Idaho Power Company; Notice of Application Ready for Environmental Analysis and Soliciting Comments, Recommendations, Terms and Conditions, and Prescriptions, 10063-10064 [2024-02921]
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Any person desiring to protest in any
the above proceedings must file in
accordance with Rule 211 of the
Commission’s Regulations (18 CFR
385.211) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time on the specified comment date.
The filings are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system (https://
elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/fercgen
search.asp) by querying the docket
number.
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.
The Commission’s Office of Public
Participation (OPP) supports meaningful
public engagement and participation in
Commission proceedings. OPP can help
members of the public, including
landowners, environmental justice
communities, Tribal members and
others, access publicly available
information and navigate Commission
processes. For public inquiries and
assistance with making filings such as
interventions, comments, or requests for
rehearing, the public is encouraged to
contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@
ferc.gov.
Dated: February 7, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024–02916 Filed 2–12–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 2736–046]
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Idaho Power Company; Notice of
Application Ready for Environmental
Analysis and Soliciting Comments,
Recommendations, Terms and
Conditions, and Prescriptions
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.: 2736–046.
c. Date filed: February 14, 2023.
d. Applicant: Idaho Power Company.
e. Name of Project: American Falls
Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The American Falls
project is located on the Snake River in
Power County, Idaho, near the city of
American Falls, about 25 miles
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southwest of Pocatello. The project is
located at the American Falls Dam,
owned and operated by the United
States Bureau of Reclamation. The
project occupies 7.37 acres of United
States land administered by the U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation in Power
County, Idaho.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Andrea L.
Courtney, Hydro Licensing Leader,
Idaho Power Company, P.O. Box 70,
1221 W Idaho St., Boise, ID 83702; (208)
388–2655; or email at ACourtney@
idahopower.com.
i. FERC Contact: Golbahar
Mirhosseini at Golbahar.Mirhosseini@
ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing comments,
recommendations, terms and
conditions, and prescriptions: 60 days
from the issuance date of this notice;
reply comments are due 105 days from
the issuance date of this notice.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. Please file comments,
recommendations, terms and
conditions, and prescriptions using the
Commission’s eFiling system at https://
ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx.
Commenters can submit brief comments
up to 6,000 characters, without prior
registration, using the eComment system
at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/
QuickComment.aspx. 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: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Deputy
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room
1A, Washington, DC 20426.
Submissions sent via any other carrier
must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A.
Reese, Deputy 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: American Falls Project (P–2736–
046).
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
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also serve a copy of the document on
that resource agency.
k. This application has been accepted
and is now ready for environmental
analysis.
l. The American Falls dam and
spillway are owned and operated by the
Bureau of Reclamation; these features
are not project facilities or contained
within the project boundary. The
concrete gravity dam has a structural
height of 103.5 feet and a crest length of
5,277 feet, width of 42.5 feet and
elevation of 4,366.5 feet.1 The spillway
has a crest elevation of 4,333 feet.
Reclamation operates and manages the
reservoir for irrigation delivery, power
generation, flood control, fish and
wildlife, and recreation benefits. The
reservoir has a maximum storage
capacity of 2,672,590 acre-feet and 1.7
million acre-feet of usable storage
capacity. Its water surface elevation
fluctuates between 4,295.7 feet and
4,354.5 feet and reservoir’s maximum
surface area is 58,000 acres.
Three 18-foot-diameter steel-lined
penstocks begin at the dam intake and
extend 300 feet downstream to the
American Falls project’s turbines.
Reclamation’s ownership and
maintenance of the penstocks begins at
the intake and extends downstream
approximately 60 feet to the coupling
pit. Idaho Power’s ownership and
maintenance of the penstocks begins at
the coupling pit and extends
downstream to the Project’s turbines.
From the coupling pit, each of the
project’s 18-foot-diameter penstocks
extend approximately 240 feet
downstream to each of the project’s
three 22.5-megawatt (MW) Kaplan
turbine-generator units contained in a
reinforced concrete powerhouse. The
total installed project capacity is 67.5
MW.2 Water is discharged from the
powerhouse directly to the Snake River.
