BOST2 Hydroelectric, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications, 19131-19132 [2023-06597]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 61 / Thursday, March 30, 2023 / Notices 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] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 8909–027] lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 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, BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 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 ¶ 62,210 (1987). VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:22 Mar 29, 2023 Jkt 259001 PO 00000 Frm 00081 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 19131 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 E:\FR\FM\30MRN1.SGM 30MRN1 lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 19132 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 61 / Thursday, March 30, 2023 / Notices 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. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:22 Mar 29, 2023 Jkt 259001 Dated: March 24, 2023. Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2023–06597 Filed 3–29–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 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, PO 00000 Frm 00082 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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 E:\FR\FM\30MRN1.SGM 30MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 61 (Thursday, March 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19131-19132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06597]


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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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