[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 19, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10057-10058]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05053]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 6731-015]
Coneross Power Corporation; Notice of Application Tendered for
Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a Deadline for
Submission of Final Amendments
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Subsequent Minor license.
b. Project No.: 6731-015.
c. Date filed: February 28, 2019.
d. Applicant: Coneross Power Corporation.
e. Name of Project: Coneross Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The Coneross Hydroelectric Project is located on
Coneross Creek in Oconee County, South Carolina. The project does not
occupy Federal lands.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Kevin Webb, Hydro Licensing Manager, Enel
Green Power North America, Inc., 100 Brickstone Square, Suite 300,
Andover, MA 01810, (978) 935-6039.
i. FERC Contact: Jeanne Edwards, (202) 502-6181,
[email protected].
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: April 29, 2019.
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-6731-015.
m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. The project consists of: (1) A 288-foot-long, 25-foot-high
concrete gravity dam, consisting of: (i) a 55-foot-long east non-
overflow section, (ii) a 179-foot-long central overflow spillway topped
with 1.5-foot-high flashboards, and (iii) a 110-foot-long west non-
overflow section that includes an 8-foot-wide by 8-foot-high intake
headgate protected by a 25-foot-long, 19-foot-deep trash rack structure
with 2-inch clear bar spacing, and a 7-foot-high, 5-foot-wide sluice
gate; (2) a 15.4-acre impoundment at an elevation of 729.5 feet NGVD
29,\1\ including the spillway flashboards; (3) a 780-foot-long, 8-foot-
diameter concrete penstock extending from the dam to a 65-foot-long, 8-
foot-diameter steel penstock attached to a 25-foot-long trifurcation
structure that channels flow to the turbine-generator units; (4) a 43-
foot-long, 39-foot-wide powerhouse containing two vertical-shaft
turbine-generator units and one horizontal-shaft Francis turbine-
generator unit for a total installed capacity of 889 kilowatts; (5) a
95-foot-long, 41-foot-wide tailrace channel; (6) a 1,300-foot-long
bypassed reach between the dam and the tailrace; (7) a 93-foot-long,
2,300-volt transmission line connecting the powerhouse with the grid
via a 2.3/12.47-kilovolt transformer; and (8) appurtenant facilities.
The average annual generation was 2,215,800 kilowatt-hours for the
period of record from 2008 to 2017.
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\1\ National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) is a
national standard for measuring elevations above sea level.
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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 website at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary''
link. Enter the docket number excluding the last three digits in
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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 and final amendments: The application will
be processed according to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions
to the schedule will be made as appropriate.
Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary).. May 2019.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments... October 2019.
Comments on Scoping Document 1.......... November 2019.
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary). December 2019.
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental January 2019.
Analysis.
Commission issues EA.................... September 2020.
Final amendments to the application must be filed with the
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the notice
of ready for environmental analysis.
Dated: March 12, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-05053 Filed 3-18-19; 8:45 am]
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