Notice2021-20137
Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments
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September 17, 2021
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 178 (Friday, September 17, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51880-51881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20137]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 5089-027]
Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc; Notice of Application
Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study
Requests and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a
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.: 5089-027.
c. Date filed: August 31, 2021.
d. Applicant: Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Fall
River).
e. Name of Project: Felt Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Teton River, near the town of Tetonia, in Teton
County, Idaho. The project occupies 54.7 acres of federal land
administered by the Bureau of Land Management.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Nicholas Josten, 2742 Saint Charles Ave.,
Idaho Falls, Idaho 83404; (208) 528-6152.
i. FERC Contact: John Matkowski at (202) 502-8576, or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#98f2f7f0f6b6f5f9ecf3f7efebf3f1d8fefdeafbb6fff7ee"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="89e3e6e1e7a7e4e8fde2e6fefae2e0c9efecfbeaa7eee6ff">[email protected]</span></a>.
j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies
with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect to
environmental issues that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the
environmental document should follow the instructions for filing such
requests
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described in item l below. Cooperating agencies should note the
Commission's policy that agencies that cooperate in the preparation of
the environmental document cannot also intervene. See, 94 FERC ] 61,076
(2001).
k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 CFR of the Commission's
regulations, if any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person believes
that an additional scientific study should be conducted in order to
form an adequate factual basis for a complete analysis of the
application on its merit, the resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person
must file a request for a study with the Commission not later than 60
days from the date of filing of the application, and serve a copy of
the request on the applicant.
l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for
cooperating agency status: October 30, 2021.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status
using the Commission's eFiling system at <a href="https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx">https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx</a>. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1b5d5e495854757772757e486e6b6b74696f5b7d7e6978357c746d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8acccfd8c9c5e4e6e3e4efd9fffafae5f8fecaeceff8e9a4ede5fc">[email protected]</span></a>, (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, you may submit a paper copy.
Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via
any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville,
Maryland 20852. All filings must clearly identify the project name and
docket number on the first page: Felt Hydroelectric Project (P-5089-
027).
m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. Project Description: The existing Felt Project consists of: (1)
A 125-foot-long, 12-foot-high concrete dam that includes the following
sections: (a) 25-foot-wide sluiceway section with a 4-foot-wide fish
ladder and a 14-foot-wide corrugated steel radial gate and (b) a 96-
foot-wide uncontrolled overflow spillway with a crest elevation of
5,530-feet mean sea level (msl); (2) a 7-acre impoundment with a
storage capacity of 28 acre-feet at a normal water surface elevation of
5,530-feet msl; (3) a 178-foot-long, 8.5-foot-deep fish screen
structure equipped with a bar rack with 3/8-inch clear bar spacing and
diamond mesh screen; (4) three intake openings located behind the fish
screen each equipped with 10-foot-wide intake gates and 10-foot-wide
trash racks with 3-inch clear bar spacing; (5) three, 8-foot-square
unlined rock tunnels connecting the intakes to penstocks and consisting
of: (a) A 180-foot-long Tunnel No. 1 connecting to a 280-foot-long, 78-
inch-diameter steel penstock that bifurcates into two, 180-foot-long,
60-inch-diameter steel penstocks that connect to Powerhouse No. 1; and
(b) A 180-foot-long Tunnel No. 2 and a 200-foot-long Tunnel No. 3 each
connecting to a 1,750-foot-long, 96-inch-diameter steel penstock that
connects to Powerhouse No. 2; (6) an 83-foot-long, 26-foot-wide, 13-
foot-high reinforced concrete Powerhouse No. 1 containing two
horizontal Francis turbine-generator units with a combined generating
capacity of 1,950 kilowatts (kW); (7) a 36-foot-long, 36-foot-wide, 25-
foot-high reinforced concrete Powerhouse No. 2 containing two vertical
Francis turbine-generator units with a combined generating capacity of
5,500 kW; (8) two tailrace channels discharging to the Teton River from
Powerhouses No. 1 and No. 2; (9) a 1,500-foot-long, 4.16 kilovolt (kV)
overhead transmission line connecting Powerhouse No. 1 to a transformer
located next to Powerhouse No. 2; (10) a 2,000-foot-long, 24.9 kV
overhead transmission line leading from the transformer to the
interconnection point; and (11) appurtenant facilities.
The 7.45-megawatt Felt Project is operated in run-of-river mode and
generates an average of 33,100 megawatt-hours per year. A continuous
minimum flow is released below the dam according to the following
schedule: 20 cubic feet per second (cfs) from July 1 to March 14 and 50
cfs from March 15 to June 30.
o. In addition to publishing the full text of this notice in the
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this notice, as well
as other documents in the proceeding (e.g., license application) via
the internet through the Commission's Home Page (<a href="http://www.ferc.gov">http://www.ferc.gov</a>)
using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the docket number excluding the last
three digits in the docket number field to access the document (P-
5089). At this time, the Commission has suspended access to the
Commission's Public Reference Room due to the proclamation declaring a
National Emergency concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
issued by the President on March 13, 2020. For assistance, contact FERC
at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b7f1f2e5f4f8d9dbded9d2e4c2c7c7d8c5c3f7d1d2c5d499d0d8c1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="92d4d7c0d1ddfcfefbfcf7c1e7e2e2fde0e6d2f4f7e0f1bcf5fde4">[email protected]</span></a> or call toll-free, (866) 208-3676 or
(202) 502-8659 (TTY).
You may also register online at <a href="https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx">https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx</a> to be notified via email of new filings and issuances
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
p. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will
be made as appropriate.
Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)-- October 2021
Request Additional Information (if needed)--October 2021
Issue Notice of Acceptance--January 2021
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--February 2022
Issue Scoping Document 2--May 2022
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--May 2022
q. 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: September 13, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-20137 Filed 9-16-21; 8:45 am]
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