[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 217 (Monday, November 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52288-52289]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-24459]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14795-002]


Shell Energy North America (US), LP; Notice of Application 
Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study 
Requests

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Original major license.
    b. Project No.: P-14795-002.
    c. Date filed: November 1, 2017.
    d. Applicant: Shell Energy North America (US), LP.
    e. Name of Project: Hydro Battery Pearl Hill Pumped Storage 
Project.
    f. Location: On the Columbia River and Rufus Woods Lake, near 
Bridgeport, Douglas County, Washington. The project would be located on 
state lands and the lower reservoir and power generation and pumping 
equipment would be located on Rufus Woods Lake, a reservoir operated by 
the Army Corps of Engineers.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Kent Watt, Shell US Hosting Company, Shell 
Woodcreek Office, 150 North Dairy Ashford, Houston, TX 77079, (832) 
337-1160, [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Ryan Hansen, 888 1st St. NE., Washington, DC 
20426, (202) 502-8074, [email protected].

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    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: January 2, 2018.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and 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-14795-002.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The proposed project would utilize the existing U.S. Army Corps 
of Engineers' Rufus Woods Lake Reservoir, and would consist of the 
following new facilities: (1) A 300-foot-diameter, 20-foot-tall lined 
corrugated steel tank upper reservoir with a storage capacity of 26.5 
acre-feet; (2) a 3-foot-diameter, 3,400-foot-long above-ground carbon 
steel penstock transitioning to a 3-foot-diameter, 2,700-foot-long 
buried carbon steel penstock; (3) a 77-foot-long, 77-foot-wide 
structural steel power platform housing five 2,400 horsepower vertical 
turbine pumps, one 5 megawatt twin-jet Pelton turbine and synchronous 
generator, and accompanying electrical equipment; (4) five vertical 
turbine pump intakes, each fitted with a 27-inch-diameter by 94-inch-
long T-style fish screen; (5) a 2,500-foot-long, 24.9-kilovolt buried/
affixed transmission line interconnecting to an existing non-project 
transmission line; (6) an approximately 3,847-foot long gravel access 
road; and (7) appurtenant facilities. The average annual generation is 
estimated to be 24 gigawatt-hours.
    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 schedule. At this time we anticipate 
issuing a single EA. Revisions to the schedule will be made as 
appropriate.

Issue Notice of Acceptance--February 2018
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--March 2018
Comments on Scoping Document 1--May 2018
Issue Scoping Document 2--June 2018
Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis--May 2018
Commission issues EA--November 2018
Comments on EA--December 2018

    Dated: November 6, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-24459 Filed 11-9-17; 8:45 am]
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