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of irradiated fuel elements for postirradiation examination and for
research, development and manufacture
of DUPIC fuel powders, pellets and
elements for the period ending March
19, 2014. Any activities additional to
the plans or changes in the equipment
in these facilities will be reviewed by
both parties to ensure the general
consistency with the scope and
objectives of the Joint Determination.
In accordance with section 131a. of
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended, it has been determined that
this subsequent arrangement will not be
inimical to the common defense and
security.
Dated: May 28, 2012.
For the Department of Energy.
Anne M. Harrington,
Deputy Administrator, Defense Nuclear
Nonproliferation.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
U.S. Energy Information
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Agency information collection
activities: information collection
extension with change; comment
request.
AGENCY:

This notice replaces the
notice published April 11, 2012 at 77 FR
21756 regarding the extension of the
collection of information for the
Petroleum Supply Reporting System.
The EIA, pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, intends to
extend for three years with the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) the
Petroleum Supply Reporting System.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
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or other forms of information
technology.
Comments must be filed by
August 10, 2012. If you anticipate
difficulty in submitting comments
within that period, contact the person
listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Ms.
Sylvia Norris at U.S. Energy Information
Administration, Office of Petroleum and
Biofuels Statistics, U.S. Department of
Energy, 1000 Independence Ave., SW.,
EI–25, Washington, DC 20585. To
ensure receipt of the comments by the
due date, submission by email
([email protected]) is
recommended. Alternatively, Ms. Norris
may be contacted by telephone at 202–
586–6106.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of any forms and instructions
should be directed to Ms. Sylvia Norris
at the contact information listed above.
The proposed forms and instructions are
available on the Internet at: http://
www.eia.gov/survey/#petroleum
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
This information collection request
contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1905–0165;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Petroleum Supply Reporting
System. The survey forms included in
this system are:
Form EIA–800 ‘‘Weekly Refinery
Report’’
Form EIA–802 ‘‘Weekly Product
Pipeline Report’’
Form EIA–803 ‘‘Weekly Crude Oil
Report’’
Form EIA–804 ‘‘Weekly Import Report’’
Form EIA–805 ‘‘Weekly Bulk
Terminal and Blender Report’’
Form EIA–809 ‘‘Weekly Oxygenate
Report’’
Form EIA–22M ‘‘Monthly Biodiesel
Production Survey’’
Form EIA–810 ‘‘Monthly Refinery
Report’’
Form EIA–812 ‘‘Monthly Product
Pipeline Report’’
Form EIA–813 ‘‘Monthly Crude Oil
Report’’
Form EIA–814 ‘‘Monthly Import
Report’’
Form EIA–815 ‘‘Monthly Bulk
Terminal and Blender Report’’
Form EIA–816 ‘‘Monthly Natural Gas
Plant Liquids Report’’
Form EIA–817 ‘‘Monthly Tanker and
Barge Movements Report’’
Form EIA–819 ‘‘Monthly Oxygenate
Report’’
Form EIA–820 ‘‘Annual Refinery
Report’’;
(3) Type of Request: Three-year
extension with changes;
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(4) Purpose:
The Federal Energy Administration
Act of 1974 (Pub. L. 93–275, 15 U.S.C.
761 et seq.) and the DOE Organization
Act (Pub. L. 95–91, 42 U.S.C. 7101 et
seq.) require the EIA to carry out a
centralized, comprehensive, and unified
energy information program. This
program collects, evaluates, assembles,
analyzes, and disseminates information
on energy resource reserves, production,
demand, technology, and related
economic and statistical information.
This information is used to assess the
adequacy of energy resources to meet
near and longer-term domestic
demands.
