80_FR_53681 80 FR 53509 - Cat Creek Energy, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications

80 FR 53509 - Cat Creek Energy, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 172 (September 4, 2015)

Page Range53509-53510
FR Document2015-21985

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 172 (Friday, September 4, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 172 (Friday, September 4, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53509-53510]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-21985]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14655-000]


Cat Creek Energy, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application 
Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 
Competing Applications

    On December 12, 2014, Cat Creek Energy, LLC (Cat Creek) filed an 
application for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the 
Federal Power Act, proposing to study the feasibility of the Cat Creek 
Energy Generation Facility Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project (Cat 
Creek project). The project would be located at the US Bureau of 
Reclamation's (Reclamation) Anderson Ranch reservoir \1\ on the South 
Fork of the Boise River near Mountain Home in Elmore County, Idaho.
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    \1\ On November 24, 2014, Owyhee Hydro, LLC also filed a 
preliminary permit to use the Anderson Ranch reservoir as a lower 
reservoir for the Anderson Ranch Pumped Storage Hydroelectric 
Project (P-14648), and thus may be competing for the same water 
resource.
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    The sole purpose of a preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant 
the permit holder priority to file a license application during the 
permit term. A preliminary permit does not authorize the permit holder 
to perform any land-disturbing activities or otherwise enter upon lands 
or waters owned by others without the owners' express permission.
    On December 19, 2014, the Commission asked Reclamation to confirm 
that non-federal development is authorized at the Anderson Ranch site. 
On January 30, 2015, Reclamation responded stating that it retains 
jurisdiction over hydropower development at the Anderson Ranch dam, 
reservoir, and powerhouse, which are part of Reclamation's Boise 
Project. On June 8, 2015, the Commission responded and agreed with 
Reclamation's jurisdictional decision over hydropower development at 
the Boise Project's Anderson Ranch dam, powerhouse, and reservoir. 
However, the Commission would retain jurisdiction for hydropower 
facilities that would be located outside of Reclamation's development. 
Thus, an entity seeking to build a hydropower project that would use 
Reclamation's Boise Project facilities would need to obtain a lease of 
power privilege from Reclamation, but it also would need to obtain a 
license from the Commission for those facilities of the hydropower 
project that are not under Reclamation's jurisdiction.
    On August 21, 2015, Cat Creek filed minor revisions to the original 
Cat Creek project permit application. The revised Cat Creek project 
would use the existing Anderson Ranch reservoir, and would consist of 
the following new facilities: (1) A 3.4-mile-long, 80-foot-high earthen 
dam; (2) a 38,000-acre-foot impoundment as an upper reservoir; (3) two, 
5,600-foot-long, 22-foot-diameter steel penstocks; (4) two, 100-foot-
diameter concrete silos; (5) two, 200-megawatt vertical Francis 
turbines/generators; (6) an 8.0-mile-long, 230- kilovolt transmission 
line interconnecting with the existing Bonneville Power Administration 
Dixie Substation; (7) an approximately 3.6-mile-long access road; and 
(8) appurtenant facilities. The estimated annual generation of the Cat 
Creek project would be 1,401.6 gigawatt-hours.
    Applicant Contact for the Cat Creek project: Nicholas Josten, Cat 
Creek Energy, LLC, 1989 South 1875 East, Gooding, ID 83330; phone: 
(208) 954-5090.
    FERC Contact: Karen Sughrue; phone: (202) 502-8556.
    Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing 
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file 
competing applications: 60 days from the issuance of this notice. 
Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements 
of 18 CFR 4.36.

