[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 180 (Friday, September 16, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63756-63758]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-22268]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2307-078]


Alaska Electric Light & Power Company; Notice of Application 
Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Study Requests 
and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a 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: Major Subsequent License.
    b. Project No.: 2307-078.
    c. Date filed: August 31, 2016.
    d. Applicant: Alaska Electric Light and Power Company.
    e. Name of Project: Salmon and Annex Creek Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On Salmon Creek and Annex Creek in the City and 
Borough of Juneau, Alaska. The project occupies about 648.45 acres of 
federal lands located in the Tongass National Forest administered by 
the United States Forest Service and operates under an existing license 
issued in 1988.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).

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    h. Applicant Contact: Christy Yearous, Project Manager, Alaska 
Electric Light & Power Company, 5601 Tongsard Ct., Juneau, AK 99801-
7201; (907) 780-2222.
    i. FERC Contact: Suzanne Novak at (202) 502-6665, 
[email protected].
    j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies 
with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect to 
environmental issues that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the 
environmental document should follow the instructions for filing such 
requests described in item l below. Cooperating agencies should note 
the Commission's policy that agencies that cooperate in the preparation 
of the environmental document cannot also intervene. See, 94 FERC ] 
61,076 (2001).
    k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 CFR of the Commission's 
regulations, if any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person believes 
that an additional scientific study should be conducted in order to 
form an adequate factual basis for a complete analysis of the 
application on its merit, the resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person 
must file a request for a study with the Commission not later than 60 
days from the date of filing of the application, and serve a copy of 
the request on the applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: October 31, 2016.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
requests for cooperating agency status using the Commission's eFiling 
system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 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-2307-078.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The proposed Salmon and Annex Creek Project consists of two 
developments, one on Salmon Creek and one on Annex Creek.
    The Salmon Creek development consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) The 165-acre Salmon Creek reservoir impounded by a 648-
foot-long, 168-foot-high dam, with ten 5-foot-wide spillway bays; (2) a 
1,500-foot-long segment of a canal used to periodically divert water 
from tributary streams into Salmon Creek Reservoir; (3) a 10-foot-wide, 
11-foot-high intake structure with trashracks at the base of the dam; 
(4) a 3-foot-diameter conduit that conveys flows from the dam to the 
project valvehouse located immediately downstream; (5) the project 
valvehouse containing two penstocks: (i) An 11,030-foot-long, 3.5-foot-
diameter penstock that narrows to a 2.5-foot-diameter immediately 
before entering the Lower Powerhouse, and (ii) a 4,290-foot-long, 3.3- 
to-2.5-foot-diameter penstock that conveys flows to the decommissioned 
Upper Powerhouse; (6) the 57-foot-long, 44-foot-wide, 32-foot-high, 
Lower Powerhouse, which contains a 6.9-megawatt (MW) impulse turbine; 
(7) an approximately 250-foot-long tailrace that flows underneath Egan 
Drive and empties into a pond adjacent to the Douglas Island Pink and 
Chum, Inc., hatchery; and (8) appurtenant facilities.
    The Annex Creek development consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) The 264-acre Upper Annex Lake, impounded by a 118-foot-
long, 20-foot-high dam with a 57-foot-wide spillway that discharges 
flows in excess of those needed for generation into the Lower Annex 
Lake; (2) a small timber saddle dam, 61 feet long and 6 feet high, 
located just west of the main dam; (3) the natural 27-acre Lower Annex 
Lake; (4) a lake tap intake on Upper Annex Lake; (5) a 1,433-foot-long 
power tunnel that narrows from 8 feet wide and 8 feet high at the 
intake to a 6.5-foot-diameter tunnel at the project valvehouse; (6) the 
project valvehouse containing the penstock intake; (7) the 7,097-foot-
long, 3.5-foot-diameter penstock that narrows to a 2.8-foot-diameter 
before it bifurcates at the powerhouse to provide flows to two impulse 
turbine units with a total installed capacity of 3.675 MW; (8) the 67-
foot-long, 48-foot-wide, 40-foot-high, powerhouse; (9) a tailrace that 
discharges flows over a weir into Taku Inlet; (10) a 12.5-mile-long, 
23-kilovolt (kV) transmission line that conveys power to the Thane 
substation; and (11) appurtenant facilities.
    The project currently operates to provide base load generation with 
an estimated annual output of 53.8 gigawatt-hours. No changes to 
project operation or facilities are proposed.
    o. 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. A copy is also available for inspection and 
reproduction at the address in item h above.
    You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.
    p. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the 
schedule will be made as appropriate.

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Issue Notice of Acceptance...........  November 2016.
Issue Scoping Document 1.............  December 2016.
Comments on Scoping Document 1.......  January 2017.
Issue Scoping Document 2.............  March 2017.
Issue Notice Ready for Environmental   March 2017.
 Analysis.
Filing of Comments, Terms and          June 2017.
 Conditions, Recommendations and
 Prescriptions.
Applicant's reply comments...........  August 2017.
Commission issues Environmental        November 2017.
 Assessment (EA).
Comments on draft EA.................  December 2017.
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    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: September 9, 2016.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-22268 Filed 9-15-16; 8:45 am]
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