[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 65 (Tuesday, April 6, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 17402]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-7702]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 12690-004]


Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, WA; Notice of 
Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 
Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications

March 31, 2010.
    On March 2, 2010, the Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish 
County, Washington, filed an application for a preliminary permit, 
pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), proposing to 
study the feasibility of the Admiralty Inlet Tidal Energy Project to be 
located in Admiralty Inlet in the northwestern portion of Puget Sound, 
between the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island, in Jefferson and 
Island Counties, Washington. The sole purpose of a preliminary permit, 
if issued, is to grant the permit holder priority to file a license 
application during the permit term. A preliminary permit does not 
authorize the permit holder to perform any land-disturbing activities 
or otherwise enter upon lands or waters owned by others without the 
owners' express permission.
    The proposed project will consist of the following: (1) Two 32.8-
foot-diameter, 500-kilowatt horizontal axis OpenHydro turbines, each 
mounted on a triangular subsea base; (2) two approximately 820-foot-
long service cables transmitting power from the turbines to a trunk 
cable; (3) an approximately 3,280-foot-long trunk cable, approximately 
half the length will be buried, corresponding from the 20-meter contour 
to shore; (4) a cable termination vault; (5) an approximately 265-foot-
long buried transmission conduit from the termination vault to the 
Power Conditioning and Control building (PC&C); (6) a PC&C building; 
(7) an approximately 460-foot-long, 3.3-kilovolt (kV) power cable 
bringing power from the PC&C building to the 12-kV Puget Sound Energy 
grid; and (8) appurtenant facilities.
    Applicant Contact: Steven Klein, General Manager, P.O. Box 1107, 
2320 California Street, Everett, WA 98206-110; phone: (425) 783-1000.
    FERC Contact: Jennifer Harper (202) 502-6136.
    Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing 
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file 
competing applications: 60 days from the issuance of this notice. 
Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements 
of 18 CFR 4.36. Comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and 
competing applications may be filed electronically via the Internet. 
See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's 
website (http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ferconline.asp) under the 
``eFiling'' link. For a simpler method of submitting text only 
comments, click on ``Quick Comment.'' For assistance, please contact 
FERC Online Support at [email protected]; call toll-free at 
(866) 208-3676; or, for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. Although the 
Commission strongly encourages electronic filing, documents may also be 
paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an original and eight copies to: 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
    More information about this project, including a copy of the 
application, can be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of 
Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. 
Enter the docket number (P-12690-004) in the docket number field to 
access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-7702 Filed 4-5-10; 8:45 am]
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