Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 4 / Monday, January 7, 2013 / Notices 929 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 485–065] 

Georgia Power Company; 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.: 485–065. 

c. Date Filed: December 14, 2012. 

d. Applicant: Georgia Power 

Company. 

e. Name of Project: Bartletts Ferry 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The existing project is 

located on the Chattahoochee River, 

along the Georgia-Alabama border, in 

Harris County, Georgia, and Lee and 

Chambers counties, Alabama. The 

project does not affect federal lands. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: George A. 

Martin, Hydro Relicensing Project 

Manager, Georgia Power Company, 241 

Ralph McGill Blvd., NE., BIN 10221, 

Atlanta, GA 30308; Telephone—(404) 

506–1357; Email— 

gamartin@southernco.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Allan Creamer, (202) 

502–8365, or allan.creamer@ferc.gov. 

j. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

k. The Project Description: The project 

consists of a 2,052-foot-long dam, two 

powerhouses, and a 5,850-acre reservoir 

(Bartletts Ferry Reservoir or Lake 

Harding) at a normal water surface 

elevation of 520.16 feet mean sea level 

(msl; or 521.0 Plant Datum). 

The west side of the project, from 

west to east, consists of: (1) A 1,230- 

foot-long, 11.25-foot-high, 22-bay 

auxiliary labyrinth spillway; (2) a 286- 

foot-long, 35-foot-high, earth-fill 

embankment dam; (3) a 92-foot-long by 

94-foot-high concrete gravity intake 

structure, equipped with four vertical 

lift steel intake gates, connected to the 

west powerhouse by four 15-foot 

diameter penstocks; (4) a powerhouse 

containing three vertical Francis 

turbines rated at 15 megawatts (MW) 

each and a fourth vertical Francis 

turbine rated at 20 MW, with a total 

installed capacity of 65 MW; and (5) a 

634-foot-long concrete gravity spillway 

with nineteen 21-foot-high by 25-footwide radial gates, two 9-foot-high by 11- 

foot-wide vertical lift trash gates, and 

four abandoned siphons in two spillway 

bays. 

The east side of the project, from west 

to east, consists of: (1) A 915-foot-long, 

125-foot-high, earth-fill embankment 

dam; (2) a 650-foot-long intake canal 

leading to a 177-foot-long concrete 

gravity intake structure; (3) two 

penstocks; and (4) a powerhouse with 

two vertical Francis turbines rated at 54 

MW each, with a total installed capacity 

of 108 MW. 

The project is operated in a peaking 

mode, and is coordinated with the 

peaking operations at the U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers’ upstream West 

Point Dam. The project is normally 

operated between elevations 518.16 and 

520.16 feet msl (or 519.0 and 521.0 PD), 

with normal daily average fluctuations 

of about 3⁄4 foot. The project has an 

average annual generation of 

approximately 395,577 megawatt-hours. 

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 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. 

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 2013. 

Filing of recommendations, 

preliminary terms and 

conditions, and fishway 

prescriptions.

June 2013. 

Commission issues Draft 

EA or EIS.

December 2013. 

Comments on Draft EA or 

EIS.

January 2014. 

Modified Terms and Conditions.March 2014. 

Milestone Target date 

Commission Issues Final 

EA or EIS.

May 2014. 

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: December 21, 2012. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–00014 Filed 1–4–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project Nos. P–1892–026, P–1855–045 and 

P–1904–073; Project Nos. P–1889–081 and 

P–2485–063] 

TransCanada Hydro Northeast Inc.; 

FirstLight Hydro Generating Company; 

Notice of Intent To File License 

Application, Filing of Pre-Application 

Document (PAD), Commencement of 

Pre-Filing Process, and Scoping; 

Request for Comments on the PAD 

and Scoping Document, and 

Identification of Issues and Associated 

Study Requests 

a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to 

File License Application for a New 

License and Commencing Pre-filing 

Process. 

b. Project Nos.: P–1892–026, P–1855– 

045, P–1904–073, P–1889–081, and P– 

2485–063. 

c. Dated Filed: October 31, 2012. 

d. Submitted By: TransCanada Hydro 

Northeast Inc. (P–1892–026, P–1855– 

045, and P–1904–073); FirstLight Hydro 

Generating Company (P–1889–081, and 

P–2485–063). 

e. Names of Projects: Wilder Project 

(P–1892–026), Bellows Falls Project (P– 

1855–045), Vernon Project (P–1904– 

073), Turners Falls Project (P–1889– 

081), Northfield Mountain Pumped 

Storage Project (P–2485–063). 

f. Location: The Wilder Project is 

located on the Connecticut River in 

Orange and Windsor Counties, Vermont 

(VT) and Grafton County, New 

Hampshire (NH). 

The Bellows Falls Project is located 

on the Connecticut River in Windham 

County, VT and Cheshire County, NH. 

The Vernon Project is located on the 

Connecticut River in Windsor and 

Windham Counties, VT and Sullivan 

and Cheshire Counties, NH. 

The Turners Falls Project and 

Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage 


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