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    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing 
applications 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 
[email protected], (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-14655-000.
    More information about this project, including a copy of the 
application, can be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of 
Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. 
Enter the docket number (P-14655) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: August 28, 2015.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-21985 Filed 9-3-15; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 172 / Friday, September 4, 2015 / Notices 53509 comments in Washington, DC on or 137). Be sure you have selected an upon lands or waters owned by others before September 30, 2015. appropriate date range. For assistance, without the owners’ express permission. For your convenience, there are three please contact FERC Online Support at On December 19, 2014, the methods you can use to file your FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free Commission asked Reclamation to comments to the Commission. In all at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact confirm that non-federal development is instances, please reference the project (202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also authorized at the Anderson Ranch site. docket number (CP15–137–000) with provides access to the texts of formal On January 30, 2015, Reclamation your submission. The Commission documents issued by the Commission, responded stating that it retains encourages electronic filing of such as orders, notices, and jurisdiction over hydropower comments and has expert staff available rulemakings. development at the Anderson Ranch to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or In addition, the Commission offers a dam, reservoir, and powerhouse, which efiling@ferc.gov. free service called eSubscription which are part of Reclamation’s Boise Project. (1) You can file your comments allows you to keep track of all formal On June 8, 2015, the Commission electronically using the eComment issuances and submittals in specific responded and agreed with feature on the Commission’s Web site dockets. This can reduce the amount of Reclamation’s jurisdictional decision (www.ferc.gov) under the link to time you spend researching proceedings over hydropower development at the Documents and Filings. This is an easy by automatically providing you with Boise Project’s Anderson Ranch dam, method for submitting brief, text-only notification of these filings, document powerhouse, and reservoir. However, comments on a project; summaries, and direct links to the the Commission would retain (2) You can also file your comments documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docs- jurisdiction for hydropower facilities electronically using the eFiling feature filing/esubscription.asp. that would be located outside of on the Commission’s Web site Reclamation’s development. Thus, an (www.ferc.gov) under the link to Dated: August 31, 2015. Kimberly D. Bose, entity seeking to build a hydropower Documents and Filings. With eFiling, project that would use Reclamation’s you can provide comments in a variety Secretary. Boise Project facilities would need to of formats by attaching them as a file [FR Doc. 2015–21988 Filed 9–3–15; 8:45 am] obtain a lease of power privilege from with your submission. New eFiling BILLING CODE 6717–01–P Reclamation, but it also would need to users must first create an account by obtain a license from the Commission clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You must select for those facilities of the hydropower the type of filing you are making. If you DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY project that are not under Reclamation’s are filing a comment on a particular jurisdiction. project, please select ‘‘Comment on a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission On August 21, 2015, Cat Creek filed Filing’’; or minor revisions to the original Cat Creek (3) You can file a paper copy of your [Project No. 14655–000] project permit application. The revised comments by mailing them to the Cat Creek project would use the existing following address: Kimberly D. Bose, Cat Creek Energy, LLC; Notice of Anderson Ranch reservoir, and would Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Preliminary Permit Application consist of the following new facilities: Commission, 888 First Street NE., Room Accepted for Filing and Soliciting (1) A 3.4-mile-long, 80-foot-high earthen 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Comments, Motions To Intervene, and dam; (2) a 38,000-acre-foot Any person seeking to become a party Competing Applications impoundment as an upper reservoir; (3) to the proceeding must file a motion to two, 5,600-foot-long, 22-foot-diameter intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the On December 12, 2014, Cat Creek steel penstocks; (4) two, 100-foot- Commission’s Rules of Practice and Energy, LLC (Cat Creek) filed an diameter concrete silos; (5) two, 200- Procedures (18 CFR 385.214).1 Only application for a preliminary permit, megawatt vertical Francis turbines/ intervenors have the right to seek pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal generators; (6) an 8.0-mile-long, 230- rehearing of the Commission’s decision. Power Act, proposing to study the kilovolt transmission line The Commission grants affected feasibility of the Cat Creek Energy interconnecting with the existing landowners and others with Generation Facility Pumped Storage Bonneville Power Administration Dixie environmental concerns intervenor Hydroelectric Project (Cat Creek Substation; (7) an approximately 3.6- status upon showing good cause by project). The project would be located at mile-long access road; and (8) stating that they have a clear and direct the US Bureau of Reclamation’s appurtenant facilities. The estimated interest in this proceeding which no (Reclamation) Anderson Ranch annual generation of the Cat Creek other party can adequately represent. reservoir 1 on the South Fork of the project would be 1,401.6 gigawatt-hours. Simply filing environmental comments will not give you intervenor status, but Boise River near Mountain Home in Applicant Contact for the Cat Creek you do not need intervenor status to Elmore County, Idaho. project: Nicholas Josten, Cat Creek have your comments considered. The sole purpose of a preliminary Energy, LLC, 1989 South 1875 East, Additional information about the permit, if issued, is to grant the permit Gooding, ID 83330; phone: (208) 954– project is available from the holder priority to file a license 5090. Commission’s Office of External Affairs, application during the permit term. A FERC Contact: Karen Sughrue; phone: at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web preliminary permit does not authorize (202) 502–8556. the permit holder to perform any land- mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES site (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary Deadline for filing comments, motions link. Click on the eLibrary link, click on disturbing activities or otherwise enter to intervene, competing applications ‘‘General Search,’’ and enter the docket (without notices of intent), or notices of number excluding the last three digits in 1 On November 24, 2014, Owyhee Hydro, LLC intent to file competing applications: 60 also filed a preliminary permit to use the Anderson days from the issuance of this notice. the Docket Number field (i.e., CP15– Ranch reservoir as a lower reservoir for the Anderson Ranch Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Competing applications and notices of 1 See the previous discussion on the methods for Project (P–14648), and thus may be competing for intent must meet the requirements of 18 filing comments. the same water resource. CFR 4.36. VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:57 Sep 03, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\04SEN1.SGM 04SEN1

