82 FR 28055 - City of Radford; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 117 (June 20, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 117 (Tuesday, June 20, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28055-28056]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-12864]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 1235-017]


City of Radford; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With 
the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and 
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a 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: Subsequent Minor License.
    b. Project No.: 1235-017.
    c. Date Filed: May 30, 2017.
    d. Applicant: City of Radford.
    e. Name of Project: Municipal Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Little River near the City of Radford in 
Montgomery and Pulaski Counties, Virginia. The project does not affect 
federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Tim Logwood, Director of Electric Utilities 
for the City of Radford, 701 17th Street, Radford, VA 24141; Telephone 
(540) 731-3641.
    i. FERC Contact: Allyson Conner, (202) 502-6082 or 
[email protected].
    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 18 CFR 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: July 29, 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 [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-1235-017.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Municipal Hydroelectric Project consists of: (1) A 
293-foot-long, 58-foot-high reinforced concrete slab and buttress dam 
that includes: (a) A south non-overflow section; (b) an overflow 
bulkhead section; (c) an eight-bay spillway section each with a steel 
tainter gate; (d) a powerhouse intake section; and (e) a north non-
overflow section; (2) a 77-acre impoundment with a gross storage 
capacity of 562 acre-feet at a normal pool elevation of 1,772 feet 
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29) and a net storage 
capacity of 220 acre-feet between elevations 1,768 and 1,772 feet 
NGVD29; (3) a 20-foot, 3-inch-wide intake section with angled steel 
trash racks (3-inch by 5/16th-inch trash rack bars spaced 2.5 inches on 
center) and a steel roller-type head gate; (4) a 27-foot-long steel-
lined penstock in concrete that transitions from a 13.5-foot-wide, 11-
foot-high entrance to an 8-foot-diameter conveyance to the turbine 
scroll case; (5) a 30-foot-long, 28-foot-wide, and 62-foot-high 
powerhouse containing a single 1,185 kilowatts turbine-generator unit; 
(6) a 2.7-mile-long transmission line connected to the grid; and (7) 
appurtenant facilities.
    The City of Radford proposes to revise its exhibit G to include 
transmission facilities composed of only three, 560-foot-long, 4.16-kV 
overhead conductors that transmit power to a switched disconnect/
interconnection with the local distribution grid. The City of Radford 
states that the formerly licensed transmission line now serves to 
distribute power to other sources along its length and is no longer 
part of the project.

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    The City of Radford operates the project in both run-of-river and 
peaking modes. For the period 1984 through 2013, the project's average 
annual generation was about 4,550 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 Hydro Licensing 
Schedule. Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

Issue Acceptance or Deficiency Letter--August 2017
Issue Scoping Document for comment--September 2017
Notice that application is ready for environmental analysis--December 
2017
Notice of the availability of the EA--April 2018

    Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the notice 
of ready for environmental analysis.

    Dated: June 14, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-12864 Filed 6-19-17; 8:45 am]
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