[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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