[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 199 (Friday, October 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63914-63915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-26600]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2305-036]


Sabine River Authority of Texas and Sabine River Authority, State 
of Louisiana; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the 
Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and 
Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 2305-036.
    c. Date Filed: September 30, 2011.
    d. Applicant: Sabine River Authority of Texas and Sabine River 
Authority, State of Louisiana (Sabine River Authorities).
    e. Name of Project: Toledo Bend Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Sabine River, affecting lands and waters in 
Panola, Shelby, Sabine, and Newton Counties, Texas, and De Soto, 
Sabine, and Vernon Parishes, Louisiana. The project occupies about 
3,600 acres of United States lands under the jurisdiction of the Forest 
Service.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact:

Mr. Melvin T. Swoboda, Licensing Manager, Toledo Bend Project Joint 
Operation, P.O. Box 579, Orange, Texas 77631-0579, 409-746-2192; 
[email protected].
Mr. Jerry L. Clark, General Manager, Sabine River Authority of Texas, 
P.O. Box 579, Orange, Texas 77631-0579. 409-746-2192; [email protected]

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Mr. James Pratt, Executive Director, Sabine River Authority, State of 
Louisiana, 15091 Texas Highway, Many, Louisiana 71449-5718, 318-256-
4112; [email protected].
Mr. Charles R. Sensiba, Van Ness Feldman, P.C., 1050 Thomas Jefferson 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20007, 202-298-1800.

    i. FERC Contact: Alan Mitchnick at (202) 502-6074 or e-mail at 
[email protected].
    j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    k. The Project Description: The existing Toledo Bend Project 
(figure 2) consists of: (1) A rolled, earth-fill embankment, 
approximately 11,250 feet long (including saddle dikes) with a top 
width of 25 feet and maximum height of approximately 112 feet; (2) an 
approximately 185,000-surface acre, 85-mile-long reservoir, with an 
active storage capacity of 4,477,000 acre-feet at full pool (172 feet) 
and 1,200 miles of shoreline; (3) a 838-foot-long spillway located 
along the north dam abutment in Louisiana, comprised of a concrete, 
gravity-type, gated weir with a concrete chute and stilling basin and a 
discharge channel on the left abutment with eleven 40-foot by 28-foot 
tainter gates; (4) a 80-foot-wide, 55-foot-high powerhouse located in 
the right abutment, containing two vertical Kaplan turbines with an 
authorized installed capacity of 81 megawatts (MW); and (5) a 220-foot-
long, concrete tailrace segment leading into a 2-mile-long, excavated 
channel that eventually merges with the Sabine River; (6) a 138-
kilovolt, primary transmission line leading from the powerhouse to the 
project switchyard, located immediately adjacent to the tailrace; and 
(7) a station transformer, located to the immediate south of and 
adjacent to the powerhouse. The Sabine River Authorities propose to 
construct a 1.3-MW minimum flow turbine-generator at the project 
spillway.
    l. Locations of the Application: 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 last three 
digits in the docket number field to access the document. For 
assistance, contact FERC Online Support at [email protected] 
or toll-free at 1-866-208-3676, or for TTY, (202) 502-8659. A copy is 
also available for inspection and reproduction at the address in item 
(h) above.
    m. 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.
    n. Procedural Schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the 
schedule may be made as appropriate.

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                        Milestone                           Target date
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Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready for Environmental        11/29/2011
 Analysis...............................................
Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and               1/28/2012
 conditions, and fishway prescriptions..................
Commission issues Draft EIS.............................       7/26/2012
Comments on Draft EIS due...............................       9/24/2012
Modified Terms and Conditions due.......................      11/23/2012
Commission Issues Final EIS.............................       2/21/2013
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    o. 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.

    Dated: October 7, 2011.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-26600 Filed 10-13-11; 8:45 am]
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