[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 59 (Wednesday, March 27, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11534-11535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05798]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14956-000]


Midwest Energy Recycling, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit 
Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To 
Intervene, and Competing Applications

    On December 14, 2018, Midwest Energy Recycling, 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 Granite 
Falls County Pumped Storage Project to be located near the Minnesota 
River and the City of Granite Falls, in Yellow Medicine County, 
Minnesota. 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 would consist of the following: (1) A new 
circular 120-acre concrete lined rockfill embankment (upper reservoir) 
having a total storage capacity of 3,960 acre-feet with a maximum pond 
elevation level of 965 feet mean sea level (msl); (2) a new 2,900-foot 
by 1,425-foot rectangular lower reservoir with a total storage capacity 
of 3,960 acre-feet with a maximum pond elevation of 1,530 feet msl; (3) 
a new 100-foot-diameter, reinforced concrete (morning glory type) 
intake connected to a vertical 2,800-foot-long by 18-foot-diameter 
steel lined penstock; (4) a new 200-foot-long by 70-foot-wide by 130-
foot-high reinforced concrete powerhouse containing two new 333-
megawatt (MW) reversible pump-turbine units with a total plant rating 
of 666 MW; (5) a new 50-foot-wide, 240-foot-long, 40-foot high 
transformer gallery; (6); a new 200 to 1,000-foot-long, 230-kilovolt 
transmission line extending from the transformer gallery to a new 200-
foot by 200-foot substation; and (7) appurtenant facilities. The 
estimated annual generation of the Chippewa County Pumped Storage 
Project would be 1,450 gigawatt-hours.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. Douglas A. Spaulding, Nelson Energy, LLC, 
8441 Wayzata Boulevard, Suite 101, Golden Valley, MN 55426; phone: 
(952) 544-8133.
    FERC Contact: Tyrone Williams; phone: (202) 502-6331.
    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,

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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-14956-000.
    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-14956) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: March 20, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-05798 Filed 3-26-19; 8:45 am]
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