[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 188 (Thursday, September 27, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59394-59395]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-23802]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14435-000]


Wills Creek Hydro, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application 
Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 
Competing Applications

    On July 17, 2012, Wills Creek Hydro, LLC 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 Wills Creek Dam 
Hydroelectric Project (Wills Creek Project or project) to be located at 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps) Wills Creek Dam on Wills Creek, 
near Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio. 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 existing Corps facilities include: (1) The Wills Creek Lake 
which has a surface area of 11,450 acres at a normal lake elevation of 
742 feet and a maximum storage capacity of 196,000 acre-feet; (2) a 
1,950-foot-long, 87-foot-high earth fill dam; (3) a 100-foot-high, 75-
foot-wide, 25-foot-long intake structure located at the west abutment; 
and (4) a 230-foot-long, 25-foot-wide, 25-foot-high concrete arch 
tunnel conduit.
    The proposed project would consist of the following non-federal 
facilities: (1) A 30-foot-wide, 30-foot-high, 2-foot-thick concrete 
diversion wall with a crest elevation of 742 feet equipped with two 
slide gates to release flood waters; the diversion wall would be 
located at the end of the Corps' concrete arch tunnel; (2) a 30-foot-
long, 106-inch-diameter steel penstock; (3) a 30-foot-wide, 25-foot-
long, 20-foot-high powerhouse located near the west wing wall of the 
Corps' existing outlet channel and containing a pit/bulb propeller-type 
turbine/generator unit with a total capacity of 1 megawatt; (4) a 50-
foot-long, 12.7-kilovolt transmission line connecting the project to an 
existing distribution line owned by Cincinnati Gas and Electric 
Company; and (5) appurtenant facilities. The project would be located 
entirely on federal lands managed by the Corps. The estimated annual 
generation of the Wills Creek Dam Project would be 5,728 megawatt-
hours.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. Mark Boumansour, 1035 Pearl Street, 4th 
Floor, Boulder, CO 80302; phone: (720) 295-3317.
    FERC Contact: Sergiu Serban; phone: (202) 502-6211.
    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-14435) in the docket number field to

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access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: September 21, 2012.
 Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-23802 Filed 9-26-12; 8:45 am]
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