[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 8 (Thursday, January 12, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3789-3790]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00561]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2337-077]
PacifiCorp Energy; 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.: 2337-077.
c. Date Filed: December 30, 2016.
d. Applicant: PacifiCorp Energy.
e. Name of Project: Prospect No. 3 Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the South Fork Rogue River, in Jackson County,
Oregon. The project occupies 38.1 acres of United States lands within
the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest under the jurisdiction of the
U.S. Forest Service (Forest Service).
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Steve Albertelli, Relicensing Project
Manager, PacifiCorp Energy, 925 South Grape Street, Building 5,
Medford, OR 97501; (541) 776-6676 or email at
[email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Dianne Rodman at (202) 502-6077 or email at
[email protected].
j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
k. Project Description: The existing project consists of: (1) A 24-
foot-high, 172-foot-long concrete diversion dam with an integrated 98-
foot-long ungated, uncontrolled ogee spillway section; (2) a 1-acre
reservoir that extends 550 feet upstream from the dam with a gross
storage capacity of 19 acre-feet at normal full pool elevation of 3,375
feet above sea level; (3) an 18-foot-wide intake structure at the north
end of the dam on the right bank with trash rack; (4) a 15,894-foot-
long flow conveyance system (project waterway) consisting of: A 273-
foot-long concrete-lined canal fitted with a 25-foot-long, 9.75-foot-
wide fish screen; a 66-inch-diameter, 5,448-foot-long woodstave pipe; a
5,805-foot-long concrete-lined canal; a 5-foot-wide, 6.5-foot-high,
698-foot-long concrete-lined horseshoe-shaped tunnel; a 416-foot-long
canal to the forebay with a 2,486-foot-long side channel spillway
discharging to Daniel Creek; and a 66-inch to 48-inch-diameter, 3,254-
foot-long riveted steel penstock; (5) a powerhouse containing one
vertical-shaft Francis-type turbine with an installed capacity of 7.2
megawatts; (6) a 20-foot-long, 20-foot-wide, 5-foot-deep concrete
tailrace; (7) a 66-inch-diameter, 887-foot-long wood-stave inverted
siphon that routes flow from the tailrace to the non-project Middle
Fork Canal; (8) a 6.97-mile-long, 69-kilovolt transmission line
interconnecting at the Prospect Central substation; (9) an 86-foot-
long, 15-pool concrete pool-and-weir ladder to provide upstream fish
passage past the dam; and (10) appurtenant facilities. The project
produces an average of 35.05 gigawatt-hours annually.
PacifiCorp proposes to: Improve fish ladder function by
constructing an auxiliary bypass flow system, realigning and extending
the existing fish bypass return pipe, and narrowing the weir notches;
replace the existing woodstave pipe and inverted wooden siphon with
steel structures to eliminate leakage; rehabilitate the temporary
vehicle-access bridge over the new steel pipe to meet current Forest
Service standards; construct a road spur to facilitate pass-through of
materials dredged from the reservoir to the bypassed reach; upgrade the
six existing wildlife crossings of the project waterway's canal by
widening the crossings and constructing five new wildlife crossings;
and install a communications link on the U.S. Geological Survey's South
Fork Rogue gage.
PacifiCorp also proposes to increase the project's minimum flow
releases and ramping rates limits, as well as extending the project
boundary to include the inverted siphon and access roads.
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, please contact FERC Online
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Support at [email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or
(202) 502-8659 (TTY). 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 March 2017.
for Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary April 2017.
terms and conditions, and fishway
prescriptions.
Commission issues Environmental October 2017.
Assessment (EA).
Comments on EA........................ November 2017.
Modified terms and conditions......... January 2018.
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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: January 6, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-00561 Filed 1-11-17; 8:45 am]
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