[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 46 (Wednesday, March 10, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11169-11171]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-4995]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 12713-002]
Reedsport OPT Wave Park Project; Reedsport OPT Wave Park; LLC
Notice of Scoping Meetings and Environmental Site Review and Soliciting
Scoping Comments
March 1, 2010.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: Original Minor License.
b. Project No.: 12713-002.
c. Date filed: February 1, 2010.
d. Submitted by: Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC.
e. Name of Project: Reedsport OPT Wave Park Project.
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f. Location: Pacific Ocean in state waters about 2.5 miles off the
coast near Reedsport, in Douglas County, Oregon. The project would
occupy about 5 acres of federal lands in the Siuslaw National Forest
(Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area).
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Philip Pellegrino, Reedsport OPT Wave
Park, LLC, 1590 Reed Road, Pennington, New Jersey 08534; (609) 730-
0400.
i. FERC Contact: Jim Hastreiter at (503) 552-2760 or
[email protected].
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: May 10, 2010.
All documents 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 ``Quick Comment.'' For assistance, please contact
FERC Online Support at [email protected]; call toll-free at
(866) 208-3676; or, for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. Although the
Commission strongly encourages electronic filing, documents may also be
paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an original and eight copies to:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all
interveners 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 intervener 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.
k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
l. The Project facilities would include 10 OPT PowerBuoy wave-
powered generating units attached to seabed anchors, tendon lines,
subsurface floats, and catenary mooring lines. The PowerBuoy units
would be deployed in an array of three to four rows oriented parallel
to the shore and would occupy about 0.25 square mile of the Pacific
Ocean. Each PowerBuoy would have a maximum diameter of 36 feet, extend
29.5 feet above the water surface, and have a draft of 115 feet.
A power/fiber optic cable would exit the bottom of each PowerBuoy,
descending to the seabed in a lazy ``S'' shape with subsurface floats
attached to the cable and a clump weight at the seabed. The 10
PowerBuoy units would be connected to a single Underwater Substation
Pod (USP) via power/fiber-optic lines. The USP would be about 6 feet in
diameter and 15 feet in length, and would rest on the seabed below the
PowerBuoys, held in place with pre-cured concrete ballast blocks. A
submarine transmission cable, buried in the seabed to a depth of 3 to 6
feet, would extend from the USP to an existing wastewater discharge
pipe. The submarine cable would extend through the wastewater pipe to
an underground vault, which would be constructed at the existing turn-
around at the end of Sparrow Park Road, immediately inland of the sand
dunes. At the vault, the subsea transmission cable would exit the
effluent pipe, transition to an underground cable, and reenter the
effluent pipe.
The underground transmission cable would continue within the
effluent pipe eastward for approximately 3 miles, where it would
connect to the Douglas Electric Cooperative transmission line at a
proposed shore station. The shore station would consist of a 100- to
200-square foot building.
m. 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 [email protected] 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.
n. Scoping Process:
The Commission intends to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA)
on the project in accordance with the National Environmental Policy
Act. The EA will consider both site-specific and cumulative
environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the proposed
action.
Scoping Meetings
FERC staff will conduct one daytime scoping meeting and one evening
scoping meeting. The daytime scoping meeting will focus on resource
agency and non-governmental organization concerns, while the evening
scoping meeting is primarily for public input. All interested
individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to attend one or
both of the meetings, and to assist the staff in identifying the scope
of the environmental issues that should be analyzed in the EA. The
times and locations of these meetings are as follows:
Evening Scoping Meeting:
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, at 7 p.m. (PST),
Location: Reedsport High School, 2260 Longwood Drive, Reedsport,
Oregon 97467.
Daytime Scoping Meeting:
Date and Time: Thursday, April 8, 2010, at 2 p.m. (PST),
Location: Salem Conference Center, Croisan Room, 200 Commercial
Street SE., Salem, Oregon 97301.
Copies of the Scoping Document outlining the subject areas to be
addressed in the EA were distributed to the parties on the Commission's
mailing list. Copies of the Scoping Document will be available at the
scoping meeting or may be viewed on the Web at http://www.ferc.gov
using the ``eLibrary'' link [see item (m) above].
Environmental Site Review
The Applicant and FERC staff will conduct a project environmental
site review beginning at 1 p.m. (PST) on April 7, 2010. All interested
individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to attend. All
participants should meet at the Reedsport City Hall at 451 Winchester
Avenue, Reedsport, Oregon 97467. All participants are responsible for
their own transportation to the site. Please notify George Wolff,
Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC at (609) 730-0400, ext. 238 or
[email protected] by March 25, 2010, if you plan to attend the
environmental site review.
Objectives
At the scoping meetings, the staff will: (1) Summarize the
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the EA; (2)
solicit from the meeting participants all available information,
especially quantifiable data, on the resources at issue; (3) encourage
statements from experts and the public on issues that should be
analyzed in the EA, including viewpoints in opposition to, or in
support of, the staff's preliminary views; (4) determine the resource
issues to be addressed in the EA; and (5) identify those issues that
require a detailed analysis, as well as those issues that do not
require a detailed analysis.
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Procedures:
The meetings are recorded by a stenographer and become part of the
formal record of the Commission proceeding on the project. Individuals,
organizations, and agencies with environmental expertise and concerns
are encouraged to attend the meeting and to assist the staff in
defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed in the EA.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-4995 Filed 3-9-10; 8:45 am]
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