Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 149 / Monday, August 3, 2020 / Notices 46619 Dated: July 28, 2020. Services, Humboldt County Public The Commission strongly encourages Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., Works Department, 1106 Second Street, electronic filing. Please file scoping Deputy Secretary. Eureka, CA 95501, (707) 268–2680, comments using the Commission’s [FR Doc. 2020–16810 Filed 7–31–20; 8:45 am] [email protected]. eFiling system at https:// BILLING CODE 6717–01–P i. FERC Contact: Quinn Emmering, ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. [email protected], 202–502– Commenters can submit brief comments 6382. up to 6,000 characters, without prior DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, registration, using the eComment system local, and tribal agencies with at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ Federal Energy Regulatory jurisdiction and/or special expertise QuickComment.aspx. You must include Commission with respect to environmental issues your name and contact information at the end of your comments. For [Project No. 77–298; Project No. 77–285] that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the environmental assistance, please contact FERC Online NOI Parties; Notice Soliciting Scoping document should follow the Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ Comments instructions for filing such requests ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or described in item o below. Cooperating (202) 502–8659 (TTY). In lieu of Take notice that the following agencies should note the Commission’s electronic filing, you may submit a hydroelectric application has been filed policy that agencies that cooperate in paper copy. Submissions sent via the with Commission and is available for the preparation of the environmental U.S. Postal Service must be addressed public inspection: document cannot also intervene. See 94 to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal a. Type of Application: Major, new FERC 61,076 (2001). Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 license. k. Please note that on April 6, 2017, First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, b. Project Nos.: P–77–298; P–77–285. DC 20426. Submissions sent via any c. Date filed: June 28, 2019. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) initiated the Commission’s other carrier must be addressed to: d. Applicant: NOI Parties (the NOI Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Parties are proxies for a new Regional Integrated Licensing Process (ILP) to relicense the Potter Valley Project by Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Entity that ultimately would be the Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland license applicant for the project. The filing, pursuant to 18 CFR 5.6, a Notice of Intent (NOI) and Pre-Application 20852. The first page of any filing Regional Entity has not yet been formed should include docket number P–77– under California law, but once formed, Document (PAD), which included a proposed process plan and schedule. 298. the Regional Entity would supplant the The Commission’s Rules of Practice However, on January 25, 2019, PG&E NOI Parties in this Integrated Licensing and Procedure require all interveners filed a notice of withdrawal indicating Process [ILP] proceeding. The NOI filing documents with the Commission that it was discontinuing its efforts to Parties are Mendocino County Inland to serve a copy of that document on relicense the project, which became Water Agency and Power Commission; each person on the official service list effective on February 11, 2019. As a Sonoma County Water Agency; for the project. Further, if an intervener California Trout, Inc.; County of result, on March 1, 2019, the files comments or documents with the Humboldt, California; and the Round Commission issued a Notice Soliciting Commission relating to the merits of an Valley Indian Tribes). Applications for interested applicants to issue that may affect the responsibilities e. Name of Project: Potter Valley file NOIs, PADs, and requests to of a particular resource agency, it must Project. complete the pre-filing stages of the also serve a copy of the document on f. Location: On the Eel and East Fork relicensing process. that resource agency. Russian Rivers in Lake and Mendocino On June 28, 2019, the NOI Parties m. This application is not ready for Counties, California, about 15 miles filed a NOI to seek a new license for the environmental analysis at this time. northeast of the City of Ukiah. The project and that it incorporates by n. The Potter Valley Project stores existing 9.959-megawatt (MW) Potter reference PG&E’s PAD as part of the winter runoff from the upper Eel River Valley Project occupies lands owned by project record as all the general Basin and annually diverts an average of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (2,328 information on the existing project is approximately 60,000 acre-feet of Eel acres), National Forest System Lands the same. On August 1, 2019, the River water into the Russian River to administered by the United States Commission issued a public notice of generate hydroelectric power, provide Forest Service, Mendocino National the NOI Parties’ intent