[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 158 (Thursday, August 19, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46694-46695]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-17786]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 1858-023]


Beaver City Corporation; Notice of Application Tendered for 
Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and 
Cooperating Agencies 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: New Minor License.
    b. Project No.: 1858-023.
    c. Date filed: July 30, 2021.
    d. Applicant: Beaver City Corporation.
    e. Name of Project: Beaver City Canyon Plant No. 2 Hydroelectric 
Project.
    f. Location: On the Beaver River, in Beaver County, Utah, about 5 
miles east of the city of Beaver. The project currently occupies 10.18 
acres of federal land administered by the U.S. Forest Service, and 1.87 
acres of federal land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. As 
proposed, the project would occupy 11.5 acres of federal land 
administered by the U.S. Forest Service.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Jason Brown, Beaver City Manager, 30 West 300 
North, Beaver, UT 84713; (435) 438-2451.
    i. FERC Contact: Evan Williams at (202) 502-8462, 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 serve a copy of 
the request on the applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: September 28, 2021.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
using the Commission's eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 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. All filings must clearly identify the project name and 
docket number on the first page: Beaver City Canyon Plant No. 2 
Hydroelectric Project (P-1858-023).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Project Description: The existing project consists of: (1) A 17-
foot-high by 65-foot-wide diversion dam; (2) a 30-inch-diameter, 
11,450-foot-long black steel penstock; (3) a 34-foot-long by 41-foot-
wide stone powerhouse containing an impulse turbine and one generating 
unit with an installed capacity of 625 kilowatts; (4) a 4-foot-wide by 
150-foot-long tailrace channel; (5) a 12.5-kilovolt, approximately 
21,000-foot-long transmission line; and (6) appurtenant facilities. 
Beaver City Corporation proposes to abandon the existing powerhouse and 
tailrace and construct: (1) A new 40-foot-long by 27-foot-wide 
powerhouse to contain a new turbine-generator with an installed 
capacity of 720 kilowatts, and (2) a new approximately 50-foot-long by 
approximately 7.5-foot-wide to 19-foot-wide tailrace. The new 
powerhouse and tailrace would be constructed approximately 50 feet 
upstream of the existing powerhouse, and the existing powerhouse would 
be retained within the project boundary as an historic structure. 
Beaver City Corporation also proposes to remove approximately 20,930 
feet of the existing 12.5-kilovolt transmission line from the project.
    o. In addition to publishing the full text of this notice in the 
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an 
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this notice, as well 
as other documents in the proceeding (e.g., license application) 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 (P-1858-
023). 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 
(202) 502-8659 (TTY).
    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 schedule. Revisions 
to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

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Issue Deficiency Letter/Request for         September 2021.
 Additional Information.
Issue Acceptance Letter...................  December 2021.
Issue Scoping Document 1..................  January 2022.
Request for Additional Information (if      March 2022.
 necessary).
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)...  April 2022.

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Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis  April 2022.
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    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 13, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-17786 Filed 8-18-21; 8:45 am]
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