The EIA, as part of its effort to comply
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter
35), provides the general public and
other Federal agencies with
opportunities to comment on collections
of energy information conducted by or
in conjunction with the EIA. Any
comments received help the EIA to
prepare data requests that maximize the
utility of the information collected, and
to assess the impact of collection
requirements on the public. Also, the
EIA will later seek approval by the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) under Section 3507(a) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Weekly petroleum and biofuels
supply surveys (Forms EIA–800, 802,
803, 804, 805, and 809) are used to
gather data on petroleum refinery
operations, blending, biofuels
production, inventory levels, and
imports of crude oil, petroleum
products, and biofuels from a sample of
operating companies. Data from weekly
surveys appear in EIA reports including
the Weekly Petroleum Status Report,
http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/
data_publications/
weekly_petroleum_status_report/
wpsr.html Short-Term Energy Outlook,
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/; This
Week in Petroleum, http://www.eia.gov/
forecasts/steo/; Monthly Energy Review,
http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/
monthly/, and others.
Monthly petroleum and biofuels
supply surveys (Forms EIA–810, 812,
813, 814, 815, 816, 817, 819, and 22M)
are used to gather data on petroleum
refinery operations, blending, biofuels
production, natural gas plant liquids
production, inventory levels, imports,
inter-regional movements, and storage
capacity for crude oil, petroleum
products, and biofuels. Crude oil
production data and petroleum and
biofuels export data from the U.S.
Census Bureau are integrated with data
from EIA petroleum supply surveys to
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of U.S. petroleum supplies that is
unavailable from any other source.
Monthly petroleum and biofuels
supply surveys support weekly surveys
by providing a complete set of in-scope
petroleum and biofuels supply data
from which weekly survey samples are
drawn. In addition, monthly surveys
provide data elements that are not
collected on weekly reports such as
production of natural gas plant liquids
and refinery processing gain. Data from
monthly petroleum and biofuels supply
surveys appear in EIA reports including
Petroleum Supply Monthly, http://
www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/
monthly/ Petroleum Supply Annual,
http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/
annual/volume1/; Monthly Energy
Review, http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/
supply/annual/volume1/ Annual Energy
Review, http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/
data/annual/ Short-Term Energy
Outlook, http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/
steo/; Annual Energy Outlook, http://
www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/er/, and
others. Monthly survey data provide
input for reports in the EIA State Energy
Data System, and provide U.S. data
submitted to the International Energy
Agency.
Further, Section 1508 of the Energy
Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT 2005) (42
U.S.C. 7135(m)) requires the EIA to
conduct a survey which collects the
quantity of renewable fuels produced,
blended, imported, and demanded on a
monthly basis, as well as market price
data on a monthly basis. The EIA–22M
collects these data in order to fulfill this
mandate.
Form EIA–820 ‘‘Annual Refinery
Report’’ provides plant-level data on
refinery capacities as well as national
and regional data on fuels consumed by
refineries, natural gas consumed as
hydrogen feedstock, and crude oil
receipts by method of transportation for
operating and idle petroleum refineries
(including new refineries under
construction), and refineries shutdown
during the previous year. The
information collected appears in the
Refinery Capacity Report, http://
www.eia.gov/petroleum/
refinerycapacity/ Annual Energy
Review, http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/
data/annual/, and other reports
available electronically from the EIA
web site at http://www.eia.gov.
(4a) Proposed Changes to Information
Collection:
The EIA proposes to discontinue
Form EIA–801 ‘‘Weekly Bulk Terminal
Report’’ and collect that same
information by adding data elements to
Form EIA–805 ‘‘Weekly Bulk Terminal
and Blender Report’’ so that Form EIA–
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inventory data that were collected on
Form EIA–801 as well as gasoline and
other blending operations data. The
Form EIA–805 would collect stocks of
products which can be viewed below
and on the draft form (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section for
instructions about how to obtain
proposed survey material). Reporting on
Form EIA–805 will continue to be by
each terminal site. The following are
proposed modifications to Form EIA–
805.
• Add stocks of total natural gas plant
liquids (NGPL) and liquefied refinery
gases (LRG).
