[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 243 (Tuesday, December 18, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65201-65202]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31085]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission 
Soliciting Additional Study Requests and Establishing Procedures for 
Relicensing and a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

December 11, 2001.
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: P-401-027.
    c. Date Filed: September 14, 2001.
    d. Applicant: Indiana Michigan Power Company.
    e. Name of Project: Mottville Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the St. Joseph River, in Mottville Township, St. 
Joseph County, Michigan. The project does not affect Federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: J.F. Norris, Jr., American Electric Power 
Service Corporation, 1 Riverside Plaza, Columbus, OH 43215, (614) 223-
1700, or [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Lee Emery (202) 219-2778 or [email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing additional study requests: January 31, 2002.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
Linwood A. Watson, Jr., Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. Additional 
study requests may be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of 
paper. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(iii) and the instructions on the 
Commission's Web site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-filing'' 
link.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice require all interveners 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.
    k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    l. Description of Project: The existing Mottville Project consists 
of: (1) Two 17-foot high earth-filled embankments extending towards the 
center of the river from both riverbanks, (i) a west embankment that is 
140 feet long and has a crest width of 15 feet and extends to the 
powerhouse, (ii) an east embankment that is 365 feet long and has a 
crest width of 8 feet and extends from the east riverbank to the 
spillway; (2) a 237-foot long, reinforced concrete spillway with 10 
steel Taintor gates along the crest of the spillway, which are 
separated by 2.5-foot wide piers between Bays 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 
1.5-foot-wide piers between the remaining Bays, (i) Taintor gates are 
22 feet wide and 13 feet high in Bays 1 and 2 and 22 feet wide and 7.5 
feet high in Bays 3 through 10; (3) a combined powerhouse-intake 
structure, made of brick and concrete, that is 118 feet long, 28 feet 
wide, and 25 feet long; (4) 4 vertical shaft, single runner, propeller 
type generating units with an installed generating capacity of 420 kW 
each; (5) a 14.5-foot-long, 28-foot-wide, and 25-foot-long switchboard 
bay attached to the west end of the powerhouse; (6) a 50 horsepower, 
460-volt, 3-phase air bubbler system; (7) a 15-ton overhead traveling 
crane; (8) a 20-foot-wide stilling basin extending across the length of 
the spillway; (9) a 12-inch thick, reinforced concrete spillway apron; 
(10) an inoperable 4-foot-wide by 150-foot-long concrete fishway with a 
slope of about 25 percent; (11) sets of angled steel intake trashracks 
that are 3-feet 2-inches wide by 14-feet-high with 3/8-inch steel bars 
with 4-inch spacing between the bars; (12) a five-mile-long, 378-acre 
reservoir with a gross storage capacity of 2,900-acre-feet at the 
normal operating pool surface elevation of 770.4 NGVD; (13) a three 
phase, 2.4/34.5 kV transformer; and (14) other appurtenant facilities. 
The applicant estimates that the total average annual generation would 
be 7,800 MWh. All generated power is sold to Indiana Michigan Power 
Company's customers.
    m. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the 
MICHIGAN STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER (SHPO), as required by 
Sec. 106, National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of 
the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 36, C.F.R., at 800.4.
    n. A copy of the application is on file with the Commission and is 
available for public inspection. This filing may also be viewed on the 
Web at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``RIMS'' link--select ``Docket #'' 
and follow the instructions (call 202-208-2222 for assistance). A copy 
is also available for inspection and reproduction at the address in 
item h above.
    o. Pursuant to Sec. 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 the 
date set in paragraph j of this notice and serve a copy of the request 
on the applicant.
    p. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following milestones, some of which may 
be combined to expedite processing:

Notice of application has been accepted for filing
Notice of NEPA Scoping
Notice of application is ready for environmental analysis
Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission*

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Notice of the availability of the draft NEPA document
Notice of the availability of the final NEPA document
Order issuing the Commission's decision on the application

    * 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.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-31085 Filed 12-17-01; 8:45 am]
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