83 FR 17174 - Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications; Flat Canyon Hydro, LLC
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 75 (April 18, 2018)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 75 (April 18, 2018)
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| FR Document | 2018-08078 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 18, 2018)] [Notices] [Page 17174] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-08078] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 14870-000] Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications; Flat Canyon Hydro, LLC On March 7, 2018, the Flat Canyon Hydro, LLC, filed an application for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), proposing to study the feasibility of the Flat Canyon Pumped Storage Project (Flat Canyon Project or project) to be located in Flat Canyon, near the City of Elsinore, Sevier County, Utah. 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. The proposed project would be a closed-loop pumped storage hydropower facility that consists of the following: (1) A 37-acre upper reservoir having a total storage capacity of 1,800 acre-feet at a normal maximum operating elevation of 6,930 feet mean sea level (msl); (2) a 55-foot-high, 550-foot-long zoned earth/rockfill or concrete- faced upper reservoir dam; (3) a 55-foot-high, 525-foot-long zoned earth/rockfill or concrete-faced second upper reservoir dam; (4) a 1,350-foot-long, 15-foot-diameter low-pressure headrace tunnel either unlined or lined concrete-lined; (5) a 6,850-foot-long, 15-foot- diameter high-pressure headrace tunnel lined with either concrete or steel; (6) a 220-foot-long, 60-foot-wide, 120-foot-high powerhouse housed in an underground cavern and accessed via a 2,600-foot-long, 18- foot-diameter access tunnel, housing two variable-speed reversible pump/turbine-motor/generator units rated for 150 megawatts each at 1,370 feet maximum gross head; (7) a 2,400-foot-long, 17.5-foot- diameter tailrace tunnel lined with concrete; (8) a 37-acre lower reservoir having a total storage capacity 1,800 acre-feet at a normal maximum operating elevation of 5,630 feet msl; (9) a 75-foot-high, 850- foot-long zoned earth/rockfill or concrete-faced lower reservoir dam; (10) a 13-mile-long, 230-kilovolt (kV) transmission line extending from the powerhouse that would follow an existing transmission corridor to the Sigurd Substation owned by Rocky Mountain Power, or, if possible, a direct connection to Rocky Mountain Power's Sigurd-Red Butte No. 2 345- kV line adjacent to the project (the point of interconnection); and (11) appurtenant facilities. The estimated annual generation of the Flat Canyon Project would be 525.6 gigawatt-hours. Applicant Contact: Matthew Shapiro, CEO, Gridflex Energy, LLC, 1210 W Franklin St, Ste. 2, Boise, Idaho 83702; phone: (208) 246-9925. FERC Contact: Kyle Olcott; phone: (202) 502-8963. 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. 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-14870-000. More information about this project, including a copy of the application, can be viewed or printed on the eLibrary link of Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number (P-14870) in the docket number field to access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support. Dated: April 12, 2018. . Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2018-08078 Filed 4-17-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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Commission in determining the priority to file a license application The Commission strongly encourages
appropriate action to be taken, but will during the permit term. A preliminary electronic filing. Please file comments,
not serve to make protestants parties to permit does not authorize the permit motions to intervene, notices of intent,
the proceeding. Any person wishing to holder to perform any land-disturbing and competing applications using the
become a party must file a notice of activities or otherwise enter upon lands Commission’s eFiling system at http://
intervention or motion to intervene, as or waters owned by others without the www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp.
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or owners’ express permission. Commenters can submit brief comments
protests must be filed on or before the The proposed project would be a up to 6,000 characters, without prior
comment date. On or before the closed-loop pumped storage registration, using the eComment system
comment date, it is not necessary to hydropower facility that consists of the at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
serve motions to intervene or protests following: (1) A 37-acre upper reservoir ecomment.asp. You must include your
on persons other than the Applicant. having a total storage capacity of 1,800 name and contact information at the end
The Commission encourages acre-feet at a normal maximum of your comments. For assistance,
electronic submission of protests and operating elevation of 6,930 feet mean please contact FERC Online Support at
interventions in lieu of paper using the sea level (msl); (2) a 55-foot-high, 550- FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866)
‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. foot-long zoned earth/rockfill or 208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659
Persons unable to file electronically concrete-faced upper reservoir dam; (3) (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please
should submit an original and 5 copies a 55-foot-high, 525-foot-long zoned send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal
of the protest or intervention to the earth/rockfill or concrete-faced second Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, upper reservoir dam; (4) a 1,350-foot- First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426.
