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Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 5 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above-referenced 

proceeding are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the appropriate link in the 

above list. They are also available for 

electronic review in the Commission’s 

Public Reference Room in Washington, 

DC. There is an eSubscription link on 

the Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Dated: October 12, 2017. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22529 Filed 10–17–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2299–082] 

Notice of Amended 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: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 2299–082. 

c. Date Filed: October 11, 2017. 

d. Applicant: Turlock Irrigation 

District and Modesto Irrigation District, 

California. 

e. Name of Project: Don Pedro 

Hydropower Project. 

f. Location: The Don Pedro Project is 

located on the Tuolumne River in 

Tuolumne County, 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. 79 (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: 

Don Pedro Dam and Reservoir 

The primary project feature is Don 

Pedro Dam, a 1,900-foot-long and 580- 

foot-high zoned earth and rockfill 

structure. The top of the dam is at 

elevation 855 feet mean sea level (msl). 

Don Pedro Reservoir extends 

upstream for approximately 24 miles at 

the normal maximum water surface 

elevation of 830 feet (msl). The surface 

area of the reservoir at the 830-foot 

elevation is approximately 12,960 acres 

and the gross storage capacity is 

2,030,000 acre-feet. 

Don Pedro Spillway 

Don Pedro Spillway is divided into 

two sections, one gated and one 

ungated, located immediately adjacent 

to one another in a saddle area west of 

the main dam. The gated spillway 

section is 135-feet-long, with a 

permanent crest elevation of 800 feet, 

and includes three radial gates each 45 

feet wide by 30 feet high. The ungated 

spillway is an ogee section 995 feet long 

with a crest elevation of 830 feet msl 

and a top of abutment elevation of 855 

feet msl. The spillway capacity at a 

reservoir water level of 850 feet msl is 

472,500 cubic feet per second (cfs). 

Flow releases over the ungated ogeecrest section of the spillway have 

occurred only once since project 

construction, in early January 1997. 

Flows at the spillway are released to 

Gasburg Creek, which in turn flows into 

Twin Gulch, and then back into the 

Tuolumne River approximately 1.5 

miles downstream of the main dam. 

Outlet Works 

The project facilities include a set of 

outlet works located at the left (east) 

abutment of the main dam. The outlet 

works consist of three individual gate 

housings, each containing two 4-feet-by5-feet slide gates. The outlet works are 

situated in a 3,500-foot-long concrete 

lined tunnel that originally served as the 

water diversion tunnel during project 

construction. The inlet to the tunnel has 

an invert elevation of 342 feet msl and 

the outlet, which is located 

approximately 400 feet downstream of 

the powerhouse, has an invert of 310 

feet. At a reservoir water surface 

elevation of 830 feet msl, the total 

hydraulic capacity of the outlet works is 

7,500 cfs. 

Power Intake and Tunnel 

Flows are delivered from the reservoir 

to the powerhouse via a 2,960-foot-long 

power tunnel located in the left (east) 

abutment of the main dam. The tunnel 

transitions from an 18-foot 6-inch 

concrete-lined section to a 16-foot steellined section. Emergency closure can be 

provided by a 21-foot-high by 12-footwide fixed-wheel gate that is operated 

from a chamber at the top of the gate 

shaft. Flows from the power tunnel are 

delivered to the four-unit powerhouse 

and a hollow-jet control valve in the 

powerhouse. 

Powerhouse 

Located immediately downstream of 

the main dam, the Don Pedro 

powerhouse contains four turbinegenerator units and a 72-inch hollow jet 

valve. The reinforced-concrete 

powerhouse is 171 feet long, 110 feet 

high and 148 feet wide. It houses four 

Francis turbine generator units with a 

nameplate capacity of 168 megawatts 

(MW) and a maximum output at 

optimum conditions of approximately 

203 MW. Combined hydraulic capacity 

of the four units under maximum head 

is approximately 5,500 cfs. 

The powerhouse also contains a 72- 

inch hollow jet valve located in the east 

end of the powerhouse with a centerline 

elevation at discharge of 299 feet msl. 

