[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 227 (Friday, November 27, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62294-62295]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-28390]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 13613-000]


Coastal Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Competing Preliminary Permit 
Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments and Motions To 
Intervene

November 20, 2009.
    On November 2, 2009, Coastal Hydropower, LLC, filed an application, 
pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, proposing to study 
the feasibility of the Menasha-Neenah Hydroelectric Project, to be 
located on the Fox River, in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. The proposed 
Menasha-Neenah Project would be located at the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers (Corps) Fox River Menasha Locks Dam near Menasha, Wisconsin 
and at the Neenah Paper Company's Neenah Dam near Neenah, Wisconsin.
    Coastal Hydropower, LLC, permit application is filed in competition 
with Lock+TM Hydro Friends Fund XXVII, LLC's proposed Redd Foxx 
Hydroelectric Project No. 13533-000, which was publicly noticed 
September 4, 2009. The deadline for filing competing applications was 
November 4, 2009. Coastal Hydropower's competing permit application is 
timely filed.
    The proposed project would consist of: (1) Modifying the fixed weir 
section of Menasha Locks Dam to incorporate eight very low head (VLH) 
turbine-generators with a total installed capacity of about 4 megawatts 
(MW); (2) a new 300-foot-long transmission line (TL) which would 
deliver power from the turbines at Menasha Locks Dam to a tie-in at an 
existing overhead 12.0 kilovolt (kV) TL owned by Menasha Public Works 
and located along Anhaip Street in Menasha, Wisconsin; (3) modifying 
the spillway of Neenah Dam to install four VLH turbine-generators with 
a total installed capacity of about 2 MW; (4) a new 700-foot-long TL, 
which would deliver power from the turbines at Neenah Dam to a tie-in 
with an existing underground 12.0 kV TL owned by We Energies located at 
W. Wisconsin Avenue in Neenah, Wisconsin; and (5) appurtenant 
facilities. The Menasha-Neenah Project would have an estimated average 
annual generation of about 31.5 gigawatt-hours, which would be sold to 
a local utility.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. Neil Anderson, Coastal Hydropower, LLC, Key 
Centre, 601 108th Avenue, NE., Suite 1900, Bellevue, WA 98004, 452-943-
7690.
    FERC Contact: John Ramer, (202) 502-8969.
    Deadline for filing comments and motions to intervene: 60 days from 
the issuance of this notice. Comments and motions to intervene may be 
filed electronically via the Internet. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) 
and the instructions on the Commission's Web site under the ``e-
Filing'' link. If unable to be filed electronically, documents may be 
paper-filed. To paper-file, an original and eight copies should be 
mailed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. For more 
information on how to submit these types of filings please go to the 
Commission's Web site located at http://www.ferc.gov/filing-comments.asp. More information about this project can be viewed or 
printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number (P-
13613) in the docket number field to access the document.

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For assistance, call toll-free 1-866-208-3372.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-28390 Filed 11-25-09; 8:45 am]
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