888 First Street NE, Washington, DC long, 15-foot-diameter low-pressure The first page of any filing should
20426. headrace tunnel either unlined or lined include docket number P–14870–000.
This filing is accessible on-line at concrete-lined; (5) a 6,850-foot-long, 15- More information about this project,
http://www.ferc.gov, using the foot-diameter high-pressure headrace including a copy of the application, can
‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for tunnel lined with either concrete or be viewed or printed on the eLibrary
review in the Commission’s Public steel; (6) a 220-foot-long, 60-foot-wide, link of Commission’s website at http://
Reference Room in Washington, DC. 120-foot-high powerhouse housed in an www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp.
There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the underground cavern and accessed via a Enter the docket number (P–14870) in
website that enables subscribers to 2,600-foot-long, 18-foot-diameter access the docket number field to access the
receive email notification when a tunnel, housing two variable-speed document. For assistance, contact FERC
document is added to a subscribed reversible pump/turbine-motor/ Online Support.
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC generator units rated for 150 megawatts Dated: April 12, 2018. .
Online service, please email each at 1,370 feet maximum gross head; Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (7) a 2,400-foot-long, 17.5-foot-diameter Deputy Secretary.
(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call tailrace tunnel lined with concrete; (8) [FR Doc. 2018–08078 Filed 4–17–18; 8:45 am]
(202) 502–8659. a 37-acre lower reservoir having a total BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern storage capacity 1,800 acre-feet at a
Time on May 1, 2018. normal maximum operating elevation of
Dated: April 11, 2018. 5,630 feet msl; (9) a 75-foot-high, 850- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Kimberly D. Bose, foot-long zoned earth/rockfill or
concrete-faced lower reservoir dam; (10) Federal Energy Regulatory
Secretary.
a 13-mile-long, 230-kilovolt (kV) Commission
[FR Doc. 2018–08058 Filed 4–17–18; 8:45 am]
transmission line extending from the [Project No. 7987–014]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
powerhouse that would follow an
existing transmission corridor to the Notice of Transfer of Exemption;
Sigurd Substation owned by Rocky Hydrodyne Industries, LLC, UP
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Mountain Power, or, if possible, a direct Property 2, LLC
Federal Energy Regulatory connection to Rocky Mountain Power’s
Sigurd-Red Butte No. 2 345-kV line 1. By letter filed March 8, 2018,
Commission Charles T. Hagan, III, Manager,
adjacent to the project (the point of
[Project No. 14870–000] interconnection); and (11) appurtenant Hydrodyne Industries, LLC, exemptee
facilities. The estimated annual informed the Commission that the
Notice of Preliminary Permit generation of the Flat Canyon Project exemption from licensing for the High
Application Accepted for Filing and would be 525.6 gigawatt-hours. Falls Hydroelectric Project No. 7987,
Soliciting Comments, Motions To originally issued September 12, 1984 1
Applicant Contact: Matthew Shapiro,
Intervene, and Competing has been transferred to UP Property 2,
CEO, Gridflex Energy, LLC, 1210 W
Applications; Flat Canyon Hydro, LLC LLC. The project is located on the Deep
Franklin St, Ste. 2, Boise, Idaho 83702;
phone: (208) 246–9925. River in Moore County, North Carolina.
On March 7, 2018, the Flat Canyon
FERC Contact: Kyle Olcott; phone: The transfer of an exemption does not
Hydro, LLC, filed an application for a
(202) 502–8963. require Commission approval.
preliminary permit, pursuant to section 2. UP Property 2, LLC is now the
4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), Deadline for filing comments, motions
exemptee of the High Falls
amozie on DSK30RV082PROD with NOTICES
proposing to study the feasibility of the to intervene, competing applications
Hydroelectric Project No. 7987. All
Flat Canyon Pumped Storage Project (without notices of intent), or notices of
correspondence should be forwarded to:
(Flat Canyon Project or project) to be intent to file competing applications: 60
Mr. Aaron Aho, Land and Resource
located in Flat Canyon, near the City of days from the issuance of this notice.
Elsinore, Sevier County, Utah. The sole Competing applications and notices of 1 Order Granting Exemption From Licensing of a
purpose of a preliminary permit, if intent must meet the requirements of 18 Small Hydroelectric Project of 5 Megawatts or Less.
issued, is to grant the permit holder CFR 4.36. Cook Industries, Inc., 28 FERC 62,352 (1984).
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