Notice of Amended Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments; Turlock Irrigation District and Modesto Irrigation District, California, 48504-48505 [2017-22533]
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Dated: October 12, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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Commission
[Project No. 2299–082]
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Notice of Amended Application
Tendered for Filing With the
Commission and Establishing
Procedural Schedule for Licensing and
Deadline for Submission of Final
Amendments; Turlock Irrigation
District and Modesto Irrigation District,
California
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.: 2299–082.
c. Date Filed: October 11, 2017.
d. Applicant: Turlock Irrigation
District and Modesto Irrigation District,
California.
e. Name of Project: Don Pedro
Hydropower Project.
f. Location: The Don Pedro Project is
located on the Tuolumne River in
Tuolumne County, California. Portions
of the project occupy public lands
managed by the Bureau of Land
Management.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act, 16 U.S.C. 79 (a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contacts: Steve Boyd,
Turlock Irrigation District, 333 East
Canal Drive, Turlock, California 95381–
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0949, (209) 883–8300; and Anna
Brathwaite, Modesto Irrigation District,
P.O. Box 4060, Modesto, CA 95352,
(209) 526–7384.
i. FERC Contact: Jim Hastreiter at
(503) 552–2760 or james.hastreiter@
ferc.gov.
j. This application is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
k. The Project Description:
Don Pedro Dam and Reservoir
The primary project feature is Don
Pedro Dam, a 1,900-foot-long and 580foot-high zoned earth and rockfill
structure. The top of the dam is at
elevation 855 feet mean sea level (msl).
Don Pedro Reservoir extends
upstream for approximately 24 miles at
the normal maximum water surface
elevation of 830 feet (msl). The surface
area of the reservoir at the 830-foot
elevation is approximately 12,960 acres
and the gross storage capacity is
2,030,000 acre-feet.
Don Pedro Spillway
Don Pedro Spillway is divided into
two sections, one gated and one
ungated, located immediately adjacent
to one another in a saddle area west of
the main dam. The gated spillway
section is 135-feet-long, with a
permanent crest elevation of 800 feet,
and includes three radial gates each 45
feet wide by 30 feet high. The ungated
spillway is an ogee section 995 feet long
with a crest elevation of 830 feet msl
and a top of abutment elevation of 855
feet msl. The spillway capacity at a
reservoir water level of 850 feet msl is
472,500 cubic feet per second (cfs).
Flow releases over the ungated ogeecrest section of the spillway have
occurred only once since project
construction, in early January 1997.
Flows at the spillway are released to
Gasburg Creek, which in turn flows into
Twin Gulch, and then back into the
Tuolumne River approximately 1.5
miles downstream of the main dam.
Outlet Works
The project facilities include a set of
outlet works located at the left (east)
abutment of the main dam. The outlet
works consist of three individual gate
housings, each containing two 4-feet-by5-feet slide gates. The outlet works are
situated in a 3,500-foot-long concrete
lined tunnel that originally served as the
water diversion tunnel during project
construction. The inlet to the tunnel has
an invert elevation of 342 feet msl and
the outlet, which is located
approximately 400 feet downstream of
the powerhouse, has an invert of 310
feet. At a reservoir water surface
elevation of 830 feet msl, the total
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hydraulic capacity of the outlet works is
7,500 cfs.
Power Intake and Tunnel
Flows are delivered from the reservoir
to the powerhouse via a 2,960-foot-long
power tunnel located in the left (east)
abutment of the main dam. The tunnel
transitions from an 18-foot 6-inch
concrete-lined section to a 16-foot steellined section. Emergency closure can be
provided by a 21-foot-high by 12-footwide fixed-wheel gate that is operated
from a chamber at the top of the gate
shaft. Flows from the power tunnel are
delivered to the four-unit powerhouse
and a hollow-jet control valve in the
powerhouse.
Powerhouse
Located immediately downstream of
the main dam, the Don Pedro
powerhouse contains four turbinegenerator units and a 72-inch hollow jet
valve. The reinforced-concrete
powerhouse is 171 feet long, 110 feet
high and 148 feet wide. It houses four
Francis turbine generator units with a
nameplate capacity of 168 megawatts
(MW) and a maximum output at
optimum conditions of approximately
203 MW. Combined hydraulic capacity
of the four units under maximum head
is approximately 5,500 cfs.
