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State agencies of the timing for the 

completion of all necessary reviews, and 

the subsequent need to complete all 

Federal authorizations within 90 days of 

the date of issuance of the Commission 

staff’s FEIS or EA. 

There are two ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project. First, any person wishing to 

obtain legal status by becoming a party 

to the proceedings for this project 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below, file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

a motion to intervene in accordance 

with the requirements of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the NGA (18 

CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 

status will be placed on the service list 

maintained by the Secretary of the 

Commission and will receive copies of 

all documents filed by the applicant and 

by all other parties. A party must submit 

seven copies of filings made with the 

Commission and must mail a copy to 

the applicant and to every other party in 

the proceeding. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

Persons who wish to comment only 

on the environmental review of this 

project should submit an original and 

two copies of their comments to the 

Secretary of the Commission. 

Environmental cementers will be placed 

on the Commission’s environmental 

mailing list, will receive copies of the 

environmental documents, and will be 

notified of meetings associated with the 

Commission’s environmental review 

process. Environmental cementers will 

not be required to serve copies of filed 

documents on all other parties. 

However, the nonparty commenters will 

not receive copies of all documents filed 

by other parties or issued by the 

Commission (except for the mailing of 

environmental documents issued by the 

Commission) and will not have the right 

to seek court review of the 

Commission’s final order. 

However, a person does not have to 

intervene in order to have comments 

considered. The second way to 

participate is by filing with the 

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as 

possible, an original and two copies of 

comments in support of or in opposition 

to this project. The Commission will 

consider these comments in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken, but the filing of a comment alone 

will not serve to make the filer a party 

to the proceeding. The Commission’s 

rules require that persons filing 

comments in opposition to the project 

provide copies of their protests only to 

the party or parties directly involved in 

the protest. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and seven 

copies of the protest or intervention to 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. This filing is 

accessible on-line at http://www.ferc.gov 

using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available 

for review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free) or TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on March 25, 2011. 

Dated: March 4, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5486 Filed 3–9–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2079–069] 

Placer County Water Agency 

Notice of Application Tendered for 

Filing with the Commission and 

Establishing Procedural Schedule for 

Licensing And 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 Major 

License 

b. Project No.: 2079–069 

c. Date Filed: February 23, 2011 

d. Applicant: Placer County Water 

Agency 

e. Name of Project: Middle Fork 

American River Project 

f. Location: The Middle Fork 

American River Project is located in 

Placer and El Dorado counties, almost 

entirely within the Tahoe and El Dorado 

National Forests. The project occupies 

3,268 acres of federal lands 

administered by the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture—Forest Service. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r) 

h. Applicant Contact: Andy Fecko, 

Project Manager, Placer County Water 

Agency, 144 Ferguson Road, Auburn, 

CA 95603; Telephone: (530) 823–4490. 

i. FERC Contact: Carolyn Templeton, 

(202) 502–8785 or 

carolyn.templeton@ferc.gov 

j. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

k. The Project Description: The 

Middle Fork American River Project 

(project) has two principal water storage 

reservoirs, French Meadows and Hell 

Hole. These reservoirs are located on the 

Middle Fork American River and the 

Rubicon River, respectively, and have a 

combined gross storage capacity of 

342,583 acre-feet (ac-ft). 

Starting at the highest elevation of the 

project, water is diverted from Duncan 

Creek at the Duncan Creek diversion 

and routed through the 1.5-mile-long 

Duncan Creek-Middle Fork tunnel into 

French Meadows reservoir (134,993 acft of gross storage). 

Flows in the Middle Fork American 

River are captured and stored in French 

Meadows reservoir along with 

diversions from Duncan Creek. From 

French Meadows reservoir, water is 

transported via the 2.6-mile-long French 

Meadows-Hell Hole tunnel, passed 

through the French Meadows 

powerhouse [installed generating 

capacity of 15.3 megawatts (MW)], and 

released into Hell Hole reservoir 

(207,590 ac-ft of gross storage). Flows in 

the Rubicon River are captured and 

stored in Hell Hole reservoir along with 

water released from French Meadows 

reservoir through French Meadows 

powerhouse. Water released from Hell 

Hole reservoir into the Rubicon River to 

meet instream flow requirements first 

pass through the Hell Hole powerhouse 

(installed generating capacity of 0.73 

MW), which is located at the base of 

Hell Hole dam. 

From Hell Hole reservoir, water is 

also transported via the 10.4-mile-long 

Hell Hole-Middle Fork tunnel, passed 

through the Middle Fork powerhouse 

(installed generating capacity of 122.4 

MW), and released into the Middle Fork 

Interbay (175 ac-ft of gross storage). 

Between Hell Hole reservoir and Middle 

Fork powerhouse, water is diverted 

from the North and South Forks of Long 

Canyon creeks directly into the Hell 

Hole-Middle Fork tunnel. Water 

diverted from these creeks into the Hell 

Hole-Middle Fork tunnel can either be 

stored in Hell Hole reservoir or be used 

to augment releases from Hell Hole 

reservoir to the Middle Fork 

powerhouse. 


