[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 192 (Tuesday, October 5, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61463-61464]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-24955]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project Nos. 13809-000; 13814-000]
Lock+ Hydro Friends Fund XLIX; FFP Missouri 15, LLC; Notice of
Competing Preliminary Permit Applications Accepted for Filing and
Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications
September 28, 2010.
On July 12, 2010, Lock+ Hydro Friends Fund XLVIII (Hydro Friends)
and FFP Missouri 15, LLC (FFP) filed preliminary permit applications,
pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, proposing to study
the feasibility of a hydropower project at the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers' (Corps) Mississippi River Lock and Dam 14
structure, located on the Mississippi River near Bettendorf, Rockland
County, Illinois. The sole purpose of a preliminary permit, if issued,
is to grant the permit holder priority to file a license application
during the permit term. A preliminary permit does not authorize the
permit holder to perform any land-disturbing activities or otherwise
enter upon lands or waters owned by others without the owners' express
permission.
Hydro Friends' proposed Lock and Dam 14 Hydropower Project
(Project No. 13809-000) would consist of: (1) One 109-foot-wide x 40-
foot-high lock frame module placed downstream from the lock and dam,
housed between two pre-fabricated concrete walls that would guide flows
into the turbines. The lock frame module would consist of ten
hydropower turbines, each rated at 1.25 megawatts (MW) and have a total
rated capacity of 12.5 MW; (2) fish/debris screens located upstream of
the module; (3) a new transformer in a new switchyard; (4) a 3-mile-
long 69-kilovolt (kV) transmission line extending from the switchyard
to an existing nearby distribution line; and (5) appurtenant
facilities. Hydro Friends is also exploring alternatives that would
locate the module in the downstream section of the Corps' navigational
lock, and upstream of the dam. Each design would have an average annual
generation of 54,788 megawatt-hours per year (MWh/yr). The project
would operate run-of-river and utilize flows released from the dam.
Applicant Contact: Mr. Wayne F. Krouse, Chairman and CEO, Hydro
Green Energy, LLC, 5090 Richmond Avenue 390, Houston, TX
77056; Telephone: (877) 556-6566 x 709.
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FFP's Mississippi Lock and Dam 14 Project (Project No.
13814-000) would consist of: (1) Two to four modular generation units
placed in 12 of the existing gate bays of the Corps' lock and dam
structure. These units would contain compact bulb turbines with
individual unit capacities of 0.35 MW and 0.70 MW and have a combined
capacity of 16.8 MW; (2) a 30-foot x 40-foot control building located
on the south side of the river; (3) a 13,100-foot-long transmission
line extending south from the switchyard near the proposed powerhouse
to an interconnection point on the Illinois shore with an existing
transmission line; and (4) appurtenant facilities. The proposed
operating voltage would be in the 34 to 138-kV range. FFP is also
exploring an alternative that would involve construction of a new 220-
foot-long x 250-foot-wide x 50-foot-high conventional powerhouse,
intake channel, and tailrace opposite the south side of the river. The
new proposed powerhouse would contain four horizontal bulb turbines
rated at 4.2 MW each. Each design would have a total energy generation
of 145 gigawatt-hours per year. The project would utilize Corps
designated flows from the Mississippi Lock and Dam 14
structure and operate as directed by the Corps.
Applicant Contact: Mr. Ramya Swaminathan, Free Flow Power
Corporation, 33 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA 01930; Telephone:
(978) 283-2822.
FERC Contact: Tyrone A. Williams, [email protected] or (202)
502-6331.
Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, and competing
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file
competing applications: 60 days from the issuance date of this notice.
Comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing
applications may be filed electronically via the Internet. See 18 CFR
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site
(http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ferconline.asp) under the ``eFiling''
link. For a simpler method of submitting text only comments, click on
``eComment.'' For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport.gov; call toll-free at (866) 208-3676; or, for TTY,
contact (202) 502-8659. Although the Commission strongly recommends
electronic filing, documents may also be paper-filed. To paper-file, an
original and eight copies should be mailed to: Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426. For more information on how to submit these types
of filings please go to the Commission's Web site located at http://www.ferc.gov/filing-comments.asp.
More information about this project, including a copy of the
application can be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of
Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp.
Enter the docket number (P-13809) in the docket number field to access
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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