[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 178 (Monday, September 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56599-56600]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-20172]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14514-003]


Community of Elfin Cove Non Profit Corporation, DBA Elfin Cove 
Utility Commission; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the 
Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Original minor license.
    b. Project No.: P-14514-003.
    c. Date filed: August 24, 2020.
    d. Applicant: Community of Elfin Cove Non Profit Corporation, DBA 
Elfin Cove Utility Commission.
    e. Name of Project: Crooked Creek and Jim's Lake Hydroelectric 
Project.

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    f. Location: On Crooked Creek and Jim's Lake, near the community of 
Elfin Cove, in the Sitka Recording District, Unorganized Borough, 
Alaska. The project would occupy 13.98 acres of federal land in the 
Tongass National Forest, managed by the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture's Forest Service.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Joel Groves, Polarconsult Alaska, Inc., 
1503 W 33rd Avenue, #310, Anchorage, Alaska 99503; phone: (907) 258-
2420 ext. 204.
    i. FERC Contact: John Matkowski at (202) 502-8576; or email 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 serve a copy of 
the request on the applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: October 23, 2020.
    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).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The proposed project would consist of two developments, the 
Upper System and the Lower System.
    The Upper System development would consist of the following new 
facilities: (1) A 16-foot-long, 6-foot-diameter intake structure to 
divert up to five cubic feet per second (cfs) from Crooked Creek; (2) a 
1,050-foot-long, 14-inch-diameter buried penstock extending between the 
intake structure and the powerhouse; (3) a 16-foot-long, 20-foot-wide, 
20-foot-high powerhouse containing a 35-kilowatt (kW) crossflow 
turbine; (4) a tailrace discharging flows into Jim's Lake; and (5) 
appurtenant facilities.
    The Lower System development would consist of the following 
facilities: (1) 225-foot-long, 18-foot-high rock-fill dam and intake 
structure at the outlet of Jim's Lake to divert up to 6.5 cfs from 
Jim's Lake; (2) a 2,550-foot-long, 16 to 18-inch-diameter buried 
penstock extending between the intake and the powerhouse; (3) 20-foot-
long, 28-foot-wide, 14-foot-high powerhouse containing a 105-kW impulse 
turbine; (4) a tailrace discharging flows into Port Althorp; and (5) 
appurtenant facilities.
    The project would also include an underground 8,800-foot-long, 7.2/
12.47-kilovolt (kV) transmission line extending from the project 
powerhouses at each of the developments to Elfin Cove's existing 7.2/
12.47-kV transmission line. The project would generate an average of 
788.3 megawatt-hours annually.
    o. In addition to publishing the full text of this document in the 
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an 
opportunity to view and/or print the contents via the internet through 
the Commission's Home Page (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. At this time, the 
Commission has suspended access to the Commission's Public Reference 
Room, due to the proclamation declaring a National Emergency concerning 
the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), issued by the President on 
March 13, 2020. For assistance, contact FERC at 
[email protected] or call toll-free, (866) 208-3676 or TYY, 
(202) 502-8659.
    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: 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)--November 2020
Request Additional Information--November 2020
Issue Acceptance Letter--February 2021
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--March 2021
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--May 2021
Issue Scoping Document 2--June 2021
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--June 2021
Commission issues Environmental Assessment--December 2021

    Dated: September 8, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-20172 Filed 9-11-20; 8:45 am]
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