Electricity generated at the
powerhouse is transmitted to the
electric grid via a switchyard upstream
of the powerhouse containing a 13.8/
138-kilovolt (kV) step-up transformer.
From there power is transmitted over a
2,300-foot-long, 138-kV overhead
transmission line to the American Falls
Switchyard. The American Falls project
generates an average of 395,000
megawatt-hours (MWh) annually.
1 All elevations are National Geodetic Vertical
Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29).
2 See Order Amending License, Revising Project
Description, Revising Annual Charges, and
Approving Revised Exhibit M issued September 27,
2002. Idaho Power Company, 180 FERC ¶ 62,170
(2022). Following turbine maintenance that
commenced in October 2022 and will extend
through 2025, each of the turbines will have a rated
hydraulic capacity of 4,705 cfs at 88 feet net head.
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Project recreation facilities include:
Trenner Memorial Park, American Falls
Park, an improved fishing and access
area, and the Oregon Trail Boat Ramp
(Power County Boat Ramp).
The American Falls project operates
in a run-of-release mode, which means
it only uses flows released to the project
by Reclamation. More specifically,
power generation is seasonally dictated
as reservoir levels and irrigation flow
deliveries are set by Reclamation.
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. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
All filings must (1) bear in all capital
letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS,’’ ‘‘REPLY
COMMENTS,’’
‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS,’’ ‘‘TERMS
AND CONDITIONS,’’ or
‘‘PRESCRIPTIONS;’’ (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 submitting the
filing; and (4) otherwise comply with
the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001
through 385.2005. All comments,
recommendations, terms and conditions
or prescriptions must set forth their
evidentiary basis and otherwise comply
with the requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b).
Agencies may obtain copies of the
application directly from the applicant.
Each filing must be accompanied by
proof of service on all persons listed on
the service list prepared by the
Commission in this proceeding, in
accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b) and
385.2010.
The Commission’s Office of Public
Participation (OPP) supports meaningful
public engagement and participation in
Commission proceedings. OPP can help
members of the public, including
landowners, environmental justice
communities, Tribal members and
others, access publicly available
information and navigate Commission
processes. For public inquiries and
assistance with making filings such as
interventions, comments, or requests for
rehearing, the public is encouraged to
contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@
ferc.gov.
You may also register online at
https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERC
Online.aspx to be notified via email of
new filings and issuances related to this
or other pending projects. For
assistance, contact FERC Online
Support.
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n. The applicant must file no later
than 60 days following the date of
issuance of this notice: (1) a copy of the
water quality certification; (2) a copy of
the request for certification, including
proof of the date on which the certifying
agency received the request; or (3)
evidence of waiver of water quality
certification. Please note that the
certification request must comply with
40 CFR 121.5(b), including
documentation that a pre-filing meeting
request was submitted to the certifying
authority at least 30 days prior to
submitting the certification request.
Please also note that the certification
request must be sent to the certifying
authority and to the Commission
concurrently.
o. Procedural Schedule: The
application will be processed according
to the following schedule. Revisions to
the schedule will be made as
appropriate.
Milestone
Target date
Deadline for Filing Comments,
Recommendations, and Agency Terms and Conditions/Prescriptions.
Licensee’s Reply to REA Comments.
April 2024.
May 2024.
p. Final amendments to the
application must be filed with the
Commission no later than 30 days from
the issuance date of this notice.
Dated: February 7, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024–02921 Filed 2–12–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP24–37–000]
Columbia Gulf Transmission, LLC;
Notice of Scoping Period Requesting
Comments on Environmental Issues
for the Proposed Amoco South Pecan
Lake Abandonment Project
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) will prepare an
environmental document, that will
discuss the environmental impacts of
the Amoco South Pecan Lake
Abandonment Project (Project),
involving abandonment of obsolete
pipeline and abandonment of pipeline
and appurtenant facilities by removal by
Columbia Gulf Transmission, LLC
(Columbia Gulf) in Cameron Parish,
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Louisiana. The Commission will use
this environmental document in its
decision-making process to determine
whether the Project is in the public
convenience and necessity.
