[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 132-133]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-34036]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


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

December 28, 1999.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric applications have been 
filed with the Commission and are available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Applications: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 2030-031 and 11832-000.\1\
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    \1\ PGE and the Tribes are co-licensees for this project, to the 
extent of their interests. PGE is licensee for the Pelton 
Development, the Round Butte Development and the Reregulating Dam. 
The Tribes are licensee for the powerhouse, transmission line and 
appurtenances at the Reregulating Dam. PGE is applying for a new 
license for those portions of the project for which it is the 
licensee. The Tribes are applying for a new license for the entire 
project. PGE's new license application filed on December 16, 1999, 
will keep Project Number 2030 and the Tribes' new license 
application filed on December 17, 1999 has been assigned Project 
Number 11832.
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    c. Date filed: December 16, 1999, and December 17, 1999, 
respectively.
    d. Applicants: Portland General Electric Company and the 
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.
    e. Name of Project: Pelton Round Butte Project.
    f. Location: On the Deschutes River in Jefferson, Marion, and Wasco 
Counties, Oregon. The project is partially in Deschutes National Forest 
and the Crooked River National Grassland.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 USC 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Contact for PGE: Julie Keil, Director of Hydro Licensing and 
Water Rights, Portland General Electric Company, 121 SW Salmon Street, 
3WTC-BRHL, Portland, OR 97204, (503) 464-8864.
    i. Contact for the Tribes: James Manion, General Manager, Warm 
Springs Power Enterprises, P.O. Box 960, Warm Springs, OR 97761, (541) 
553-1046.
    j. FERC Contact: Hector Perez, [email protected], 202-219-
2843.
    k. Deadline for filing additional study requests: February 15, 
2000.
    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 
intervener 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 intervener 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.
    1. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    m. The Round Butte Development consists of: (1) the 440-foot-high, 
1,382-foot-long compacted rock-filled Round Butte Dam with a crest 
elevation of 1,955 feet above mean sea level (msl) with a spillway 
intake structure, a spillway tunnel and a modified flip bucket 
discharge; (2) Lake Billy Chinook with a gross storage capacity of 
535,000 acre-feet and a normal maximum water surface area of 4,000 
acres at normal maximum water elevation of 1,945 feet msl; (3) a 
powerhouse intake structure, with trashracks, on the left abutment 
about, 700 feet upstream from the dam; (4) a 23-foot-diameter, 1,425-
foot-long steel-lined power tunnel; (5) a reinforced concrete-encased 
steel bifurcation consisting of three 14-foot-diameter penstocks; (6) 
the Round Butte Powerhouse containing three turbine generator units 
with a total installed

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capacity of 300 megawatts (MW); (7) a tailrace channel; (8) a 100-mile-
long, 230-kV transmission line from the switchyard to PGE's Bethel 
Substation; (9) a 10.5-mile-long, 12.5-kV transmission line from the 
switchyard to the Reregulating Dam; and (10) other appurtenances.
    The Pelton Development consists of: (1) the 204-foot-high, 636-
foot-long thin-arch variable-radius reinforced concrete Pelton Dam with 
a crest elevation 1,585 feet msl; (2) a reinforced concrete spillway on 
the left bank with a crest elevation of 1,558 feet msl; (3) Lake 
Simtustus with a gross storage capacity of 31,000 acre-feet and a 
normal maximum surface area of 540 acres at normal maximum water 
surface elevation of 1,580 feet msl; (4) an intake structure at the 
dam; (5) three 16-foot-diameter penstocks, 107 feet long, 116 feet 
long, and 108 feet long, respectively; (6) a powerhouse with three 
turbine generator units with a total installed capacity of 108 MW; (7) 
a tailrace channel; (8) a 7.9-mile-long, 230-kV transmission line from 
the powerhouse to the Round Butte switchyard; and (9) other 
appurtenances.
    The Reregulating Development consists of: (1) the 88-foot-high, 
1,067-foot-long concrete gravity and impervious core rockfilled 
Reregulating Dam with a spillway crest elevation of 1,402 feet msl; (2) 
a reservoir with a gross storage capacity of 3,500 acre feet and a 
normal maximum water surface area of 190 acres at normal maximum water 
surface elevation of 1,435 feet msl; (3) a powerhouse at the dam 
containing a 18.9-MW turbine generator unit; (4) a tailrace channel; 
(5) a 3.2-mile-long, 69-kV transmission line from the development to 
the Warm Springs Substation; and (6) other appurtenances.
    n. Copies of the applications are 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 applications may be viewed on http://www.ferc.fed.us/
rims.htm (call (202) 208-2222 for assistance). Copies are also 
available for inspection and reproduction at the addresses in items h 
and i above.
    o. 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 Sec. 800.4.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-34036 Filed 12-30-99; 8:45 am]
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