[Federal Register: July 14, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 134)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and
Soliciting Additional Study Requests
July 8, 2005.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Exemption of a small hydroelectric power
project, 5 MW or less.
b. Project No.: 12599-000.
c. Date filed: June 24, 2005.
d. Applicant: Wade Jacobsen.
e. Name of Project: Mill Coulee Drops Hydroelectric Project
f. Location: On the Mill Coulee Canal, in Cascade County, Montana,
about 4 miles west of Fairfield, Montana. The project would occupy in
part lands of the United States administered by the Bureau of
Reclamation.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708.
h. Applicant Contact: Ted Sorenson, Sorenson Engineering, 5203
South 11th East, Idaho Falls, ID 83404, (208) 522-8069.
i. FERC Contact: Dianne Rodman, (202) 502-6077,
Dianne.rodman@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
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serve a copy of the request on the applicant.
l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for
cooperating agency status: August 23, 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. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. The proposed project would be built at the Mill Coulee Canal's
Upper and Lower Mill Coulee drop structures, which are reinforced
concrete structures 290 and 190 feet long, respectively. The total drop
for the two structures is 101.6 feet. The applicant proposes to
construct: (1) A check structure, consisting of a spillway gate panel
anchored to a ballast concrete structure spanning the full width of the
canal floor between new concrete abutment walls, upstream from the
concrete transition of the Upper Mill Coulee chute drop; (2) an intake
structure to divert flows from the left side of the canal; (3) a 48-
inch-diameter, 1,400-feet-long pre-stressed concrete, tape-coated
steel, or polyethylene penstock that would be completely buried; (4) a
powerhouse containing one horizontal Francis turbine and one generator
with a rated output of 1.05 MW; (5) a draft tube and 2,650-feet-long
tailrace discharging flows into the canal below the Lower Mill Coulee
drop structure; (6) a switchyard immediately adjacent to the
powerhouse; and (7) a 0.7-mile-long, 69-kV transmission line extending
from the switchyard to interconnect with an existing Sun River Electric
Cooperative transmission line. The project would use flows as they are
provided in accordance with the needs of the Greenfield Irrigation
District, which operates the canal. The project would not impound water
and would be operated strictly as a run-of-river plant. Average annual
generation would be 2,430,000 kilowatt-hours.
o. 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, contact
FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll-free at 1-
866-208-3676, or for TTY, (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available for
inspection and reproduction at the address in item h above.
You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp
to be notified via e-mail of new filings and
issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance,
contact FERC Online Support.
p. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the
Montana 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: The application will be processed according
to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the schedule
will be made as appropriate.
Issue Deficiency Letter--August 2005.
Issue Acceptance letter--November 2005.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--December 2005.
Issue Scoping Document 2--February 2006.
Notice of application is ready for environmental analysis--February
2006.
Notice of the availability of the EA--August 2006.
Ready for Commission's decision on the application--August 2006.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
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