Oglethorpe Power Corporation: Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments, 106471-106472 [2024-30864]
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Filed Date: 12/20/24.
Accession Number: 20241220–5237.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 1/10/25.
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Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 1/10/25.
The filings are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system (https://
elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/
fercgensearch.asp) by querying the
docket number.
Any person desiring to intervene, to
protest, or to answer a complaint in any
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: December 20, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024–31337 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. P–2725–076]
Oglethorpe Power Corporation: Notice
of Application Tendered for Filing With
the Commission and Soliciting
Additional Study Requests and
Establishing Procedural Schedule for
Licensing and a Deadline for
Submission of Final Amendments
Take notice that the following
hydroelectric application has been filed
with the Commission and is available
for public inspection.
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a. Type of Application: New Major
License.
b. Project No.: 2725–076.
c. Date filed: December 6, 2024.
d. Applicant: Oglethorpe Power
Corporation (OPC).
e. Name of Project: Rocky Mountain
Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On Heath Creek, in Floyd
County, Georgia.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Jeff Swartz,
Oglethorpe Power Corporation, Senior
Vice President of Plant Operations, 2100
East Exchange Place, Tucker, Georgia
30084, email at Jeff Swartz@opc.com.
i. FERC Contact: David Gandy at 202–
502–8560, or david.gandy@ferc.gov.
j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state,
local, and tribal agencies with
jurisdiction and/or special expertise
with respect to environmental issues
that wish to cooperate in the
preparation of the environmental
document should follow the
instructions for filing such requests
described in item l below. Cooperating
agencies should note the Commission’s
policy that agencies that cooperate in
the preparation of the environmental
document cannot also intervene. See, 94
FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001).
k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18
CFR of the Commission’s regulations, if
any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or
person believes that an additional
scientific study should be conducted in
order to form an adequate factual basis
for a complete analysis of the
application on its merit, the resource
agency, Indian Tribe, or person must file
a request for a study with the
Commission not later than 60 days from
the date of filing of the application, and
serve a copy of the request on the
applicant.
l. Deadline for filing additional study
requests and requests for cooperating
agency status: February 4, 2025.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. Please file additional
study requests and requests for
cooperating agency status using the
Commission’s eFiling system at https://
ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.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,
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.
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Reese, 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: Rocky Mountain Pumped Storage
Hydroelectric Project (P–2725–076).
m. The application is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
n. The Rocky Mountain Pumped
Storage Project consists of the following
existing facilities: (1) a 120-foot-high,
12,895-foot-long earth and rockfill
upper dam; (2) a 221 acre upper
reservoir with 10,650 acre-feet of storage
and a normal operating pool elevation of
1,392 feet NAVD88; (3) a 35-footdiameter, 567-foot-high concrete-lined
power shaft; (4) a 35-foot-diameter,
1,935-foot-long concrete lined tunnel
with two concrete lined bifurcations; (5)
three 19-foot-diameter, 470-foot-long
steel lined penstocks; (6) a 348-footlong, 156-foot-wide, 175-foot-high
powerhouse containing three reversible
Francis pump-turbines, with a
combined installed capacity of 904
megawatts; (7) three 230 kilovolt, 2.7mile-long transmission lines; (8) a
substation; and (9) appurtenant
facilities.
The project has reserve storage water
contained in two auxiliary pools
adjacent to the lower reservoir. Pool I’s
surface area is 400 acres and is formed
by four dams. The pool I dams consist
of: (a) a 25-foot-high earthen dam of
unspecified length; (b) a 20-foot-high,
775-foot-long earth and rockfill dam; (c)
a 50-foot-high, 700-foot-long earth and
rockfill dam; (d) a 50-foot-high, 405foot-long earth and rockfill dam. Pool II
surface area is 200 acres and is formed
by a 30-foot-high, 335-foot-long earth
and rockfill dam.
The Rocky Mountain Pumped Storage
Project is operated in a pumped storage
mode and OPC proposes to continue
operating the project in that mode.
o. 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 (P–2725). For assistance,
contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call
tollfree, (866) 208–3676 or (202) 502–
8659 (TTY).
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.
The Commission’s Office of Public
Participation (OPP) supports meaningful
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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.
p. Procedural schedule and final
amendments: The application will be
processed according to the following
preliminary schedule. Revisions to the
schedule will be made as appropriate.
Milestone
Target date
Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary).
Request for Additional Information.
Issue Notice of Acceptance ........
Issue Scoping Document 1 for
comments.
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if
necessary).
February 2025.
February 2025.
May 2025.
June 2025.
August 2025.
q. Final amendments to the
application must be filed with the
Commission no later than 30 days from
the issuance date of the notice of ready
for environmental analysis.
Dated: December 18, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024–30864 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket Nos. CP23–516–000; CP23–516–
001]
East Tennessee Natural Gas, LLC;
Notice of Availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Ridgeline Expansion
Project
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared a final
environmental impact statement (EIS)
for the Ridgeline Expansion Project
(Project), proposed by East Tennessee
Natural Gas, LLC (East Tennessee) in the
above-referenced docket. East Tennessee
requests authorization to construct and
operate 122.2 miles of 30-inch-diameter
natural gas pipeline and associated
facilities in Trousdale, Smith, Jackson,
Putnam, Overton, Fentress, Morgan, and
Roane Counties, Tennessee. The
purpose of the Project is to provide
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about 300,000 dekatherms per day of
new firm natural gas transportation
capacity and up to 95,000 dekatherms of
customized delivery service (i.e.,
peaking service) from multiple
providers to the site of Tennessee Valley
Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant.
