[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 28 (Monday, February 11, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9687-9688]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-03011]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14453-000]


Prineville Energy Storage, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit 
Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To 
Intervene, and Competing Applications

    On August 31, 2012, Prineville Energy Storage, 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 
Prineville Pumped Storage Project (project) to be located on Prineville 
Reservoir, near Prineville in Crook County, Oregon. 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: (1) A 40-foot-
high, 6,580-foot-long upper concrete-faced rockfill or roller-compacted 
concrete dam; (2) an upper reservoir with surface area of 57 acres, 
storage capacity of 2,260 acre-feet, and maximum pool elevation of 
3,920 feet mean sea level (msl); (3) a 245-foot-high, 800-foot-long 
lower earthfill dam; (4) a lower reservoir with surface area of 3,030 
acres, storage capacity of 154,700 acre-feet, and maximum pool 
elevation of 3,234 feet msl; (5) two, 10-foot-diameter, 2,630-foot-long 
buried or semi-buried steel headrace conduits; (6) a 150-foot-long, 40-
foot-wide, 100-foot-high underground powerhouse

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containing three reversible pump-turbines with total installed capacity 
of 150 megawatts; (7) two, 11-foot-diameter, 600-foot-long buried steel 
tailrace conduits; (8) a 15.6 to 16.2 mile, 115-kilovolt overhead 
transmission line extending from the powerhouse to either: (i) the 
Pacific Direct Current Intertie (PDCI) line and then running parallel 
to the PDCI to the Ponderosa substation, or (ii) the Bonneville Power 
Administration (BPA) existing transmission line corridor and then 
running parallel to the BPA line to the Ponderosa substation; and (9) 
appurtenant facilities. The estimated annual generation of the project 
would be 394 gigawatt-hours.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. Matthew Shapiro, Chief Executive Officer, 
Prineville Energy Storage, LLC, 1210 W. Franklin Street, Ste. 2, Boise, 
Idaho 83702; phone: (208) 246-9925.
    FERC Contact: John Matkowski; phone: (202) 502-8576.
    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-14453) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: February 5, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-03011 Filed 2-8-13; 8:45 am]
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