[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 199 (Friday, October 16, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 53227]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-24911]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2144-038]
City of Seattle; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With
the Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and
Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments
October 8, 2009.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: New Major License.
b. Project No.: 2144-038.
c. Date Filed: September 29, 2009.
d. Applicant: City of Seattle.
e. Name of Project: Boundary Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The existing project is located on the Pend Oreille
River in Pend Oreille County, Washington. The project currently
occupies 920.87 acres of Federal land managed by the U.S. Forest
Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Agent Contact: Jorge Carrasco, Superintendent, Seattle City
Light, 700 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3200, Seattle, WA 98124-4023; (206) 615-
1091.
i. FERC Contact: David Turner (202) 502-6091.
j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
k. Project Description: The existing project consists of: (1) A
concrete arch dam with a crest elevation of 2,004 feet NGVD (North
American Vertical Datum), a structural height of 340 feet, a thickness
ranging from 8 feet at the crest to 32 feet at the base, and a crest
length of 508 feet, with a total length, including the spillways, of
740 feet; (2) two 50-feet-wide spillways fitted with 45-feet-high
radial gates, one on each abutment, which have a combined maximum
capacity of 108,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) at a forebay water
surface elevation of 1994 feet NGVD; (3) seven 21-foot-high by 17-foot-
wide, low-level vertical fixed-wheel sluice gates that provide an
additional discharge capacity of 252,000 cfs, for a total discharge
capacity at the dam of 360,000 cfs; (4) a 17.5-mile-long, 1,794-acre
reservoir at a normal full pool elevation of 1,994 feet NGVD with
87,913 acre-feet of gross storage; (5) power intake facilities
excavated on the left abutment area consisting of an approximately 300-
foot-wide by 800-foot-long forebay, a trash rack structure across the
entrance to the forebay, and the portal face with six 30-foot-wide by
34-foot-high horseshoe-shaped tunnels extending to intake gate
chambers; (6) six 315-feet-long penstocks lead from each of the intake
gates to one of the six turbine-generator units in the power plant; (7)
an underground power plant comprised of a 76-feet wide by 172-feet-high
by 477-feet-long machine hall; (8) two 204,506-horsepower (hp) Francis
turbines, with 158.4-megawatt (MW) generators, two 204,506-hp Francis
turbines, with 161.5-MW generators, and two 259,823-hp Francis
turbines, with 200-MW generators for a total authorized generating
capacity of 1,003 MW; (9) six draft tubes that discharge water into the
tailrace immediately below the dam; (10) six horseshoe-shaped
transformer bays; (11) six individual three-phase, 230-kilovolt (kV)
transmission lines up the vertical face of the left abutment of the dam
to six pairs of transmission towers on top of the abutment; and (12)
appurtenant equipment. The applicant proposes to install new high
efficiency turbines in Units 55 and 56, concurrently with planned
generator rewinds and step-up transformer replacements, to increase the
project's total installed capacity to 1,033 MW.
l. Locations of the Application: 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 website 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 at [email protected]
or toll-free at 1-866-208-3676, or for TTY, (202) 502-8659. A copy is
also available for inspection and reproduction at the address in item
(h) above.
m. You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via e-mail of new filings and
issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance,
contact FERC Online Support.
n. Procedural Schedule: On September 30, 2009, Seattle City Light
filed an agreement-in-principle and a request to suspend processing of
the license application until February 1, 2010 to complete settlement
negotiations. The negotiations also involve measures linking the
Boundary relicense with the surrender of Pend Oreille County Public
Utility District's Sullivan Creek Project No. 2225. In the interest of
furthering settlement negotiations and resolution of both proceedings,
we are agreeing to delay the issuance of our ready for environmental
analysis notice. Therefore, the application will be processed according
to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the schedule
may be made as appropriate and a more detailed schedule will be issued
with the ready for environmental analysis notice.
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Milestone Target date
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Notice of Acceptance and Ready for March 2010.
Environmental Analysis.
Filing interventions, comments, May 2010.
recommendations, preliminary terms and
conditions, and fishway prescriptions.
Notice of availability of the Draft EA.... October 2010.
Filing comments on Draft EA............... November 2010.
Filing modified terms and conditions...... January 2011.
Notice of availability of Final EA........ April 2011.
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o. 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.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-24911 Filed 10-15-09; 8:45 am]
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