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Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–7146 Filed 4–13–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2088–068] 

South Feather Water and Power 

Agency; Notice of Application 

Tendered for Filing With the 

Commission, Soliciting Additional 

Study Requests, and Establishing 

Procedural Schedule for Relicensing 

and a Deadline for Submission of Final 

Amendments 

April 9, 2007. 

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.: P–2088–068. 

c. Date Filed: March 26, 2007. 

d. Applicant: South Feather Water 

and Power Agency. 

e. Name of Project: South Feather 

Power Project. 

f. Location: On the South Fork Feather 

River (SFFR), Lost Creek and Slate 

Creek in Butte, Yuba and Plumas 

counties, California. The project affects 

1,977.12 acres of federal lands 

administered by the Plumas National 

Forest and 10.57 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: Michael Glaze, 

General Manager, South Feather Water 

and Power Agency, 2310 Oro-Quincy 

Highway, Oroville, CA 95966, (530) 

533–4578 

i. FERC Contact: John Mudre, (202) 

502–8902, or john.mudre@ferc.gov. 

j. 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 

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 requests for 

cooperating agency status and 

additional study requests: May 25, 2007. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Additional study requests and 

requests for cooperating agency status 

may be filed electronically via the 

Internet in lieu of paper. The 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov) under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. 

m. This application has not been 

accepted for filing and is not ready for 

environmental analysis. We are not 

soliciting motions to intervene, protests, 

or final terms and conditions at this 

time. 

n. The South Feather Power Project is 

a water supply/power project 

constructed in the late 1950s/early 

1960s. The Project is composed of four 

developments: Sly Creek, Woodleaf, 

Forbestown and Kelly Ridge, each of 

which is described below. The Project 

can store about 172,000 acre-feet (af) of 

water (gross storage) and has generated 

an average of about 514.1 gigawatt hours 

(gWh) of power annually for the past 20 

years, since the addition of Sly Creek 

Powerhouse. 

The Sly Creek Development includes: 

(1) Little Grass Valley Dam—a 210-foothigh, 840-foot-long, rock filled dam on 

the SFFR with a crest elevation of 5,052 

feet (all elevations are in National 

Geodetic Vertical Datum, or NGVD, 

unless otherwise specified) and with a 

180-foot-long spillway controlled by 

two 14-feet-high by 40-feet-long steel 

radial gates that forms a 89,804 acre-foot 

(af) storage reservoir covering 1,650 

acres at a maximum water surface (flood 

level) elevation of 5,047 feet with the 

spill gates closed; (2) South Fork 

Diversion Dam—a 60-foot-high, 167- 

foot-long, concrete overflow arch dam 

on the SFFR with a crest elevation of 

3,557 to 3,559 feet and with four 

uncontrolled overflow spillway sections 

that forms an 87 af diversion 

impoundment covering about 9 acres at 

a normal maximum water surface 

elevation of 3,557 feet; (3) South Fork 

Diversion Tunnel—a 14,256-foot-long, 

11-foot-diameter concrete lined and 

unlined horseshoe un-pressurized 

tunnel controlled by two 6-foot-high by 

4-foot-long electric hoist slide gates that 

diverts up to 600 cubic feet per second 

(cfs) of water from the South Fork 

Diversion Dam to Sly Creek Reservoir; 

(4) Slate Creek Diversion Dam—a 62- 

foot-high, 223.5-foot-long, concrete 

overflow arch dam on Slate Creek with 

a crest elevation of 3,552 to 3,554 feet 

and with three uncontrolled overflow 

spillway sections that forms a negligible 

diversion impoundment due to 

sediment accumulation; (5) Slate Creek 

Diversion Tunnel—a 13,200-foot-long, 

11-foot-diameter, concrete lined and 

unlined horseshoe un-pressurized 

tunnel controlled by two 8-foot-high by 

6-foot-long manual slide gates that 

diverts up to a maximum flow capacity 

of 848 cfs of water (though water rights 

limit flows to 600 cfs and at times flows 

are limited to 500 cfs due to high storage 

volume in the receiving reservoir) from 

the Slate Creek Diversion Dam to Sly 

Creek Reservoir; (6) Sly Creek Dam—a 

289-foot-high, 1,200-foot-long, zoned 

earth-filled dam on Lost Creek with a 

crest elevation of 3,536 feet and with a 

649-foot-long spillway controlled by one 

16-foot-high by 54-foot-long steel radial 

gate that forms a 64,338 af storage 

reservoir covering 619 acres at a 

maximum water surface (flood level) 