The powerhouse also contains a 72inch hollow jet valve located in the east
end of the powerhouse with a centerline
elevation at discharge of 299 feet msl.
The hydraulic capacity of the hollow jet
valve is 3,000 cfs. While turbine Units
1 through 3 discharge directly to the
river channel, Unit 4 discharges to the
outlet works tunnel approximately 250
feet upstream of the tunnel outlet. Water
to Unit 4 is delivered through a
bifurcation from the hollow jet valve
pipe. With Unit 4 in operation, the
hollow-jet valve capacity is reduced
from 3,000 cfs to 800 cfs. The
powerhouse tailwater during turbine
operation varies from a low elevation of
about 298 feet msl to a high elevation
of about 303 feet msl under normal
operating conditions. The tailwater
elevation at the outlet works tunnel is
approximately 300 feet msl.
Switchyard
The project switchyard is located atop
the powerhouse at elevation 340 feet
msl. The switchyard provides power
delivery and electrical protection to the
Districts’ transmission systems. The
switchyard includes isolated phase
buses, circuit breakers, and four
transformers that raise the 13.8 kilovolt
(kV) generator voltage to 69 kV
transmission voltage.
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Gasburg Creek Dike
Don Pedro dam spillway discharges
into Gasburg Creek. Gasburg Creek dike
is located near the downstream end of
the spillway, and directs flows from
Gasburg Creek into Twin Gulch where
spillway discharges join the Tuolumne
River approximately 1.5 miles
downstream of the Don Pedro
powerhouse. Gasburg Creek dike
consists of an impervious earth and
rockfill dam approximately 75 feet in
height, with a slide-gate controlled 18inch-diameter conduit. The top of
Gasburg Creek dike is at elevation 725
feet msl.
Dikes A, B, and C
The project includes three small
embankments—Dikes A, B, and C—
constructed in low saddles on the
reservoir rim with top elevations of 855
feet msl. Dike A is located between the
main dam and spillway. Dikes B and C
are located east of the main dam.
Recreation Facilities
The project has three developed
recreation areas, Fleming Meadows,
Blue Oaks, and Moccasin Point.
Primitive and semi-primitive lakeshore
camping occurs on much of the rest of
its shores. The project provides both
floating and shoreline restrooms in
addition to those at the developed
recreation areas. Facilities also include
hazard marking, regulatory buoy lines,
and other open water-based features
including houseboat marinas and a
marked water-ski slalom course.
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, please contact FERC Online
Support at FERCOnlineSupport@
ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or
(202) 502–8659 (TTY). 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
email 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 preliminary Hydro
Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the
schedule may be made as appropriate.
Milestone
Target date
Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis ...........................................................................................
Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and fishway prescriptions ........................................................
Commission issues Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) .............................................................................................
Comments on Draft EIS ..............................................................................................................................................................
Modified Terms and Conditions ..................................................................................................................................................
Commission Issues Final EIS .....................................................................................................................................................
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.
Dated: October 12, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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Combined Notice of Filings #1
Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric corporate
filings:
Docket Numbers: EC17–186–000.
Applicants: American Transmission
Company LLC.
Description: Amendment to
Application (Exhibit N) for
Authorization Under Section 203 of the
Federal Power Act of American
Transmission Company LLC.
Filed Date: 10/11/17.
Accession Number: 20171011–5155.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/1/17.
Docket Numbers: EC18–4–000.
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Applicants: Cleco Power LLC, Attala
Transmission LLC, Perryville Energy
Partners, L.L.C., Entergy Louisiana, LLC,
Entergy Mississippi, Inc.
Description: Joint Application for
Section 203 Approval of Cleco Power
LLC, et al.
Filed Date: 10/11/17.
Accession Number: 20171011–5205.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/1/17.
Docket Numbers: EC18–5–000.
Applicants: RE Tranquillity LLC, RE
Garland LLC, RE Garland A LLC, RE
Mustang LLC, RE Mustang 3 LLC, RE
Mustang 4 LLC.
