48500 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 200 / Wednesday, October 18, 2017 / Notices 

LONGWAVE INFRARED IMAGING OF 

A HIGH TEMPERATURE HIGH 

INTENSITY LIGHT SOURCE. 

DATES: Anyone wishing to object to the 

grant of this license has fifteen (15) days 

from the date of this notice to file 

written objections along with 

supporting evidence, if any. 

ADDRESSES: Written objections are to be 

filed with Carderock Division, Naval 

Surface Warfare Center, Code 00L, 9500 

MacArthur Boulevard, West Bethesda, 

MD 20817–5700. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joseph Teter Ph.D., Director, 

Technology Transfer Office, Carderock 

Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, 

Code 00T, 9500 MacArthur Boulevard, 

West Bethesda, MD 20817–5700, 

telephone 301 227–4299. 

(Authority: 35 U.S.C. 207, 37 CFR part 404) 

Dated: October 12, 2017. 

A.M. Nichols, 

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate 

General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register 

Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22576 Filed 10–17–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3810–FF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14581–002] 

Notice of Application Tendered for 

Filing With the Commission and 

Establishing Procedural Schedule for 

Licensing and Deadline for 

Submission of Final Amendments; 

Turlock Irrigation District and Modesto 

Irrigation District, California 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Original Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 14581–002. 

c. Date Filed: October 11, 2017. 

d. Applicant: Turlock Irrigation 

District and Modesto Irrigation District, 

California. 

e. Name of Project: La Grange 

Hydropower Project. 

f. Location: The La Grange Project is 

located on the Tuolumne River in 

Stanislaus and Tuolumne Counties, 

California. Portions of the project 

occupy public lands managed by the 

Bureau of Land Management. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contacts: Steve Boyd, 

Turlock Irrigation District, 333 East 

Canal Drive, Turlock, California 95381– 

0949, (209) 883–8300; and Anna 

Brathwaite, Modesto Irrigation District, 

P.O. Box 4060, Modesto, CA 95352, 

(209) 526–7384. 

i. FERC Contact: Jim Hastreiter at 

(503) 552–2760 or james.hastreiter@

ferc.gov. 

j. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

k. The Project Description: 

La Grange Dam and Spillway 

The primary project feature is La 

Grange dam, a 310-foot-long, 131-foothigh, masonry arch dam. The un-gated 

spillway crest of the dam is at elevation 

296.5 feet mean sea level (msl). A slide 

gate in the face of La Grange dam can 

discharge about 200 cubic feet per 

second (cfs) to the Tuolumne River. 

La Grange Reservoir 

La Grange reservoir extends upstream 

for approximately 11,352.5 feet at a 

normal water surface elevation of 296.46 

feet msl. The surface of the reservoir at 

the normal surface elevation is over 58 

acres and the storage capacity is over 

500 acre-feet. 

Intakes, Tunnels, Forebay, Canal 

Headgates, Powerhouse Intake 

The Modesto Irrigation District (MID) 

headworks, canal, and sluice gates are 

part of MID’s retired irrigation canal 

facilities that currently discharge flow 

from the reservoir into the Tuolumne 

River on the right bank about 400 feet 

downstream of La Grange dam. 

The Turlock Irrigation District (TID) 

intake and tunnel is located on the left 

bank of the La Grange dam and spillway 

just upstream of the dam and consists of 

two separate structures. One structure 

contains two 8-foot by 11-foot, 10-inchhigh control gates driven by electric 

motor hoists. The second structure is 

located to the left of the first structure 

and contains a single 8-foot by 12-foot 

control gate. Water diverted at the 

intake control gates is conveyed to a 

600-foot-long tunnel leading to the 110- 

foot-long concrete forebay for the TID 

non-project Upper Main Canal. Water 

delivered to TID’s irrigation system is 

regulated at the non-project canal 

headworks, consisting of six 5-foot-wide 

by 8-foot-tall slide gates. 

Water delivered to the powerhouse is 

diverted at the west side of the canal 

through three 7.5-foot-wide by 14-foottall concrete intake bays protected by a 

trashrack structure. Manually operated 

steel gates are used to regulate the 

discharge of water through two intakes 

one leading to a 235-foot long, 5-footdiameter penstock and the other leading 

to a 212-foot-long, 7-foot-diameter 

penstock. Immediately upstream and 

adjacent to the penstock intakes are two 

automated 5-foot-high by 4-foot-wide 

sluice gates that discharge water over a 

steep rock outcrop to the tailrace 

channel just upstream of the 

powerhouse. 

Powerhouse 

The 72-foot by 29-foot concrete 

powerhouse is located approximately 

0.2 miles downstream of La Grange dam 

on the left bank of the Tuolumne River. 

The powerhouse contains two Francis 

turbine-generator units with a maximum 

capacity of 4.9 megawatts. One turbine 

unit has a rated output of 1,650 

horsepower (hp) at 140 cfs and 115 feet 

of net head and the other with a rated 

output of 4,950 hp at 440 cfs and 115 

feet of net head. The powerhouse 

produces an average annual generation 

of 19,638 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, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

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

(202) 502–8659 (TTY). 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 ........................................................................................... October 2017. 

Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and fishway prescriptions ........................................................ December 2017. 


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Milestone Target date 

Commission issues Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) ............................................................................................. July 2018. 

