[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 55 (Thursday, March 23, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14889-14890]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-05792]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No.: 14813-000]


Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation; Notice of Preliminary 
Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions 
To Intervene, and Competing Applications

    On January 4, 1017, Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation 
(AECC), filed an application for a preliminary permit, pursuant to 
section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, proposing to study the 
feasibility of the River Mountain Pumped Storage Project, at the U.S. 
Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Lake Dardanelle on the Arkansas River 
in Logan County, Arkansas. 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: (1) A 120-foot-high 
compacted rock fill embankment surrounding; (2) a 208-acre upper 
reservoir, with an impervious liner, having 11,650 acre-foot gross 
storage capacity; (3) a intake/outlet structure in the upper reservoir; 
(4) a 680-foot-long, 30-foot-diameter,

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concrete-lined power shaft penstock; (5) a 1,420-foot-long 30-foot-
diameter, concrete-lined, power tunnel penstock that will split into 
three 16-foot-diameter penstocks approximately 450-foot-long, that will 
extend to the powerhouse; (6) an underground powerhouse/pump station, 
containing three reversible pump-turbine generating units, with a total 
generating capacity of 600 megawatts; (7) a 6,620 foot-long tailrace 
tunnel to; the existing Corps Lake Dardanelle as its lower reservoir; 
(8) an intake/outlet structure located on the south shore of Lake 
Dardanelle; (9) a 8,000-foot-long, 500-kilovolt overhead transmission 
line from the powerhouse to (10) a proposed substation at the point of 
interconnection with an existing utility transmission line. The 
proposed project would have an annual energy generation of 640,000 
megawatt-hours.
    Applicant Contact: Curtis Warner, Arkansas Electric Cooperative 
Corporation, 1 Cooperative Way, Little Rock, Arkansas 72209; phone 
(501) 570-2462.
    FERC Contact: Chris Casey, [email protected], (202) 502-
8577.
    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 five 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-14813) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: March 16, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-05792 Filed 3-22-17; 8:45 am]
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