[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 49 (Thursday, March 12, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14471-14472]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-05068]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2880-015]
Cherokee Falls Hydroelectric Project, LLC; Notice Soliciting
Scoping Comments
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: New License.
b. Project No.: 2880-015.
c. Date filed: July 31, 2019.
d. Applicant: Cherokee Falls Hydroelectric Project, LLC.
e. Name of Project: Cherokee Falls Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The existing project is located on the Broad River, in
Cherokee County, South Carolina. The project does not affect federal
land.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Beth E. Harris, Enel Green Power North
America, Inc., 11 Anderson Street, Piedmont, SC 29673; Telephone (864)
846-0042 ext. 100; [email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Michael Spencer at (202) 502-6093, or at
[email protected].
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: April 5, 2020.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
scoping comments 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 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, please send a paper copy to:
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE,
Washington, DC 20426. The first page of any filing should include
docket number P-2880-015.
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 is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
Project Description: The Cherokee Falls Project consists of: (1) A
1,819-foot-long granite masonry dam with a 1,701-foot-long spillway and
4-foot-high flashboards; (2) a reservoir with a surface area of 83
acres and a storage capacity of 140 acre-feet; (3) a trash rack intake;
(4) a 130-foot-long powerhouse containing one generating unit with a
capacity of 4,140 kilowatts and an annual generation of 9,354.9
megawatt-
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hours; (5) a 150-foot-long tailrace; (6) 93-foot-long generator leads
to three 500-kilovolt transformers and (7) a 200-foot-long transmission
line to a point of interconnection with the grid.
The Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with a continuous
year-round minimum flow of 65 cubic feet per second (cfs) in the
bypassed reach. Project operation starts when inflows exceed 665 cfs,
the sum of the minimum hydraulic capacity of the turbine (600 cfs) and
the minimum flow. All flows greater than 3,165 cfs, which is the sum of
the maximum hydraulic capacity of the turbine (3,100 cfs) and the
minimum flow, are passed over the spillway.
l. A copy of the application is available for review at the
Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the
Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary link.
Enter the docket number excluding the last three digits in the docket
number field to address the document. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support. A copy is available for inspection and reproduction at
the address in Item H above.
m. 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. Scoping Process.
The Commission staff intends to prepare a single Environmental
Assessment (EA) for the project in accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act. The EA will consider both site-specific and
cumulative environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the
proposed action.
At this time, we do not anticipate holding on-site public or agency
scoping meetings. Instead, we are soliciting your comments and
suggestions on the preliminary list of issues and alternatives to be
addressed in the EA, as described in scoping document 1 (SD1), issued
March 6, 2020.
Copies of SD1 outlining the subject areas to be addressed in the EA
were distributed to the parties on the Commission's mailing list and
the applicant's distribution list. Copies of SD1 may be viewed on the
web at 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, call 1-866-208-3676 or for TTY,
(202) 502-8659.
Dated: March 6, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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