[Federal Register: March 16, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 49)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 12576-004]
CRD Hydroelectric, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing
With the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, and
Establishing a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments
March 9, 2009.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Original License.
b. Project No.: 12576-004.
c. Date Filed: February 24, 2009.
d. Applicant: CRD Hydroelectric, LLC.
e. Name of Project: Red Rock Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Des Moines River, in Marion County, Iowa. The
project would be located at U.S. Army Corps of Engineer facilities.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825 (r).
h. Applicant Contact: Ms. Douglas A. Spaulding, Nelson Energy LLC,
8441 Wayzata Blvd., Suite 101, Golden Valley, MN 55426; (952) 544-8133.
i. FERC Contact: Timothy Konnert, Timothy.Konnert@ferc.gov, (202)
502-6359.
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
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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. 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 a factual basis for complete analysis of the application on its
merits, the resource agency, Indian tribe, or person must file a
request for the study with the Commission no later than 60 days from
the application filing date, and serve a copy of the request on the
applicant.
l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for
cooperating agency status: April 27, 2009.
All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
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
``eFiling'' link. After logging into the eFiling system, select
``Comment on Filing'' from the Filing Type Selection screen and
continue with the filing process.
m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. The proposed Red Rock Hydroelectric Project would be located at
the existing U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Red Rock dam, which
was constructed by the Corps in 1969 for flood control. The existing
Corps facilities consist of: (1) A 110-foot-high, 6,260-foot-long
earth-fill dam with a 241-foot-long gated ogee spillway equipped with
five 45-foot-high tainter gates; and (2) a 15,253-acre reservoir at a
normal conservation pool water surface elevation of 742.0 feet National
Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
The proposed project would utilize the head created by the existing
Corps dam and consist of: (1) A new, approximately 127-foot-long by 19-
foot-wide intake structure connected to; (2) three new 19-foot-
diameter, approximately 211-foot-long penstocks passing through the
left side of the spillway leading to; (3) a new 59-foot-long by 132-
foot-wide powerhouse located directly downstream of the existing
spillway structure containing three new 12.13-megawatt (MW) generating
units for a total generating capacity of 36.4 MW; (4) a new
approximately 8.4-mile-long, 69-kilovolt transmission line; and (5)
appurtenant facilities. The estimated average annual generation would
be 158,000 megawatt hours.
The project would be operated in run-of-river mode in that it would
have no storage and only use flows released by the Corps in accordance
with its present operations.
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 ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the
docket number, excluding the last three digits in the docket number
filed to access the documents. For assistance, please contact FERC
Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at (866) 208-
3676 or for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available for
inspection and reproduction at the address in item h above.
p. 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.
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.
Staff intends to give 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.
Issue Acceptance or Deficiency Letter--May 2009.
Issue Scoping Document--October 2009.
Notice of application is ready for environmental analysis--January
2010.
Notice of the availability of the EA--November 2010.
Final amendments: 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.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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