Description: Application for
Authorization under Section 203 of the
Federal Power Act and Request for
Waivers, Confidential Treatment,
Expedited Action and Shortened
Comment Period of RE Tranquillity
LLC, et al.
Filed Date: 10/11/17.
Accession Number: 20171011–5206.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/1/17.
Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric rate
filings:
Docket Numbers: ER13–1069–005;
ER12–2381–002; ER10–1484–016.
Applicants: MP2 Energy LLC, MP2
Energy NE LLC, Shell Energy North
America (US), L.P.
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October 2017.
December 2017.
July 2018.
September 2018.
November 2018.
February 2019.
Description: Notice of Non-Material
Change in Status of MP2 Energy LLC, et
al.
Filed Date: 10/11/17.
Accession Number: 20171011–5212.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/1/17.
Take notice that the Commission
received the following qualifying
facility filings:
Docket Numbers: QF17–1529–000.
Applicants: DOM Solar Lessor I, LP.
Description: Refund Report of DOM
Solar Lessor I, LP [CMEEC—Bozrah].
Filed Date: 10/10/17.
Accession Number: 20171010–5401.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/31/17.
The filings are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system by
clicking on the links or querying the
docket number.
Any person desiring to intervene or
protest in any of the above proceedings
must file in accordance with Rules 211
and 214 of the Commission’s
Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time on the specified comment date.
Protests may be considered, but
intervention is necessary to become a
party to the proceeding.
eFiling is encouraged. More detailed
information relating to filing
requirements, interventions, protests,
service, and qualifying facilities filings
can be found at: https://www.ferc.gov/
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2299-082]
Notice of Amended Application Tendered for Filing With the
Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and
Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments; Turlock Irrigation
District and Modesto Irrigation District, California
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.: 2299-082.
c. Date Filed: October 11, 2017.
d. Applicant: Turlock Irrigation District and Modesto Irrigation
District, California.
e. Name of Project: Don Pedro Hydropower Project.
f. Location: The Don Pedro Project is located on the Tuolumne River
in Tuolumne County, California. Portions of the project occupy public
lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 79 (a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contacts: Steve Boyd, Turlock Irrigation District, 333
East Canal Drive, Turlock, California 95381-0949, (209) 883-8300; and
Anna Brathwaite, Modesto Irrigation District, P.O. Box 4060, Modesto,
CA 95352, (209) 526-7384.
i. FERC Contact: Jim Hastreiter at (503) 552-2760 or
james.hastreiter@ferc.gov.
j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
k. The Project Description:
Don Pedro Dam and Reservoir
The primary project feature is Don Pedro Dam, a 1,900-foot-long and
580-foot-high zoned earth and rockfill structure. The top of the dam is
at elevation 855 feet mean sea level (msl).
Don Pedro Reservoir extends upstream for approximately 24 miles at
the normal maximum water surface elevation of 830 feet (msl). The
surface area of the reservoir at the 830-foot elevation is
approximately 12,960 acres and the gross storage capacity is 2,030,000
acre-feet.
Don Pedro Spillway
Don Pedro Spillway is divided into two sections, one gated and one
ungated, located immediately adjacent to one another in a saddle area
west of the main dam. The gated spillway section is 135-feet-long, with
a permanent crest elevation of 800 feet, and includes three radial
gates each 45 feet wide by 30 feet high. The ungated spillway is an
ogee section 995 feet long with a crest elevation of 830 feet msl and a
top of abutment elevation of 855 feet msl. The spillway capacity at a
reservoir water level of 850 feet msl is 472,500 cubic feet per second
(cfs). Flow releases over the ungated ogee-crest section of the
spillway have occurred only once since project construction, in early
January 1997. Flows at the spillway are released to Gasburg Creek,
which in turn flows into Twin Gulch, and then back into the Tuolumne
River approximately 1.5 miles downstream of the main dam.
