[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 20 (Thursday, January 30, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4897-4898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-01866]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project Nos. 13948-002; 13994-002]
Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County; Notice of
Scoping Meetings and Environmental Site Review and Soliciting Scoping
Comments
Take notice that the following hydroelectric applications have been
filed with Commission and are available for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: New Major License.
b. Project Nos.: 13948-002 and 13994-002.
c. Date filed: August 1, 2013.
d. Applicant: Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County
(SnoPUD).
e. Name of Projects: Calligan Creek Hydroelectric Project and
Hancock Creek Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The Calligan Creek Hydroelectric Project would be
located on Calligan Creek in King County, approximately 9 miles
northeast of North Bend, Washington. It would not occupy any federal
lands.
The Hancock Creek Hydroelectric Project would be located on Hancock
Creek in King County, approximately 9 miles northeast of North Bend,
Washington. It would not occupy any federal lands.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Kim D. Moore, P.E., Assistant General Manager
of Generation, Water and Corporate Services; Public Utility District
No. 1 of Snohomish County, 2320 California Street, P.O. Box 1107,
Everett, WA 98206-1107; (425) 783-8606; [email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Kelly Wolcott, [email protected], (202) 502-
6480.
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: March 29, 2014.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
scoping comments 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 numbers P-13948-002 and/or P-13994-002.
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.
k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
l. The Calligan Creek Hydroelectric Project would consist of the
following new facilities: (1) An approximately 130-foot-long, 15-foot-
wide diversion structure traversing Calligan Creek, consisting of a 45-
foot-long, 8-foot-high spillway and two 14-foot-high wingwalls; (2) a
1.04-acre-foot impoundment; (3) an intake equipped with a 220-square-
foot fish screen with 0.125-inch-wide openings, a trashrack, and a
sluice gate; (4) a 1.2-mile-long, approximately 41-inch-diameter buried
penstock; (5) approximately 1.2 miles of buried power and fiber optic
cable providing power to the intake area for monitoring the remote
sensors and operating screens and gates; (6) a powerhouse containing a
single 6-MW two-jet horizontal-shaft Pelton turbine/generator; (7) a
135-foot-long rip-rap-lined tailrace channel discharging into Calligan
Creek; (8) two access roads totaling 300 feet long; (9) a 2.5-mile-
long, 34.5-kilovolt buried transmission line connecting to the existing
Black Creek Hydroelectric Project (P-6221) switching vault; and (10)
appurtenant facilities. No federal lands are included in the project.
The Hanock Creek Hydroelectric Project would consist of the
following new facilities: (1) An approximately 130-foot-long, 10.7-
foot-wide diversion structure traversing Hancock Creek, consisting of a
45-foot-long, 6-foot-high spillway and two 12-foot-high wingwalls; (2)
a 0.85-acre-foot impoundment; (3) a 25-foot-wide, 12-foot-high, 53-
foot-long intake with a trashrack, a 220-square-foot fish screen, and a
sluice gate; (4) a 1.5-mile-long, approximately 40-inch-diameter buried
penstock; (5) approximately 1.5 miles of buried power and fiber optic
cable providing power to the intake area for monitoring the remote
sensors and operating screens and gates; (6) a powerhouse containing a
single 6-MW two-jet horizontal-shaft Pelton turbine/generator; (7) a
12-foot-wide, approximately 100-foot-long rip-rap-lined tailrace
channel discharging into Hancock Creek; (8) two existing logging roads
totaling 1,210 feet long; (9) three new access roads totaling 1,220
feet long; (10) a 0.3-mile-long, 34.5-kilovolt buried transmission line
connecting to the existing Black Creek Hydroelectric Project (P-6221)
switching vault; and (11) appurtenant facilities. No federal lands are
included in the project.
m. 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. A copy is also available
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for inspection and reproduction at the address in item h above.
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. Scoping Process
The Commission intends to prepare an Environmental assessment (EA)
on the project in accordance with the National Environmental Policy
Act. The EA will consider both site-specific and cumulative
environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the proposed
action.
Scoping Meetings
FERC staff will conduct one agency scoping meeting and one public
meeting. The agency scoping meeting will focus on resource agency and
non-governmental organization concerns, while the public scoping
meeting is primarily for public input. All interested individuals,
organizations, and agencies are invited to attend one or both of the
meetings, and to assist the staff in identifying the scope of the
environmental issues that should be analyzed in the EA.
The scoping meetings and the site review for both projects will be
conducted jointly since these projects are in close proximity to each
other. At the scoping meetings, we will discuss the Calligan Creek
Project first, followed by the Hancock Creek Project.
The times and locations of these meetings are as follows:
Agency Scoping Meeting
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014.
Time: 9:00 a.m. (PST).
Place: North Bend Rail Depot.
Address: 205 McClellan Street, North Bend, Washington.
Public Scoping Meeting
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014.
Time: 7:00 p.m. (PST).
Place: North Bend Rail Depot.
Address: 205 McClellan Street, North Bend, Washington.
Copies of the Scoping Document (SD1) outlining the subject areas to
be addressed in the EA were distributed to the parties on the
Commission's mailing list. Copies of the SD1 will be available at the
scoping meeting or may be viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.gov
using the ``eLibrary'' link (see item m above).
Environmental Site Review
The Applicant and FERC staff will conduct a project Environmental
Site Review beginning at 8:00 a.m. (PST) on Wednesday, February 26,
2014. All interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are
invited to attend. All participants should meet at Snoqualmie Falls
Project parking area, across from the Salish Lodge. The address for the
Snoqualmie Falls Project parking area is: 6501 Railroad Avenue,
Snoqualmie, Washington. All participants are responsible for their own
transportation to the site. Anyone with questions about the
Environmental Site Review should contact Ms. Dawn Presler of SnoPUD at
(425) 783-1709.
Objectives
At the scoping meetings, the staff will: (1) Summarize the
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the EA; (2)
solicit from the meeting participants all available information,
especially quantifiable data, on the resources at issue; (3) encourage
statements from experts and the public on issues that should be
analyzed in the EA, including viewpoints in opposition to, or in
support of, the staff's preliminary views; (4) determine the resource
issues to be addressed in the EA; and (5) identify those issues that
require a detailed analysis, as well as those issues that do not
require a detailed analysis.
Procedures
The meetings are recorded by a stenographer and become part of the
formal record of the Commission proceeding on the project.
Individuals, organizations, and agencies with environmental
expertise and concerns are encouraged to attend the meeting and to
assist the staff in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed
in the EA.
Dated: January 24, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-01866 Filed 1-29-14; 8:45 am]
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