[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 4 (Monday, January 7, 2013)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 485-065]
Georgia Power Company; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing
With the Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing
and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments
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.: 485-065.
c. Date Filed: December 14, 2012.
d. Applicant: Georgia Power Company.
e. Name of Project: Bartletts Ferry Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The existing project is located on the Chattahoochee
River, along the Georgia-Alabama border, in Harris County, Georgia, and
Lee and Chambers counties, Alabama. The project does not affect federal
lands.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: George A. Martin, Hydro Relicensing Project
Manager, Georgia Power Company, 241 Ralph McGill Blvd., NE., BIN 10221,
Atlanta, GA 30308; Telephone--(404) 506-1357; Email_
[email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Allan Creamer, (202) 502-8365, or
[email protected].
j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
k. The Project Description: The project consists of a 2,052-foot-
long dam, two powerhouses, and a 5,850-acre reservoir (Bartletts Ferry
Reservoir or Lake Harding) at a normal water surface elevation of
520.16 feet mean sea level (msl; or 521.0 Plant Datum).
The west side of the project, from west to east, consists of: (1) A
1,230-foot-long, 11.25-foot-high, 22-bay auxiliary labyrinth spillway;
(2) a 286-foot-long, 35-foot-high, earth-fill embankment dam; (3) a 92-
foot-long by 94-foot-high concrete gravity intake structure, equipped
with four vertical lift steel intake gates, connected to the west
powerhouse by four 15-foot diameter penstocks; (4) a powerhouse
containing three vertical Francis turbines rated at 15 megawatts (MW)
each and a fourth vertical Francis turbine rated at 20 MW, with a total
installed capacity of 65 MW; and (5) a 634-foot-long concrete gravity
spillway with nineteen 21-foot-high by 25-foot-wide radial gates, two
9-foot-high by 11-foot-wide vertical lift trash gates, and four
abandoned siphons in two spillway bays.
The east side of the project, from west to east, consists of: (1) A
915-foot-long, 125-foot-high, earth-fill embankment dam; (2) a 650-
foot-long intake canal leading to a 177-foot-long concrete gravity
intake structure; (3) two penstocks; and (4) a powerhouse with two
vertical Francis turbines rated at 54 MW each, with a total installed
capacity of 108 MW.
The project is operated in a peaking mode, and is coordinated with
the peaking operations at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' upstream
West Point Dam. The project is normally operated between elevations
518.16 and 520.16 feet msl (or 519.0 and 521.0 PD), with normal daily
average fluctuations of about \3/4\ foot. The project has an average
annual generation of approximately 395,577 megawatt-hours.
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 Web site 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 email of new filings and issuances
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
n. Procedural Schedule: The application will be processed according
to the following preliminary Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the
schedule may be made as appropriate.
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Milestone Target date
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Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready April 2013.
for Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary June 2013.
terms and conditions, and fishway
prescriptions.
Commission issues Draft EA or EIS...... December 2013.
Comments on Draft EA or EIS............ January 2014.
Modified Terms and Conditions.......... March 2014.
Commission Issues Final EA or EIS...... May 2014.
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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.
Dated: December 21, 2012.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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