The hydraulic capacity of the hollow jet 

valve is 3,000 cfs. While turbine Units 

1 through 3 discharge directly to the 

river channel, Unit 4 discharges to the 

outlet works tunnel approximately 250 

feet upstream of the tunnel outlet. Water 

to Unit 4 is delivered through a 

bifurcation from the hollow jet valve 

pipe. With Unit 4 in operation, the 

hollow-jet valve capacity is reduced 

from 3,000 cfs to 800 cfs. The 

powerhouse tailwater during turbine 

operation varies from a low elevation of 

about 298 feet msl to a high elevation 

of about 303 feet msl under normal 

operating conditions. The tailwater 

elevation at the outlet works tunnel is 

approximately 300 feet msl. 

Switchyard 

The project switchyard is located atop 

the powerhouse at elevation 340 feet 

msl. The switchyard provides power 

delivery and electrical protection to the 

Districts’ transmission systems. The 

switchyard includes isolated phase 

buses, circuit breakers, and four 

transformers that raise the 13.8 kilovolt 

(kV) generator voltage to 69 kV 

transmission voltage. 


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Gasburg Creek Dike 

Don Pedro dam spillway discharges 

into Gasburg Creek. Gasburg Creek dike 

is located near the downstream end of 

the spillway, and directs flows from 

Gasburg Creek into Twin Gulch where 

spillway discharges join the Tuolumne 

River approximately 1.5 miles 

downstream of the Don Pedro 

powerhouse. Gasburg Creek dike 

consists of an impervious earth and 

rockfill dam approximately 75 feet in 

height, with a slide-gate controlled 18- 

inch-diameter conduit. The top of 

Gasburg Creek dike is at elevation 725 

feet msl. 

Dikes A, B, and C 

The project includes three small 

embankments—Dikes A, B, and C— 

constructed in low saddles on the 

reservoir rim with top elevations of 855 

feet msl. Dike A is located between the 

main dam and spillway. Dikes B and C 

are located east of the main dam. 

Recreation Facilities 

The project has three developed 

recreation areas, Fleming Meadows, 

Blue Oaks, and Moccasin Point. 

Primitive and semi-primitive lakeshore 

camping occurs on much of the rest of 

its shores. The project provides both 

floating and shoreline restrooms in 

addition to those at the developed 

recreation areas. Facilities also include 

hazard marking, regulatory buoy lines, 

and other open water-based features 

including houseboat marinas and a 

marked water-ski slalom course. 

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. 

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. 2017–22533 Filed 10–17–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric corporate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: EC17–186–000. 

Applicants: American Transmission 

Company LLC. 

Description: Amendment to 

Application (Exhibit N) for 

Authorization Under Section 203 of the 

Federal Power Act of American 

Transmission Company LLC. 

Filed Date: 10/11/17. 

Accession Number: 20171011–5155. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/1/17. 

Docket Numbers: EC18–4–000. 

Applicants: Cleco Power LLC, Attala 

Transmission LLC, Perryville Energy 

Partners, L.L.C., Entergy Louisiana, LLC, 

Entergy Mississippi, Inc. 

Description: Joint Application for 

Section 203 Approval of Cleco Power 

LLC, et al. 

Filed Date: 10/11/17. 

Accession Number: 20171011–5205. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/1/17. 

Docket Numbers: EC18–5–000. 

Applicants: RE Tranquillity LLC, RE 

Garland LLC, RE Garland A LLC, RE 

Mustang LLC, RE Mustang 3 LLC, RE 

Mustang 4 LLC. 

Description: Application for 

Authorization under Section 203 of the 

Federal Power Act and Request for 

Waivers, Confidential Treatment, 

Expedited Action and Shortened 

Comment Period of RE Tranquillity 

LLC, et al. 

Filed Date: 10/11/17. 

Accession Number: 20171011–5206. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/1/17. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER13–1069–005; 

ER12–2381–002; ER10–1484–016. 

Applicants: MP2 Energy LLC, MP2 

Energy NE LLC, Shell Energy North 

America (US), L.P. 

Description: Notice of Non-Material 

Change in Status of MP2 Energy LLC, et 

al. 

Filed Date: 10/11/17. 

Accession Number: 20171011–5212. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/1/17. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following qualifying 

facility filings: 

Docket Numbers: QF17–1529–000. 

Applicants: DOM Solar Lessor I, LP. 

Description: Refund Report of DOM 

Solar Lessor I, LP [CMEEC—Bozrah]. 

Filed Date: 10/10/17. 

Accession Number: 20171010–5401. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/31/17. 

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/ 


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