elevation of 3,531 feet with the spill 

gates closed; (7) Sly Creek Penstock—a 

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former outlet tunnel that delivers water 

to Sly Creek Powerhouse; (8) Sly Creek 

Powerhouse—a semi-outdoor, 

reinforced concrete, above ground 

powerhouse that releases water to Lost 

Creek Reservoir and that contains one 

reaction turbine rated at 17,690 

horsepower (hp) directly connected to a 

13,500-kilovolt-amperes (kVA) 

generator; (9) Sly Creek Powerhouse 

Switchyard—a switchyard adjacent to 

the Sly Creek Powerhouse that contains 

one 16,000 kVA transformer. Power 

generated at Sly Creek Powerhouse is 

delivered from the switchyard to the 

grid via Pacific Gas and Electric 

Company’s 115 kilovolt (kV) Sly Creek 

Tap and Woodleaf-Kanaka Junction 

transmission line; (10) Little Grass 

Valley Reservoir Recreation Facility—

the Little Grass Valley Reservoir 

Recreation Facility includes Little 

Beaver, Red Feather, Running Deer, 

Horse Camp, Wyandotte, Peninsula 

Tent, Black Rock Tent, Black Rock RV, 

and Tooms RV campgrounds; Black 

Rock, Tooms and Maidu Boat Launch 

areas; Pancake Beach and Blue Water 

Beach day use areas, Maidu 

Amphitheater and Little Grass Valley 

Dam ADA Accessible Fishing trail at 

Little Grass Valley Reservoir; and (11) 

Sly Creek Reservoir Recreation 

Facility—the Sly Creek Recreation 

Facility includes two campgrounds 

(Strawberry and Sly Creek), Strawberry 

Car-Top Boat Launch, Mooreville Boat 

Ramp and Mooreville Day Use Area on 

Sly Creek Reservoir. The Sly Creek 

Development does not include any 

roads except for the portions of the 

roads within the FERC Project Boundary 

that cross Little Grass Valley Dam 

(USFS Road 22N94) and Sly Creek Dam 

(USFS Road 21N16). 

The Woodleaf Development includes: 

(1) Lost Creek Dam—a 122-foot-high, 

486-foot-long, concrete overflow arch 

dam on the Lost Creek with a crest 

elevation of 3,279.05 feet and with a 

251-foot-wide spillway controlled by 4- 

foot-high by 8-foot-long flashboards that 

forms a 5,361 af storage reservoir 

covering 137 acres at a normal 

maximum water surface elevation of 

3,283 feet with the flashboards installed; 

(2) Woodleaf Power Tunnel—an 18,385- 

foot-long, 12-foot-diameter, concrete 

lined and unlined horseshoe 

pressurized tunnel controlled by one 6- 

foot-high by 12-foot-long electric hoist 

slide gate that diverts up to 620 cfs of 

water from Lost Creek Reservoir to the 

Woodleaf Penstock; (3) Woodleaf 

Penstock—a 3,519-foot-long, 97-inch 

reducing to 78-inch-inside-diameter, 

exposed steel penstock that delivers 

water to Woodleaf Powerhouse; (4) 

Woodleaf Powerhouse—a semi-outdoor, 

reinforced concrete, above ground 

powerhouse that releases water to the 

Forbestown Diversion Dam 

impoundment on the SFFR and that 

contains one 6-jet vertical shaft impulse 

Pelton turbine rated at 80,000 hp 

directly connected to a 65,500 kVA 

generator; and (5) Woodleaf Powerhouse 

Switchyard—a switchyard adjacent to 

the Woodleaf Powerhouse that contains 

one 70,000 kVA transformer. Power 

generated at Woodleaf Powerhouse is 

delivered from the switchyard to the 

grid via Pacific Gas and Electric 

Company’s 115 kV Woodleaf-Kanaka 

Junction transmission line. The 

Woodleaf Development does not 

include any recreation facilities or 

roads. 

