BOST2 Hydroelectric, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications, 19131-19132 [2023-06597]
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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/
docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For
other information, call (866) 208–3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.
Dated: March 24, 2023.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023–06596 Filed 3–29–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 8909–027]
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Dietrich Drop Hydro, LLC, Big Wood
Canal Company, American Falls
Reservoir District No. 2; Notice of
Application for Partial Transfer of
License and Soliciting Comments,
Motions To Intervene, and Protests
(transferee): Kevin Lakey, Manager, 409
N Apple Street, Shoshone, ID 83352,
Phone: (208) 886–2331, Email:
manager@bigwoodcanal.com, and
Miriah Elliott, Wood Hydro LLC, 711 E
Turtle Point Drive, Irvins, UT 84738,
Phone: (801) 891–4147, Email: miriah@
tsorenson.net
FERC Contact: Anumzziatta
Purchiaroni, Phone: (202) 502–6191,
Email: Anumzziatta.purchiaroni@
ferc.gov.
Deadline for filing comments, motions
to intervene, and protests: 30 days from
the date that the Commission issues this
notice. The Commission strongly
encourages electronic filing. Please file
comments, motions to intervene, and
protests using the Commission’s eFiling
system at https://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/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. For assistance,
please contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866)
208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659
(TTY).
In lieu of electronic filing, you may
submit a paper copy. Submissions sent
via 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, Maryland 20852. The first
page of any filing should include docket
number P–8909–027. Comments
emailed to Commission staff are not
considered part of the Commission
record.
On February 16, 2023, Dietrich Drop
Hydro, LLC (transferor), Big Wood Canal
Company (co-licensee), and American
Falls Reservoir District No. 2
(transferee), filed jointly an application
for a partial transfer of license for the
Dietrich Drop Water Power Project No.
8909.1 The project is located on the
Milner-Gooding Canal, Lincoln County,
Idaho.
The applicants seek Commission
approval to partially transfer the license
for the Dietrich Drop Water Power
Project from the Dietrich Hydro, LLC
and Big Wood Canal Company as colicensees to Big Wood Canal Company
and American Falls Reservoir District
No. 2 as co-licensees. The transferee
will be required by the Commission to
comply with all the requirements of the
license as though it were the original
licensee.
Applicants Contact: For Dietrich Drop
Dated: March 24, 2023.
Hydro, LLC (transferor): Randall Osteen,
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Hull Street Energy, LLC, General
Deputy Secretary.
Counsel, Portfolio Companies, 4747
Bethesda Avenue, Suite 1220, Bethesda, [FR Doc. 2023–06605 Filed 3–29–23; 8:45 am]
MD 20814, Phone: (410) 303–4174,
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Email: rosten@hullstreetenergy.com, and
Julia S. Wood, Rock Creek Energy
Group, LLP, 1 Thomas Circle NW, Suite
700, Washington, DC 20005, Phone:
(202) 998–2770, Email: jwood@
rockcreekenergygroup.com.
For Big Wood Canal Company and
American Falls Reservoir District No. 2
1 Idaho Renewable Resources, et al., 39 FERC
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 15297–000]
BOST2 Hydroelectric, LLC; Notice of
Preliminary Permit Application
Accepted for Filing and Soliciting
Comments, Motions To Intervene, and
Competing Applications
On January 25, 2023, BOST2
Hydroelectric, LLC, filed an application
for a preliminary permit, pursuant to
section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act,
proposing to study the feasibility of the
Marathon County Pumped Storage
Project (Marathon County Project or
project) to be located near
approximately six miles southwest of
the City of Hatley in Marathon County,
Wisconsin. 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 is a closed loop
pumped storage project that would
consist of the following: (1) a 76-foothigh embankment, 80-acre-footprint
circular or oval upper reservoir
constructed as a geotextile-lined rockfill
embankment with a total storage
capacity of approximately 5,300 acrefeet of active water operating between a
maximum water surface elevation of
1,361 feet mean sea level (msl) and a
minimum water surface elevation of
1,295 feet msl; (2) a reinforced concrete
‘‘morning glory’’ type upper intake of
circular configuration with a maximum
outside diameter of approximately 95feet and an inside diameter of 38-feet;
(3) an approximately 2,770-foot-long,
23-foot-diameter vertical penstock
excavated in granitic bedrock extending
between the upper intake and the
pump/turbines below; (4) an
underground concentric circular tunnels
lower reservoir with diameters from
5,400 feet to 4,200 feet excavated in
granitic bedrock, located 2,100 feet
below the ground surface elevation of
1,269 feet msl, with a usable storage
capacity approximately the same as the
upper reservoir and operational water
elevations between minus 798 feet msl
and minus 840 feet msl; (5) a 460-footlong, 80-foot-wide, 160-foot-high
powerhouse located 200 feet below the
lower reservoir containing three
reversible pump/turbine-motor/
generator units rated for 333 megawatts
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each; (6) a 410-foot-long, 60-foot-wide,
160-foot-high underground transformer
gallery; (7) a 200-foot-square above
ground substation; (8) a 200 to 500-footlong, 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission line
extending from the substation to an
existing 345-kV transmission line
owned by others; and (9) appurtenant
facilities. There would be no federal
land within the proposed project
boundary. The estimated annual
generation of the Marathon County
Project would be 2,628 gigawatt-hours.
Applicant Contact: Mr. Douglas
Spaulding, P.E., Nelson Energy, 8441
Wayzata Blvd., Suite 101, Golden
Valley, MN 55426; phone: (952) 544–
8133.
FERC Contact: Sergiu Serban; phone:
(202) 502–6211.
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.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. Please file comments,
motions to intervene, notices of intent,
and competing applications 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. For assistance,
please contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (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 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. The first
page of any filing should include docket
number P–15297–000.