• Add stocks of propane and
propylene (a subset of total NGPL and
LRG).
• Add stocks of nonfuel propylene (a
subset of propane/propylene stocks).
• Add stocks of residual fuel oil.
• Add stocks of unfinished oils.
• Add stocks of products currently
listed on Form EIA–805 including
—Fuel Ethanol
—Finished Motor Gasoline,
Reformulated, blended with Fuel
Ethanol
—Finished Motor Gasoline,
Reformulated, Other
—Finished Motor Gasoline,
Conventional, blended with Fuel
Ethanol, Ed55 and lower
—Finished Motor Gasoline,
Conventional, blended with Fuel
Ethanol, Greater than Ed55
—Finished Motor Gasoline,
Conventional, Other
—Motor Gasoline Blending
Components, Reformulated
Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending
(RBOB)
—Motor Gasoline Blending
Components, Conventional
Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending
(CBOB)
—Motor Gasoline Blending
Components, Gasoline Treated as
Blendstock (GTAB)
—Motor Gasoline Blending
Components, All Other
—Kerosene-Type Jet Fuel
—Distillate Fuel Oil by Sulfur Category
(15 ppm sulfur and under, Greater
than 15 ppm to 500 ppm sulfur
(inclusive), and Greater than 500 ppm
sulfur)
Eliminating Form EIA–801 and the
proposed changes to Form EIA–805 will
make weekly bulk terminal reporting
consistent with current survey reporting
on monthly surveys and will provide
more useful and accurate data for
weekly analysis and assessment of U.S.
inventories and blending of petroleum
products and biofuels.
EIA originally proposed to
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weekly bulk terminal reporting and
consolidate all petroleum terminal
reporting on Form EIA–805 as part of
our 2009 survey form changes. The 2009
proposal was later withdrawn because
of concern about increased reporting
burden due to the large number of
weekly responses that were expected to
be needed by Form EIA–805 in order to
achieve the necessary sample coverage
(the estimate was for an increase from
445 to 968 weekly responses), as well as
a concern about the feasibility of
processing all of the responses in a
timely manner. EIA has implemented an
electronic data collection method called
the Excel Data Extraction System (EDES)
that allows us to process a larger volume
of reports. Further assessment of the
sample requirement, including
examination of changes in the terminal
industry, resulted in reduction in the
estimate of the required responses to
750 per week, an increase of 215 weekly
responses from the current 535 weekly
responses for collecting blending data
on Form EIA–805. When balanced
against a reduction of 187 weekly
responses from eliminating Form EIA–
801, this results in an estimated net
increase of only 28 weekly responses.
We believe there are sufficient benefits
in terms of data utility and quality to be
derived from consolidation of weekly
bulk terminal reporting to justify this
relatively minor increase in the number
of weekly responses.
EIA proposes to change the data
protection policy regarding monthly
atmospheric crude oil distillation
capacity reported on Form EIA–810
‘‘Monthly Refinery Report.’’ EIA
proposes to no longer protect monthly
atmospheric crude oil distillation
reported on Form EIA–810. EIA
proposes to release these data as public
information in identifiable form.
Atmospheric crude oil distillation
capacity data collected on Form EIA–
820 ‘‘Annual Refinery Report,’’ are
released each year in identifiable form,
by company and refinery site. These
data appear in the Refinery Capacity
Report available at http://www.eia.gov/
petroleum/refinerycapacity/from the
EIA web site. Protecting the atmospheric
crude oil distillation capacity data that
is collected monthly on Form EIA–810
is inconsistent with the public release of
this same information that is reported
annually on Form EIA–820. EIA is only
proposing to no longer protect the
identifiability of atmospheric crude oil
distillation capacity reported on Form
EIA–810. All other information reported
on Form EIA–810 will continue to be
protected to the extent that it satisfies
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Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5
U.S.C. 552, the Department of Energy
(DOE) regulations, 10 CFR 1004.11
implementing the FOIA, and the Trade
Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. 1905.