The Forbestown Development 

includes: (1) Forbestown Diversion 

Dam—a 80-foot-high, 256-foot-long, 

concrete overflow arch dam on the 

SFFR with a crest elevation of 1,783 feet 

and with five 46-foot-wide uncontrolled 

overflow spillway sections with a 

combined width of approximately 240 

feet that forms a 352 af diversion 

impoundment covering about 12 acres 

at a normal maximum water surface 

elevation of 1,783 feet; (2) Forbestown 

Power Tunnel—a 18,388-foot-long, 12.5- 

foot by 11-foot-diameter, concrete lined 

and unlined horseshoe pressurized 

tunnel that diverts up to 660 cfs of water 

from the Forbestown Diversion 

impoundment to the Forbestown 

Penstock; (3) Forbestown Penstock—a 

1,487-foot-long, 97-inch reducing to 83- 

inch-inside-diameter exposed steel 

penstock that delivers water to 

Forbestown Powerhouse; (4) Forbestown 

Powerhouse—a semi-outdoor reinforced 

concrete above ground powerhouse that 

releases water to Ponderosa Reservoir 

on the SFFR and that contains one 

vertical reaction Francis turbine rated at 

54,500 hp directly connected to a 40,500 

kVA generator; and (5) Forbestown 

Powerhouse Switchyard—a switchyard 

adjacent to the Forbestown Powerhouse 

that contains one 35,200 kVA 

transformer. Power generated at 

Forbestown Powerhouse is delivered 

from the switchyard to the grid via 

Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s 115 

kV Woodleaf-Kanaka Junction 

transmission line. The Forbestown 

Development does not include any 

recreation facilities or roads. 

The Kelly Ridge Development 

includes: (1) Ponderosa Dam—a 160- 

foot-high, 650-foot-long, earth-filled 

dam that releases water into the 3.6 

million af Lake Oroville (part of the 

California Department of Water 

Resources’ Feather River Project, FERC 

Project No. 2100) with a crest elevation 

of 985 feet and with a 352-foot-long 

spillway controlled by two 7 foot 7.5- 

inch-high by 51 feet-long steel gates that 

forms a 4,178 af storage reservoir 

covering 103 acres at a normal 

maximum water surface elevation of 960 

feet; (2) Ponderosa Diversion Tunnel—a 

516-foot-long, 10-foot by 9-foot-diameter 

concrete lined and unlined horseshoe 

unpressurized tunnel controlled by one 

6-foot-high by 8-foot-long hydraulic gate 

that diverts up to 300 cfs of water from 

Ponderosa Reservoir to Miners Ranch 

Conduit; (3) Miners Ranch Conduit—a 

32,254-foot-long, 10-foot-wide concrete 

or gunite-lined canal and concrete or 

bench flume that includes two siphon 

sections across the McCabe and Powell 

creek sections of Lake Oroville and that 

diverts water from the Ponderosa 

Diversion Tunnel to the Miners Ranch 

Tunnel; (4) Miners Ranch Tunnel—a 

23,946-foot-long, 10-foot by 9-footdiameter, concrete lined horseshoe unpressurized tunnel that diverts up to 

300 cfs of water from the Miners Ranch 

Conduit to Miners Ranch Reservoir; (5) 

Miners Ranch Dam—a 55-foot-high, 

1,650-foot-long, earth-filled off-stream 

dam with a crest elevation of 895 feet 

and with an 1,175-foot-long 

uncontrolled spillway that forms a 896 

af storage reservoir covering 48 acres at 

a normal maximum water surface 

elevation of 890 feet; (6) Kelly Ridge 

Power Tunnel—a 6,736-foot-long, 9-foot 

by 8-foot-diameter, pressurized tunnel 

controlled by one 4-foot-high by 8-footlong fixed wheel gate that diverts up to 

260 cfs of water from Miners Ranch 

Reservoir to Kelly Ridge Penstock: (7) 

Kelly Ridge Penstock—a 6,064-foot-long 

69-inch reducing to 57-inch-insidediameter, exposed steel penstock that 

delivers water to Kelly Ridge 

Powerhouse; (8) Kelly Ridge 

Powerhouse—a semi-outdoor reinforced 

concrete above ground powerhouse that 

releases water to CDWR Feather River 

Project’s Thermalito Diversion Pool 

downstream of Oroville Dam and that 

contains one vertical reaction Francis 

turbine rated at 13,000 hp directly 

connected to a 11,000 kVA generator; 

and (5) Kelly Ridge Powerhouse 

Switchyard—a switchyard adjacent to 

the Kelly Ridge Powerhouse that 

contains one 11,000 kVA transformer. 

Power generated at the Kelly Ridge 

Powerhouse is delivered from the 

switchyard to the grid via Pacific Gas 

and Electric Company’s 60 kV Kelly 

Ridge-Elgin Junction transmission line. 

The Kelly Ridge Development does not 

include any recreation facilities or 

roads. 

o. A copy of the application is 

available for review at the Commission 


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in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site 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. 

