[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 205 (Wednesday, October 23, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56804-56805]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-23098]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 15006-000]


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

October 17, 2019.
    On September 4, 2019, Owyhee Energy Storage, LLC, filed an 
application for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the 
Federal Power Act (FPA), proposing to study the feasibility of the 
Owyhee Pumped Storage Project (Owyhee Project or project) to be located 
on Lake Owyhee, near Adrian, Malheur County, Oregon. 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 105-
foot-high, 1,260-foot-long zoned earth and rockfill or concrete-face 
rockfill dam forming a lined upper reservoir with a surface area of 85 
acres and a storage capacity of 3,410 acre-feet at a maximum surface 
elevation of 4,330 feet mean sea level (msl); (2) an existing 470-foot-
high, 833-foot-long concrete arch dam forming the existing Lake Owyhee 
(lower reservoir) with a surface area of 13,900 acres and a storage 
capacity of 1,120,000 acre-feet at a maximum surface elevation of 2,650 
feet msl; (3) a new 14,100-foot-long conduit connecting the upper and 
lower reservoirs consisting of a 2,200-foot-long, 17-foot-diameter 
concrete-lined low-pressure tunnel, a 7,100-foot-long, 17-foot-diameter 
concrete and steel lined pressure shaft, and a 4,800-foot-long, 20-
foot-diameter concrete-lined tailrace; (4) a new 80-foot-long, 280-
foot-wide, 120-foot-high underground powerhouse containing three 
reversible pump-turbine units rated at 200 megawatts (MW) each for a 
total capacity of 600 MW; (5) either 2.6 or 8 miles of double circuit 
230-kilovolt transmission line interconnecting with either the 
Midpoint-Hemingway-Summer Line or the Boardman-Hemingway line, 
depending on the design of infrastructure; and (6) appurtenant 
facilities. The estimated annual generation of the Owyhee Project would 
be 946,080 megawatt-hours.

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    Applicant Contact: Mr. Luigi Resta, Owyhee Energy Storage, LLC, 201 
S. Main St., Ste. 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111; phone: (415) 602-
2569.
    FERC Contact: John Matkowski; phone: (202) 502-8576.
    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, 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-15006-000.
    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-15006) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: October 17, 2019.
 Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-23098 Filed 10-22-19; 8:45 am]
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