This change is proposed so that EIA
may release reports and other analytical
information products that contain
statements related to atmospheric crude
oil distillation capacity at specific
refineries based on more current
monthly data rather than relying solely
upon annual data. Under the current
disclosure limitation policy, we are only
able to make refinery-specific
statements about capacity based on data
from Form EIA–820, but interest is often
in more current data. The public release
of monthly crude oil distillation
capacity information reported on Form
EIA–810 will assist State and local
governments and other energy planners
that use these data for energy emergency
planning. EIA contends that the release
of atmospheric crude oil distillation
capacity reported on Form EIA–810 will
not cause competitive harm because
similar data are already publicly
released by EIA in the Annual Refinery
Capacity Report and refinery-specific
capacity data are widely quoted in press
reports.
EIA proposes to discontinue
collection of maximum sustainable fuel
ethanol production capacity and change
the data protection policy on Form EIA–
819. Beginning with data collected for
January 2013, EIA proposes to treat all
information reported on fuel ethanol
nameplate production capacity on Form
EIA–819 as public information and
release it on EIA’s Web site. EIA will
change the instructions on Form EIA–
819 to state that this information will be
treated as public. The publicly available
ethanol production capacity information
would be identifiable by company and
facility. The data protection policy for
all other information reported on Form
EIA–819 will remain the same and be
protected to the extent that the
information qualifies as confidential
commercial information under the
criteria for exemption in the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552;
the Department of Energy (DOE)
regulations, 10 CFR part 1004, which
implement the FOIA; and the Trade
Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. 1905. The
proposed policy change is based on
EIA’s mandate for carrying out a central,
comprehensive, and unified energy data
and information program responsive to
users’ needs for credible, reliable, and
timely energy information that will
improve and broaden understanding of
energy in the United States.
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distillation capacity and downstream
charge capacity, by state, for each oil
refinery in the Refinery Capacity Report.
One important use of ethanol is for
blending with gasoline. The publication
of fuel ethanol plant production
capacities by facility will provide
comparable upstream information
similar to refineries and will be useful
to assess upstream gasoline market
supply conditions. By providing
capacity information at the facility level
for ethanol production and other refined
petroleum products, supply conditions
within a region or state may be assessed
in the event of a supply disruption.
Fuel ethanol production capacities
were previously collected by EIA on
Form EIA–819A ‘‘Annual Oxygenate
Capacity Report’’ from January 1, 1993–
1995 and released by company and
facility in the Petroleum Supply Annual
during that same time period. Form
EIA–819A was discontinued in 1996.
The proposal to release fuel ethanol
plant production capacity collected on
Form EIA–819 beginning with data for
January 2013, reference period is
consistent with past EIA practices and
will improve the utility of the data by
permitting comparisons on the growth
in capacity at the state level over the
past twenty years.
EIA does not anticipate the release of
fuel ethanol plant nameplate production
capacity data to cause competitive harm
to respondents to Form EIA–819
because this type of information is
currently publicly available from other
exogenous sources through the Internet.
The Renewable Fuels Association
publishes nameplate ethanol production
capacity as well as the actual operating
production and under-construction
capacity at the facility level available at
http://www.ethanolrfa.org/bio-refinerylocations. EIA is proposing only to
release nameplate production capacity
information at the facility level and will
continue to protect all other information
reported on Form EIA–819 from being
released in identifiable form.
EIA proposes to discontinue reporting
of maximum sustainable fuel ethanol
capacity. Maximum sustainable capacity
was originally envisioned as a measure
of surge capacity for fuel ethanol.
However, the quantities reported for
maximum sustainable fuel ethanol
capacity were not useful for measuring
surge capacity and EIA will be able to
measure fuel ethanol surge capacity by
using fuel ethanol production and
nameplate capacity data reported on
Form EIA–819.
