[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 65 (Tuesday, April 6, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 17402]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-7702]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 12690-004]
Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, WA; Notice of
Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting
Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications
March 31, 2010.
On March 2, 2010, the Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish
County, Washington, filed an application for a preliminary permit,
pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), proposing to
study the feasibility of the Admiralty Inlet Tidal Energy Project to be
located in Admiralty Inlet in the northwestern portion of Puget Sound,
between the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island, in Jefferson and
Island Counties, Washington. 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.
The proposed project will consist of the following: (1) Two 32.8-
foot-diameter, 500-kilowatt horizontal axis OpenHydro turbines, each
mounted on a triangular subsea base; (2) two approximately 820-foot-
long service cables transmitting power from the turbines to a trunk
cable; (3) an approximately 3,280-foot-long trunk cable, approximately
half the length will be buried, corresponding from the 20-meter contour
to shore; (4) a cable termination vault; (5) an approximately 265-foot-
long buried transmission conduit from the termination vault to the
Power Conditioning and Control building (PC&C); (6) a PC&C building;
(7) an approximately 460-foot-long, 3.3-kilovolt (kV) power cable
bringing power from the PC&C building to the 12-kV Puget Sound Energy
grid; and (8) appurtenant facilities.
Applicant Contact: Steven Klein, General Manager, P.O. Box 1107,
2320 California Street, Everett, WA 98206-110; phone: (425) 783-1000.
FERC Contact: Jennifer Harper (202) 502-6136.
Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file
competing applications: 60 days from the issuance of this notice.
Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements
of 18 CFR 4.36. 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
website (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.
More information about this project, including a copy of the
application, can be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of
Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp.
Enter the docket number (P-12690-004) in the docket number field to
access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-7702 Filed 4-5-10; 8:45 am]
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