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of the above proceedings must file in
accordance with Rules 211, 214, or 206
of the Commission’s Regulations (18
CFR 385.211, 385.214, or 385.206) on or
before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the
specified comment date. Protests may be
considered, but 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.
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: June 17, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024–13801 Filed 6–21–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
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Northern States Power Company;
Notice of Application Accepted for
Filing, Soliciting Motions To Intervene
and Protests, 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: Subsequent
Minor License.
b. Project No.: 2444–042.
c. Date Filed: July 21, 2023.
d. Applicant: Northern States Power
Company (Northern States).
e. Name of Project: White River
Hydroelectric Project (project).
f. Location: On the White River in
Ashland and Bayfield Counties,
Wisconsin.
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g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Matthew
Miller, Environmental Analyst,
Northern States Power Company—
Wisconsin, 1414 W Hamilton Avenue,
P.O. Box 8, Eau Claire, WI 54702;
telephone at (715) 737–1353; email at
matthew.j.miller@xcelenergy.com.
i. FERC Contact: Nicholas Ettema,
Project Coordinator, Great Lakes Branch,
Division of Hydropower Licensing;
telephone at (312) 596–4447; email at
nicholas.ettema@ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing motions to
intervene and protests, 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 motions to
intervene and protests, 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. 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,
Acting 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, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins
Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852. All
filings must clearly identify the project
name and docket number on the first
page: White River Hydroelectric Project
(P–2444–042).
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
for filing and is now ready for
environmental analysis.
l. Project Description: The project
includes an approximately 782.3-foot-
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long earthen and concrete dam that
includes: (1) a 400-foot-long, 37-foothigh north earthen embankment; (2) a
22-foot-long, 37-foot-high concrete
intake structure equipped with an
approximately 16-foot-long, 20-foot-high
trashrack with 1.25-inch clear bar
spacing, and an approximately 16-footlong, 20-foot-high stoplog gate upstream
of the trashrack; (3) an approximately
60.3-foot-long, 35-foot-high concrete
gated spillway section that includes: (a)
a 25-foot-long, 19-foot-high bottom
Tainter gate and a 25-foot-long, 6-foothigh top Tainter gate; (b) a 4-foot-long
pier; and (c) a 25-foot-long, 26.5-foothigh Tainter gate; and (4) a 300-footlong, 37-foot-high south earthen
embankment. The dam creates an
impoundment that has a surface area of
39.9 acres at a normal elevation of 711.6
feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of
1929 (NGVD 29).
From the impoundment, water flows
through the intake structure to a 7-footdiameter, 1,345-foot-long concrete pipe
that conveys water to a 16-footdiameter, 62-foot-high steel surge tank
and two 30-foot-long steel penstocks.
The penstocks provide water to a 700kilowatt (kW) horizontal Francis
turbine-generator unit and a 500-kW
horizontal Francis turbine-generator
unit, for a total installed capacity of
1,200 kW. The turbine-generators are in
a 69-foot-long, 39-foot-wide concrete
and brick masonry powerhouse. Water
is discharged from the powerhouse to a
120-foot-long, 40-foot-wide tailrace. The
project creates an approximately 1,400foot-long bypassed reach of the White
River. A 4.5-foot-long, 1-foot-diameter
steel pipe conveys flow from the intake
structure to the bypassed reach
immediately downstream of the dam.
Project recreation facilities include:
(1) a boat access site and canoe portage
take-out site at the north embankment of
the dam; (2) an approximately 2,260foot-long canoe portage trail; (3) a canoe
put-in site approximately 90 feet
downstream of the powerhouse; and (4)
a tailrace fishing area.
Electricity generated at the project is
transmitted to the electric grid via a 220foot-long, 2.4-kilovolt (kV) transmission
line and a 2.4/69-kV step-up
transformer. The minimum and
maximum hydraulic capacities of the
powerhouse are 50 and 350 cfs,
respectively. The average annual energy
production of the project from 2017
through 2022, was 4,927 megawatthours.
The current license requires Northern
States to: (1) operate in a run-of-river
mode, such that outflow from the
project approximates inflow and the
impoundment is maintained at an
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elevation of 710.4 to 711.6 feet NGVD
29; (2) manage any non-emergency
drawdown so the reservoir drawdown
rate does not exceed 12 inches per 24
hours for the first 48 hours and 6 inches
per 24 hours after that; (3) release a
minimum flow of 16 cubic feet per
second (cfs) or inflow, whichever is less,
to the bypassed reach; and (4)
implement an operation compliance
monitoring plan, land management
plan, fly ash/cinders monitoring plan,
and purple loosestrife monitoring plan.
