[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 227 (Monday, November 26, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 60421]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-25585]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14887-000]


Southeast Oklahoma Power Corporation; Notice of Preliminary 
Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions 
To Intervene, and Competing Applications

    1. On July 31, 2018, Southeast Oklahoma Power Corporation, 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 
Southeast Oklahoma Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project (project) to be 
located on the Kiamichi River, near the town of Whitesboro, in LeFlore 
County, Oklahoma. 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.
    2. The proposed project would consist of the following: (1) A 
2,165-foot-long, 302-foot-high concrete-faced rockfill upper dam with a 
196.85-foot-long emergency spillway with a 600-foot-long, 30-foot-wide 
channel; (2) an upper reservoir with a surface area of 488.52 acres and 
a storage capacity of 43,633 acre-feet; (3) a 98.4-foot-long, 39.4-
foot-high concrete upper intake/outlet structure; (4) a 6,370-foot-
long, 27.8-foot-diameter steel and concrete headrace tunnel; (5) a 545-
foot-long, 90-foot-wide, 185.4-foot-high underground concrete pumping 
station/powerhouse containing four pump/generating units with a total 
capacity of 1,200 megawatts; (6) a 7,439-foot-long, 27.8-foot-diameter 
tailrace tunnel; (7) a 98.4-foot-long, 39.4-foot-high concrete lower 
intake/outlet structure; (8) a 9,957-foot-long, 52.5-foot-high earthen 
lower dam with a 33-foot-long, 13-foot-high emergency spillway with a 
1,640-foot-long tunnel to the Kiamichi River; (9) a lower reservoir 
with a surface area of 727 acres, and a storage capacity of 37,965 
acre-feet; (10) two 20-inch-diameter, 675-foot-long pipes with 110 
kilowatt pumps from the lower reservoir to the regulating reservoir; 
(11) a regulating reservoir with a surface area of 40 acres, and a 
storage capacity of 1,216 acre-feet; (12) two 20-inch-diameter, 690-
foot-long pipes with two 110 kilowatt pumps from the Kiamichi River to 
the regulating reservoir; (13) a 40-foot-long, 40-foot-wide funnel 
shaped intake structure on the Kiamichi River, located 1.5-foot above 
the bottom of the Kiamichi River tapering down to 10-foot-long, 10-
foot-wide section where it connects to the two pipes; and (14) a 124-
mile-long transmission line to the Electric Reliability Council of 
Texas grid.
    The proposed project would relocate State Road 248 (Post Oar Road) 
and 583rd Street because the lower reservoir would otherwise inundate 
them. The proposed project would have an estimated average annual 
generation of 4,368,000 megawatt-hours.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. John Bobenic, Southeast Oklahoma Power 
Corporation, c/o Daytona Power Corp, 1800, 421-7 Avenue SW, Calgary, 
Alberta Canada T2P 4K9; phone: (578) 433-4933.
    FERC Contact: Michael Spencer, (202) 502-6093, 
[email protected].
    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.
    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-14887-000.
    More information about this project, including a copy of the 
application, can be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of 
Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. 
Enter the docket number (P-14887) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: November 16, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-25585 Filed 11-23-18; 8:45 am]
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