Notice of Applications Tendered for Filing With The Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 199 (Friday, October 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55909-55910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-26901]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Applications Tendered for Filing With The Commission 
and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

October 8, 1999.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric applications have been 
filed with the Commission and are available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Applications: New major licenses.
    b. Projects: Soda Project No. 20-019, Grace-Cove Project No. 2401-
007, and Oneida Project No. 472-017.
    c. Date Filed: September 27, 1999.
    d. Applicant: PacifiCorp.
    e. Location: On the Bear River in Caribou and Franklin Counties, 
Idaho. The projects are partially on United States lands administered 
by the Bureau of Land Management.
    f. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 USC Secs. 791(a)-
825(r).
    g. Applicant Contact: Randy Landolt, Managing Director, Hydro 
Resources, PacifiCorp, 825 N.E. Multnomah Street, Suite 1500, Portland, 
OR 97232, (503) 813-6650, or, Thomas H. Nelson, 825 Multnomah Street, 
Suite 925, Portland, OR 97232, (503) 813-5890.
    h. FERC Contact: Hector Perez, hector.perez@ferc.fed.us, (202) 219-
2843.
    i. Deadline for Filing Additional Study Requests: November 26, 
1999. All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
David P. Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all 
interveners filing documents with the Commission to serve a copy of 
that document on each person on the official service list for the 
project. Further, if an intervener files comments or documents with the 
Commission relating to the merits of an issue that may affect the 
responsibilities of a particular resource agency, they must also serve 
a copy of the document on that resource agency.
    j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    k. The existing Soda Project consists of: (1) the 103-foot-high and 
433-foot-long concrete gravity Soda Dam with a 114-foot-long spillway 
section; (2) the Soda Reservoir with a surface area of 1,100 acres, and 
active storage capacity of 16,300 acre-feet, and a maximum water 
elevation of 5,720 feet; (3) the Soda Powerhouse containing two units 
with a total installed capacity of 14 megawatts (MW); and (4) other 
appurtenances.
    The existing Grace Development consists of: (1) a 51-foot-high and 
180-foot-long rock filled timber crib dam that creates a 250 acre-feet 
usable storage capacity forebay; (2) a 26,000-foot-long flowline and 
surge tanks; and (3) a powerhouse with three units with total installed 
capacity of 33 MW. The Cove Development consists of: (1) a 26.5-foot-
high and 141-foot-long concrete dam creating a 60-acre-foot forebay; 
(2) a 6,125-foot-long concrete and wood flume; (3) a 500-foot-long 
steel penstock; and (4) a powerhouse with a 7.5-MW unit.
    The existing Oneida Project consists of: (1) the 111-foot-high and 
456-foot-long concrete gravity Oneida Dam; (2) the Oneida Reservoir 
with an active storage of 10,880 acre-feet and a surface area of 480 
acres; (3) an 16-foot-diameter, 2,240-foot-long flowline; (4) a surge 
tank; (5) three 12-foot-diameter, 120-foot-long steel penstocks; (6) 
the Oneida Powerhouse with three units with a total installed capacity 
of 30 MW; and (7) other appurtenances.

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    l. A copy of the application is available for inspection and 
reproduction at the Commission's Public Reference Room, located at 888 
First Street, NE, Room 2A, Washington, D.C. 20426, or by calling (202) 
208-1371. The application may be viewed on www.ferc.fed.us/
rims.htm (call (202) 208-222 for assistance). A copy is also available 
for inspection and reproduction at the address in item g above.
    m. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the State 
Historic Preservation Officer as required by Sec. 106, National 
Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of the Advisory Council 
on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR at 800.4.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-26901 Filed 10-14-99; 8:45 am]
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