Northern States does not propose to
add any new project facilities. However,
Northern States proposes to revise the
project boundary around the
impoundment to follow a contour
elevation of 711.6 NGVD 29, which
would result in a reduction in the total
acreage of the project boundary
upstream of the dam from 76.5 to 39.9
acres. Additionally, Northern States
proposes the following changes to the
project boundary: (1) remove
approximately 38.8 acres of land north
of the project’s access road and
approximately 12 acres of land
northeast of the powerhouse; (2) add
approximately 0.3 acre of land
associated with the substation that
includes the project’s transformer; (3)
add approximately 0.6 acre of land
associated with the project’s access
road; (4) add approximately 1.3 acres of
water in the White River downstream of
the project; and (5) add approximately
0.3 acre of land east of the south earthen
embankment.
Northern States proposes to: (1)
continue operating the project in a runof-river mode and maintaining the
surface elevation of the impoundment
between 710.4 and 711.6 feet NGVD 29;
(2) continue releasing a minimum flow
of 16 cfs or inflow, whichever is less, to
the bypassed reach at all times; (3)
develop an operation compliance
monitoring plan; (4) conduct shoreline
erosion surveys every ten years; (5)
develop an invasive species monitoring
plan; (6) pass woody debris from the
impoundment to the bypassed reach; (7)
replace recreational signage; (8)
maintain project recreation facilities; (9)
protect bats by restricting building and
tree maintenance; (10) protect wood
turtles by restricting herbicide use; (11)
avoid vegetation management and
construction activities within 660 feet of
bald eagle nests during the nesting
season; and (12) develop a historic
properties management plan to protect
historic properties.
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
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the docket number field to access the
document (i.e., P–2444). For assistance,
contact FERC Online Support.
n. Anyone may submit comments, a
protest, or a motion to intervene in
accordance with the requirements of
Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR
385.210, .211, and .214. In determining
the appropriate action to take, the
Commission will consider all protests or
other comments 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 comments, protests, or
motions to intervene must be received
on or before the specified comment date
for the particular application.
All filings must (1) bear in all capital
letters the title ‘‘PROTEST,’’ ‘‘MOTION
TO INTERVENE,’’ ‘‘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 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.
A copy of any protest or motion to
intervene must be served upon each
representative of the applicant specified
in the particular application. A copy of
all other filings in reference to this
application 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/FERCOnline.
aspx to be notified via email of new
filings and issuances related to this or
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other pending projects. For assistance,
contact FERC Online Support.
o. 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.
p. Procedural Schedule: The
application will be processed according
to the following schedule. Revisions to
the schedule will be made as
appropriate.
Milestone
Target date
Filing of Comments, RecAugust 2024.
ommendations, Terms and
Conditions, and Prescriptions.
Filing of Reply Comments
September 2024.
q. Final amendments to the
application must be filed with the
Commission no later than 30 days from
the issuance date of this notice.
Dated: June 14, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2444-042]
Northern States Power Company; Notice of Application Accepted for
Filing, Soliciting Motions To Intervene and Protests, 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: Subsequent Minor License.
b. Project No.: 2444-042.
c. Date Filed: July 21, 2023.
d. Applicant: Northern States Power Company (Northern States).
e. Name of Project: White River Hydroelectric Project (project).
f. Location: On the White River in Ashland and Bayfield Counties,
Wisconsin.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Matthew Miller, Environmental Analyst,
Northern States Power Company--Wisconsin, 1414 W Hamilton Avenue, P.O.
Box 8, Eau Claire, WI 54702; telephone at (715) 737-1353; email at
[email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Nicholas Ettema, Project Coordinator, Great Lakes
Branch, Division of Hydropower Licensing; telephone at (312) 596-4447;
email at [email protected].
j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests, 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
motions to intervene and protests, 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. 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, Acting 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, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852. All filings must clearly
identify the project name and docket number on the first page: White
River Hydroelectric Project (P-2444-042).
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 for filing and is now ready
for environmental analysis.
l. Project Description: The project includes an approximately
782.3-foot-long earthen and concrete dam that includes: (1) a 400-foot-
long, 37-foot-high north earthen embankment; (2) a 22-foot-long, 37-
foot-high concrete intake structure equipped with an approximately 16-
foot-long, 20-foot-high trashrack with 1.25-inch clear bar spacing, and
an approximately 16-foot-long, 20-foot-high stoplog gate upstream of
the trashrack; (3) an approximately 60.3-foot-long, 35-foot-high
concrete gated spillway section that includes: (a) a 25-foot-long, 19-
foot-high bottom Tainter gate and a 25-foot-long, 6-foot-high top
Tainter gate; (b) a 4-foot-long pier; and (c) a 25-foot-long, 26.5-
foot-high Tainter gate; and (4) a 300-foot-long, 37-foot-high south
earthen embankment. The dam creates an impoundment that has a surface
area of 39.9 acres at a normal elevation of 711.6 feet National
Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29).