Beginning with data collected for
January 2013, EIA proposes to treat all
information reported on biodiesel
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as public information that may be
released EIA’s Web site. EIA will signify
this change by amending the
instructions on Form EIA–22M to state
that this information will be treated as
public and be made available in a form
identifiable by company and facility.
This change will provide for protection
policies for biodiesel production
capacity data that are consistent with
current EIA policies related to oil
refinery capacity and the data protection
policy proposed for fuel ethanol
production capacity. Because biodiesel
is increasingly used as a blending
component in U.S. distillate fuel oil
(including diesel fuel and heating oil),
detailed production capacity at the
plant level is important for assessment
of upstream distillate fuel oil supply
conditions. Biodiesel production
capacities by plant are currently
publicly available from the National
Biodiesel Board web site at http://
www.nbb.org/about-us/member-plants/
nbb-member-plant-lists. We do not
anticipate competitive harm to biodiesel
producers from release of biodiesel
production capacity data collected on
Form EIA–22M.
Finally, EIA proposes to further
modify the data protection policy for
monthly biodiesel production data
reported on Form EIA–22M by not
applying any disclosure limitation
methodology to the published statistical
aggregates for quantities of biodiesel
production at the Petroleum
Administration for Defense District
(PADD) level. The existing data
protection policy provides for
application of disclosure limitation
procedures to statistical data published
from Form EIA–22M to minimize the
risk of disclosure of company
identifiable information in data
aggregated to the national, regional, or
state levels. Under the current program,
aggregated production data may be
withheld (i.e. aggregated data values are
replaced by W) if the company data
contributing to the aggregated data item
is such that individual company data is
effectively revealed. EIA proposes to
discontinue application of disclosure
limitation procedures to biodiesel
production data, but these procedures
would continue to be applied to other
published statistical aggregates based on
data collected on Form EIA–22M.
The change in data protection policy
for production of biodiesel is necessary
because EIA intends to incorporate
biodiesel production in petroleum
supply and disposition balance tables
(with data for the U.S. and PADDs)
published in the Petroleum Supply
Monthly and Petroleum Supply Annual.
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applied to data in the Petroleum Supply
Monthly and Petroleum Supply Annual.
Therefore, it is possible that U.S. and
PADD level totals reported in the
Petroleum Supply Monthly and
Petroleum Supply Annual may be
dominated by data from one or two large
companies thereby making it possible
for a knowledgeable person to estimate
information reported by a particular
company. It is important to note that
EIA is not proposing to explicitly report
biodiesel production in company
identifiable form, but only to
discontinue application of disclosure
limitation procedures to U.S. and PADD
level biodiesel production totals
calculated from data reported on Form
EIA–22M. Applying statistical
disclosure limitation procedures to
biodiesel production data would
potentially prevent EIA from accurately
reporting data on distillate fuel oil
supply, disposition, and demand
including biodiesel especially at the
PADD level. Disclosure limitation
procedures will continue to be applied
to the other data reported on Form EIA–
22M.
Please refer to the proposed forms and
instructions for more information about
the purpose, who must report, when to
report, where to submit, the elements to
be reported, detailed instructions,
provisions for confidentiality, and uses
(including possible nonstatistical uses)
of the information. For instructions on
obtaining materials, see the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section.
(5) Estimated Number of Survey
Respondents:

Form EIA–804 are also included as a
subset of the 391 respondents reporting
on the monthly Form EIA–814, so that
the two surveys contribute a total of 495
respondents.
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses:

Weekly Survey Forms
EIA–800, 141 Respondents; EIA–802, 51
Respondents; EIA–803, 57
Respondents; EIA–804, 104
Respondents; EIA–805, 750
Respondents; EIA–809, 142
Respondents;

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Monthly Survey Forms
EIA–22M, 150 Respondents; EIA–810,
153 Respondents; EIA–812, 80
Respondents;
EIA–813, 167 Respondents; EIA–814,
391 Respondents; EIA–815, 1,476
Respondents;
EIA–816, 451 Respondents; EIA–817, 34
Respondents; EIA–819, 203
Respondents;
Annual Survey Forms
EIA–820, 148 Respondents.
