17956 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 74 / Monday, April 20, 2009 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13283–000] 

The Nevada Hydro Company, Inc.; 

Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

April 13, 2009. 

On September 2, 2008, The Nevada 

Hydro Company, Inc. filed an 

application for a preliminary permit, 

pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal 

Power Act, proposing to study the 

feasibility of the 600-megawatt (MW) 

River Mountain Pumped Storage 

Project, located on Lake Dardanelle on 

the Arkansas River in Logan County, 

Arkansas. 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 land disturbing activities or 

otherwise enter upon lands or waters 

owned by others without the owners’ 

express permission. 

The proposed project works consist 

of: (a) A 183-acre upper reservoir, lined 

with an impermeable membrane, having 

11,580 acre-feet gross storage capacity, 

excavated within a 225-acre site and 

formed by a rockfill embankment with 

a height ranging from 25 to 120 feet 

above existing topography; (b) a 

reinforced concrete intake/outlet 

structure in the upper reservoir; (c) a 30- 

foot diameter, concrete-lined vertical 

shaft approximately 680 feet long 

connecting the upper reservoir’s intake 

and outlet structure to an underground, 

horizontal power tunnel; (d) a 30-footdiameter, concrete-lined, power tunnel 

that extends 1,250 feet from the vertical 

shaft to the penstocks; (e) three 16-foot 

diameter penstocks approximately 450 

feet long, 250 feet of which are steellined; (f) an underground powerhouse, 

approximately 560 feet below the 

ground surface, containing three 

reversible pump-turbine generator units, 

each nominally rated at 200 MW, 

generating with up to 13,200 cfs and 

pumping with up to 10,560 cfs; (g) an 

underground transformer gallery, surge 

chamber, access tunnel and vent shaft 

located near the powerhouse; (h) a 

horseshoe-shaped tailrace tunnel, 40 

feet high by 40 feet wide extending 

4,800 feet from the powerhouse to a 

submerged intake/outlet structure in 

Lake Dardanelle; (i) a 500-kV 

transmission line originating from the 

powerhouse and extending 

approximately 1.8 miles to an existing 

500-kV transmission line owned by 

Arkansas Power and Light; (j) 

approximately five miles of new project 

access roads; and appurtenant 

equipment and facilities. The project 

would generate approximately 6,000 

megawatt-hours per day. The project 

would utilize the 34,300-acre Lake 

Dardanelle, managed by the U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers for navigation, 

recreation, and hydropower generation, 

as the lower reservoir, however, Lake 

Dardanelle would not be a licensed 

facility of the proposed project. 

Applicant Contact: Rexford Wait, The 

Nevada Hydro Company, Inc., 2416 

Cades Way, Vista, CA 92083; phone 

760–599–0086; fax 760–599–1815. 

FERC Contact: Monte TerHaar, 202– 

502–6035. 

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. 

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 under the 

‘‘e-Filing’’ link. If unable to be filed 

electronically, documents may be paperfiled. To paper-file, an original and eight 

copies should be mailed to: Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. For 

more information on how to submit 

these types of filings please go to the 

Commission’s Web site located at 

http://www.ferc.gov/filingcomments.asp. More information about 

this project 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–13283) in the docket number field to 

access the document. For assistance, 

call toll-free 1–866–208–3372. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–8955 Filed 4–17–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP96–810–009] 

Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, LLC; 

Notice of Application 

April 13, 2009. 

Take notice that on April 8, 2009, 

Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, LLC 

(Maritimes), 890 Winter Street, Suite 

300, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451, 

filed an application in Docket No. 

CP96–810–009 pursuant to section 3 of 

the Natural Gas Act (NGA), seeking an 

amendment to its authorization under 

NGA section 3 and its Presidential 

Permit to allow it to export natural gas 

from the United States to Canada 

utilizing Maritimes’ existing crossborder facilities. Maritimes proposes no 

new facilities in its application. The full 

design capacity of the cross-border 

facilities is 833,317 dekatherms per day 

plus the quantity necessary for system 

fuel requirements. 

Any questions regarding the 

applications should be directed to Garth 

Johnson, General Manager, Certificates 

and Reporting, M&N Management 

Company, 5400 Westheimer Court, P.O. 

Box 1642, Houston, Texas 77251–1642. 

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 

14 copies of filings made in the 

proceeding with the Commission and 

must mail a copy to the applicant and 

to every other party. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

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 


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