[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 47 (Thursday, March 11, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 11533]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5207]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[[Project No. 12690-003]
Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, WA; Notice of
Technical Meeting To Discuss Information and Monitoring Needs for a
License Application for a Pilot Project
March 4, 2010.
a. Type of Application: Draft License Application for Pilot
Project.
b. Project No.: 12690-003.
c. Applicant: Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County,
Washington (Snohomish PUD).
d. Name of Project: Admiralty Inlet Pilot Tidal Project.
e. Location: On the east side of Admiralty Inlet in Puget Sound,
Washington, about 1 kilometer west of Whidbey Island, entirely within
Island County, Washington.
f. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 5.3 of the Commission's regulations.
g. Applicant Contact: Steven J. Klein, Public Utility District of
Snohomish County, Washington, P.O. Box 1107, 2320, California Street,
Everett, WA 98206-1107; (425) 783-8473.
h. FERC Contact: David Turner (202) 502-6091; e-mail at
[email protected].
i. Project Description: The proposed Admiralty Inlet Pilot Tidal
Project would consist of (1) Two 10-meter, 500-kilowatt (kW) Open-
Centre Turbines supplied by OpenHydro Group Ltd., mounted on completely
submerged gravity foundations; (2) two 250-meter service cables
connected at a subsea junction box or spliced to a 0.5-kilometer subsea
transmission cable, connecting to a cable termination vault about 50
meters from shore; (3) two 81-meter-long buried conduits containing the
two DC transmission lines from the turbines and connecting to a power
conditioning and control building; (4) a 140-meter long buried cable
from the control building to the grid; and (5) appurtenant facilities
for operation and maintenance. The estimated annual generation of the
project is 383,000 kilowatt-hours.
j. Meeting Purpose and Schedule: On December 31, 2009, Snohomish
PUD filed a Notice of Intent and request for waivers of certain
regulations of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission)
Integrated Licensing Process to expedite processing of a license
application for the Admiralty Inlet Pilot Tidal Project.
Commission staff will hold a technical meeting to scope issues and
to discuss information and monitoring needs for the license
application. At the technical meeting, Commission staff will focus the
discussion on the information gaps that need to be addressed to ensure
that sufficient information exists for the Commission to make a
determination on whether the proposed project meets the criteria for a
pilot project and for processing a license application for a pilot
project once it is filed with the Commission.
All interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited
to attend the meeting. The time and location of the meeting is as
follows: Monday, April 12, 2010, 8:30 a.m. (local time), PUD Electric
Building Headquarters, 2320 California Street, Everett, Washington.
The meetings will be recorded by a stenographer and will become
part of the formal record of the Commission proceeding on the project.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-5207 Filed 3-10-10; 8:45 am]
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