[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 30, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31843-31844]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-13001]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 13318-002]


Swan Lake North Hydro, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit 
Application Accepted For Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions to 
Intervene, and Competing Applications

    On April 3, 2012, Swan Lake North Hydro, LLC, filed an application 
for a successive preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the 
Federal Power Act (FPA), proposing to study the feasibility of the Swan 
Lake North Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project (project) to be located 
near Klamath Falls in Klamath County, Oregon and Newell in Modoc 
County, California. 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 would consist of the following new facilities: 
(1) Two 111-foot-high, 6,560-foot-long (east) and 5.990-foot-long 
(west) rockfill dams enclosing an upper reservoir; (2) an upper 
reservoir with a surface area of 215 acres and a storage capacity of 
10,622 acre-feet at a maximum surface elevation of 5,491 feet above 
mean sea level (msl); (3) a 100-foot-high, 5,245-foot-long rockfill 
main dam and a 9-foot-high, 360-foot-long rockfill saddle dam enclosing 
a lower reservoir; (4) a lower reservoir with a surface area of 193 
acres and a storage capacity of 11,583 acre-feet at a maximum surface 
elevation of 4,275 feet msl; (5) a 30-foot-diameter, 2,570-foot-long 
horizontal power tunnel; (6) a 30-foot-diameter, 1,200-foot-long 
vertical shaft; (7) a 30-foot-diameter, 1,000-foot-long high pressure 
steel-lined penstock branching into four 12.25-foot-diameter, 640-foot-
long steel-lined penstocks going into the underground powerhouse: (8) 
an underground powerhouse with four 250-megawatt (MW) reversible pump-
turbine units with a total installed capacity of 1,000 MW; (9) four 
12.5-foot-diameter manifold branches that will combine into a single 
26-foot-diameter, 5,000-foot-long, partially steel-lined and partially 
concrete-lined tailrace tunnel; (10) a tailrace inlet/outlet structure 
consisting of a concrete-lined approach channel, trash racks, and two 
vertically controlled slide gates; (11) a 30-foot-diameter, 3,600-foot-
long access tunnel; (12) a permanent 24-foot-wide, 3.5-mile-long haul 
road; (13) approximately 33 miles of 500-kilovolt (kV) transmission 
line connecting to a terminal switchyard to be constructed adjacent to 
the existing California Oregon Transmission Project 500-kV line in 
California; and (14) appurtenant facilities. The project would be a 
closed-loop system using groundwater and would not use any existing 
surface body of water. The estimated annual generation of the project 
would be 2,630 gigawatt-hours.

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    Applicant Contact: Mr. Brent L. Smith, COO, Symbiotics LLC, 811 SW 
Naito Parkway, Ste. 120, Portland, OR 97204; phone: (503) 235-3424.
    FERC Contact: Kelly Wolcott; phone: (202) 502-6480.
    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 
Web site http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can 
submit brief comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior 
registration, using the eComment system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You must include your name and contact information 
at the end of your comments. For assistance, please contact FERC Online 
Support at [email protected] or toll free at 1-866-208-3676, 
or for TTY, (202) 502-8659. Although the Commission strongly encourages 
electronic filing, documents may also be paper-filed. To paper-file, 
mail an original and seven 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 Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. 
Enter the docket number (P-13318) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: May 22, 2012.
 Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-13001 Filed 5-29-12; 8:45 am]
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