Public Utility District No. 1 of Douglas County (Douglas PUD); Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments, 33289 [2010-14026]

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• DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 112 (Friday, June 11, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 33289]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-14026]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2149-131]


Public Utility District No. 1 of Douglas County (Douglas PUD); 
Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and 
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for 
Submission of Final Amendments

June 2, 2010.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 2149-131.
    c. Date Filed: May 27, 2010.
    d. Applicant: Public Utility District No. 1 of Douglas County 
(Douglas PUD).
    e. Name of Project: Wells Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: The existing project is located on the Columbia River 
in Douglas, Okanogan, and Chelan counties, Washington. The project 
occupies 15.15 acres of Federal land managed by the U.S. Department of 
the Interior and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: William C. Dobbins, General Manager, Douglas 
PUD, 1151 Valley Mall Parkway, East Wenatchee, WA 98802; Telephone 
(509) 881-2220.
    i. FERC Contact: Bob Easton, (202) 502-6045 or 
robert.easton@ferc.gov.
    j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    k. The Project Description: The existing Wells Hydroelectric 
Project consists of a single development with an installed capacity of 
774,300 kilowatts. Average annual generation of the project is 
4,364,959 megawatt-hours. In addition to providing electric service to 
over 18,000 customers in Douglas County, power from the Wells Project 
is used to meet both daily and seasonal peaks in power demand in the 
Pacific Northwest region and contributes to the reliability and 
stability of the regional electric system.
    The Wells Project consists of: (1) A 1,130-foot-long and 168-foot-
wide concrete hydrocombine dam with integrated generating units, 
spillways, switchyard and fish passage facilities; (2) a 2,300-foot-
long and 40-foot-high earth and rock-filled west embankment; (3) a 
1,030-foot-long and 160-foot-high earth and rock-filled east 
embankment; (4) eleven 46-foot-wide and 65-foot-high ogee-designed 
spillway bays with 2 vertical lift gates (upper leaf is 46 feet by 30 
feet and lower leaf is 46 feet by 35 feet); (5) five spillways modified 
to accommodate the juvenile fish bypass system; (6) 10 generating units 
each housed in a 95-foot-wide and 172-foot-long concrete structure with 
an installed capacity of 774.3 megawatts (MW) and maximum capacity of 
840 MW; (7) five 14.4-kilovolts (kV) power transformers each connected 
to 2 generating units converting the power to 230 kV; (8) two 41-miles-
long 230-kV single-circuit transmission lines running parallel to each 
other; and (9) appurtenant facilities. The Wells Project is operated as 
a run-of-river facility with daily outflows to the Wells Reservoir 
equaling daily inflows.
    Douglas PUD is not proposing any changes to project operations or 
the project boundary for the Wells Project. New facilities proposed by 
Douglas PUD include new interpretive displays, new facilities and 
infrastructure at the Wells and Methow fish hatcheries, new recreation 
facilities, and participation in a white sturgeon hatchery and rearing 
facility.
    l. Locations of the Application: 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 https://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 FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov 
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.
    m. You may also register online at https://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. Procedural Schedule:
    The application will be processed according to the following Hydro 
Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the schedule may be made as 
appropriate.

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                 Milestone                           Target date
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Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready for    August 2010.
 Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary      October 2010.
 terms and conditions, and fishway
 prescriptions.
Commission issues Draft EA................  April 2011.
Comments on Draft EA......................  May 2011.
Modified Terms and Conditions.............  June 2011.
Commission Issues Final EA................  September 2011.
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    o. 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.
[FR Doc. 2010-14026 Filed 6-10-10; 8:45 am]
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