[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 13, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11353-11354]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-4480]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 67-113]


Southern California Edison Company; Notice of Application and 
Amended Preliminary Draft Environmental Assessment Tendered for Filing 
With the Commission, and Establishing Procedual Schedule for Licensing 
and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

March 7, 2007.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: New License for Major Project-Existing Dam.
    b. Project No.: P-67-113.
    c. Date Filed: February 23, 2007.
    d. Applicant: Southern California Edison Company.
    e. Name of Project: Big Creek Nos. 2A, 8 and Eastwood Power Station 
Hydroelectric Power Project.
    f. Location: The Big Creek Nos. 2A, 8 and Eastwood Hydroelectric 
Project is located in Fresno County, California near the town of Shaver 
Lake within the South Fork San Joaquin River, Big Creek, and Stevenson 
Creek watersheds. The project affects 2,143.25 acres of Federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Russ W. Krieger, Vice President, Power 
Production, Southern California Edison Company, 300 North Lone Hill 
Ave., San Dimas, California 91773. Phone: (909) 394-8667.
    i. FERC Contact: Jim Fargo, (202) 502-6095, or e-mail: 
[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. Agencies granted cooperating status will be precluded 
from being an intervenor in this proceeding consistent with the 
Commission's regulations.
    k. Deadline for requests for cooperating agency status: 60 days 
from the date of this notice. All documents (original and eight copies) 
should be filed with: Philis J. Posey, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 
Comments 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. After 
logging into the e-Filing system, select ``Comment on Filing'' from the 
Filing Type Selection screen and continue with the filing and process. 
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing.
    l. Status: This application has not been accepted for filing. We 
are not soliciting motions to intervene, protests, or final terms and 
conditions at this time.
    m. Description of Project: The existing Big Creek Nos. 2A, 8 and 
Eastwood Power Station Hydroelectric Power Project consists of two 
powerhouses and an underground power station; two major dams and 
reservoirs; five moderate-sized dams forming two forebays and three 
small diversion pools; eight small diversions; six water conveyance 
systems; and one transmission line. The project would have an average 
annual generation of 1,125,429 megawatt-hours.
     Powerhouses and powerstation (i) Big Creek Powerhouse No. 
2A with two turbine/generator units and a total dependable operating 
capacity of about 98.5 MW; (ii) Powerhouse No. 8 with two turbine/
generator units and a dependable operating capacity of about 64.5 MW; 
and (iii) Eastwood Power Station, with one turbine/pump/generator unit 
and a dependable operating capacity of about 207 MW.
     Major dams and reservoirs (i) Shaver Dam, forming Shaver 
Lake, which has a usable storage capacity of about 135,568 ac-ft, at an 
elevation of about 5,370 ft above mean sea level (msl); and (ii) 
Florence Dam, forming Florence Lake, which has a usable storage 
capacity of about 64,406 ac-ft, at an elevation of about 7,327 ft above 
msl.
     Moderate-sized dams, forebays and diversion pools (i) 
Balsam Forebay, with a usable storage capacity of about 1,547 ac-ft, at 
an elevation of about 6,670 ft above msl; (ii) Dam 5 Impoundment

