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Comment Date: May 2, 2012. 

Dated: April 11, 2012. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9277 Filed 4–17–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14329–000] 

Grand Coulee Project Hydroelectric 

Authority; Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

On December 1, 2011, the Grand 

Coulee Project Hydroelectric Authority 

filed an application for a preliminary 

permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the 

Federal Power Act (FPA), proposing to 

study the feasibility of the Banks Lake 

Pumped Storage Project (Banks Lake 

Project or project) to be located on 

Banks Lake and Franklin D. Roosevelt 

Lake (Roosevelt Lake), near the town of 

Grand Coulee, Douglas and Grant 

Counties, Washington. The project 

would be located on federal lands 

administered by the U.S. Bureau of 

Reclamation (Reclamation) and the U.S. 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 

The sole purpose of a preliminary 

permit, if issued, is to grant the permit 

holder priority to file a license 

application during the permit term. A 

preliminary permit does not authorize 

the permit holder to perform any landdisturbing activities or otherwise enter 

upon lands or waters owned by others 

without the owners’ express permission. 

The proposed project has two 

alternatives: 

Alternative 1 

The proposed project would use 

Reclamation’s existing Banks Lake as 

the upper reservoir and Roosevelt Lake 

as the lower reservoir. The proposed 

project would consist of the following 

new facilities: (1) An upper reservoir 

inlet/outlet structure equipped with 

trash racks; (2) a 1.5-mile-long penstock 

consisting of a vertical shaft, power 

tunnel segments, and a tailrace section, 

extending between the upper reservoir 

inlet/outlet and the reversible turbine/ 

generator units in the powerhouse; (3) 

an underground powerhouse containing 

four reversible turbine/generator units 

rated for 250 megawatts (MW) each, for 

a total installed generation of 1,000 MW, 

or a powerhouse located on the shore of 

Roosevelt Lake, also containing four 

250–MW reversible turbine/generator 

units; (4) a 2-mile-long, 500-kilovolt 

(kV) transmission line extending from 

the project powerhouse to an existing 

500-kV substation; and (5) appurtenant 

facilities. The estimated annual 

generation of Alternative 1 for the Banks 

Lake Project would be 2,263 gigawatthours (GWh). 

Alternative 2 

The proposed project would use 

Reclamation’s existing Banks Lake as 

the lower reservoir. The proposed 

project would consist of the following 

new facilities: (1) A new 312-acre upper 

reservoir constructed approximately 

3,000 feet west of the existing Banks 

Lake, impounded by three earth and 

rockfill embankments, each with a crest 

elevation of 2,300 feet above mean sea 

level; (2) an upper reservoir inlet/outlet 

structure equipped with trash racks; (3) 

a 620-foot-long, 43-foot-diameter 

vertical shaft connecting the upper 

reservoir inlet/outlet structure to the 

power tunnels; (4) four 1,700-foot-long, 

17-foot-diameter power tunnels leading 

from the vertical shaft to the 

powerhouse; (5) an underground 

powerhouse containing four reversible 

turbine/generator units rated for 260 

MW each, for a total installed generation 

of 1,040 MW; (6) a 25-foot-diameter 

tailrace tunnel between the powerhouse 

and the existing Banks Lake; (7) a 2.4- 

mile-long, 500-kV transmission line 

extending from the project powerhouse 

to a new 500-kV substation; and (8) 

appurtenant facilities. The estimated 

annual generation of Alternative 2 for 

the Banks Lake Project would be 2,978 

GWh. 

Applicant Contact: Mr. Ronald K. 

Rodewald, Secretary-Manager, Grand 

Coulee Project Hydroelectric Authority, 

P.O. Box 219, Ephrata, WA 98823; 

phone: (509) 754–2227. 

FERC Contact: Jennifer Harper; 

phone: (202) 502–6136. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Competing applications and notices of 

intent must meet the requirements of 18 

CFR 4.36. Comments, motions to 

intervene, notices of intent, and 

competing applications may be filed 

electronically via the Internet. See 18 

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

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site 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 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. Although the 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing, documents may also be 

paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an 

original and seven copies to: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the application, can 

be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link of Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number 

(P–14329) in the docket number field to 

access the document. For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support. 

Dated: April 11, 2012. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9273 Filed 4–17–12; 8:45 am] 

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