Comments on Draft EIS .............................................................................................................................................................. September 2018. 

Modified Terms and Conditions .................................................................................................................................................. November 2018. 

Commission Issues Final EIS ..................................................................................................................................................... February 2019. 

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: October 12, 2017. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22531 Filed 10–17–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2685–029] 

Notice of Application Accepted for 

Filing and Soliciting Motions To 

Intervene and Protests; New York 

Power Authority 

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.: 2685–029. 

c. Date filed: April 27, 2017. 

d. Applicant: New York Power 

Authority (NYPA). 

e. Name of Project: Blenheim-Gilboa 

Pumped Storage Project (BlenheimGilboa Project). 

f. Location: The existing project is 

located on Schoharie Creek, in the 

Towns of Blenheim and Gilboa in 

Schoharie County, New York. 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: Mr. Robert 

Daly, Licensing Manager, New York 

Power Authority, 123 Main Street, 

White Plains, New York 10601. 

Telephone: (914) 681–6564, Email: 

Rob.Daly@nypa.gov. 

i. FERC Contact: Andy Bernick, 

Telephone (202) 502–8660, and email 

andrew.bernick@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing motions to 

intervene and protests: 60 days from the 

issuance date of this notice. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file motions to 

intervene and protests using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 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. The first 

page of any filing should include docket 

number P–2685–029. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

require all intervenors filing documents 

with the Commission to serve a copy of 

that document on each person on 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. This application has been accepted 

for filing, but is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. The existing Blenheim-Gilboa 

Project consists of the following: (1) A 

2.25-mile-long, 30-foot-wide earth and 

rock fill embankment dike with a 

maximum height of 110 feet, 

constructed at Brown Mountain and 

forming the 399-acre Upper Reservoir 

(operating at the maximum and extreme 

minimum elevations of 2,003 feet and 

1,955 feet National Geodetic Vertical 

Datum of 1929 [NGVD 29], respectively) 

with 15,085 acre-feet of usable storage 

and dead storage of 3,706 acre-feet 

below elevation 1,955 feet NGVD 29; (2) 

a 655-foot-long emergency spillway 

with a 25-foot-wide asphaltic concrete 

crest at elevation 2,005 feet NGVD 29 

and a capacity of 10,200 cubic feet per 

second (cfs); (3) an intake system that 

includes: (i) a 125-foot-wide hexagonalshaped intake cover with trash racks 

with a clear spacing of 5.25 inches; (ii) 

a 1,042-foot-long, 28-foot-diameter, 

concrete-lined vertical shaft in the 

bottom of the Upper Reservoir; (iii) a 

906-foot-long horizontal, concrete-lined 

rock tunnel; and (iv) a 460-foot-long 

concrete-lined manifold that distributes 

flow to four 12-foot-diameter steel-lined 

penstocks, each with a maximum length 

of about 1,960 feet, to four pumpturbines located at the powerhouse; (4) 

a 526-foot-long, 172-foot-wide, and 132- 

foot-high multi-level powerhouse 

located along the east bank of the Lower 

Reservoir at the base of Brown 

Mountain, containing four reversible 

pump turbines that each produce 

approximately 290 megawatts (MW) in 

generation mode, and have a total 

maximum discharge of 12,800 cfs 

during generation and 10,200 cfs during 

pumping; (5) a bottom trash rack with 

a clear spacing of 5.625 inches, and four 

upper trash racks with a clear spacing 

of 5.25 inches; (6) an 1,800-foot-long 

central core, rock-filled lower dam with 

a maximum height of 100 feet that 

impounds Schoharie Creek to form the 

413-acre Lower Reservoir (operating at 

the maximum and minimum elevations 

of 900 feet and 860 feet NGVD 29, 

respectively) with 12,422 acre-feet of 

usable storage and dead storage of 3,745 

acre-feet below 860 feet NGVD 29; (7) 

three 38-foot-wide by 45.5-foot-high 

Taintor gates at the left end of the lower 

dam; (8) a 425-foot-long, 134-foot-wide 

concrete spillway structure with a crest 

elevation of 855 feet NGVD 29; (9) a 

238-foot-long, 68.5-foot-deep concrete 

stilling basin; (10) a low level outlet 

with four discharge valves of 4, 6, 8, and 

10 inches for release of 5 to 25 cfs, and 

two 36-inch-diameter Howell-Bunger 

valves to release a combined flow of 25 

to 700 cfs; (11) a switchyard on the 

eastern bank of Schoharie Creek 

adjacent to the powerhouse; and (12) 

appurtenant facilities. 

During operation, the BlenheimGilboa Project’s pump-turbines may be 

turned on or off several times 

throughout the day, but the project 

typically generates electricity during the 

day when consumer demand is high and 

other power resources are more 

expensive. Pumping usually occurs at 

night and on weekends when there is 

excess electricity in the system available 

for use. According to a July 30, 1975, 

settlement agreement, NYPA releases a 

minimum flow of 10 cubic feet per 

second (cfs) during low-flow periods 

when 1,500 acre-feet of water is in 

storage, and 7 cfs when less than 1,500 

acre-feet is in storage. For the period 

2007 through 2016, the project’s average 

annual generation was about 374,854 

megawatt-hours (MWh) and average 

annual energy consumption from 

pumping was about 540,217 MWh. 

m. 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 


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