Beaver City Corporation Notice of Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Motions To Intervene and Protests, 3101-3102 [2022-01041]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 13 (Thursday, January 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3101-3102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01041]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 1858-023]


Beaver City Corporation Notice of Application Accepted for Filing 
and Soliciting Motions To Intervene and Protests

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Subsequent Minor License.
    b. Project No.: P-1858-023.
    c. Date filed: July 30, 2021.
    d. Applicant: Beaver City Corporation.
    e. Name of Project: Beaver City Canyon Plant No. 2 Hydroelectric 
Project.
    f. Location: The existing hydroelectric project is located on the 
Beaver River, in Beaver County, Utah, about 5 miles east of the city of 
Beaver. The project currently occupies 10.2 acres of federal land 
administered by the U.S. Forest Service, and 2.4 acres of federal land 
managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. As proposed, the project 
would occupy 10.5 acres of federal land administered by the U.S. Forest 
Service and 2.4 acres of federal land administered by the U.S. Bureau 
of Land Management.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Jason Brown, Beaver City Manager, 30 West 
300 North, Beaver, UT 84713; (435) 438-2451.
    i. FERC Contact: Evan Williams, (202) 502-8462, or at 
[email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests: 60 days 
from the issuance date of this notice.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
motions to intervene and protests using the Commission's eFiling system 
at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. For assistance, please 
contact FERC Online Support at [email protected], (866) 208-
3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic 
filing, you may submit a paper copy. Submissions sent via the U.S. 
Postal Service must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

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First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via 
any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852. All filings must clearly identify the project name and 
docket number on the first page: Beaver City Canyon Plant No. 2 
Hydroelectric Project (P-1858-023).
    The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors 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 
intervenor 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 has been accepted, but is not ready for 
environmental analysis at this time.
    l. Project Description: The existing project consists of: (1) A 17-
foot-high by 65-foot-wide diversion dam; (2) a 30-inch-diameter, 
11,450-foot-long black steel penstock; (3) a 34-foot-long by 41-foot-
wide stone powerhouse containing an impulse turbine and one generating 
unit with an installed capacity of 625 kilowatts; (4) a 4-foot-wide by 
150-foot-long tailrace channel; (5) a 12.5-kilovolt, approximately 
21,000-foot-long transmission line; and (6) appurtenant facilities. The 
estimated average annual generation (2012 to 2017) is 4,446 megawatt-
hours.
    Beaver City Corporation proposes to abandon the existing: (1) 
Powerhouse; (2) portion of penstock between the existing powerhouse and 
proposed new powerhouse; (3) buried line from the turbine generator to 
the transformer on the west side of the existing powerhouse; (4) old 
transformer; (5) overhead line from the old transformer to the start of 
the transmission line on the west bank of the Beaver River; and (6) 
tailrace. As such, Beaver City Corporation proposes to remove 
approximately 50-feet of the existing penstock and construct: (1) A new 
40-foot-long by 27-foot-wide metal-walled powerhouse to contain one new 
turbine-generator with an installed capacity of 720 kilowatts; (2) a 
new buried line of unknown dimensions from the new turbine-generator to 
the new transformer; (3) a new buried line of unknown dimensions from 
the new transformer to an intermediate pole; (4) a new overhead line of 
unknown dimensions from the intermediate pole to the start of the 
existing transmission line; and (5) a new approximately 50-foot-long by 
approximately 10-foot-wide rock-lined tailrace. The new powerhouse, 
power distribution facilities, and tailrace would be constructed 
approximately 50 feet upstream of the existing powerhouse, and the 
existing powerhouse would be retained within the project boundary as an 
historic structure.
    m. A copy of the application is available for review on the 
Commission's website (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.
    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. Anyone may submit a protest or a motion to intervene in 
accordance with the requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 
CFR 385.210, 385.211, and 385.214. In determining the appropriate 
action to take, the Commission will consider all protests filed, but 
only those who file a motion to intervene in accordance with the 
Commission's Rules may become a party to the proceeding. Any protests 
or motions to intervene must be received on or before the specified 
deadline date for the particular application.
    All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title 
``PROTEST'' or ``MOTION TO INTERVENE;'' (2) set forth in the heading 
the name of the applicant and the project number of the application to 
which the filing responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone 
number of the person protesting or intervening; and (4) otherwise 
comply with the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. 
Agencies may obtain copies of the application directly from the 
applicant. A copy of any protest or motion to intervene must be served 
upon each representative of the applicant specified in the particular 
application.
    o. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will 
be made as appropriate.

Commission issues Scoping Document 1........  February 2022.
Deadline for Filing Motions to Intervene and  March 14, 2022.
 Protests.
Filing of Scoping Comments..................  March 2022.
Commission issues Request for Additional      April 2022.
 Information (if necessary).
Commission issues Scoping Document 2 (if      May 2022.
 necessary).
Commission issues Notice of Ready for         May 2022.
 Environmental Analysis.
Filing of comments, recommendations,          July 2022.
 preliminary terms and conditions, and
 preliminary fishway prescriptions.
Filing of Reply Comments....................  September 2022.
 


    Dated: January 13, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-01041 Filed 1-19-22; 8:45 am]
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