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(Powerhouse 8 Forebay), with a usable storage capacity of 49 ac-ft, at 
an elevation of about 2,943 ft above msl; (iii) Pitman Diversion Pool, 
with a usable capacity of about 1 ac-ft, at an elevation of about 6,900 
ft above msl; (iv) Bear Diversion Pool, with a usable capacity of about 
103 ac-ft, at an elevation of about 7,350 ft above msl; and (v) Mono 
Diversion Pool, with a usable capacity of about 47 ac-ft, at an 
elevation of about 7,350 ft above msl.
     Small diversions (i) Hooper Creek Diversion, with a usable 
capacity of about 3 ac-ft, at an elevation of about 7,505 ft above msl; 
(ii) Bolsillo Creek Diversion, with a usable capacity of less than 1 
ac-ft, at an elevation of about 7,535 ft above msl; (iii) Chinquapin 
Creek Diversion, with a usable capacity of less than 1 ac-ft, at an 
elevation of about 7,629 ft above msl; (iv) Camp 62 Creek Diversion, 
with a usable capacity of less than 1 ac-ft, at an elevation of about 
7,307 ft above msl.
     Water conveyance systems (i) Ward Tunnel, about 12.8 miles 
long, conveys water from Florence Lake to Huntington Lake (Huntington 
Lake is a component of FERC Project No. 2175) and has a conveyance 
capacity of about 1,760 cubic feet per second (cfs). The tunnel 
receives water from Florence Lake, Mono Creek, Bear Creek, the small 
tributaries discussed above, and the East and West Forks of Camp 61 
Creek (via Portal Forebay, a component of the Portal Project, (FERC 
Project No. 2174); (ii) Mono-Bear Siphon, about 1.6 miles of flowline 
from Mono Diversion and 1.4 miles of flowline and tunnel from Bear 
Creek Diversion connect at the Mono-Bear Wye and continues for about 
2.6 miles through a combined flowline/siphon, conveys water from the 
Mono and Bear diversions to Ward Tunnel. The Mono Tunnel and Bear 
Tunnel have conveyance capacities of 450 cfs each and the combined 
flowline/siphon has a conveyance capacity of about 650 cfs; (iii) 
Huntington-Pitman-Shaver Conduit, also known as Tunnel No. 7, conveys 
water from Huntington Lake and the Pitman Creek Diversion to Shaver 
Lake through either North Fork Stevenson Creek or through Balsam 
Forebay and the Eastwood Power Station. Tunnel No. 7 is about 5.4 miles 
long and terminates at Gate No. 2 tunnel outlet located on North Fork 
Stevenson Creek upstream of Shaver Lake. The Balsam Diversion Tunnel is 
about 1.1 miles long and branches off Tunnel No. 7 about 1,200 ft 
upstream of the Gate No. 2 outlet, connecting to Balsam Forebay; (iv) 
Eastwood Power Station and Tailrace Tunnels, which convey water from 
Balsam Forebay through the Eastwood Power Station to Shaver Lake. The 
Eastwood Power Station Tunnel is about 1 mile long. The Tailrace Tunnel 
is about 1.4 miles long. The conveyance capacity of the tunnels is 
about 2,500 cfs. (v) Tunnel No. 5, about 2.6 miles long, conveys water 
from Shaver Lake to Big Creek Powerhouse No. 2A and has a conveyance 
capacity of about 650 cfs. (vi) Tunnel No. 8, about 1 mile long, 
conveys water from the Dam No. 5 Impoundment just downstream of 
Powerhouse 2/2A to Powerhouse No. 8, has a conveyance capacity of about 
1,173 cfs.
     Transmission line (i) Eastwood Power Station--Big Creek 1 
Transmission Line, which connects Eastwood Power Station to a non-
Project switchyard at Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1. This transmission 
line is about 4.7 miles long, and is a 220kV line.
    n. 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 three digits in the docket 
number field to access the document. For assistance, please contact 
FERC Online Support at [email protected] or toll free at (866) 
208-3676, or for TTY, contact (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.
    o. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the 
California State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by 
section 106, National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of 
the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4.
    p. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule. 
Revisions to the schedule will be made if the Commission determines it 
necessary to do so:

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             Milestone                          Tentative date
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Issue Acceptance/Deficiency Letter   June 2007.
 and request Additional
 Information, if needed.
Notice asking for final terms and    September 2007.
 conditions.
Notice of the availability of the    March 2008.
 draft EIS.
Notice of the availability of the    September 2008.
 final EIS.
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    Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the notice 
soliciting final terms and conditions.

Philis J. Posey,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-4480 Filed 3-12-07; 8:45 am]
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