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. With this notice, we are initiating 

consultation with the California State 

Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as 

required by § 106, National Historic 

Preservation Act, and the regulations of 

the Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation, 36, CFR, at § 800.4. 

q. Procedural schedule and final 

amendments: The application will be 

processed according to the following 

Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to 

the schedule will be made as 

appropriate. 

Issue Acceptance or Deficiency Letter: May 

2007. 

Request Additional Information: May 2007, 

Issue Scoping Document: June 2007. 

Hold Scoping Meetings/Site Visit: June 

2007. 

Issue Scoping Document 2: July 2007. 

Notice of application is ready for 

environmental analysis: August 2007. 

Notice of the availability of the draft NEPA 

document: February 2008. 

Initiate 10(j) process: April 2008. 

Notice of the availability of the final NEPA 

document: August 2008. 

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. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–7148 Filed 4–13–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Application Accepted for 

Filing and Soliciting Motions To 

Intervene, Protests, and Comments 

April 10, 2007. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection: 

a. Type of Application: Preliminary 

Permit. 

b. Project No.: 12786–000. 

c. Date Filed: March 13, 2007. 

d. Applicant: Fishtrap Partners, LLC. 

e. Name of Project: Fishtrap 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The project would be 

located at the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers’ existing Fishtrap Dam, on the 

Levisa Fork, Big Sandy River, in Pike 

County, Kentucky. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contacts: Mr. James B. 

Price, PhD, President, W.V. Hydro, Inc., 

P.O. Box 5550, Aiken, SC 29804, (803) 

642–2749. 

i. FERC Contact: Etta Foster, (202) 

502–8769. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

protests, and motions to intervene: 60 

days from the issuance date of this 

notice. 

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 in 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. Description of Project: The 

proposed project would utilize the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers’ Fishtrap Dam, 

reservoir and all appurtenant facilities. 

The project would consist of: (1) A 

proposed powerhouse containing one 

turbine and generator with a total 

capacity of 5,000 kW; (2) a proposed 

penstock to be installed in the existing 

outlet tunnel; (3) a switchyard 

connected to a transmission line of the 

local utility, and (4) a new 23-kV 

transmission line. The project would 

have an estimated average annual 

generation of 19 gigawatt-hours. 

l. Locations of Applications: A copy of 

the application is available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

Commission in the Public Reference 

Room, located at 888 First Street, NE., 

Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, or by 

calling (202) 502–8371. This filing may 

also be viewed on the Commission’s 

Web site 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 toll-free 

1–866–208–3676 or e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. For TTY, 

call (202) 502–8659. A copy is also 

available for inspection and 

reproduction at the address in item h 

above. 

m. Individuals desiring to be included 

on the Commission’s mailing list should 

so indicate by writing to the Secretary 

of the Commission. 

n. Competing Preliminary Permit—

Anyone desiring to file a competing 

application for preliminary permit for a 

proposed project must submit the 

competing application itself, or a notice 

of intent to file such an application, to 

the Commission on or before the 

specified comment date for the 

particular application (see 18 CFR 4.36). 

Submission of a timely notice of intent 

allows an interested person to file the 

competing preliminary permit 

application no later than 30 days after 

the specified comment date for the 

particular application. A competing 

preliminary permit application must 

conform with 18 CFR 4.30(b) and 4.36. 

o. Competing Development 

Application—Any qualified 

development applicant desiring to file a 

competing development application 

must submit to the Commission, on or 

before a specified comment date for the 

particular application, either a 

competing development application or a 

notice of intent to file such an 

application. Submission of a timely 

notice of intent to file a development 

application allows an interested person 

to file the competing application no 

later than 120 days after the specified 

comment date for the particular 

application. A competing license 

application must conform with 18 CFR 

4.30(b) and 4.36. 

p. Notice of Intent—A notice of intent 

must specify the exact name, business 

address, and telephone number of the 

prospective applicant, and must include 

an unequivocal statement of intent to 

submit, if such an application may be 

filed, either a preliminary permit 

application or a development 

application (specify which type of 

application). A notice of intent must be 

served on the applicant(s) named in this 

public notice. 

q. Proposed Scope of Studies under 

Permit—A preliminary permit, if issued, 

does not authorize construction. The 

term of the proposed preliminary permit 

would be 36 months. The work 

proposed under the preliminary permit 

would include economic analysis, 

preparation of preliminary engineering 

plans, and a study of environmental 

impacts. Based on the results of these 

studies, the Applicant would decide 

whether to proceed with the preparation 

of a development application to 

construct and operate the project. 


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