[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 109 (Tuesday, June 8, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32451-32453]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13564]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY



Federal Energy Regulatory Commission



[Project No. 12713-002]




Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC; Notice of Application Accepted for 

Filing, Ready for Environmental Analysis, and Soliciting Motions To 

Intervene and Protests, Comments, Terms and Conditions, 

Recommendations, and Prescriptions



June 1, 2010.

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 

filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.

    a. Type of Filing: Original Minor License.

    b. Project No.: 12713-002.

    c. Dated Filed: February 1, 2010.

    d. Applicant: Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC.

    e. Name of Project: Reedsport OPT Wave Park.

    f. Location: Pacific Ocean in state waters about 2.5 miles off the 

coast near Reedsport, in Douglas County, Oregon. The project would 

occupy about 5 acres of federal lands in the Siuslaw National Forest 

(Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area).

    g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 4.61 of the Commission's regulations.

    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Philip Pellegrino, Reedsport OPT Wave 

Park, LLC, 1590 Reed Road, Pennington, New Jersey 08534; (609) 730-

0400.

    i. FERC Contact: Jim Hastreiter at (503) 552-2760 or 

[email protected].

    j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests, comments, 

terms



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and conditions, recommendations, and prescriptions: 90 days from the 

issuance of this notice. All reply comments must be filed with the 

Commission within 135 days from the date of this notice.

    All documents may be filed electronically via the Internet. See 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web 

site (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.

    The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors filing 

documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each 

person on the official service list for the project. Further, if an 

intervenor files comments or documents with the Commission relating to 

the merits of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a 

particular resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document 

on that resource agency.

    k. This application has been accepted for filing and is now ready 

for environmental analysis.

    l. Project description: The project facilities would include 10 

PowerBuoy wave-powered generating units attached to seabed anchors, 

tendon lines, subsurface floats, and catenary mooring lines. The 

PowerBuoy units would be deployed in an array of three to four rows, 

approximately in a SW-NE orientation, and would occupy about 0.25 

square mile of the Pacific Ocean. Each PowerBuoy would have a maximum 

diameter of 36 feet, extend 29.5 feet above the water surface, and have 

a draft of 115 feet.

    A power/fiber optic cable would exit the bottom of each PowerBuoy, 

descending to the seabed in a lazy ``S'' shape with subsurface floats 

attached to the cable and a clump weight at the seabed. The 10 

PowerBuoy units would be connected to a single Underwater Substation 

Pod (USP) via power/fiber-optic lines. The USP would be about 6 feet in 

diameter and 15 feet in length, and would rest on the seabed below the 

PowerBuoys, held in place with pre-cured concrete ballast blocks. A 

submarine transmission cable, buried in the seabed to a depth of 3 to 6 

feet, would extend from the USP to an existing wastewater discharge 

pipe. The submarine cable would extend through the wastewater pipe to 

an underground vault, which would be constructed at the existing turn-

around at the end of Sparrow Park Road, immediately inland of the sand 

dunes. At the vault, the subsea transmission cable would exit the 

effluent pipe, transition to an underground cable, and reenter the 

effluent pipe.

    The underground transmission cable would continue within the 

effluent pipe eastward for approximately 3 miles, where it would 

connect to the Douglas Electric Cooperative transmission line at a 

proposed shore station. The shore station would consist of a 100- to 

200-square foot building.

    m. A copy of the license application is available for review at the 

Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the 

Commission's Web site (http://www.ferc.gov), using the ``eLibrary'' 

link. Enter the docket number, excluding the last three digits in the 

docket number field to access the document (P-12713). For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support at [email protected] or toll free 

at 1-866-208-3676, of for TTY, (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available 

for inspection and reproduction at the address in paragraph i.

    Register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via e-mail of new filing and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support.

    n. Any qualified applicant desiring to file a competing application 

must submit to the Commission, on or before the specified intervention 

deadline date, a competing development application, or a notice of 

intent to file such an application. Submission of a timely notice of 

intent allows an interested person to file the competing development 

application no later than 120 days after the specified intervention 

deadline date. Applications for preliminary permits will not be 

accepted in response to this notice.

    A notice of intent must specify the exact name, business address, 

and telephone number of the prospective applicant, and must include an 

unequivocal statement of intent to submit a development application. A 

notice of intent must be served on the applicant(s) named in this 

public notice.

    Anyone may submit comments, a protest, or a motion to intervene in 

accordance with the requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 

CFR 385.210, .211, .214. In determining the appropriate action to take, 

the Commission will consider all protests or other comments filed, but 

only those who file a motion to intervene in accordance with the 

Commission's Rules may become a party to the proceeding. Any comments, 

protests, or motions to intervene must be received on or before the 

specified comment date for the particular application.

    All filings must (1) Bear in all capital letters the title 

``PROTEST'', ``MOTION TO INTERVENE'', ``NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE 

COMPETING APPLICATION,'' ``COMPETING APPLICATION,'' ``COMMENTS,'' 

``REPLY COMMENTS,'' ``RECOMMENDATIONS,'' ``TERMS AND CONDITIONS,'' or 

``PRESCRIPTIONS;'' (2) set forth in the heading the name of the 

applicant and the project number of the application to which the filing 

responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone number of the 

person protesting or intervening; and (4) otherwise comply with the 

requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. All comments, 

recommendations, terms and conditions or prescriptions must set forth 

their evidentiary basis and otherwise comply with the requirements of 

18 CFR 4.34(b). Agencies may obtain copies of the application directly 

from the applicant. A copy of any protest or motion to intervene must 

be served upon each representative of the applicant specified in the 

particular application. A copy of all other filings in reference to 

this application must be accompanied by proof of service on all persons 

listed in the service list prepared by the Commission in this 

proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b) and 385.2010.

    o. 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 file such within 90 days from issuance of 

this notice. 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).

    p. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the Oregon 

State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by 106, 

National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR, at 800.4.

    q. Procedural Schedule: The application will be processed according 

to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the schedule 

will be made as appropriate.



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                 Milestone                           Target date

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Notice of Acceptance and Ready for           June 1, 2010.

 Environmental Analysis.

Filing comments, recommendations,            August 30, 2010.

 preliminary terms and conditions, and

 fishway prescriptions.

Reply comments.............................  October 14, 2010.

Notice of availability of Final EA.........  November 15, 2010.

Comments on EA.............................  January 14, 2011.

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Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 2010-13564 Filed 6-7-10; 8:45 am]

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