Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 215 / Wednesday, November 8, 2017 / Notices 51829 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2684–010] 

Flambeau Hydro, LLC; Notice 

Soliciting Scoping Comments 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric license application has 

been filed with the Commission and is 

available for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Subsequent 

Minor License. 

b. Project No.: P–2684–010. 

c. Date filed: April 26, 2017. 

d. Applicant: Flambeau Hydro, LLC 

(Flambeau Hydro). 

e. Name of Project: Arpin Dam 

Project. 

f. Location: On the Chippewa River, 

near the Village of Radisson, in Sawyer 

County, Wisconsin. There are no federal 

or tribal lands within the project 

boundary. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Jason 

Kreuscher, Renewable World Energies, 

LLC, 100 State Street, P.O. Box 264, 

Neshkoro, WI 54960; (855) 994–9376, 

ext. 102. 

i. FERC Contact: Amy Chang, (202) 

502–8250, or amy.chang@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing scoping 

comments: December 4, 2017. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file scoping 

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–2684–010. 

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 is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. The existing Arpin Dam Project 

consists of: (1) An approximately 742.5- 

foot-long, 19-foot-high stone masonry 

dam (west dam section) that includes 

two timber stoplog spillway bays and an 

approximately 318.9-foot-long overflow 

section; (2) an approximately 452.2-footlong, 18-foot-high masonry dam (middle 

dam section) that includes two steel 

vertical lift gates and an approximately 

237.9-foot-long overflow section; (3) an 

approximately 319.8-foot-long, 16-foothigh masonry dam (east dam section) 

that includes two tainter gates and an 

108-foot-long overflow section; (4) an 

approximately 294-acre impoundment 

at a normal full pond water surface 

elevation of 1,227.22 feet North 

American Vertical Datum of 1988 

(NAVD88); (5) a 37-foot-long, 11.5-footwide, 14-foot-high concrete, canal 

headworks structure on the eastern side 

of the impoundment; (6) an 

approximately 3,200-foot-long, 56-footwide, 6-foot-deep power canal; (7) a 

13.5-foot-long, 48-foot-wide, 14.4-foothigh concrete intake structure that 

includes two 9-foot-wide, 11-foot-high 

steel stop gates and a 44-foot-wide, 14.4- 

foot-high trashrack with 1.5- to 1.75- 

inch clear bar spacing; (8) three 79-footlong, 8-foot-diameter steel penstocks; (9) 

a 52-foot-long, 24-foot-wide, 25-foothigh cement block powerhouse 

containing two 600-kW, and one 250- 

kW vertical Francis turbine-generator 

units, for a total capacity of 1,450 kW; 

(10) a 15-foot-long, 2.4-kilovolt (kV) 

underground generator lead line that 

connects the turbine-generator units to a 

substation containing three step-up 

transformers; (11) a 3,645-foot-long, 

22.9-kV above-ground transmission line; 

(12) a tailrace; (13) recreation facilities; 

and (14) appurtenant facilities. 

Flambeau Hydro manually operates 

the project in a run-of-river mode, with 

an average annual generation of 7,336 

megawatt-hours. Flambeau Hydro is not 

proposing any changes in project 

operation. Flambeau Hydro proposes to 

continue to release a year-round 

minimum flow of 40 cfs to the bypassed 

reach to protect aquatic resources and to 

continue to operate and maintain 

existing recreation facilities. Flambeau 

Hydro also proposes to develop an 

Historic Properties Management Plan to 

protect historic resources. 

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 number excluding 

the last three digits in the docket 

number field to address the document. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. A copy is available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

address in item (h) above. 

n. 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. Scoping Process. 

The Commission staff intends to 

prepare a single Environmental 

Assessment (EA) for the Arpin Dam 

Project in accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act. The EA will 

consider both site-specific and 

cumulative environmental impacts and 

reasonable alternatives to the proposed 

action. 

Commission staff does not propose to 

conduct any on-site scoping meetings at 

this time. Instead, we are soliciting 

comments, recommendations, and 

information on Scoping Document 1 

(SD1), issued November 2, 2017. 

Copies of SD1 outlining the subject 

areas to be addressed in the EA were 

distributed to the parties on the 

Commission’s mailing list and the 

applicant’s distribution list. Copies of 

SD1 may be viewed on the web 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, call 1–866–208–3676 or 

for TTY, (202) 502–8659. 

Dated: November 2, 2017. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24275 Filed 11–7–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0885: FRL–9970–59– 

OAR] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Implementation of 

the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Ozone; State 

Implementation Plan Requirements, 

EPA ICR No. 2347.03, OMB Control No. 

2060–0695 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; reopening of comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: On October 2, 2017, the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

announced that EPA is planning to 


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