From the impoundment, water flows through the intake structure to a
7-foot-diameter, 1,345-foot-long concrete pipe that conveys water to a
16-foot-diameter, 62-foot-high steel surge tank and two 30-foot-long
steel penstocks. The penstocks provide water to a 700-kilowatt (kW)
horizontal Francis turbine-generator unit and a 500-kW horizontal
Francis turbine-generator unit, for a total installed capacity of 1,200
kW. The turbine-generators are in a 69-foot-long, 39-foot-wide concrete
and brick masonry powerhouse. Water is discharged from the powerhouse
to a 120-foot-long, 40-foot-wide tailrace. The project creates an
approximately 1,400-foot-long bypassed reach of the White River. A 4.5-
foot-long, 1-foot-diameter steel pipe conveys flow from the intake
structure to the bypassed reach immediately downstream of the dam.
Project recreation facilities include: (1) a boat access site and
canoe portage take-out site at the north embankment of the dam; (2) an
approximately 2,260-foot-long canoe portage trail; (3) a canoe put-in
site approximately 90 feet downstream of the powerhouse; and (4) a
tailrace fishing area.
Electricity generated at the project is transmitted to the electric
grid via a 220-foot-long, 2.4-kilovolt (kV) transmission line and a
2.4/69-kV step-up transformer. The minimum and maximum hydraulic
capacities of the powerhouse are 50 and 350 cfs, respectively. The
average annual energy production of the project from 2017 through 2022,
was 4,927 megawatt-hours.
The current license requires Northern States to: (1) operate in a
run-of-river mode, such that outflow from the project approximates
inflow and the impoundment is maintained at an
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elevation of 710.4 to 711.6 feet NGVD 29; (2) manage any non-emergency
drawdown so the reservoir drawdown rate does not exceed 12 inches per
24 hours for the first 48 hours and 6 inches per 24 hours after that;
(3) release a minimum flow of 16 cubic feet per second (cfs) or inflow,
whichever is less, to the bypassed reach; and (4) implement an
operation compliance monitoring plan, land management plan, fly ash/
cinders monitoring plan, and purple loosestrife monitoring plan.
Northern States does not propose to add any new project facilities.
However, Northern States proposes to revise the project boundary around
the impoundment to follow a contour elevation of 711.6 NGVD 29, which
would result in a reduction in the total acreage of the project
boundary upstream of the dam from 76.5 to 39.9 acres. Additionally,
Northern States proposes the following changes to the project boundary:
(1) remove approximately 38.8 acres of land north of the project's
access road and approximately 12 acres of land northeast of the
powerhouse; (2) add approximately 0.3 acre of land associated with the
substation that includes the project's transformer; (3) add
approximately 0.6 acre of land associated with the project's access
road; (4) add approximately 1.3 acres of water in the White River
downstream of the project; and (5) add approximately 0.3 acre of land
east of the south earthen embankment.
Northern States proposes to: (1) continue operating the project in
a run-of-river mode and maintaining the surface elevation of the
impoundment between 710.4 and 711.6 feet NGVD 29; (2) continue
releasing a minimum flow of 16 cfs or inflow, whichever is less, to the
bypassed reach at all times; (3) develop an operation compliance
monitoring plan; (4) conduct shoreline erosion surveys every ten years;
(5) develop an invasive species monitoring plan; (6) pass woody debris
from the impoundment to the bypassed reach; (7) replace recreational
signage; (8) maintain project recreation facilities; (9) protect bats
by restricting building and tree maintenance; (10) protect wood turtles
by restricting herbicide use; (11) avoid vegetation management and
construction activities within 660 feet of bald eagle nests during the
nesting season; and (12) develop a historic properties management plan
to protect historic properties.
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 (i.e., P-2444). For assistance, contact
FERC Online Support.
n. Anyone may submit comments, a protest, or a motion to intervene
in accordance with the requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedure,
18 CFR 385.210, .211, and .214. In determining the appropriate action
to take, the Commission will consider all protests or other comments
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
comments, protests, or motions to intervene must be received on or
before the specified comment date for the particular application.
All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title
``PROTEST,'' ``MOTION TO INTERVENE,'' ``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 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. A copy of any protest or motion to intervene must
be served upon each representative of the applicant specified in the
particular application. A copy of all other filings in reference to
this application 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.
o. 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.
p. 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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Filing of Comments, Recommendations, August 2024.
Terms and Conditions, and
Prescriptions.
Filing of Reply Comments September 2024.
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q. Final amendments to the application must be filed with the
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of this notice.
Dated: June 14, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-13720 Filed 6-21-24; 8:45 am]
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