Outlet Works
The project facilities include a set of outlet works located at the
left (east) abutment of the main dam. The outlet works consist of three
individual gate housings, each containing two 4-feet-by-5-feet slide
gates. The outlet works are situated in a 3,500-foot-long concrete
lined tunnel that originally served as the water diversion tunnel
during project construction. The inlet to the tunnel has an invert
elevation of 342 feet msl and the outlet, which is located
approximately 400 feet downstream of the powerhouse, has an invert of
310 feet. At a reservoir water surface elevation of 830 feet msl, the
total hydraulic capacity of the outlet works is 7,500 cfs.
Power Intake and Tunnel
Flows are delivered from the reservoir to the powerhouse via a
2,960-foot-long power tunnel located in the left (east) abutment of the
main dam. The tunnel transitions from an 18-foot 6-inch concrete-lined
section to a 16-foot steel-lined section. Emergency closure can be
provided by a 21-foot-high by 12-foot-wide fixed-wheel gate that is
operated from a chamber at the top of the gate shaft. Flows from the
power tunnel are delivered to the four-unit powerhouse and a hollow-jet
control valve in the powerhouse.
Powerhouse
Located immediately downstream of the main dam, the Don Pedro
powerhouse contains four turbine-generator units and a 72-inch hollow
jet valve. The reinforced-concrete powerhouse is 171 feet long, 110
feet high and 148 feet wide. It houses four Francis turbine generator
units with a nameplate capacity of 168 megawatts (MW) and a maximum
output at optimum conditions of approximately 203 MW. Combined
hydraulic capacity of the four units under maximum head is
approximately 5,500 cfs.
The powerhouse also contains a 72-inch hollow jet valve located in
the east end of the powerhouse with a centerline elevation at discharge
of 299 feet msl. The hydraulic capacity of the hollow jet valve is
3,000 cfs. While turbine Units 1 through 3 discharge directly to the
river channel, Unit 4 discharges to the outlet works tunnel
approximately 250 feet upstream of the tunnel outlet. Water to Unit 4
is delivered through a bifurcation from the hollow jet valve pipe. With
Unit 4 in operation, the hollow-jet valve capacity is reduced from
3,000 cfs to 800 cfs. The powerhouse tailwater during turbine operation
varies from a low elevation of about 298 feet msl to a high elevation
of about 303 feet msl under normal operating conditions. The tailwater
elevation at the outlet works tunnel is approximately 300 feet msl.
Switchyard
The project switchyard is located atop the powerhouse at elevation
340 feet msl. The switchyard provides power delivery and electrical
protection to the Districts' transmission systems. The switchyard
includes isolated phase buses, circuit breakers, and four transformers
that raise the 13.8 kilovolt (kV) generator voltage to 69 kV
transmission voltage.
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Gasburg Creek Dike
Don Pedro dam spillway discharges into Gasburg Creek. Gasburg Creek
dike is located near the downstream end of the spillway, and directs
flows from Gasburg Creek into Twin Gulch where spillway discharges join
the Tuolumne River approximately 1.5 miles downstream of the Don Pedro
powerhouse. Gasburg Creek dike consists of an impervious earth and
rockfill dam approximately 75 feet in height, with a slide-gate
controlled 18-inch-diameter conduit. The top of Gasburg Creek dike is
at elevation 725 feet msl.
Dikes A, B, and C
The project includes three small embankments--Dikes A, B, and C--
constructed in low saddles on the reservoir rim with top elevations of
855 feet msl. Dike A is located between the main dam and spillway.
Dikes B and C are located east of the main dam.
Recreation Facilities
The project has three developed recreation areas, Fleming Meadows,
Blue Oaks, and Moccasin Point. Primitive and semi-primitive lakeshore
camping occurs on much of the rest of its shores. The project provides
both floating and shoreline restrooms in addition to those at the
developed recreation areas. Facilities also include hazard marking,
regulatory buoy lines, and other open water-based features including
houseboat marinas and a marked water-ski slalom course.
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, please contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). 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 email 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 preliminary 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 October 2017.
Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary December 2017.
terms and conditions, and fishway
prescriptions.
Commission issues Draft Environmental July 2018.
Impact Statement (EIS).
Comments on Draft EIS...................... September 2018.
Modified Terms and Conditions.............. November 2018.
Commission Issues Final EIS................ February 2019.
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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.
Dated: October 12, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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