[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 89 (Monday, May 11, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21792-21793]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-10845]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 12737-002]


Jordan Limited Partnership; Notice of Application Tendered for 
Filing With the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, and 
Establishing Procedual Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for 
Submission of Final Amendments

May 4, 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.: P-12737-002.
    c. Date Filed: April 16, 2009.
    d. Applicant: Jordan Limited Partnership.
    e. Name of Project: Gathright Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: The project would be located at the existing Corps of 
Engineer's Gathright Dam on the Jackson River in Alleghany County, 
Virginia. The project will affect approximately 3.7 acres of Federal 
lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. James B. Price, W.V. Hydro, Inc., P.O. 
Box 903, Gatlinburg TN 37738, (865) 436-0402.
    i. FERC Contact: Michael Spencer, (202) 502-6093.
    j. Cooperating Agencies: Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies 
with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect to 
environmental issues that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the 
environmental document should follow the instructions for filing such 
requests 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 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 than 60 
days from the date of this notice, and serve a copy of the request on 
the applicant.

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    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: June 29, 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 and requests for cooperating agency 
status 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 
at (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``eFiling'' link. For a simpler 
method of submitting text only comments, click on ``Quick Comment.''
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Description of Project: The Gathright Project would use the 
Corps of Engineer's existing Gathright Dam and reservoir and would 
consist of: (1) Two vertical steel modules attached to the upstream 
face of the intake tower in the stop log slot containing four 
generating units with a total installed capacity of 3.7 MW; (2) 4,160 
Volt cables both fixed and flexible from the generators to the top of 
the intake tower and then by a fixed conduit transmitting the power 
generated to; (3) a substation located beside the service bridge near 
the top of the dam; and (4) a new 1.24-mile-long, 46-kV transmission 
line. The project would have an average annual generation of about 
17,500 megawatt-hours.
    o. 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]v 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.
    p. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the 
Illinois 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.
    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 Scoping Document for comment.....  October 2009.
Notice of application ready for          March 2010.
 environmental analysis.
Notice of the availability of the draft  June 2010.
 EA.
Notice of the availability of the final  September 2010.
 EA.
 

    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. E9-10845 Filed 5-8-09; 8:45 am]
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