiameter crossover piping and valve 

with new 24-inch-diameter crossover 

piping and valve at an existing facility 

in Lavaca County, Texas. 

The FERC staff mailed copies of the 

EA to federal, state, and local 

government representatives and 

agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American tribes; 

potentially affected landowners and 

other interested individuals and groups; 

and newspapers and libraries in the 

project area. In addition, the EA is 

available for public viewing on the 

FERC’s Web site (www.ferc.gov) using 

the eLibrary link. A limited number of 

copies of the EA are available for 

distribution and public inspection at: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Public Reference Room, 888 First Street 

NE., Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, 

(202) 502–8371. 

Any person wishing to comment on 

the EA may do so. 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 the 

Commission has the opportunity to 

consider your comments prior to 

making its decision on this project, it is 

important that we receive your 

comments in Washington, DC on or 

before November 4, 2017. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to file your 

comments to the Commission. In all 

instances, please reference the project 

docket numbers (CP17–56–000 and 

CP17–57–000) with your submission. 

The Commission encourages electronic 

filing of comments and has expert staff 

available to assist you at (202) 502–8258 

or FercOnlineSupport@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 submitting brief, text-only 

comments on a project; 

(2) You can also 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 

(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. 

Any person seeking to become a party 

to the proceeding must file a motion to 

intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedures (18 CFR 385.214).2 Only 

intervenors have the right to seek 

rehearing of the Commission’s decision. 

The Commission grants affected 

landowners and others with 

environmental concerns intervenor 

status upon showing good cause by 

stating that they have a clear and direct 

interest in this proceeding which no 

other party can adequately represent. 

Simply filing environmental comments 

will not give you intervenor status, but 

you do not need intervenor status to 

have your comments considered. 

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., CP17–56 

or CP17–57). 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. 

Dated: October 5, 2017. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–21999 Filed 10–11–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #2 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric corporate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: EC17–176–000. 

Applicants: El Cabo Wind LLC. 

Description: Supplement to 

September 13, 2017 Application for 

Authorization of Transactions under 

Section 203 of the FPA, et al. of El Cabo 

Wind LLC. 

Filed Date: 10/4/17. 

Accession Number: 20171004–5158. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/18/17. 

Docket Numbers: EC17–192–000. 

Applicants: Pattern Energy Group LP, 

Pattern Energy Group Inc., El Cabo 

Wind LLC. 

Description: Supplement to 

September 26, 2017 Application for 

Authorization for Disposition of 


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