[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 49 (Monday, March 16, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11092-11093]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-5556]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 12576-004]


CRD Hydroelectric, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing 
With the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, and 
Establishing a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

March 9, 2009.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Original License.
    b. Project No.: 12576-004.
    c. Date Filed: February 24, 2009.
    d. Applicant: CRD Hydroelectric, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Red Rock Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Des Moines River, in Marion County, Iowa. The 
project would be located at U.S. Army Corps of Engineer facilities.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825 (r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Ms. Douglas A. Spaulding, Nelson Energy LLC, 
8441 Wayzata Blvd., Suite 101, Golden Valley, MN 55426; (952) 544-8133.
    i. FERC Contact: Timothy Konnert, [email protected], (202) 
502-6359.
    j. Cooperating Agencies: We are asking Federal, State, and local 
agencies and Indian tribes with jurisdiction and/or special expertise 
with respect to environmental issues to cooperate with

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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 l below. Cooperating agencies should 
note the Commission's policy that agencies that cooperate in the 
preparation of the environmental document cannot also intervene. See 94 
FERC ] 61,076 (2001).
    k. 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 a factual basis for complete analysis of the application on its 
merits, the resource agency, Indian tribe, or person must file a 
request for the study with the Commission no later than 60 days from 
the application filing date, and serve a copy of the request on the 
applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: April 27, 2009.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
Kimberly D. Bose, 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. The Commission strongly encourages 
electronic filing. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 
on the Commission's Web site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the 
``eFiling'' link. After logging into the eFiling system, select 
``Comment on Filing'' from the Filing Type Selection screen and 
continue with the filing process.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The proposed Red Rock Hydroelectric Project would be located at 
the existing U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Red Rock dam, which 
was constructed by the Corps in 1969 for flood control. The existing 
Corps facilities consist of: (1) A 110-foot-high, 6,260-foot-long 
earth-fill dam with a 241-foot-long gated ogee spillway equipped with 
five 45-foot-high tainter gates; and (2) a 15,253-acre reservoir at a 
normal conservation pool water surface elevation of 742.0 feet National 
Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
    The proposed project would utilize the head created by the existing 
Corps dam and consist of: (1) A new, approximately 127-foot-long by 19-
foot-wide intake structure connected to; (2) three new 19-foot-
diameter, approximately 211-foot-long penstocks passing through the 
left side of the spillway leading to; (3) a new 59-foot-long by 132-
foot-wide powerhouse located directly downstream of the existing 
spillway structure containing three new 12.13-megawatt (MW) generating 
units for a total generating capacity of 36.4 MW; (4) a new 
approximately 8.4-mile-long, 69-kilovolt transmission line; and (5) 
appurtenant facilities. The estimated average annual generation would 
be 158,000 megawatt hours.
    The project would be operated in run-of-river mode in that it would 
have no storage and only use flows released by the Corps in accordance 
with its present operations.
    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 ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the 
docket number, excluding the last three digits in the docket number 
filed to access the documents. 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.
    p. 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.
    q. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule. 
Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate. The Commission 
staff proposes to issue one environmental assessment rather than issue 
a draft and final EA. Comments, terms and conditions, recommendations, 
prescriptions, and reply comments, if any, will be addressed in an EA. 
Staff intends to give at least 30 days for entities to comment on the 
EA, and will take into consideration all comments received on the EA 
before final action is taken on the license application.
    Issue Acceptance or Deficiency Letter--May 2009.
    Issue Scoping Document--October 2009.
    Notice of application is ready for environmental analysis--January 
2010.
    Notice of the availability of the EA--November 2010.
    Final amendments: 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.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-5556 Filed 3-13-09; 8:45 am]
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