[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 76 (Tuesday, April 20, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21096-21097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-874]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 12187-000]


Price Dam Partnership, LTD; Notice of Intent To Prepare an 
Environmental Assessment and Notice of Scoping and Soliciting Scoping 
Comments

April 13, 2004.
    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.: 12187-000.
    c. Date filed: June 3, 2002.
    d. Applicant: Price Dam Partnership, LTD.
    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

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Engineers (Corps) Melvin Price Locks & Dam and the nearby Illinois 
shoreline of the Mississippi River and would affect a portion of 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).
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. James B. Price; Price Dam Partnership 
LTD; P.O. Box 5550; Aiken, SC 29804-5550; (803) 642-5581.
    i. FERC Contact: Lee Emery, (202) 502-9379 or [email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: 45 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. Please indicate the project 
number (P-12187) on any comments or motions filed.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure 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.
    Scoping comments 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 is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    l. 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 a 
Ameren, Incorporated substation; and (13) 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 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/
esuscribenow.htm 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. Scoping Process: The Commission intends to prepare a single 
Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed project in accordance 
with the National Environmental Policy Act. The EA will consider both 
site-specific and cumulative environmental impacts and reasonable 
alternatives to the proposed action.
    The Commission staff does not propose to conduct any on-site 
scoping meetings at this time. Instead, we will conduct paper scoping 
by soliciting comments, recommendations, information, and alternatives 
by issuing a Scoping Document (SD).
    Copies of the SD outlining the subject areas to be addressed in the 
EA were distributed to the parties on the Commission's mailing list. 
Copies of the SD may be viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.gov using 
the ``eLibrary'' link.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E4-874 Filed 4-19-04; 8:45 am]
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