Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 76 / Wednesday, April 20, 2022 / Notices 23511 

1 18 CFR 385.2007(a)(2) of the Commission’s 

regulations provide that if a filing date falls on a 

Saturday, Sunday, or federal legal public holiday, 

then the deadline for filing becomes the next 

business day. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1858–023] 

Beaver City Corporation; Notice 

Soliciting Scoping Comments 

Take notice that the following 

application has been filed with the 

Commission and is available for public 

inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Subsequent 

Minor License. 

b. Project No.: P–1858–023. 

c. Date filed: July 30, 2021. 

d. Applicant: Beaver City Corporation 

(Beaver City). 

e. Name of Project: Beaver City 

Canyon Plant No. 2 Hydroelectric 

Project. 

f. Location: The existing hydroelectric 

project is located on the Beaver River, 

in Beaver County, Utah, about 5 miles 

east of the city of Beaver. The project 

currently occupies 10.2 acres of federal 

land administered by the U.S. Forest 

Service and 2.4 acres of federal land 

managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land 

Management. As proposed, the project 

would occupy 10.5 acres of federal land 

administered by the U.S. Forest Service 

and 2.4 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: Mr. Jason 

Brown, Beaver City Manager, 30 West 

300 North, Beaver, UT 84713; (435)– 

438–2451. 

i. FERC Contact: Evan Williams, (202) 

502–8462, or email at evan.williams@

ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing scoping 

comments: May 14, 2022.1

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file all 

documents using the Commission’s 

eFiling system at https://

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/Quick

Comment.aspx. 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, (866) 

208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 

(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please 

send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

Submissions sent via any other carrier 

must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. All filings 

must clearly identify the project name 

and docket number on the first page: 

Beaver City Canyon Plant No. 2 

Hydroelectric Project (P–1858–023). 

k. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. The existing project consists of: (1) 

A 15.5-foot-high by 65-foot-wide 

diversion dam that impounds a small 

reservoir with a surface area of 

approximately 0.15 acre and a storage 

capacity of approximately 1-acre-foot; 

(2) a 30-inch-diameter, 11,632-foot-long 

black steel penstock; (3) a 34-foot-long 

by 41-foot-wide stone powerhouse 

containing an impulse turbine and one 

generating unit with an installed 

capacity of 625 kilowatts; (4) a 4-footwide by 150-foot-long tailrace channel; 

(5) a 12.5-kilovolt, approximately 

21,000-foot-long transmission line; and 

(6) appurtenant facilities. The estimated 

average annual generation (2012 to 

2017) is 2,602.6 megawatt-hours. 

Beaver City proposes to abandon the 

existing: (1) Powerhouse; (2) portion of 

penstock between the existing 

powerhouse and proposed new 

powerhouse; (3) buried line from the 

turbine generator to the transformer on 

the west side of the existing 

powerhouse; (4) old transformer; (5) 

overhead line from the old transformer 

to the start of the transmission line on 

the west bank of the Beaver River; and 

(6) tailrace. As such, Beaver City 

proposes to remove approximately 50- 

feet of the existing penstock, increase 

the existing project boundary, and 

construct: (1) A new 40-foot-long by 27- 

foot-wide metal-walled powerhouse, 

with a reinforced concrete foundation, 

to contain one new turbine-generator 

with an installed capacity of 720 

kilowatts; (2) a new approximately 35- 

foot-long buried line from the new 

turbine-generator to the new 

transformer; (3) a new approximately 

33-foot-long buried line from the new 

transformer to a 40-foot-tall 

intermediate pole of wood and metal 

construction; (4) a new 120-foot-long 

overhead line from the intermediate 

pole to the start of the existing 

transmission line; and (5) a new 43-footlong tailrace that tailrace varies from 7.5 

feet wide adjacent to powerhouse to 19 

feet wide at point of discharge. The new 

powerhouse, power distribution 

facilities, and tailrace would be 

constructed approximately 50 feet 

upstream (south) of the existing 

powerhouse, enclosed by new 

approximately 240 feet of 8-foot-tall 

chain-link perimeter fence, and the 

existing powerhouse would be retained 

within the project boundary as an 

historic structure. 

m. In addition to publishing the full 

text of this document in the Federal 

Register. The Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (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. At this 

time, the Commission has suspended 

access to the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCONlineSupport@

ferc.gov or call toll-free, (866) 208–3676 

or TYY, (202) 502–8659. 

n. Register online at https://

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx to 

be notified via email of new filings and 

issuances related to this or other 

pending projects. For assistance, contact 

FERC Online Support. 

o. Scoping Process. 

The Commission staff intends to 

prepare an Environmental Assessment 

(EA) for the Canyon Plant No. 2 

Hydroelectric Project in accordance 

with the National Environmental Policy 

Act. The EA will consider site-specific 

environmental impacts and reasonable 

alternatives to the proposed action. 

Commission staff does not propose to 

conduct any on-site scoping meetings at 

this time. Instead, we are soliciting 

comments, recommendations, and 

information, on the Scoping Document 

(SD) issued on April 14, 2022. 

Copies of the SD outlining the subject 

areas to be addressed in the EA were 

distributed to the parties on the 

Commission’s mailing list and the 

applicant’s distribution list. Copies of 

the SD may be viewed on the web at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Follow the directions 

for accessing information in paragraph 

m. Based on all written comments, a 

Scoping Document 2 (SD2) may be 

issued. SD2 may include a revised 

schedule, as well as a list of issues, 

identified through the scoping process. 

Dated: April 14, 2022. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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