[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 21, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20676-20677]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-08126]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 15088-000]


Daybreak Power, Inc.; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application 
Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 
Competing Applications

    On January 19, 2021, Daybreak Power, Inc., filed an application for 
a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act 
(FPA), to study the feasibility of the Halverson Canyon Pumped Storage 
Project to be located near Lake Roosevelt in Lincoln County, 
Washington. 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 pumped storage project would use the Bureau of 
Reclamation's Lake Roosevelt as the lower reservoir and consist of the 
following new facilities: (1) A 399-foot-high, rockfill concrete face 
upper reservoir with an estimated usable volume of approximately 29,000 
acre-feet, at a maximum operating elevation of 2,400 feet mean sea 
level (msl); (2) a 10,015-foot long water conveyance system connecting 
the upper and lower reservoirs composed of three 35-feet diameter 
headrace tunnels, nine 13-feet diameter penstocks, and nine 15-feet 
diameter draft tubes; (3) a 754-foot-long, 82-foot-wide, 128-foot-high 
powerhouse containing nine 295-MW fixed-speed pump turbine/generation 
units for a combined capacity of approximately 2,650 megawatts; (4) a 
5-mile-long 765 kilovolts (kV) transmission line connecting the 
powerhouse with Bonneville Powers Creston substation; and (5) 
appurtenant facilities. The project intake would be on federal land. 
The estimated annual generation of the Halverson Canyon Pumped Storage 
Project would be approximately 8,899,000 megawatt-hours.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. Jim Day, CEO Daybreak Power Inc., 4075 
Wilson Blvd., 8th Floor Arlington, VA 22203; phone: (703) 624-4971; 
email: [email protected].
    FERC Contact: Ingrid Brofman; phone: (202)-502-8347; email: 
[email protected].
    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

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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, you may submit a paper copy. 
Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via 
any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852. The first page of any filing should include the docket 
number P-15088-000.
    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-15088) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: April 14, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-08126 Filed 4-20-21; 8:45 am]
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