[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 184 (Friday, September 21, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47917-47918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-20553]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2883-009]
Notice of Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Motions
To Intervene and Protests: Aquenergy Systems, LLC
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: New Major License.
b. Project No.: 2883-009.
c. Date filed: May 30, 2018.
d. Applicant: Aquenergy Systems, LLC.
e. Name of Project: Fries Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the New River in the Town of Fries, Grayson County,
Virginia. No federal lands are occupied by the project works or located
within the project boundary.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Ms. Beth E. Harris, P.E., Southeast Regional
Manager, Enel Green Power North America, Inc., 11 Anderson Street,
Piedmont, SC 29673, Phone: (864) 846-0042 ext. 100, Email:
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[email protected], or Mr. Kevin Webb, Hydro Licensing Manager, Enel
Green Power North America, Inc., 100 Brickstone Square, Suite 300,
Andover, MA 01810, Phone: (978) 935-6039, Email: [email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Brandi Sangunett, Phone: 202-502-8393, Email:
[email protected].
j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests: November
13, 2018.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
motions to intervene and protests 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-2883-009.
The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors filing
documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each
person on the official service list for the project. Further, if an
intervenor files comments or documents with the Commission relating to
the merits of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a
particular resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document
on that resource agency.
k. This application has been accepted, but is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
l. The existing Fries Hydroelectric Project (Fries Project)
consists of: (1) A 41-foot-high, 610-foot-long rock masonry dam with a
500-foot-long spillway; (2) an 88-acre impoundment at the normal pool
elevation (spillway crest elevation) of 2,188.27 feet National Geodetic
Vertical Datum of 1929; (3) an approximately 750-foot-long, 110- foot-
wide intake canal with four 15.5-foot-high, 6.5-foot-wide headgates;
(4) a canal spillway consisting of 10 stoplog bays totaling 47 feet in
length; (5) two 12.5-foot-high, 5.0-foot-wide canal gates; (6) a steel
powerhouse that contains a single vertical Kaplan turbine with a
capacity of 2.1 megawatts (MW) that discharges into a 180-foot-long,
75-foot-wide, 12-foot-deep tailrace; (7) a masonry powerhouse that
contains one vertical and two horizontal Francis turbines with a total
capacity of 3.0 MW that discharges into a 180-foot-long, 120-foot-wide,
12-foot-deep tailrace; (8) a 500-foot-long, 450-foot-wide bypassed
reach that extends from the toe of the dam to the confluence with the
tailraces; (9) a 567-foot-long, 13.2-kilovolt (kV) transmission line
that runs from the steel powerhouse to the interconnection point with
the grid; (10) a 130-foot-long transmission line that connects the
masonry powerhouse to a 5,000 kilovolt-amp step-up transformer and an
additional 323-foot-long, 13.2-kV transmission line leading from the
transformer to the interconnection point; and (11) appurtenant
facilities.
The Fries Project is operated in a run-of-river mode. For the
period 2003 through 2016, the average annual generation at the Fries
Project was 26,150 megawatt-hours.
m. 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 website 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.
n. Anyone may submit a protest or a motion to intervene in
accordance with the requirements of the Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, 385.211, and 385.214. In determining the
appropriate action to take, the Commission will consider all protests
filed, but only those who file a motion to intervene in accordance with
the Commission's Rules may become a party to the proceeding. Any
protests or motions to intervene must be received on or before the
specified deadline date for the particular application.
All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title PROTEST
or MOTION TO INTERVENE; (2) set forth in the heading the name of the
applicant and the project number of the application to which the filing
responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone number of the
person protesting or intervening; and (4) otherwise comply with the
requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. Agencies may obtain
copies of the application directly from the applicant. A copy of any
protest or motion to intervene must be served upon each representative
of the applicant specified in the particular application.
Dated: September 14, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-20553 Filed 9-20-18; 8:45 am]
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