Document ID: FERC-2010-1423-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Competing Preliminary Permit Applications, etc.: Lock+ Hydro Friends Fund XLIX
Posted Date: 2010-10-05T04:00Z

[Federal Register: October 5, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 192)]
[Notices]               
[Page 61463-61464]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project Nos. 13809-000; 13814-000]

 
Lock+ Hydro Friends Fund XLIX; FFP Missouri 15, LLC; Notice of 
Competing Preliminary Permit Applications Accepted for Filing and 
Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications

September 28, 2010.
    On July 12, 2010, Lock+ Hydro Friends Fund XLVIII (Hydro Friends) 
and FFP Missouri 15, LLC (FFP) filed preliminary permit applications, 
pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, proposing to study 
the feasibility of a hydropower project at the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers' (Corps) Mississippi River Lock and Dam 14 
structure, located on the Mississippi River near Bettendorf, Rockland 
County, Illinois. 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.
    Hydro Friends' proposed Lock and Dam 14 Hydropower Project 
(Project No. 13809-000) would consist of: (1) One 109-foot-wide x 40-
foot-high lock frame module placed downstream from the lock and dam, 
housed between two pre-fabricated concrete walls that would guide flows 
into the turbines. The lock frame module would consist of ten 
hydropower turbines, each rated at 1.25 megawatts (MW) and have a total 
rated capacity of 12.5 MW; (2) fish/debris screens located upstream of 
the module; (3) a new transformer in a new switchyard; (4) a 3-mile-
long 69-kilovolt (kV) transmission line extending from the switchyard 
to an existing nearby distribution line; and (5) appurtenant 
facilities. Hydro Friends is also exploring alternatives that would 
locate the module in the downstream section of the Corps' navigational 
lock, and upstream of the dam. Each design would have an average annual 
generation of 54,788 megawatt-hours per year (MWh/yr). The project 
would operate run-of-river and utilize flows released from the dam.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. Wayne F. Krouse, Chairman and CEO, Hydro 
Green Energy, LLC, 5090 Richmond Avenue 390, Houston, TX 
77056; Telephone: (877) 556-6566 x 709.

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    FFP's Mississippi Lock and Dam 14 Project (Project No. 
13814-000) would consist of: (1) Two to four modular generation units 
placed in 12 of the existing gate bays of the Corps' lock and dam 
structure. These units would contain compact bulb turbines with 
individual unit capacities of 0.35 MW and 0.70 MW and have a combined 
capacity of 16.8 MW; (2) a 30-foot x 40-foot control building located 
on the south side of the river; (3) a 13,100-foot-long transmission 
line extending south from the switchyard near the proposed powerhouse 
to an interconnection point on the Illinois shore with an existing 
transmission line; and (4) appurtenant facilities. The proposed 
operating voltage would be in the 34 to 138-kV range. FFP is also 
exploring an alternative that would involve construction of a new 220-
foot-long x 250-foot-wide x 50-foot-high conventional powerhouse, 
intake channel, and tailrace opposite the south side of the river. The 
new proposed powerhouse would contain four horizontal bulb turbines 
rated at 4.2 MW each. Each design would have a total energy generation 
of 145 gigawatt-hours per year. The project would utilize Corps 
designated flows from the Mississippi Lock and Dam 14 
structure and operate as directed by the Corps.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. Ramya Swaminathan, Free Flow Power 
Corporation, 33 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA 01930; Telephone: 
(978) 283-2822.
    FERC Contact: Tyrone A. Williams, tyrone.williams@ferc.gov or (202) 
502-6331.
    Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, and competing 
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file 
competing applications: 60 days from the issuance date 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 
(http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ferconline.asp) under the ``eFiling'' 
link. For a simpler method of submitting text only comments, click on 
``eComment.'' For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
FERCOnlineSupport.gov; call toll-free at (866) 208-3676; or, for TTY, 
contact (202) 502-8659. Although the Commission strongly recommends 
electronic filing, documents may also be paper-filed. 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/filing-comments.asp.
    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/elibrary.asp. 
Enter the docket number (P-13809) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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