The final EIS assesses the potential
environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the
Project in accordance with the
requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The
FERC staff concludes that approval of
the proposed Project would have some
limited adverse environmental effects;
however, with implementation of East
Tennessee’s impact avoidance,
minimization, and mitigation measures,
as well as adherence to the mitigation
measures recommended in the EIS,
these effects would be avoided,
mitigated, or reduced to less-thansignificant levels.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE), the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, and the National Park
Service participated as cooperating
agencies in the preparation of the EIS.
Cooperating agencies have jurisdiction
by law or special expertise with respect
to resources potentially affected by the
proposal and participate in the NEPA
analysis. The USACE will adopt and use
the EIS to consider the issuance of an
Individual Permit under section 404 of
the Clean Water Act. Although the
USACE provided input to the
conclusions and recommendations
presented in the final EIS, the USACE
will present its own conclusions and
recommendations in its Record of
Decision for the Project.
The final EIS addresses the potential
environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the
following Project facilities, all in the
State of Tennessee:
• 122.2 miles of 30-inch-diameter
pipeline in Trousdale, Smith, Jackson,
Putnam, Overton, Fentress, Morgan, and
Roane Counties, including 4.0 miles of
header pipeline and 118.2 miles of
mainline pipeline (collectively referred
to as the Mainline);
• a new 14,600-horsepower, electricdriven compressor station (Hartsville
Compressor Station) and an associated
solar array to partially power the facility
in Trousdale County;
• a new meter and regulating station
to receive gas from Columbia Gulf
Transmission, LLC in Trousdale County;
• modifications to two existing meter
and regulating stations to receive gas
from Texas Eastern Transmission, LP
and Midwestern Gas Transmission
Company in Trousdale County;
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. P-2725-076]
Oglethorpe Power Corporation: Notice of Application Tendered for
Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and a Deadline for
Submission of Final Amendments
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.: 2725-076.
c. Date filed: December 6, 2024.
d. Applicant: Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC).
e. Name of Project: Rocky Mountain Pumped Storage Hydroelectric
Project.
f. Location: On Heath Creek, in Floyd County, Georgia.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Jeff Swartz, Oglethorpe Power Corporation,
Senior Vice President of Plant Operations, 2100 East Exchange Place,
Tucker, Georgia 30084, email at Jeff [email protected].
i. FERC Contact: David Gandy at 202-502-8560, or
[email protected].
j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies
with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect to
environmental issues that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the
environmental document should follow the instructions for filing such
requests described in item l below. Cooperating agencies should note
the Commission's policy that agencies that cooperate in the preparation
of the environmental document cannot also intervene. See, 94 FERC ]
61,076 (2001).
k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 CFR of the Commission's
regulations, if any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person believes
that an additional scientific study should be conducted in order to
form an adequate factual basis for a complete analysis of the
application on its merit, the resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person
must file a request for a study with the Commission not later than 60
days from the date of filing of the application, and serve a copy of
the request on the applicant.
l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for
cooperating agency status: February 4, 2025.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status
using the Commission's eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.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, 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.
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Reese, 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: Rocky Mountain Pumped
Storage Hydroelectric Project (P-2725-076).
m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. The Rocky Mountain Pumped Storage Project consists of the
following existing facilities: (1) a 120-foot-high, 12,895-foot-long
earth and rockfill upper dam; (2) a 221 acre upper reservoir with
10,650 acre-feet of storage and a normal operating pool elevation of
1,392 feet NAVD88; (3) a 35-foot-diameter, 567-foot-high concrete-lined
power shaft; (4) a 35-foot-diameter, 1,935-foot-long concrete lined
tunnel with two concrete lined bifurcations; (5) three 19-foot-
diameter, 470-foot-long steel lined penstocks; (6) a 348-foot-long,
156-foot-wide, 175-foot-high powerhouse containing three reversible
Francis pump-turbines, with a combined installed capacity of 904
megawatts; (7) three 230 kilovolt, 2.7-mile-long transmission lines;
(8) a substation; and (9) appurtenant facilities.
The project has reserve storage water contained in two auxiliary
pools adjacent to the lower reservoir. Pool I's surface area is 400
acres and is formed by four dams. The pool I dams consist of: (a) a 25-
foot-high earthen dam of unspecified length; (b) a 20-foot-high, 775-
foot-long earth and rockfill dam; (c) a 50-foot-high, 700-foot-long
earth and rockfill dam; (d) a 50-foot-high, 405-foot-long earth and
rockfill dam. Pool II surface area is 200 acres and is formed by a 30-
foot-high, 335-foot-long earth and rockfill dam.
The Rocky Mountain Pumped Storage Project is operated in a pumped
storage mode and OPC proposes to continue operating the project in that
mode.
o. 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 (P-2725). For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support at [email protected] or call tollfree, (866)
208-3676 or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
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.
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].
p. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will
be processed according to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions
to the schedule will be made as appropriate.
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Milestone Target date
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Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary).. February 2025.
Request for Additional Information...... February 2025.
Issue Notice of Acceptance.............. May 2025.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments... June 2025.
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary). August 2025.
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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 the notice
of ready for environmental analysis.
Dated: December 18, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-30864 Filed 12-27-24; 8:45 am]
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