[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 134 (Friday, July 12, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33251-33252]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14837]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2997-031]


South Sutter Water District; 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: Major, new license.
    b. Project No.: P-2997-031.
    c. Date Filed: July 1, 2019.
    d. Applicant: South Sutter Water District (SSWD).
    e. Name of Project: Camp Far West Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: The existing hydroelectric project is located on the 
Bear River in Yuba, Nevada, and Placer Counties, California. The 
project, with the proposed project boundary modifications, would occupy 
a total of 2,674 acres. No federal or tribal lands occur within or 
adjacent to the project boundary or along the Bear River downstream of 
the project.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Brad Arnold, General Manager, South Sutter 
Water District, 2464 Pacific Avenue, Trowbridge, California 95659.
    i. FERC Contact: Quinn Emmering, (202) 502-6382, 
[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: August 30, 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-2997-031.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Camp Far West Hydroelectric Project operates to 
primarily provide water during the irrigation season, generate power, 
and meet streamflow requirements for the Bear River. The existing 
project includes: (1) A 185-foot-high, 40-foot-wide, 2,070-foot-long, 
zoned, earth-filled main dam; (2) a 45-foot-high, 20-foot-wide, 1,060-
foot-long, earth-filled south wing dam; (3) a 25-foot-high, 20-foot-
wide, 1,460-foot-long, earth-filled north wing dam; (4) a 15-foot-high, 
20-foot-wide, 1,450-foot-long, earth-filled dike; (5) a 1,886-acre 
reservoir with a gross storage capacity of about 93,737 acre-feet at 
the normal maximum water surface elevation (NMWSE) of 300 feet; (6) an 
overflow spillway with a 15-foot-wide concrete approach apron, 300-
foot-long ungated, ogee-type concrete structure, and a 77-foot-long 
downstream concrete chute with concrete sidewalls; (7) a 1,200-foot-
long, unlined, rock channel that carries spill downstream to the Bear 
River; (8) a 22-foot-high, concrete, power intake tower with openings 
on three sides protected by steel trashracks; (9) a 760-foot-long, 8-
foot-diameter concrete tunnel through the left abutment of the main dam 
that conveys water from the power intake to the powerhouse; (10) a 
steel-reinforced, concrete powerhouse with a 6.8-MW, vertical-shaft, 
Francis-type turbine, which discharges to the Bear River at the base of 
the main dam; (11) a 25-foot-4-inch-high, concrete, vertical intake 
tower with openings on three sides protected by steel trashracks that 
receives water for the outlet works; (12) a 350-foot-long, 48-inch-
diameter steel pipe that conveys water from the intake structure to a 
valve chamber for the outlet works; (13) a 400-foot-long, 7.5-foot-
diameter concrete-lined horseshoe tunnel that connects to the valve 
chamber; (14) a 48-inch-diameter, outlet valve with a 500-cubic-feet-
per-second release capacity at NMWSE on the downstream face of the main 
dam that discharges directly into the Bear River; (15) a switchyard 
adjacent to the powerhouse; (16) two recreation areas with campgrounds, 
day-use areas, boat ramps, restrooms, and sewage holding ponds; (17) a 
recreational water system that includes two pumps in the reservoir that 
deliver water to a treatment facility that is piped to a 60,000-gallon 
storage tank to supply water to recreation facilities. The estimated 
average annual generation (2010 to 2017) is 22,637 megawatt-hours.
    SSWD proposes to: (1) Raise the NMWSE of the project reservoir by 5 
feet from an elevation of 300 feet to an elevation of 305 feet; (2) 
replace and restore several recreation facilities; (3) add an existing 
0.25-mile road as a primary project road to access the powerhouse and 
switchyard; and (4) modify the project boundary to account for the 
removal of the 1.9-mile-long transmission line from the license in 
1991, corrections based on current project operation and maintenance, 
and changes under the category of a contour 20 feet above the 300-ft 
NMWSE or proximity of 200-horizontal-feet from the 300-foot NMWSE.
    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 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.

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For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
    p. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following preliminary Hydro Licensing 
Schedule. Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

Issue Notice of Acceptance--September 2019
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--September 2019
Issue Acceptance Letter--December 2019
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--January 2020
Hold Scoping Meeting--February 2020
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--April 2020
Issue Scoping Document 2--April 2020
Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis--April 2020
Commission issues EA, draft EA, or draft EIS--October 2020
Comments on EA or draft EA or draft EIS--November 2020
Initiate 10(j) process (if necessary)--December 2020
Commission issues final EA of final EIS--April 2021

    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: July 8, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-14837 Filed 7-11-19; 8:45 am]
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