[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 191 (Thursday, October 2, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56832-56834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-24888]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. P-12187-000]


Notice of Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Motions 
To Intervene and Protest

September 24, 2003.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Original Major License.
    b. Project No.: P-12187-000.
    c. Date Filed: June 03, 2002.
    d. Applicant: Price Dam Partnership, Limited.
    e. Name of Project: Price Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: Located on the Mississippi River in city of Alton, 
Wood River Township, Madison County, Illinois. The proposed 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 a portion of the 7.8 acres of federal lands 
(including six of the nine existing gate bays in the dam and a portion 
of the Illinois shoreline for the construction of a proposed 
transmission line and a proposed Control/Storage building).
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. James B. Price, WV Hydro, Inc., P.O. Box 
903, Gatlinburg, TN 37738 (865) 436-0402.
    i. FERC Contact: Lee Emery, (202) 502-8379 or e-mail 
[email protected].

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    j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protest: 60 days 
from the issuance date of this notice.
    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.
    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 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.
    Motions to intervene and protests may be filed electronically via 
the Internet in lieu of paper. The Commission strongly encourages 
electronic filings. 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.
    k. This application has been accepted for filing, but is not ready 
for environmental analysis at this time.
    l. Description of Project: The proposed Price Dam Project would use 
the U.S. Corps of Engineers' Melvin Price Locks & Dam and Reservoir, 
and would consist of the following facilities: (1) 192 individual, 
turbine/generator units grouped in six moveable 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) that 
will be installed in stoplog slots on adjacent piers upstream from the 
Taintor gates, 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) 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 bladder; (5) a 
hallway housing the station service transformer, motor control center, 
and control system; (6) a slave terminal at the lockmaster's office and 
a control station located on the dam superstructure; (7) 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; (8) a mobile, 
1,000 metric ton crane with an auxiliary crane riding on top of the 
module cranes' lifting beam; these cranes would lower and raise the 
power modules and operate the trash rake; (9) a fish bypass on each 
module; (10) a trashrack assembly with a two-inch clear spacing between 
the bars, and a crane-operated trash rake; (11) a 500-kilowatt 
generator; (12) a 0.8-mile-long, 138-kV transmission line connecting 
the project power to the Mississippi Substation of Ameren, 
Incorporated; (13) an auxiliary Control/Storage building; and (14) 
appurtenant facilities. The average annual generation is estimated to 
be 319,000 megawatt-hours and have an installed generating capacity of 
92 megawatts (MW). All generated power would be sold to a local utility 
connected to the grid.
    m. A copy of the application is available for review at the 
Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the 
Commission's Web site at http://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. For assistance, contact 
FERC Online Support at [email protected] or toll-free at 1-
866-208-3676, or for TTY, (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available for 
inspection and reproduction at the address in item h. above.
    You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov /docs-filing/
esubscription.asp to be notified via e-mail of new filings and 
issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, 
contact FERC Online Support.
    n. Any qualified applicant desiring to file a competing application 
must submit to the Commission, on or before the specified deadline date 
for the particular application, a competing development application, or 
a notice of intent to file such an application. Submission of a timely 
notice of intent allows an interested person to file the competing 
development application no later than 120 days after the specified 
deadline date for the particular application. Applications for 
preliminary permits will not be accepted in response to this notice.
    A notice of intent must specify the exact name, business address, 
and telephone number of the prospective applicant, and must include an 
unequivocal statement of intent to submit, if such an application may 
be filed, either a preliminary permit application or a development 
application (specify which type of application). A notice of intent 
must be served on the applicant(s) named in this public notice.
    Anyone may submit a protest or a motion to intervene in accordance 
with the requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 
385.210, 385.211, and 385.214. In determining the appropriate action to 
take, the Commission will consider all protests filed, but only those 
who file a motion to intervene in accordance with the Commission's 
Rules may become a party to the proceeding. Any protests or motions to 
intervene must be received on or before the specified deadline date for 
the particular application.
    When the application is ready for environmental analysis, the 
Commission will issue a public notice requesting comments, 
recommendations, terms and conditions, or prescriptions.
    All filings must (1) Bear in all capital letters the title 
``PROTEST'' or ``MOTION TO INTERVENE,'' ``NOTICEOF INTENT TO FILE 
COMPETING APPLICATION,'or ``COMPETING APPLICATION;'' (2) set forth in 
the heading the name of the applicant and the project number of the 
application to which the filing responds; (3) furnish the name, 
address, and telephone number of the person protesting or intervening; 
and (4) otherwise comply with the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 
through 385.2005. Agencies may obtain copies of the application 
directly from the applicant. A copy of any protest or motion to 
intervene must be served upon each representative of the applicant 
specified in the particular application.
    o. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the schedule 
will be made as appropriate.
    Notice of Application Accepted For Filing and Soliciting: September 
2003.
    Motions To Intervene And Protests Issue Scoping Document: January 
2004.
    Notice Application Ready For EA (REA) and Soliciting: April 2004.

Comments and Recommendations

    Notice Of The Availability Of The EA: October 2004.
    Order Issuing The Commission's Decision on the Application: January 
2005.
    Unless substantial comments are received in response to the EA, 
staff intends to prepare a single EA in this case. If substantial 
comments are received in response to the EA, a final EA will be 
prepared with the following modifications to the schedule.
    Notice of the Availability of the EA: December 2004.

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    Order issuing the Commission's decision on the application: 
February 2005.

Magalie R. Salas
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-24888 Filed 10-1-03; 8:45 am]
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