82 FR 48223 - Nevada Hydro Company, Inc.; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 199 (October 17, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48223-48224]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22473]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14227-003]


Nevada Hydro Company, Inc.; Notice of Application Tendered for 
Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Major Unconstructed Project.
    b. Project No.: P-14227-003.
    c. Date filed: October 2, 2017.
    d. Applicant: Nevada Hydro Company, Inc.
    e. Name of Project: Lake Elsinore Advanced Pumped Storage (LEAPS) 
Project.
    f. Location: On Lake Elsinore and San Juan Creek near the town of 
Lake Elsinore in Riverside and San Diego counties, California. The 
project would occupy about 845 acres of federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR part 4 of the Commission's 
Regulations.
    h. Applicant Contact: Rexford Wait, Nevada Hydro Company, Inc., 
2416 Cades Way Vista, California (760) 599-1815.
    i. FERC Contact: Jim Fargo at (202) 502-6095 or email at 
[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 m 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: December 1, 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-14227-003.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The proposed project would consist of the following: (1) A new 
upper reservoir (Decker Canyon) with a 200-foot-high main dam and a 
gross storage volume of 5,750 acre-feet at a normal reservoir surface 
elevation of 2,792 feet above mean sea level (msl); (2) a single 21-
foot-diameter concrete power shaft and power tunnel with two steel 
lined penstocks; (3) an underground powerhouse with two reversible 
pump-turbine units with a total installed capacity of 500 megawatts; 
(4) an existing lower reservoir (Lake Elsinore) with a gross storage 
volume of 54,500 acre-feet at a normal reservoir surface elevation of 
1,245 feet above msl; (5) about 32 miles of 500-kV transmission line 
connecting the project to an existing transmission line owned by 
Southern California Edison located north of the proposed project and to 
an existing San Diego Gas & Electric Company transmission line located 
to the south.
    o. The license application and associated filings are available for 
review at the Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed 
on the Commission's Web site (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 at [email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll 
free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY). A copy is also available for inspection 
and reproduction at the address in paragraph m.
    Register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filing and issuances 
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.
    p. With this notice, we are designating Nevada Hydro, Inc. as the 
Commission's non-federal representative for carrying out informal 
consultation pursuant to section 7 of the Endangered Species Act and 
section 305(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act; and consultation pursuant to section 106 of the 
National Historic Preservation Act.
    q. Post-filing process: The major milestones of the post-filing 
process for the LEAPS Project are provided below. The issuance of the 
Ready for Environmental Analysis (REA) Notice and subsequent milestones 
will not occur until the additional information needs of Commission 
staff on the final license application have been satisfied, which may 
include the completion of any needed additional studies. The milestones 
that provide opportunities for stakeholder input are highlighted in 
bold.

 Additional study requests due
 Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments
 Public Scoping Meetings
 Comments on Scoping Document 1 due
 Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)
 Issue REA Notice soliciting comments, recommendations, terms 
and conditions, and prescriptions
 Comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and 
prescriptions due
 Issue updated EIS
 Comments on updated EIS due
 Issue final EIS (if necessary)


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    Dated: October 11, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-22473 Filed 10-16-17; 8:45 am]
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