53510 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 172 / Friday, September 4, 2015 / Notices The Commission strongly encourages The proposed project consists of the More information about this project, electronic filing. Please file comments, Boardman Dam Development located at including a copy of the application, can motions to intervene, notices of intent, River Mile 6.1 and the Sabin Dam be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ and competing applications using the Development located at River Mile 5.3. link of Commission’s Web site at http:// Commission’s eFiling system at http:// The Boardman Dam Development www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. would consist of: (1) A 103-acre Enter the docket number (P–14681) in Commenters can submit brief comments Boardman Pond; (2) a 650-foot-long the docket number field to access the up to 6,000 characters, without prior west earth-filled abutment, a 20-foot- document. For assistance, contact FERC registration, using the eComment system wide emergency spillway, a 40-foot-long Online Support. at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ intake structure containing twin 10-foot- Dated: August 28, 2015. ecomment.asp. You must include your diameter by 73-foot-long steel penstocks Kimberly D. Bose, name and contact information at the end leading to the powerhouse, and an Secretary. of your comments. For assistance, approximately 150-foot-long earth-filled [FR Doc. 2015–21986 Filed 9–3–15; 8:45 am] please contact FERC Online Support at east abutment; (3) a 70-foot-long, 20- FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) foot-wide reinforced concrete BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 powerhouse containing a 1,000 kilowatt (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please turbine-generator; and (4) appurtenant DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal facilities. Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 The Sabin Dam Development would Federal Energy Regulatory First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. consist of: (1) A 40-acre Sabin Pond; (2) Commission The first page of any filing should a 60-foot-long earth west embankment, include docket number P–14655–000. a 70-foot-long by 20-foot-wide [Project No. 14648–000] More information about this project, reinforced concrete powerhouse integral including a copy of the application, can Owyhee Hydro, LLC; Notice of with the dam containing a 500 kilowatt be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ Preliminary Permit Application turbine-generator, a 52-foot-long link of Commission’s Web site at http:// Accepted for Filing and Soliciting intermediate earth embankment, a 32- www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. Comments, Motions To Intervene, and foot-long stop wide spillway section, an Enter the docket number (P–14655) in Competing Applications 18-foot wide tainter gate spillway the docket number field to access the section, and a 330-foot-long earth east On November 24, 2014, Owyhee document. For assistance, contact FERC embankment; and (3) appurtenant Hydro, LLC (Owyhee Hydro) filed an Online Support. facilities. The project would generate an application for preliminary permit, Dated: August 28, 2015. estimated 7,600 megawatt hours pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Kimberly D. Bose, annually. Power Act, proposing to study the Secretary. Applicant Contact: Charles R. feasibility of the Anderson Ranch [FR Doc. 2015–21985 Filed 9–3–15; 8:45 am] Peterson, 9627 Seth Road, Northport, MI Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project 49670; phone: 231–649–8706. (Anderson Ranch project). The project BILLING CODE 6717–01–P FERC Contact: Sergiu Serban, (202) would be located at the U.S. Bureau of 502–6211. Reclamation’s (Reclamation) Anderson DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Deadline for filing comments, motions Ranch dam and reservoir 1 on the South to intervene, competing applications Fork of the Boise River near Mountain Federal Energy Regulatory (without notices of intent), or notices of Home in Elmore County, Idaho. Commission intent to file competing applications: 60 The sole purpose of a preliminary days from the issuance of this notice. permit, if issued, is to grant the permit [Project No. 14681–000] Competing applications and notices of holder priority to file a license Peterson Machinery Sales; Notice of intent must meet the requirements of 18 application during the permit term. A Preliminary Permit Application CFR 4.36. The Commission strongly preliminary permit does not authorize Accepted for Filing and Soliciting encourages electronic filing. Please file the permit holder to perform any land- Comments, Motions To Intervene, and comments, motions to intervene, notices disturbing activities or otherwise enter Competing Applications of intent, and competing applications upon lands or waters owned by others using the Commission’s eFiling system without the owners’ express permission. On June 3, 2015, Peterson Machinery at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ On December 4, 2014, the Sales filed an application for a efiling.asp. Commenters can submit Commission asked Reclamation to preliminary permit under section 4(f) of brief comments up to 6,000 characters, confirm that non-federal development is the Federal Power Act proposing to without prior registration, using the authorized at the Anderson Ranch site. study the feasibility of the proposed eComment system at http:// On January 30, 2015, Reclamation Boardman River Hydro-Electric Project www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ responded stating that it retains No. 14681–000, to be located on the ecomment.asp. You must include your jurisdiction over hydropower Boardman River near Traverse City, name and contact information at the end development at the Anderson Ranch Grand Traverse County, Michigan. The of your comments. For assistance, dam, reservoir, and powerhouse, which sole purpose of a preliminary permit, if please contact FERC Online Support at are part of Reclamation’s Boise Project. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES issued, is to grant the permit holder FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) On June 8, 2015, the Commission priority to file a license application 208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 during the permit term. A preliminary (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please permit does not authorize the permit send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal 1 On December 12, 2014, Cat Creek Energy, LLC holder to perform any land-disturbing Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 also filed for a preliminary permit to use the Anderson Ranch reservoir as a lower reservoir for activities or otherwise enter upon lands First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. the Cat Creek Energy Generation Facility Pumped or waters owned by others without the The first page of any filing should Storage Hydroelectric Project (P–14655), and thus owners’ express permission. include docket number P–14681–000. may be competing for the same water resource. VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:57 Sep 03, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\04SEN1.SGM 04SEN1


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