Notice2024-06642
Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.; Notice of Scoping Meetings and Soliciting Scoping Comments
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March 28, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 61 (Thursday, March 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21513-21514]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-06642]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 5089-027]
Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.; Notice of Scoping
Meetings and Soliciting Scoping Comments
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.
e. Name of Project: Felt Hydroelectric Project (Felt Project or
project).
f. Location: On the Teton River, near the town of Tetonia, in Teton
County, Idaho. The project occupies 114.4 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 email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f3999c9b9ddd9e9287989c8480989ab395968190dd949c85"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="177d787f79397a76637c7860647c7e577172657439707861">[email protected]</span></a>.
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: May 21, 2024.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
scoping comments using the Commission's eFiling system at <a href="https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx">https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx</a>. Commenters can submit brief
comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the
eComment system at <a href="https://ferconline.ferc.gov/QuickComment.aspx">https://ferconline.ferc.gov/QuickComment.aspx</a>. You
must include your name and contact information at the end of your
comments. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#83c5c6d1c0ccedefeaede6d0f6f3f3ecf1f7c3e5e6f1e0ade4ecf5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b8fefdeafbf7d6d4d1d6ddebcdc8c8d7caccf8deddcadb96dfd7ce">[email protected]</span></a>, (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please send a paper copy via
U.S. Postal Service to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington,
DC 20426. Submissions sent via any other carrier must be addressed to:
Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting 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).
The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all
intervenors 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 intervenor 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 Felt Project includes: (1) a 122.5-foot-long, 12-foot-high
concrete dam that includes the following sections: (a) 25-foot-long
sluiceway section with a 4-foot-wide fish ladder and a 14-foot-wide
corrugated steel radial gate and (b) a 96-foot-long 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 179-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 177-foot-long Tunnel No. 2
and a 196-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
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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 project operates in a run-of-river mode such that outflow from
the project approximates inflow. The project has a maximum hydraulic
capacity of 900 cubic feet per second (cfs) when all four turbine
generator units in Powerhouse No. 1 (upper powerhouse) and Powerhouse
No. 2 (lower powerhouse) are operating. The project is required to
discharge a minimum flow into the 1,950-foot-long bypassed reach of 20
cfs from July 1 to March 14 and 50 cfs from March 15 to June 30. The
project generates an average of 33,100 megawatt-hours per year.
m. Copies of the application can be viewed on the Commission's
website at <a href="https://www.ferc.gov">https://www.ferc.gov</a>, using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the
project's docket number, excluding the last three digits in the docket
number field, to access the document. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
You may also register 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, please
contact FERC Online Support at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a7e1e2f5e4e8c9cbcec9c2f4d2d7d7c8d5d3e7c1c2d5c489c0c8d1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="89cfccdbcac6e7e5e0e7ecdafcf9f9e6fbfdc9efecfbeaa7eee6ff">[email protected]</span></a>.
The Commission's Office of Public Participation (OPP) supports
meaningful public engagement and participation in Commission
proceedings. OPP can help members of the public, including landowners,
environmental justice communities, Tribal members and others, access
publicly available information and navigate Commission processes. For
public inquiries and assistance with making filings such as
interventions, comments, or requests for rehearing, the public is
encouraged to contact OPP at (202) 502-6595, or at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f0bfa0a0b096958293de979f86"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="48071818082e2d3a2b662f273e">[email protected]</span></a>.
n. Scoping Process:
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),
Commission staff intends to prepare either an environmental assessment
(EA) or an environmental impact statement (EIS) (collectively referred
to as the ``NEPA document'') that describes and evaluates the probable
effects, including an assessment of the site-specific and cumulative
effects, if any, of the proposed action and alternatives. The
Commission's scoping process will help determine the required level of
analysis and satisfy the NEPA scoping requirements, irrespective of
whether the Commission issues an EA or an EIS.
Scoping Meetings
Commission staff will hold two public scoping meetings to receive
input on the scope of the NEPA document. An evening meeting will focus
on receiving input from the public and a daytime meeting will focus on
the concerns of resource agencies, non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), and Indian Tribes. We invite all interested agencies, Indian
Tribes, NGOs, and individuals to attend one or both meetings. The times
and locations of these meetings are as follows:
Daytime Scoping Meeting
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Time: 1:00 p.m. MT
Place: AmericInn Lodge
Address: 1098 Golden Beauty Dr, Rexburg, Idaho 83440
Evening Scoping Meeting
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Time: 6:00 p.m. MT
Place: AmericInn Lodge
Address: 1098 Golden Beauty Dr, Rexburg, Idaho 83440
Copies of the Scoping Document (SD1) outlining the subject areas to
be addressed in the NEPA document 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 <a href="http://www.ferc.gov">http://www.ferc.gov</a>
using the ``eLibrary'' link (see item m above).
An environmental site review is typically held in conjunction with
the scoping meeting. However, access to the project site is likely to
be limited by winter weather and/or poor vehicular access conditions
when scoping for this project will occur. For these reasons, an
environmental site review will not be conducted at this time.
Objectives
At the scoping meetings, Commission staff will: (1) summarize the
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the NEPA
document; (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 NEPA document, including viewpoints in
opposition to, or in support of, the staff's preliminary views; (4)
determine the resource issues to be addressed in the NEPA document; 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,
NGOs, Indian Tribes, 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 NEPA
document.
Dated: March 22, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-06642 Filed 3-27-24; 8:45 am]
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