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Notice of Application and Applicant-Prepared Environmental Assessment Accepted for Filing, Notice Soliciting Motions To Intervene and Protests, and Notice Soliciting Comments, Final Terms and Conditions, Recommendations and Prescriptions
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[Federal Register: May 6, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 87)]
[Notices]
[Page 30376-30377]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 637-022]
Notice of Application and Applicant-Prepared Environmental
Assessment Accepted for Filing, Notice Soliciting Motions To Intervene
and Protests, and Notice Soliciting Comments, Final Terms and
Conditions, Recommendations and Prescriptions
April 29, 2002.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application and
applicant-prepared environmental assessment have been accepted for
filing with the Commission and are available for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: New License.
b. Project No.: 637-022.
c. Date filed: March 28, 2002.
d. Applicant: Public Utility District No.1 of Chelan County (Chelan
PUD).
e. Name of Project: Lake Chelan Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Chelan River in Chelan County, Washington. The
project occupies about 465 acres of federal lands administered by the
U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Gregg Carrington, Chelan PUD, 327 North
Wenatchee Ave, Wenatchee WA 98801 or P.O. Box 1231, Wenatchee WA 98807-
1231, 509-663-8121 or within Washington State toll-free at 888-663-
8121, email: gregg@chelanpud.org.
i. FERC Contact: Vince Yearick, FERC, 888 First Street, NE., Room
61-11, Washington, DC 20426, (202) 219-3073, email:
vince.yearick@ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing interventions, protests, comments,
recommendations, terms and conditions, and prescriptions: 60 days from
the issuance date of this notice.
All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with:
Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. Documents may also be filed
electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. See, 18 CFR
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site
at http://www.ferc.gov 
under the ``e-Filing'' link.
The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all
intervenors filing documents with the Commission to serve a copy of
that document on each person whose name appears on the official service
list for the project. Further, if an intervenor files comments
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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. Brief Project Description: The existing Lake Chelan Project
consists of: Lake Chelan, a natural glacial lake that was raised 21
feet by construction of the dam to a current normal maximum water
surface elevation of 1,100 feet; a 40-foot-high, 490-foot-long,
concrete gravity, steel-reinforced dam; a 14-foot-diameter power
tunnel, 2.2 miles long; a 45-foot-diameter-by-125-foot-high steel surge
tank located along the power tunnel approximately 700 feet upstream of
the powerhouse; a 90-foot-long penstock transition that reduces from 14
feet in diameter to 12 feet in diameter and then bifurcates; two 9-
foot-diameter, steel-lined, concrete-encased penstocks that reduce to
7.5 feet in diameter at the turbine shutoff valves; a 140-foot-long,
100-foot-wide and 124-foot-high reinforced concrete powerhouse that
contains two vertical-shaft, Francis-type turbines with a rated
generating capacity of 24,000 kilowatts (kW) each; and a 1,700-foot-
long excavated tailrace channel adjacent to the mouth of the Chelan
River that discharges into the Columbia River.
l. Locations of the application: A copy of the application is
available for inspection and reproduction at the Commission's Public
Reference and Files Maintenance Branch, located at 888 First Street,
NE., Room 2-A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling (202) 219-1371.
Copies of this filing are on file with the Commission and are available
for public inspection. This filing may also be viewed on the web at
http://www.ferc.gov using the ``RIMS'' link, select ``Docket#'' and
follow the instructions (call 202-208-2222 for assistance). A copy is
also available for inspection and reproduction by contacting the
applicant identified in item h above.
m. Cooperating agencies: We are asking Federal, state, local, and
tribal agencies with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect
to environmental issues to cooperate with us in the preparation of the
environmental document. Agencies who would like to request cooperating
status should follow the instructions for filing comments described in
item n. below.
n. Comments, Recommendations, Terms and Conditions, Prescriptions,
and Reply Comments: The Commission is requesting comments on the
applicant's application and draft environmental assessment, final
recommendations, terms and conditions, prescriptions, and final reply
comments.
Anyone may submit comments, a protest, or a motion to intervene in
accordance with the requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedures,
18 CFR 385.210, .211, .214. In determining the appropriate action to
take, the Commission will consider all protests or other comments
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
comments, protest, or motions to intervene must be received on or
before the specified comment date for the particular application.
The Commission directs, pursuant to Section 4.34(b) of the
regulations (see Order No. 533 issued May 8, 1991, 56 FR 23108, May 20,
1991) that all comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and
prescriptions concerning the application be filed with the Commission
within 60 days from the issuance date of this notice. All reply
comments must be filed with the Commission within 105 days from the
date of this notice.
Anyone may obtain an extension of time for these deadlines from the
Commission only upon a showing of good cause or extraordinary
circumstances in accordance with 18 CFR 385.2008.
All filings must: (1) Bear in all capital letters the title
``PROTEST,'' ``MOTION TO INTERVENE,'' ``COMMENTS,'' ``REPLY COMMENTS,''
``RECOMMENDATIONS,'' ``TERMS AND CONDITIONS,'' OR ``PRESCRIPTIONS;''
(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; (4) otherwise comply with the requirements of 18 CFR
385.2001 through 385.2005. All comments, recommendations, terms and
conditions or prescriptions must set forth their evidentiary basis; and
otherwise comply with the requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). Agencies may
obtain copies of the application directly from the applicant. Any of
these documents must be filed by providing the original and the number
of copies required by the Commission's regulations to: The Secretary,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426. A copy of any protest or motion to intervene must
be served upon each representative of the applicant specified in the
particular application.
A copy of all other filings in reference to this application must
be accompanied by proof of service on all persons listed in the service
list prepared by the Commission in this proceeding, in accordance with
18 CFR 4.34(b) and 385.2010.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
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