[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 13, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40040-40041]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-17252]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2880-015]
Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and
Soliciting Additional Study Requests and Establishing Procedural
Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments:
Cherokee Falls Hydroelectric Project, LLC
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: New License.
b. Project No.: 2880-015.
c. Date Filed: July 31, 2019.
d. Applicant: Cherokee Falls Hydroelectric Project, LLC.
e. Name of Project: Cherokee Falls Hydroelectric Project (Cherokee
Falls Project).
f. Location: The existing project is located the Broad River, in
Cherokee County, South Carolina. The project does not affect federal
lands.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Beth E. Harris, Southwest Regional Engineer,
Enel Green Power North America, Inc., 11 Anderson Street, Piedmont, SC
29673; Telephone (864) 846-0042 ext. 100; [email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Michael Spencer at (202) 502-6093, or at
[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
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serve a copy of the request on the applicant.
l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for
cooperating agency status: September 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-2280-015.
m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. Project Description: The Cherokee Falls Project consists of: (1)
A 1,819-foot-long granite masonry dam with a 1,701-foot-long spillway
and 4-foot-high flashboards; (2) a reservoir with a surface area of 83
acres and a storage capacity of 140 acre-feet; (3) a trash rack intake;
(4) a 130-foot-long powerhouse containing one generating unit with a
capacity of 4,140 kilowatts and an annual generation of 9,354.9
megawatt-hours; (5) a 150-foot-long tailrace; (6) 93-foot-long
generator leads to three 500-kilovolt transformers and (7) a 200-foot-
long transmission line to a point of interconnection with the grid.
The Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with a continuous
year round minimum flow of 65 cubic feet per second (cfs) in the
bypassed reach. Project operation starts when inflows exceed 665 cfs,
the sum of the minimum hydraulic capacity of the turbine (600 cfs) and
the minimum flow. All flows greater than 3,165 cfs, which is the sum of
the maximum hydraulic capacity of the turbine (3,100 cfs) and the
minimum flow, are passed over the spillway.
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 paragraph h.
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 Hydro Licensing
Schedule. Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate.
Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)--October 2019
Issue Acceptance Letter--November 2019
Issue Scoping Document--December 2019
Request Additional information (if necessary)--February 2020
Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--May 2020
Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and
fishway prescriptions--July 2020
Commission issues EA--October 2020
Comments on EA--November 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: August 7, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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