[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 126 (Monday, July 1, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44194-44195]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-16488]


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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

June 25, 2002.
    a. Type of Application: Original Major License.
    b. Project No.: P-12187-000.
    c. Date Filed: June 3, 2002.
    d. Applicant: Price Dam Partnership, Limited.
    e. Name of Project: Price Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Mississippi River, in the city of Alton, Wood 
River Township, Madison County, Illinois. The project would be 
constructed on the U.S. Corps of Engineers (Corps) Melvin Price Locks & 
Dam and the nearby Illinois shoreline of the Mississippi River and 
would affect 7.8 acres of federal lands (including Federal Corps 
property between Piers 1 to 11 at the dam and a portion of the Illinois 
shoreline for the transmission line).
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. Secs. 791(a)-
825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: James B. Price, W.V. Hydro, Inc., P.O. Box 
903, Gatlinburg, TN 37738, (865) 436-0402, or [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Lee Emery (202) 219-2778 or [email protected].
    j. Cooperating agencies: We are asking Federal, state, local, and 
tribal agencies with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect 
to environmental issues to cooperate with us in the preparation of the 
environmental document. Agencies who would like to request cooperating 
status should follow the instructions for filing comments described in 
item k below.
    k. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: July 30, 2002.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. Comments, protests and 
interventions may be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of 
paper; see 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the 
Commission's web site 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.
    Additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency 
status may be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. 
See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's 
web site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-Filing'' link.
    l. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    m. Description of Project: The proposed Price Dam Project would use 
the Melvin Price Locks & Dam and reservoir, and would consist of the 
following facilities: (1) 192 portable, turbine/generator units grouped 
in six steel modules 108.9 feet long by 26.2 feet wide by 44.0 feet 
high, (a) each module contains 32 turbine/generator sets (two 
horizontal rows of 16 units each) installed in six stoplog slots on 
adjacent piers upstream from the nine existing Taintor gate bays in the 
dam, and (b) each turbine/generator unit includes a 550 kilowatt bulb-
type generator, a fixed-blade propeller turbine, and a single draft 
tube for each two turbine/generating units; (2) six flexible power 
cables, each connecting the six, 32 turbine/generator sets to six 7.2 
kilovolt (kV) transformer and breaker sets on an adjacent pier; (3) 
lifting access columns at the end of each module; (4) six air-operated 
spillway gates, 7 feet high by 96 feet long, installed on top of each 
module with each gate containing an inflatable rubber

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bladder; (5) a hallway housing the station service transformer, motor 
control center, and control system; (8) a slave terminal at the 
lockmaster's office and a control station located on the dam 
superstructure; (9) a 6.9-kV/138-kV step-up transformer located on a 
platform on the dam axis at elevation 479 feet National Geodetic 
Vertical Datum; (10) a mobile, 1,000 metric ton crane with an auxiliary 
crane riding on top of the module crane; these cranes would lower and 
raise the power modules and operate the trash rake; (11) a fish bypass 
on each module; (12) a trashrack assembly with a two-inch clear spacing 
between the bars, and a crane-operated trash rake; (13) a 500-kilowatt 
generator; (14) a 0.9-mile-long, 138-kV transmission line connecting 
the project power to the Mississippi Substation of Ameren, 
Incorporated; (15) an auxiliary building; and (16) appurtenant 
facilities. The average annual generation is estimated to be 319,000 
megawatt-hours. All generated power would be sold to a local utility 
connected to the grid.
    n. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the 
ILLINOIS HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER (SHPO), as required by Sec. 106, 
National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of the Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4.
    o. 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.
    p. 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 July 30, 
2002, and serve a copy of the request on the applicant.
    q. Procedural schedule: 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 (unless scoping has already occurred)
Notice of application is ready for environmental analysis
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

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-16488 Filed 6-28-02; 8:45 am]
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