to continue the water to local water users, and meet Forest (1,146 acres), and privately- ILP initiated by PG&E and file a final regulatory streamflow requirements for owned lands (41 acres). license application by April 14, 2022. the Eel River and East Branch Russian g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power On May 13, 2020, the NOI Parties filed River. Act, 16 U.S.C. 791a—825u. a Feasibility Study Report, which Existing project facilities include: (1) h. Applicant Contacts: Grant Davis, includes information on the proposed Lake Pillsbury, a 2,275-acre storage General Manager, Sonoma County Water Regional Entity to operate and maintain reservoir with a current storage capacity Agency, 404 Aviation Boulevard, Santa the project and its proposed changes to of 76,876 acre-feet at normal maximum Rosa, CA 95403, (707) 547–1900, project facilities and operations from water surface elevation (NMWSE) of [email protected]; Janet Pauli, what PG&E originally proposed. 1,828.3 feet impounded by Scott Dam Chair, Mendocino County Inland Water Therefore, in addition to the Feasibility on the Eel River; (2) Scott Dam, a 130- and Power Commission, P.O. Box 1247, Study Report and NOI, participants foot-high, 805-foot-long, concrete Ukiah, CA 95482, (707) 743–1173, should also refer to PG&E’s PAD for gravity dam with an ogee-shaped, [email protected]; Curtis Knight, general information about existing overflow spillway structure with five Executive Director, California Trout, 360 project facilities, project operations, and 32-foot-wide, 10-foot-high, radial gates, Pine Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, environmental resources in the project and 26 10-foot-high, 7.5- to 10-foot- CA 94104, (415) 392–8887, cknight@ area. wide, steel slide gates; (3) a 72-inch- caltrout.org; and Hank Seemann, l. Deadline for filing scoping diameter, riveted-steel outlet pipe Deputy Director—Environmental comments: August 27, 2020. passing through Scott Dam at invert VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:39 Jul 31, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\03AUN1.SGM 03AUN1 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES 46620 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 149 / Monday, August 3, 2020 / Notices elevation 1,730.3 feet, controlled by a reduce environmental impacts in the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 42-inch Lauren-Johnson needle valve river basins. AGENCY that releases water downstream into the o. In addition to publishing the full [R01–OW–2020; FRL–10012–96–Region 1] Eel River; (4) Van Arsdale Reservoir, a text of this document in the Federal 106-acre reservoir at NMWSE of 1,494.3 Register. The Commission provides all Program Requirement Revisions feet with a current storage capacity of interested persons an opportunity to Related to the Public Water System 390 acre-feet impounded by Cape Horn view and/or print the contents of this Supervision Programs for the Dam on the Eel River; (5) Cape Horn Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Dam, consisting of a 60-foot-high, 237- document via the internet through the Commission’s Home Page (http:// State of Connecticut and the State of foot-long, earthfill section and a 63-foot- New Hampshire high, 283-foot-long, concrete, gravity www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary link. overflow spillway section with the crest Enter the docket number excluding the AGENCY: Environmental Protection at 1,490.3 feet msl elevation; (6) release last three digits in the docket number Agency (EPA). gates at the center of the dam passing field to access the document. At this ACTION: Notice. water downstream through a 434-foot- time, the Commission has suspended SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that long, pool-and-weir type fish ladder that access to the Commission’s Public the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, rises a vertical distance of 400 feet for Reference Room, due to the the State of Connecticut and the State of anadromous fish passage to the Eel proclamation declaring a National New Hampshire are revising their River and its tributaries; (7) Van Arsdale Emergency concerning the Novel respective approved Public Water intake diversion structure, that includes Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued System Supervision (PWSS) programs to fish screens and a fish return channel, by the President on March 13, 2020. For meet the requirements of the Safe diverting water from the Eel River about assistance, contact FERC Online Drinking Water Act (SDWA). 400 feet upstream of Cape Horn Dam; (8) Support. DATES: All interested parties may a trans-basin diversion system p. You may also register online at comprised of a 5,826-foot-long tunnel, a request a public hearing for any of the https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 457-foot-long conduit, an 807-foot-long above EPA determinations. A request for FERCOnline.aspx to be notified via a public hearing must be submitted by tunnel, and a 367-foot-long conduit that September 2, 2020, to the Regional conveys water to the penstocks; (9) a email of new filings and issuances Administrator at the address shown butterfly valve house and penstock related to this or other pending projects.