[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 11 (Tuesday, January 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2890-2891]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-1051]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and 
Soliciting Additional Study Requests

January 12, 1999.
    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.: 2056-016.
    c. Date filed: December 21, 1998.
    d. Applicant: Northern States Power Company.
    e. Name of Project: St. Anthony Falls Project.
    f. Location: On the Mississippi River, near Minneapolis and St. 
Paul, Hennepin County, Minnesota.
    g. Filed pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 USC Secs. 791(a)-
825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mark H. Holmberg, P.E., Northern States Power

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Company, 414 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55401, (612) 330-6568.
    i. FERC Contact: Any questions on this notice should be addressed 
to Monte TerHaar, E-mail address [email protected], or 
telephone: 202-219-2768.
    j. Deadline for filing additional study requests: March 2, 1999.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
David P. Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all 
intervenors filing documents with the Commission to serve a copy of 
that document on each person whose name appears 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. Status of environmental analysis: This application is not ready 
for environmental analysis at this time.
    l. Description of the Project: The Project consists of the 
following existing facilities located across from the U.S. Army Corps 
of Engineers Upper Saint Anthony Lock: (1) Horseshoe Dam, a 1,952-foot-
long concrete, timber, and rock structure topped with 1.6-foot-high 
wooden flashboards; (2) the main spillway, a concrete, timber and rock 
structure 425 feet wide and 150 feet-long; (3) a 340-foot-long roll 
dam; (4) a 358-acre reservoir with a normal pool water surface 
elevation of 799.2 feet NGVD, and a total storage capacity of 967 acre-
feet; (5) a concrete and masonry powerhouse, 133 feet long by 92 feet 
wide; (6) 5 turbines with a total installed capacity of 12,400 
kilowatts, and a maximum hydraulic capacity of 4,025 cfs, producing an 
average of 79,518 megawatthours annually; and (7) four 115-kilovolt 
primary transmission lines; and other appurtenances.
    m. Locations of the application: A copy of the application is 
available for inspection and reproduction at the Commission's Public 
Reference Room, located at 888 First Street, NE, Room 2A, Washington, 
D.C. 20426, or by calling (202) 208-1371. The application may be viewed 
on the web at www.ferc.fed.us. Call (202) 208-2222 for assistance. A 
copy is also available for inspection and reproduction at the address 
in item h above.
    n. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the State 
Historic Preservation Officer as required by Sec. 106, National 
Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of the Advisory Council 
on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR at 800.4.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-1051 Filed 1-15-99; 8:45 am]
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