[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 23, 2016)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-03621]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 14728-000]
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe; Notice of Preliminary Permit
Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To
Intervene, and Competing Applications
On November 3, 2015, the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe filed an
application for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the
Federal Power Act (FPA), proposing to study the feasibility of the Boca
Hydroelectric Project (Boca Hydroelectric Project or project) to be
located on the Bureau of Reclamation's Boca Dam on the Little Truckee
River, near the town of Truckee, Nevada County, California. The sole
purpose of a preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant the permit
holder priority to file a license application during the permit term. A
preliminary permit does not authorize the permit holder to perform any
land-disturbing activities or otherwise enter upon lands or waters
owned by others without the owners' express permission.
Boca Reservoir has a usable storage capacity of 40,900 acre-feet at
the normal maximum elevation of 5,601 feet. The proposed project would
utilize the existing intake structure in Boca Reservoir and the two
375-foot long, 50-inch steel conduits. The existing 50-inch primary
outlet pipes would be modified to remove the existing 42-inch hollow
jet valves and to add bifurcations that would connect to the proposed
new penstocks.
The proposed project would also consist of the following new
facilities: (1) Two new penstocks that connect the existing 50-inch
primary outlet pipes to a new 60-inch-diameter penstock via isolation
valves to allow flow to be conveyed to the powerhouse from either or
both outlet pipes; (2) a 45-foot-long by 45-foot-wide by 40-foot-high
powerhouse containing a single Kaplan generating unit rated for 1.6
megawatts at 60 feet of head; (3) a 20 to 40-foot-long tailrace channel
that discharges water downstream of the existing outlet channel walls
approximately 140 feet from the existing hollow jet valves; (4) a
channel training wall consisting of either a sheet pile tied-back
channel wall or a concrete cantilever type wall leaving the powerhouse
on the landside of the tailrace channel; (5) a step-up transformer
installed at the powerhouse generator in order to wheel power onto the
grid; (6) a new 700-foot long 12-kilovolt (kV) transmission line to
interconnect to an existing 12-kV transmission line owned by Liberty
Utilities (the point of interconnection); and (7) appurtenant
facilities.
The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe proposes to develop the proposed
project in conformance with the operation of Boca Dam by the Bureau of
Reclamation under the terms of the Truckee River Operating Agreement
(TROA) and would generate electricity using the existing flow releases
under the terms of the TROA. The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe does not
propose to alter the timing, condition or the amount of releases from
Boca Reservoir or impair any of the current functions supported by
operation of this existing multi-purpose water resources project. The
estimated annual generation of the Boca Hydroelectric Project would be
3.5 gigawatt-hours.
Applicant Contact: Ms. Donna Noel, Director of Natural Resources,
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, P.O. Box 256, Nixon, Nevada 89424; phone:
(775) 574-1000.
FERC Contact: Kyle Olcott; phone: (202) 502-8963.
Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file
competing applications: 60 days from the issuance of this notice.
Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements
of 18 CFR 4.36.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing
applications 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 number P-14728-000.
More information about this project, including a copy of the
application, can be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of
Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp.
Enter the docket number (P-14728) in the docket number field to access
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
Dated: February 12, 2016.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-03621 Filed 2-22-16; 8:45 am]
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