Ada County Idaho; Fulcrum LLC; Notice of Scoping Meetings and Environmental Site Review and Soliciting Scoping Comments, 71606-71607 [2022-25463]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 225 (Wednesday, November 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71606-71607]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25463]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 4881-031]


Ada County Idaho; Fulcrum LLC; Notice of Scoping Meetings and 
Environmental Site Review and Soliciting Scoping Comments

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with Commission and is available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 4881-031.
    c. Date filed: November 30, 2021.
    d. Applicant: Ada County Idaho, Fulcrum LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Barber Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Boise River, near the city of Boise, Ada 
County, Idaho. The project does not occupy federal land.

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    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Nicholas Josten, 2742 St. Charles Ave., Idaho 
Falls, Idaho 83404; 208-520-5135.
    i. FERC Contact: Matt Cutlip, [email protected], (503) 552-2762.
    j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: December 31, 2022.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
scoping comments using the Commission's eFiling system at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief 
comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the 
eComment system at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You 
must include your name and contact information at the end of your 
comments. 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 
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, 
MD 20852. The first page of any filing should include docket number P-
4881-031. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY).
    The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all 
interveners 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 intervener 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 is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    l. The Barber Dam Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) a 1,100-foot-long earthen embankment dam; (2) a 400-
foot-long, 25-foot-high concrete capped timber crib spillway section; 
(3) a powerhouse containing two 1,850-kilowatt generating units; (4) a 
trash sluiceway; (5) a 75-acre impoundment; (6) a 100-foot-long 
concrete tailrace; (7) 120 feet of transmission line; and (8) 
appurtenant facilities. The project is operated in a run-of-river mode 
and generates an average of 11,900 megawatt-hours per year. The 
licensees propose to modify the existing spillway to incorporate a 
variable elevation weir, and to modify the plant operating system to 
control the variable weir so that water is automatically bypassed to 
the Boise River when the powerhouse trips offline
    m. A copy of the application can be viewed on the Commission's 
website 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.
    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. Scoping Process: In accordance with the National Environmental 
Policy Act (NEPA), Commission staff will prepare either an 
Environmental Assessment or an Environmental Impact Statement for the 
project. The NEPA document will consider both site-specific and 
cumulative environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the 
proposed action.

Scoping Meetings

    Commission staff will conduct one agency scoping meeting and one 
public meeting. The agency scoping meeting will focus on resource 
agency and non-governmental organization (NGO) concerns, while the 
public scoping meeting is primarily for public input. All interested 
individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to attend one or 
both of the meetings, and to assist the staff in identifying the scope 
of the environmental issues that should be analyzed in the NEPA 
document. The times and locations of these meetings are as follows:

Public Scoping Meeting

    Date: Tuesday, November 29.
    Time: 7:00 p.m.
    Place: Ada County Courthouse.
    Address: 200 W Front St., Boise, Idaho 83702.

Agency Scoping Meeting

    Date: Wednesday, November 30.
    Time: 9:00 a.m.
    Place: Ada County Courthouse.
    Address: 200 W Front St., Boise, Idaho 83702.
    Copies of the Scoping Document (SD1) outlining the subject areas to 
be addressed in the NEPA document were distributed to the parties on 
the Commission's mailing list. Copies of the SD1 will be available at 
the scoping meeting or may be viewed on the web at https://www.ferc.gov 
using the ``eLibrary'' link (see item m above).

Environmental Site Review

    The licensees and Commission staff will conduct a project 
Environmental Site Review beginning at 1:00 p.m. on November 29, 2022. 
All interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to 
attend. All participants should meet at the Barber Dam Project at 5201 
E Sawmill Way, Boise, ID 83716. Anyone with questions about the 
environmental site review should contact Kevin Webb at (978) 935-6039 
or [email protected]. Those individuals planning to 
participate in the site review should notify Mr. Webb of their intent.

Objectives

    At the scoping meetings, the staff will: (1) summarize the 
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the NEPA 
document; (2) solicit from the meeting participants all available 
information, especially quantifiable data, on the resources at issue; 
(3) encourage statements from experts and the public on issues that 
should be analyzed in the NEPA document, including viewpoints in 
opposition to, or in support of, Commission staff's preliminary views; 
(4) determine the resource issues to be addressed in the NEPA document; 
and (5) identify those issues that require a detailed analysis, as well 
as those issues that do not require a detailed analysis.

Procedures

    The meetings are recorded by a stenographer and become part of the 
formal record of the Commission proceeding on the project.
    Individuals, organizations, and agencies with environmental 
expertise and concerns are encouraged to attend the meeting and to 
assist Commission staff in defining and clarifying the issues to be 
addressed in the NEPA document.

    Dated: November 16, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-25463 Filed 11-22-22; 8:45 am]
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