This notice announces the opening of
the scoping process the Commission
will use to gather input from the public
and interested agencies regarding the
Project. As part of the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
review process, the Commission takes
into account concerns the public may
have about proposals and the
environmental impacts that could result
from its action whenever it considers
the issuance of a Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity. This
gathering of public input is referred to
as ‘‘scoping.’’ The main goal of the
scoping process is to focus the analysis
in the environmental document on the
important environmental issues.
Additional information about the
Commission’s NEPA process is
described below in the NEPA Process
and Environmental Document section of
this notice.
By this notice, the Commission
requests public comments on the scope
of issues to address in the
environmental document. To ensure
that your comments are timely and
properly recorded, please submit your
comments so that the Commission
receives them in Washington, DC on or
before 5 p.m. eastern time on March 8,
2024. Comments may be submitted in
written form. Further details on how to
submit comments are provided in the
Public Participation section of this
notice.
Your comments should focus on the
potential environmental effects,
reasonable alternatives, and measures to
avoid or lessen environmental impacts.
Your input will help the Commission
staff determine what issues they need to
evaluate in the environmental
document. Commission staff will
consider all written comments during
the preparation of the environmental
document.
If you submitted comments on this
Project to the Commission before the
opening of this docket on January 25,
2024, you will need to file those
comments in Docket No. CP24–37–000
to ensure they are considered as part of
this proceeding.
This notice is being sent to the
Commission’s current environmental
mailing list for this Project. State and
local government representatives should
notify their constituents of this
proposed Project and encourage them to
comment on their areas of concern.
If you are a landowner receiving this
notice, a pipeline company
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[FR Doc No: 2024-02921]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2736-046]
Idaho Power Company; Notice of Application Ready for
Environmental Analysis and Soliciting Comments, Recommendations, Terms
and Conditions, and Prescriptions
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.: 2736-046.
c. Date filed: February 14, 2023.
d. Applicant: Idaho Power Company.
e. Name of Project: American Falls Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The American Falls project is located on the Snake
River in Power County, Idaho, near the city of American Falls, about 25
miles southwest of Pocatello. The project is located at the American
Falls Dam, owned and operated by the United States Bureau of
Reclamation. The project occupies 7.37 acres of United States land
administered by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Power County, Idaho.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Andrea L. Courtney, Hydro Licensing Leader,
Idaho Power Company, P.O. Box 70, 1221 W Idaho St., Boise, ID 83702;
(208) 388-2655; or email at [email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Golbahar Mirhosseini at
[email protected].
j. Deadline for filing comments, recommendations, terms and
conditions, and prescriptions: 60 days from the issuance date of this
notice; reply comments are due 105 days from the issuance date of this
notice.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and prescriptions
using the Commission's eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. Commenters can submit brief comments up to 6,000
characters, without prior registration, using the eComment system at
https://ferconline.ferc.gov/QuickComment.aspx. 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:
Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Deputy Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.
Submissions sent via any other carrier must be addressed to: Debbie-
Anne A. Reese, Deputy 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:
American Falls Project (P-2736-046).
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 and is now ready for
environmental analysis.
l. The American Falls dam and spillway are owned and operated by
the Bureau of Reclamation; these features are not project facilities or
contained within the project boundary. The concrete gravity dam has a
structural height of 103.5 feet and a crest length of 5,277 feet, width
of 42.5 feet and elevation of 4,366.5 feet.\1\ The spillway has a crest
elevation of 4,333 feet. Reclamation operates and manages the reservoir
for irrigation delivery, power generation, flood control, fish and
wildlife, and recreation benefits. The reservoir has a maximum storage
capacity of 2,672,590 acre-feet and 1.7 million acre-feet of usable
storage capacity. Its water surface elevation fluctuates between
4,295.7 feet and 4,354.5 feet and reservoir's maximum surface area is
58,000 acres.