Total respondents for Petroleum
Supply Reporting System: 4,498
respondents. Many respondents report
on multiple surveys and are counted for
each survey they report. For example,
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Weekly Survey Forms (Respondents x
52)
EIA–800, 7,332 Responses; EIA–802,
2,652 Responses; EIA–803, 2,964
Responses; EIA–804, 5,408 Responses;
EIA–805, 39,000 Responses; EIA–809,
7,384 Responses;
Monthly Survey Forms (Respondents x
12)
EIA–22M, 1,800 Responses; EIA–810,
1,836 Responses; EIA–812, 960
Responses; EIA–813, 2,004 Responses;
EIA–814, 4,692 Responses; EIA–815,
17,712 Responses; EIA–816, 5,412
Responses; EIA–817, 408 Responses;
EIA–819, 2,436 Responses;
Annual Survey Forms (Respondents x 1)
EIA–820, 148 Responses.
Total annual responses for Petroleum
Supply Reporting System: 102,148
responses annually. EIA estimates that it
will receive a total of 102,148 reports
annually, not that each survey form will
individually be reported 102,148 times
annually.
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours:
EIA estimates the following burden
hours per response for the Petroleum
Supply Reporting System survey
forms:
EIA–800, 1.58 hours; EIA–802, 0.95
hours; EIA–803, 0.5 hours; EIA–804,
1.75 hours; EIA–805, 1.6 hours; EIA–
809, 1 hour;
Monthly Survey Forms
EIA–22M, 3 hours; EIA–810, 6 hours;
EIA–812, 4.3 hours; EIA–813, 2.5
hours; EIA–814, 2.55 hours; EIA–815,
5 hours; EIA–816, 0.95 hours; EIA–
817, 2.25 hours; EIA–819, 1.75 hours;
Annual Survey Forms
EIA–820, 2.00 hours.
Based on these estimates and the
estimates in (6), EIA estimates an annual
total of 231,531 burden hours for the
Petroleum Supply Reporting System.
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA
estimates that there are no additional
costs to respondents associated with the
surveys other than the costs associated
with the burden hours.
Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the
Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974,

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P.L. 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b), and
the DOE Organization Act of 1977, Public
Law 95–91, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 5, 2012.
Stephanie Brown,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U. S. Energy
Information Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 13160–004]

Red River Hydro LLC; Notice of
Application Tendered for Filing With
the Commission and Establishing
Procedural Schedule for Licensing and
Deadline for Submission of Final
Amendments
Take notice that the following
hydroelectric application has been filed
with the Commission and is available
for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Original Major
License.
b. Project No.: 13160–004.
c. Date Filed: May 24, 2012.
d. Applicant: Red River Hydro LLC
(Red River), a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Symbiotics LLC.
e. Name of Project: Overton Lock and
Dam Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The project would be
located on the Red River in Rapides
Parish, Louisiana at an existing lock and
dam owned and operated by the U.S.
Corps of Engineers (Corps). The project
would occupy 38.7 acres of federal
lands managed by the Corps.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Brent L.
Smith, Chief Operating Officer,
Symbiotics LLC, 811 SW. Naito
Parkway, Suite 120, Portland, OR 97204;
Telephone (503) 235–3424.
i. FERC Contact: Lesley Kordella,
(202) 502–6406 or
[email protected].
j. This application is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
k. The Project Description: The project
would be located at an existing lock and
dam owned and operated by the CorpsVicksburg District. The existing lock
and dam are part of the J. Bennett
Johnston Waterway, which was
authorized by Congress in 1968 to
stabilize river banks, straighten river
bends, and maintain a 9-foot-deep, 200foot-wide channel for boat traffic. The
waterway consists of five locks and

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