[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 247 (Tuesday, December 23, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78781-78782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-30399]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 12569-001]
Public Utility District No. 1 of Okanogan County; Notice of
Scoping Meetings and Site Visit and Soliciting Scoping Comments
December 16, 2008.
a. Type of Filings: New Major License.
b. Project No.: 12569-001.
c. Date Filed: August 22, 2008.
d. Submitted By: Public Utility District No. 1 of Okanogan County
(Okanogan PUD).
e. Name of Project: Enloe Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Similkameen River, near the Town of Oroville,
Okanogan County, Washington. The project occupies about 35.47 acres of
federal lands under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management.
g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR Part 5 of the Commission's
Regulations.
h. Applicant Contact: John R. Grubich, General Manager, Public
Utility District No. 1 of Okanogan County, P.O. Box 912, Okanogan,
Washington 98840, (509) 422-8485.
i. FERC Contact: Dianne Rodman, 888 First Street, NE., Room 63-11,
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-6105, dianne.rodman@ferc.gov.
Kim A. Nguyen, 888 First Street, NE., Room 6B-02, Washington, DC
20426, (202) 502-6077. kim.nguyen@ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: February 16, 2009.
All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with:
Kimberly D. Bose, 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.
Scoping comments may be filed electronically via the Internet in
lieu of paper. The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings.
See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's
Web site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-Filing'' link.
k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
l. The Enloe Project would consist of: (1) An existing 315-foot-
long and 54-foot-high concrete gravity arch dam with an integrated 276-
foot-long central overflow spillway with 5-foot-high flashboards; (2)
an existing 76.6-acre reservoir (narrow channel of the Similkameen
River) with a storage capacity of 775 acre-feet at 1049.3 feet mean sea
level; (3) a 190-foot-long intake canal on the east abutment of the dam
diverting flows into the penstock intake structure; (4) a 35-foot-long
by 30-foot-wide penstock intake structure; (5) two above-ground 8.5-
foot-diameter steel penstocks carrying flows from the intake to the
powerhouse; (6) a powerhouse containing two vertical Kaplan turbine/
generator units with a total installed capacity of 9.0 megawatts; (7) a
180-foot-long tailrace channel that would convey flows from the
powerhouse to the Similkameen River, downstream of the Similkameen
Falls; (8) a new substation adjacent to the powerhouse; (9) a new 100-
foot-long, 13.2-kilovolt primary transmission line from the substation
connecting to an existing distribution line; (10) new and upgraded
access roads, and (11) appurtenant facilities.
m. Copies of the License Application (LA) and Scoping Document 1
(SD1) 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
FERCONlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at 1-866-208-3676, or for TTY,
(202) 502-8659.
Register online at http://ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm to be notified
via e-mail of new filings and issuances related to these or other
pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
n. With this notice, we are soliciting comments on SD1. All
comments on SD1 should be sent to the address above in paragraph j. In
addition, all comments on the LA and SD1, study requests, requests for
cooperating agency status, and all communications to Commission staff
related to the merits of the potential applications (original and eight
copies) must be filed with the
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Commission at the following address: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426. All filings with the Commission relevant to the
Enloe Hydroelectric Project must include on the first page, the project
name and number (P-12569-001), and bear the heading, as appropriate,
``Comments on Scoping Document 1.''
Comments on SD1 and other permissible forms of communications with
the Commission may be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of
paper. The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings. See 18
CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web
site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-filing'' link.
o. At this time, Commission staff intends to prepare a single
Environmental Assessment for the project, in accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act.
p. Scoping Meetings
We will hold two scoping meetings for each project at the times and
places noted below. The daytime meetings will focus on resource agency,
Indian tribes, and non-governmental organization concerns, while the
evening meetings are primarily for receiving input from the public. We
invite all interested individuals, organizations, Indian tribes, and
agencies to attend one or all of the meetings, and to assist staff in
identifying particular study needs, as well as the scope of
environmental issues to be addressed in the environmental document. The
times and locations of these meetings are as follows:
Evening Scoping Meeting
When: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 7-9 p.m.
Where: The Depot, 1210 Ironwood Street, Oroville, WA 98844.
Daytime Scoping Meeting
When: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 2-4 p.m.
Where: The Depot, 1210 Ironwood Street, Oroville, WA 98844.
SD1, which outlines the subject areas to be addressed in the
environmental document, has been mailed to the individuals and entities
on the Commission's mailing list. Copies of SD1 will be available at
the scoping meetings, or may be viewed on the Web at http://
www.ferc.gov, using the ``eLibrary'' link. Follow the directions for
accessing information in paragraph m. Depending on the extent of
comments received, a Scoping Document 2 (SD2) may or may not be issued.
Site Visits
Okanogan PUD and Commission staff will visit the site of the
proposed project on Thursday, January 15, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
To attend the site visit, participants should meet at 9 a.m. at The
Depot, 1210 Ironwood Street, Oroville, Washington. Access to the site
will require 4-wheel drive vehicles only. Anyone needing a ride to the
site or with questions about the site visit should contact Nick
Christoph, (509) 422-8472, E-mail: NickC@okpud.org; or Dan Boettger,
(509) 422-8425, Dan_B@okpud.org, at the Okanogan PUD.
Scoping Meeting Objectives
At the scoping meetings, staff will: (1) Present the proposed list
of issues to be addressed in the EA; (2) review and discuss existing
conditions and resource agency management objectives; (3) review and
discuss existing information and identify preliminary information and
study needs; (4) review and discuss the process plan and schedule for
pre-filing activity that incorporates the time frames provided for in
Part 5 of the Commission's regulations and, to the extent possible,
maximizes coordination of federal, state, and tribal permitting and
certification processes; and (5) discuss requests by any federal or
state agency or Indian tribe acting as a cooperating agency for
development of an environmental document.
Meeting participants should come prepared to discuss their issues
and/or concerns. Please review the LA the scoping meetings. Directions
on how to obtain a copy of the LA and SD1 are included in item m of
this notice.
Scoping Meeting Procedures
The scoping meetings will be recorded by a stenographer and will
become part of the formal Commission records for the projects.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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