48716 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 201 / Thursday, October 19, 2017 / Notices 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Ministerial Clean Up: Overlapping 

Dates, Italicized Language and 

Corrections to be effective 6/27/2016. 

Filed Date: 10/12/17. 

Accession Number: 20171012–5143. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/2/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–72–000. 

Applicants: Deseret Generation & 

Transmission Co-operative, Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

OATT Attachment K Amend to be 

effective 12/12/2017. 

Filed Date: 10/12/17. 

Accession Number: 20171012–5152. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/2/17. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following qualifying 

facility filings: 

Docket Numbers: QF18–33–000. 

Applicants: UE–00301MD, LLC. 

Description: Form 556 of UE– 

00301MD, LLC. 

Filed Date: 10/6/17. 

Accession Number: 20171006–5082. 

Comments Due: None Applicable. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the links or querying the 

docket number. 

Any person desiring to intervene or 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s 

Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

Protests may be considered, but 

intervention is necessary to become a 

party to the proceeding. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

Dated: October 13, 2017. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22654 Filed 10–18–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14859–000] 

Big Chino Valley Pumped Storage LLC; 

Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

On September 29, 2017, Big Chino 

Valley Pumped Storage LLC (Big Chino) 

filed an application for a preliminary 

permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the 

Federal Power Act, proposing to study 

the feasibility of the Big Chino Valley 

Pumped Storage Project (project) to be 

located near Chino Valley in Yavapai, 

Coconino, and Mohave Counties, 

Arizona. 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 will be closedloop. Water to initially fill the reservoirs 

and required make-up water will be 

pumped from locally available 

groundwater sources. The proposed 

project would consist of an upper and 

lower reservoir, a 10.1-mile-long water 

conveyance system connecting the two 

reservoirs, a powerhouse, and three 500- 

kV transmission lines. A 2,900-footlong, 360-foot-high rockfill, concretefaced dam would be constructed to form 

the 50-acre upper reservoir, which 

would have a storage capacity of 19,739- 

acre-foot at an elevation of 6,560 feet. A 

2,700-foot-long, 250-foot-high rockfill, 

concrete-faced dam would be 

constructed to form a 50-acre lower 

reservoir with a storage capacity of 

19,811-acre-foot at an elevation of 5,294 

feet. Water would be conveyed from the 

upper reservoir to the lower reservoir 

via two upper reservoir inlet/outlets, 

two vertical shafts, two horizontal 

power tunnels, two penstock manifold 

tunnels, and eight 12-foot-diameter, 

steel-lined penstocks. The powerhouse 

would contain eight pump-turbine/ 

motor-generator units rated at 250 MW 

each. From the powerhouse, water will 

discharge into eight, 16-foot diameter 

draft tubes from each unit and then into 

two, 32-foot-diameter tailrace tunnels, 

which will discharge into the lower 

reservoir through a lower reservoir 

inlet/outlet structure. Project power 

would be transmitted through a 30-milelong 500-kilovolt (kV), line traversing 

northerly to interconnect with the 

existing Arizona Public Service ownedand operated Eldorado-Moenkopi 500- 

kV line or a planned and sited new Dine 

Navajo Transmission Project 500-kV 

line from Moenkopi to Marketplace; a 

54-mile long 500-kV traversing westerly 

to interconnect with an existing Western 

Area Power Administration owned and 

operated 230-kV line from Prescott to 

Peacock that would be upgraded to 500 

kV; and a 47-mile-long 500-kV line 

traversing easterly to interconnect with 

two Navajo Southern Transmission 500- 

kV lines owned by participants of the 

Navajo Generating Plant and operated 

by Arizona Public Service. 

The estimated annual generation of 

the project would be 4,614 gigawatthours. 

Applicant Contact: Brian Studenka, 

Director, Grid Development ITC 

Holdings Corp., 27175 Energy Way, 

Novi, MI 48377, phone (248) 946–3247; 

Andrew M. Jamieson, Counsel— 

Regulatory & Legislative ITC Holdings 

Corp., 27175 Energy Way, Novi, MI 

48377, phone (248) 946–3536; Jay Ryan, 

Baker Botts L.L.P., The Warner—Suite 

1000, 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20016, phone (202) 

639–7789. 

FERC Contact: Kim Nguyen, (202) 

502–6105. 

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. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments, 

motions to intervene, notices of intent, 

and competing applications using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at 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, (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–14859–000. 

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/elibary.asp. 

Enter the docket number (P–14859) in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

Dated: October 13, 2017. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22656 Filed 10–18–17; 8:45 am] 

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