[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 83 (Wednesday, April 30, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24416-24417]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-09805]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14612-000]


Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and 
Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications: 
New Summit Hydro, LLC

April 23, 2014.
    On April 1, 2014, New Summit 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 New Summit Pumped 
Storage Project (New Summit Project or project) to be located in the 
City of Norton, Summit 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 proposed project would consist of the following: (1) An 
excavated, diked, and asphalt-lined upper reservoir with a storage 
capacity of 8,000 acre-feet with a water surface area of 150 acres; (2) 
a lower underground reservoir created by previous limestone mining 
activities with a storage capacity of 7,760 acre-feet; (3) an 
underground powerhouse and appurtenant structures including six 250-
megawatt (MW) variable speed reversible pump turbines for a total 
installed capacity of 1,500 MW; (4) power plant buildings and surface 
structures that occupy approximately 70 acres, including a 17.5 foot-
diameter vent stack, up to 100 feet high and flaring to a 30-foot 
diameter at the top; (5) a concrete-lined power tunnel located 300 feet 
below the ground surface that extends from the upper reservoir to two 
17.5-foot-diameter, 2400-foot-long, concrete-lined vertical shafts that 
connect the power tunnel with the underground powerhouse penstocks. The 
power tunnel would be approximately 30 feet in diameter and 
approximately 8,000 feet long; (6) an underground transformer gallery; 
(7) six steel concrete-lined penstocks, that would be approximately six 
feet in diameter and 235 feet long; (8) four 345-kilovolt overhead 
transmission line circuits, approximately 3 miles long, arranged in two 
parallel double circuit tower sets within an existing transmission line 
corridor located north of the proposed reservoir; (9) offsite and 
onsite recreational facilities. The estimated annual generation of the 
New Summit Project would between 1,300,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) and 
2,000,000 MWh.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. Kevin Young, Managing Member, New Summit 
Hydro, LLC, 2112 Talmage Drive, Leland, North Carolina 28451-9340; 
phone: (617) 645-3685.
    FERC Contact: Bryan Roden-Reynolds; phone: (202) 502-6618.
    Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing 
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file 
competing applications: 60

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days from the issuance of this notice. Competing applications and 
notices of intent must meet the requirements of 18 CFR 4.36.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing 
applications using the Commission's eFiling system at 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], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please send a paper copy to: 
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., 
Washington, DC 20426. The first page of any filing should include 
docket number P-14612-000.
    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-14612) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-09805 Filed 4-29-14; 8:45 am]
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