[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 28, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61152-61153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-25923]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 14892-000]
Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and
Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications:
Badger Mountain Hydro, LLC
On October 2, 2018, Badger Mountain Hydro, LLC filed an application
for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power
Act, proposing to study the feasibility of the Badger Mountain Pumped
Storage Project (project) to be located near East Wenatchee in Douglas
County, Washington. 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 will be a closed-loop pumped storage project
with initial fill and make up water coming from local water rights
holders, tentatively
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identified as the Greater Wenatchee Irrigation District. Water would be
delivered from the District's Veedol Tank via an approximately 0.7-
mile-long, 12-inch-diameter buried steel pipe to a new lower reservoir.
The proposed project would consist of: An upper 5- to 40-foot-high,
7,500-foot-long zoned earth/rockfill ring dam enclosing the 70-acre
upper reservoir with storage capacity of 2,000 acre-feet; a lower 35-
foot-high, 540-foot-long zoned earth/rockfill primary dam and 10-foot-
high, 830-foot-long earthen supplemental dam enclosing the 80-acre
lower reservoir with storage capacity of 2,600 acre-feet; a 600-foot-
long, 14-foot-diameter unlined or concrete-lined low pressure tunnel; a
30-foot-diameter, 50-foot-high concrete surge tank; two 5,200-foot-
long, 10-foot-diameter steel penstocks; a powerhouse with a 220-foot-
high, 65-foot-diameter steel and concrete shaft, and two 150-megawatt
(MW) reversible pump-turbines/motor-generators for a total installed
capacity of 300 MW; a 1,200-foot-long, 17-foot-diameter concrete-lined
tailrace tunnel; a 230-kilovolt (kV), 3.7-mile-long transmission line
interconnecting with the existing Puget Sound Energy Rocky Reach-
Cascade transmission line, and a possible second transmission line
interconnecting with the existing 230-kV Bonneville Power
Administration Rocky Reach-Columbia transmission line 500 feet from the
powerhouse.
The estimated average annual generation of the project would be
473,040 megawatt-hours.
Applicant Contact: Matthew Shapiro, CEO, Gridflex Energy, LLC, 1210
W. Franklin St. #2, Boise, ID 837021, phone (208) 246-9925.
FERC Contact: Peter McBride, (202) 502-8132,
[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-14892-000.
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-14892) in the docket number field to access
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
Dated: November 21, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-25923 Filed 11-27-18; 8:45 am]
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