[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 60 (Friday, March 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17527-17528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06877]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2195-088]
Portland General Electric Company, Notice of Availability of
Environmental Assessment
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission)
regulations, 18 CFR Part 380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 47897), the Office
of Energy Projects has reviewed an application submitted by Portland
General Electric Company (licensee) to construct, operate and maintain
minimum flow turbines at its 136.6-MW Clackamas River Hydroelectric
Project. The new
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minimum flow turbines would increase the capacity of the project by
3.89 MW. The project is located on the Oak Grove Fork of the Clackamas
River and the mainstem of the Clackamas River in Clackamas County,
Oregon. The project occupies federal lands within the Mt. Hood National
Forest, under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Forest Service, and a
reservation of the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land
Management.
An environmental assessment (EA) has been prepared as part of
staff's review of the proposal. In the application the licensee
proposes to construct, operate and maintain: (1) A powerhouse at the
base of Timothy Lake Dam housing two 0.95-MW turbines, (2) a powerhouse
at Crack-in-the-Ground located downstream of Lake Harriet housing a 1
MW turbine, (3) a powerhouse housing a 135-kW turbine utilizing return
flows from the juvenile downstream migrant collection systems and the
North Fork fishway adult fish trap, and (4) a turbine and an 850-kW
turbine and induction generator utilizing North Fork fishway attraction
flows. The EA contains Commission staff's analysis of the probable
environmental impacts of the proposed action and concludes that
approval of the proposal would not constitute a major federal action
significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.
The EA is available for review and reproduction at the Commission's
Public Reference Room, located at 888 First Street NE., Room 2A,
Washington, DC 20426. The EA may also be viewed on the Commission's Web
site at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``elibrary'' link. Enter the
docket number (P-2195) in the docket number field to access the
document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support at
[email protected] or toll-free at 1-866-208-3372, or for TTY,
(202) 502-865.
Dated: March 20, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-06877 Filed 3-27-14; 8:45 am]
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