[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 13 (Thursday, January 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3101-3102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01041]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 1858-023]
Beaver City Corporation Notice of Application Accepted for Filing
and Soliciting Motions To Intervene and Protests
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Subsequent Minor License.
b. Project No.: P-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: The existing hydroelectric project is located on the
Beaver River, in Beaver County, Utah, about 5 miles east of the city of
Beaver. The project currently occupies 10.2 acres of federal land
administered by the U.S. Forest Service, and 2.4 acres of federal land
managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. As proposed, the project
would occupy 10.5 acres of federal land administered by the U.S. Forest
Service and 2.4 acres of federal land administered by the U.S. Bureau
of Land Management.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Jason Brown, Beaver City Manager, 30 West
300 North, Beaver, UT 84713; (435) 438-2451.
i. FERC Contact: Evan Williams, (202) 502-8462, or at
[email protected].
j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests: 60 days
from the issuance date of this notice.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
motions to intervene and protests 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, 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
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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).
The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors filing
documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each
person on the official service list for the project. Further, if an
intervenor files comments or documents with the Commission relating to
the merits of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a
particular resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document
on that resource agency.
k. This application has been accepted, but is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
l. 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. The
estimated average annual generation (2012 to 2017) is 4,446 megawatt-
hours.
Beaver City Corporation proposes to abandon the existing: (1)
Powerhouse; (2) portion of penstock between the existing powerhouse and
proposed new powerhouse; (3) buried line from the turbine generator to
the transformer on the west side of the existing powerhouse; (4) old
transformer; (5) overhead line from the old transformer to the start of
the transmission line on the west bank of the Beaver River; and (6)
tailrace. As such, Beaver City Corporation proposes to remove
approximately 50-feet of the existing penstock and construct: (1) A new
40-foot-long by 27-foot-wide metal-walled powerhouse to contain one new
turbine-generator with an installed capacity of 720 kilowatts; (2) a
new buried line of unknown dimensions from the new turbine-generator to
the new transformer; (3) a new buried line of unknown dimensions from
the new transformer to an intermediate pole; (4) a new overhead line of
unknown dimensions from the intermediate pole to the start of the
existing transmission line; and (5) a new approximately 50-foot-long by
approximately 10-foot-wide rock-lined tailrace. The new powerhouse,
power distribution facilities, 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.
m. A copy of the application is available for review on the
Commission's website (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.
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.
n. Anyone may submit a protest or a motion to intervene in
accordance with the requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18
CFR 385.210, 385.211, and 385.214. In determining the appropriate
action to take, the Commission will consider all protests filed, but
only those who file a motion to intervene in accordance with the
Commission's Rules may become a party to the proceeding. Any protests
or motions to intervene must be received on or before the specified
deadline date for the particular application.
All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title
``PROTEST'' or ``MOTION TO INTERVENE;'' (2) set forth in the heading
the name of the applicant and the project number of the application to
which the filing responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone
number of the person protesting or intervening; and (4) otherwise
comply with the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005.
Agencies may obtain copies of the application directly from the
applicant. A copy of any protest or motion to intervene must be served
upon each representative of the applicant specified in the particular
application.
o. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will
be made as appropriate.
Commission issues Scoping Document 1........ February 2022.
Deadline for Filing Motions to Intervene and March 14, 2022.
Protests.
Filing of Scoping Comments.................. March 2022.
Commission issues Request for Additional April 2022.
Information (if necessary).
Commission issues Scoping Document 2 (if May 2022.
necessary).
Commission issues Notice of Ready for May 2022.
Environmental Analysis.
Filing of comments, recommendations, July 2022.
preliminary terms and conditions, and
preliminary fishway prescriptions.
Filing of Reply Comments.................... September 2022.
Dated: January 13, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-01041 Filed 1-19-22; 8:45 am]
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