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Three 18-foot-diameter steel-lined penstocks begin at the dam
intake and extend 300 feet downstream to the American Falls project's
turbines. Reclamation's ownership and maintenance of the penstocks
begins at the intake and extends downstream approximately 60 feet to
the coupling pit. Idaho Power's ownership and maintenance of the
penstocks begins at the coupling pit and extends downstream to the
Project's turbines.
From the coupling pit, each of the project's 18-foot-diameter
penstocks extend approximately 240 feet downstream to each of the
project's three 22.5-megawatt (MW) Kaplan turbine-generator units
contained in a reinforced concrete powerhouse. The total installed
project capacity is 67.5 MW.\2\ Water is discharged from the powerhouse
directly to the Snake River.
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\2\ See Order Amending License, Revising Project Description,
Revising Annual Charges, and Approving Revised Exhibit M issued
September 27, 2002. Idaho Power Company, 180 FERC ] 62,170 (2022).
Following turbine maintenance that commenced in October 2022 and
will extend through 2025, each of the turbines will have a rated
hydraulic capacity of 4,705 cfs at 88 feet net head.
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Electricity generated at the powerhouse is transmitted to the
electric grid via a switchyard upstream of the powerhouse containing a
13.8/138-kilovolt (kV) step-up transformer. From there power is
transmitted over a 2,300-foot-long, 138-kV overhead transmission line
to the American Falls Switchyard. The American Falls project generates
an average of 395,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) annually.
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Project recreation facilities include: Trenner Memorial Park,
American Falls Park, an improved fishing and access area, and the
Oregon Trail Boat Ramp (Power County Boat Ramp).
The American Falls project operates in a run-of-release mode, which
means it only uses flows released to the project by Reclamation. More
specifically, power generation is seasonally dictated as reservoir
levels and irrigation flow deliveries are set by Reclamation.
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. For assistance, contact FERC Online
Support.
All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title
``COMMENTS,'' ``REPLY COMMENTS,'' ``RECOMMENDATIONS,'' ``TERMS AND
CONDITIONS,'' or ``PRESCRIPTIONS;'' (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 submitting the filing; and (4) otherwise comply
with the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. All
comments, recommendations, terms and conditions or prescriptions must
set forth their evidentiary basis and otherwise comply with the
requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). Agencies may obtain copies of the
application directly from the applicant. Each filing must be
accompanied by proof of service on all persons listed on the service
list prepared by the Commission in this proceeding, in accordance with
18 CFR 4.34(b) and 385.2010.
The Commission's Office of Public Participation (OPP) supports
meaningful public engagement and participation in Commission
proceedings. OPP can help members of the public, including landowners,
environmental justice communities, Tribal members and others, access
publicly available information and navigate Commission processes. For
public inquiries and assistance with making filings such as
interventions, comments, or requests for rehearing, the public is
encouraged to contact OPP at (202) 502-6595 or [email protected].
You may also register online at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx to be notified via email of new filings and issuances
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
n. The applicant must file no later than 60 days following the date
of issuance of this notice: (1) a copy of the water quality
certification; (2) a copy of the request for certification, including
proof of the date on which the certifying agency received the request;
or (3) evidence of waiver of water quality certification. Please note
that the certification request must comply with 40 CFR 121.5(b),
including documentation that a pre-filing meeting request was submitted
to the certifying authority at least 30 days prior to submitting the
certification request. Please also note that the certification request
must be sent to the certifying authority and to the Commission
concurrently.
o. Procedural Schedule: The application will be processed according
to the following schedule. Revisions to the schedule will be made as
appropriate.
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Milestone Target date
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Deadline for Filing Comments, April 2024.
Recommendations, and Agency Terms and
Conditions/Prescriptions.
Licensee's Reply to REA Comments.......... May 2024.
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p. Final amendments to the application must be filed with the
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of this notice.
Dated: February 7, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-02921 Filed 2-12-24; 8:45 am]
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