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Flows from the Middle Fork 

American River (including instream 

flow releases from French Meadows 

reservoir) are captured at Middle Fork 

interbay along with water released from 

Hell Hole reservoir through Middle Fork 

powerhouse. From Middle Fork 

Interbay, water is transported via the 

6.7-mile-long Middle Fork-Ralston 

tunnel, passed through the Ralston 

Powerhouse (installed generating 

capacity of 79.2 MW), and released into 

the Ralston afterbay (2,782 ac-ft of gross 

storage). 

Flows from the Middle Fork 

American River (including instream 

releases from Middle Fork interbay) and 

flows from the Rubicon River (including 

instream releases from Hell Hole 

reservoir) are captured in Ralston 

afterbay along with water transported 

from Middle Fork interbay through 

Ralston powerhouse. From Ralston 

afterbay, water is transported via the 

400-foot-long Ralston-Oxbow tunnel, 

passed through the Oxbow powerhouse 

(installed generating capacity of 6.1 

MW), and released from the project to 

the Middle Fork American River. The 

project has a total generation capacity of 

224 MW. 

l. Locations of the Application: 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 access the document. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. A copy is also 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. Procedural Schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following preliminary Hydro 

Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the 

schedule may be made as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis .................................................................. April 25, 2011. 

Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and fishway prescriptions ............................... June 24, 2011. 

Commission issues Draft EA or EIS .................................................................................................................. December 21, 2011. 

Comments on Draft EA or EIS .......................................................................................................................... February 20, 2012. 

Modified Terms and Conditions ......................................................................................................................... April 20, 2012. 

Commission Issues Final EA or EIS .................................................................................................................. July 19, 2012. 

o. 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: March 4, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5488 Filed 3–9–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2309–019] 

Jersey Central Power & Light 

Company and PSEG Fossil, LLC; 

Notice of Application Tendered for 

Filing With the Commission and 

Establishing Procedural Schedule for 

Licensing and 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 Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 2309–019. 

c. Date Filed: February 18, 2011. 

d. Applicant: Jersey Central Power & 

Light Company and PSEG Fossil, LLC. 

e. Name of Project: Yards Creek 

Pumped Storage Project. 

f. Location: The existing project is 

located on Yards Creek, in the 

Townships of Hardwick and Blairstown, 

Warren County, New Jersey. No federal 

lands are involved. 

g. Filed pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Timothy Oakes, 

Project Manager, Kleinschmidt 

Associates, 2 East Main Street, 

Strasburg, PA 17579; Telephone (717) 

687–7211. 

i. FERC Contact: Allyson Conner, 

(202) 502–6082 or 

allyson.conner@ferc.gov. 

j. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

k. The existing Yards Creek Pumped 

Storage Hydroelectric Project consists of 

an upper and a lower reservoir with a 

total installed capacity of 420 megawatts 

(MW). The project produces an average 

annual generation of 753.7 

gigawatthours (GWh). The average 

pumping power used by the project is 

1,031.2 GWh. 

The lower reservoir consists of: (1) An 

earthfill main dam located on Yards 

Creek, that is 1,404 feet (ft) long and 52 

ft high with a crest at elevation of 832.5 

ft; (2) the lower reservoir has a total 

storage capacity of 5,452 acre-ft at a 

spillway crest elevation of 818.5 ft and 

an usable storage capacity of 4,952 acreft with an additional 503 acre-ft in 

seasonal storage; (3) an auxiliary dike 

(i.e. Saddle Dam) located on the 

southeastern side of the lower reservoir 

is 2,091 ft long and 35 ft high; (4) an 

auxiliary reservoir located northeast of 

the lower reservoir with seasonal 

storage of 412 acre-ft formed by the 

auxiliary reservoir dam, which is 1,000 

ft long and 20 ft high. 

The upper reservoir consists of: (1) An 

earthfill dam that is 8,900 ft long and 70 

ft high; (2)the upper reservoir has a total 

usable storage capacity of 4,763 acre-ft 

and a gross storage capacity of 5,013 

acre-ft at elevation 1,555 ft; (3) water 

conveyance structures between the 

upper reservoir and lower reservoir (a 

2,116-ft, 35-ft wide intake channel in 

the floor of the upper reservoir; a 95-ft 

high concrete intake structure with 

trashracks and stop logs; a 1,130-ft long, 

20-ft diameter concrete-lined pressure 

tunnel; a 210-ft long, 19-ft diameter 

steel-lined pressure tunnel; a 144-ft 

long, 19-ft diameter concrete encased 

steel-lined transition section; a 478-ft 

long, 19-ft diameter steel penstock; an 8- 

ft reducer from 19-ft diameter to 18-ft 

penstock; a 1,582-ft long, 18-ft steel 

penstock; a 325-ft long trifurcated 

penstock, one penstock per pumpinggenerating unit that tapers from 10-ft 

diameter to 7-ft 2.5-inch diameter; 86.5- 

inch spherical guard valves at the 

entrance to each pump-turbine spiral 

case); (4) a 140-ft-long by 63.5-ft-wide 

underground concrete power house, 

containing 3 vertical shaft, Francis-type, 

reversible pump-turbine units, each 

with a nameplate generating capacity of 

140 MW; and (5) appurtenant facilities. 


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