[Federal Register: February 20, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 34)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Application Tendered for Filing with the Commission,
Soliciting Additional Study Requests, and Establishing Procedural
Schedule for Relicensing and a Deadline for Submission of Final
Amendments
February 13, 2003.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric subsequent license
application has been filed with the Commission and is available for
public inspection.
a. Type of Application: New License for a Major Water Power
Project.
b. Project No.: P-2697-014.
c. Date filed: February 10, 2003.
d. Applicant: Northern States Power Company (d/b/a Xcel Energy).
e. Name of Project: Cedar Falls Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Red Cedar River, Dunn County, Wisconsin. This
project would not use federal lands; however, a 2.4 acre island owned
by the Bureau of Land Management located at the confluence of Red Cedar
River and Tainter Lake is within the project's boundary.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. William Zawacki, Director, Hydro Plants,
or Ms. Kristina Bourget, Esq., Northern States Power Company (d/b/a
Xcel Energy), 1414 West Hamilton Avenue, PO Box 8, Eau Claire,
Wisconsin 54702-0008, 715-836-1136 or 715-839-1305, respectively, or
Mr. William J. Madden, Jr., Esq., Winston and Strawn, 1400 L Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20005-3502, 202-371-5715.
i. FERC Contact: John Ramer, john.ramer@ferc.gov (202) 502-8969.
j. Cooperating Agencies: We are asking Federal, state, and local
agencies and Indian tribes with jurisdiction and/or special expertise
with respect to environmental issues to cooperate with us in the
preparation of the environmental document. Agencies who would like to
request cooperating status should follow the instructions for filing
comments described in item k below.
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 factual basis for 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 after the
application filing(i.e., by April 10, 2003.) and serve a copy of the
request on the applicant.
l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for
cooperating agency status: April 10, 2003.
All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with:
Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
The Commission's rules of practice 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.
Additional study requests may be filed electronically via the
Internet in lieu of paper. The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing.See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions
on the Commission's Web site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-
Filing'' link. After logging into the e-Filing system, select ``Comment
on Filing'' from the Filing Type Selection screen and continue with the
filing process.''
m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. Project Description: The Cedar Falls Hydroelectric Project
consists of the following existing facilities: (1) A 510-foot-long by
about 50-foot-high dam, topped with two, 23-foot-wide by 5-foot-high,
steel Tainter gates and with a total dam discharge capacity of 57,000
cubic feet per second(cfs); (2) a 1,752-acre reservoir (Tainter Lake)
with a gross storage capacity of about 23,000-acre feet; (3) a 140-
foot-long by 150-foot-wide by 42-foot-high powerhouse containing three
2,000 kilowatt (kW) horizontal generators with Francis turbines with a
total maximum hydraulic capacity of 2,500 cfs and with a total
installed generating capacity of 7.1megawatts (MW) and producing a
total of 33,678,351 kilowatt-hours (kWh) annually; (4) a substation
containing a 69 kilovolt (kV) bus from which power flows to four 69 kV
transmission lines which serve the applicant's interconnected
electrical system or to a 10,500 kva transformer that serves a local
distribution load; along with (5) appurtenant facilities, such as,
govenors and electric switchgear. The dam and existing project
facilities are owned by Northern States Power Company (d/b/a Xcel
Energy).
o. A copy of the application is on file with the Commission and is
available for public inspection. This filing may also be viewed on the
web at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``FERRIS'' link--select ``Docket
'' and follow the instructions. For assistance, please contact
FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at (866)
208-3676 or for TYY, contact (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available
for inspection and reproduction at the address in item h above.
p. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the
Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by
Sec. 106, National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of
the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4.
q. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will
be processed according to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule.
Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate. The Commission
staff proposes to issue one environmental assessment rather than issue
a draft and final EA. Comments, terms and conditions, recommendations,
prescriptions, and reply comments, if any, will be addressed in an EA
issued in the spring of 2004.
Issue Acceptance or Deficiency Letter, June 2003.
Issue Scoping Document, July 2003.
Notice that application is ready for environmental analysis,
October 2003.
Notice of the availability of the EA, March 2004.
Ready for Commission decision on the application, May 2004.
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.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-4121 Filed 2-19-03; 8:45 am]
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