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 https://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp.
Enter the docket number (P–15297) in
the docket number field to access the
document. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
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Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023–06597 Filed 3–29–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 4639–033]
Ampersand Christine Falls Hydro, LLC;
Notice Soliciting Scoping Comments
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.: 4639–033.
c. Date filed: September 29, 2021.
d. Applicant: Ampersand Christine
Falls Hydro, LLC (Ampersand).
e. Name of Project: Christine Falls
Hydroelectric Project (Christine Falls
Project or project).
f. Location: On the Sacandaga River
near the Village of Speculator, Hamilton
County, New York. The project does not
occupy any federal land.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contacts: Mr. Sayad
Moudachirou, Licensing Manager,
Ampersand Christine Falls Hydro LLC,
717 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 1A, Boston,
MA 02111, Phone: 617–933–7206,
Email: sayad@ampersandenergy.com;
and Mr. Jason Huang, Asset Manager,
Ampersand Christine Falls Hydro LLC,
717 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 1A, Boston,
MA 02111, Phone: 773–919–0923,
Email: jasonh@ampersandenergy.com.
i. FERC Contact: Andy Bernick at
(202) 502–8660, or andrew.bernick@
ferc.gov
j. Deadline for filing scoping
comments: April 23, 2023.
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. For assistance,
please contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866)
208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659
(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please
send a paper copy via U.S. Postal
Service to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary,
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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, Maryland 20852. All filings
must clearly identify the project name
and docket number on the first page:
Christine Falls Hydroelectric Project (P–
4639–033).
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 is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
l. The Christine Falls Project consists
of the following existing facilities: (1) a
15-foot-high, 152.6-foot-long concrete
gravity dam (includes both abutments),
with 3-foot-high wooden flashboards
installed along the crest of the 135-footlong spillway; (2) a reservoir with a
surface area of 1.1 acres and a storage
capacity of 4-acre feet at a normal water
surface elevation of 1,699.7 feet
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of
1929 (NGVD29); (3) an intake structure;
(4) a 613-foot-long steel penstock with a
diameter of 6 feet that bifurcates into 3foot-diameter, 45-foot-long and 4-footdiameter, 32-foot-long penstocks; (5) a
brick and concrete powerhouse
containing two turbine-generator units
(i.e., one 275-kilowatt (kW) unit and one
575-kW unit) with a total capacity of
850 kW; (7) a tailrace with a depth of
21 feet; (8) a 610-foot-long bypassed
reach; (9) a 185-foot-long underground
transmission line connecting the
generating units to a 1,000-kilovoltampere step-up transformer; (10) a
9,315-foot-long, 4.16/13.2-kilovolt
underground transmission line from the
transformer to a point of
interconnection; and (11) appurtenant
facilities.
The Christine Falls Project is operated
in a run-of-river mode, with a minimum
flow of 25 cubic feet per second (cfs)
into the bypassed reach during the
months of March, April, and May, and
a minimum flow of 10 cfs during the
remainder of the year. The project is
operated to maintain a normal water
surface elevation of 1,699.7 feet
NGVD29 with 3-foot-high wooden
flashboards in place and has an average
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 15297-000]
BOST2 Hydroelectric, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit
Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To
Intervene, and Competing Applications
On January 25, 2023, BOST2 Hydroelectric, LLC, filed an application
for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power
Act, proposing to study the feasibility of the Marathon County Pumped
Storage Project (Marathon County Project or project) to be located near
approximately six miles southwest of the City of Hatley in Marathon
County, Wisconsin. 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 is a closed loop pumped storage project that
would consist of the following: (1) a 76-foot-high embankment, 80-acre-
footprint circular or oval upper reservoir constructed as a geotextile-
lined rockfill embankment with a total storage capacity of
approximately 5,300 acre-feet of active water operating between a
maximum water surface elevation of 1,361 feet mean sea level (msl) and
a minimum water surface elevation of 1,295 feet msl; (2) a reinforced
concrete ``morning glory'' type upper intake of circular configuration
with a maximum outside diameter of approximately 95-feet and an inside
diameter of 38-feet; (3) an approximately 2,770-foot-long, 23-foot-
diameter vertical penstock excavated in granitic bedrock extending
between the upper intake and the pump/turbines below; (4) an
underground concentric circular tunnels lower reservoir with diameters
from 5,400 feet to 4,200 feet excavated in granitic bedrock, located
2,100 feet below the ground surface elevation of 1,269 feet msl, with a
usable storage capacity approximately the same as the upper reservoir
and operational water elevations between minus 798 feet msl and minus
840 feet msl; (5) a 460-foot-long, 80-foot-wide, 160-foot-high
powerhouse located 200 feet below the lower reservoir containing three
reversible pump/turbine-motor/generator units rated for 333 megawatts
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each; (6) a 410-foot-long, 60-foot-wide, 160-foot-high underground
transformer gallery; (7) a 200-foot-square above ground substation; (8)
a 200 to 500-foot-long, 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission line extending
from the substation to an existing 345-kV transmission line owned by
others; and (9) appurtenant facilities. There would be no federal land
within the proposed project boundary. The estimated annual generation
of the Marathon County Project would be 2,628 gigawatt-hours.
Applicant Contact: Mr. Douglas Spaulding, P.E., Nelson Energy, 8441
Wayzata Blvd., Suite 101, Golden Valley, MN 55426; phone: (952) 544-
8133.
FERC Contact: Sergiu Serban; phone: (202) 502-6211.
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.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing
applications 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. 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
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. The first page of any filing should include docket
number P-15297-000.
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 https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp.
Enter the docket number (P-15297) in the docket number field to access
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
Dated: March 24, 2023.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-06597 Filed 3-29-23; 8:45 am]
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