[Federal Register: May 5, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 86)]
[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
April 29, 2005.
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.: 2170-029.
c. Date Filed: April 22, 2005.
d. Applicant: Chugach Electric Association.
e. Name of Project: Cooper Lake Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On Cooper Lake, approximately 4.8 river miles from the
mouth of Cooper Creek in south central Alaska, 55 miles south of
Anchorage.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Burke Wick, Chugach Electric Association,
5601 Minnesota Drive, Anchorage, Alaska, 99519. (907) 762-4779.
i. FERC Contact: David Turner (202) 502-6091 or
david.turner@FERC.gov.
j. Cooperating Agencies: We are asking Federal, State, local, and
tribal agencies 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 l 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 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: June 21, 2005.
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 and requests for cooperating agency
status may be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings. 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.
m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. The existing project consists of: (1) The Cooper Lake Dam, a 52-
foot-high
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earth-and-rockfilled structure; (2) the 2,620-acre, 5-mile-long Cooper
Lake Reservoir; (3) two vertical-shaft Francis turbines with a total
capacity of 19.38 megawatts; (4) an intake structure located on Cooper
Lake; (5) a tunnel and penstock extending 10,686 feet east from the
intake to the powerhouse; a (6) 6.3-mile-long, 69-kV primary
transmission line from the powerhouse to Quartz Creek Substation; and
90.4-mile-long, 115-kV secondary transmission line from the Quartz
Creek Substation to Anchorage.
The proposed project includes all of the existing facilities
described above, except the 90.4-mile-long, 115-kV transmission line,
which are proposed for removal because they no longer serve as a
primary project transmission line. A new dam would be constructed on
Stetson Creek to divert water into Cooper Lake to provide flow releases
for fish habitat improvements in Cooper Creek.
o. A copy of the application is on file with the Commission and is
available for public inspection. This filing 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, contact
FERC online support at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov or toll-free at 1-
866-208-3676, or for Text Telephone (TTY) call (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 Alaska
State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by section 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 (EA) rather than
issuing a draft and final EA. Staff intends to allow at least 30 days
for entities to comment on the EA, and will take into consideration all
comments received on the EA before final action is taken on the license
application. If any person or organization objects to the staff
proposed alternative procedure, they should file comments as stipulated
in item l above, briefly explaining the basis for their objection.
Issue Acceptance Letter--July 2005
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--August 2005
Scoping Meeting--September 2005
Issue Scoping Document 2--November 2005
Notice of application is ready for environmental analysis--December
2005
Notice of the availability of the EA--June 2006
Ready for Commission's decision on the application--November 2006
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.
Linda Mitry,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. E5-2188 Filed 5-4-05; 8:45 am]
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