Document ID: FERC-2010-1366-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Preliminary Permit Applications: Medicine Bow Hydro, LLC
Posted Date: 2010-09-28T04:00Z

[Federal Register: September 28, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 187)]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 13836-000]

 
Medicine Bow Hydro, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application 
Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 
Competing Applications

September 21, 2010.
    On August 30, 2010, Medicine Bow Hydro, LLC filed an application 
for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power 
Act (FPA), proposing to study the feasibility of the Medicine Bow 
Pumped Storage Project (Medicine Bow Project) to be located in Carbon 
County, Idaho. 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 consist of the following: (1) A 9,200-
foot-circumference, 60-foot-high earth or rockfilled embankment; 
creating an 88-acre upper reservoir with a storage capacity of 8,750-
acre-foot at an elevation of 8,375 feet mean sea level (msl); (2) a 
1,480-foot-long, 210-foot-high earth and rockfill or concrete-face 
rockfill dam; creating an 121-acre lower reservoir with a storage 
capacity of 8,900-acre-foot at an elevation of 7,325 feet msl; (3) a 
19-foot-diameter, 600-foot-long concrete-lined low pressure tunnel; (4) 
a 19-foot-diameter, 5,060-foot-long high pressure concrete-lined 
tunnel; (5) a 280-foot-long, 70-foot-wide, 120-foot-high powerhouse 
containing one reversible 200-megawatt (MW) turbine/generator unit, and 
two 100-MW turbine/generator units, for a total installed capacity of 
400 MW; (6) a 2,600-foot-long, 22.5-foot-diameter tailrace between the 
powerhouse and the lower reservoir; (7) an approximately 6.8-mile-long, 
230-kilovolt transmission line connecting the powerhouse to the 
existing Miracle Mile-Cheyenne transmission line; and (8) appurtenant 
facilities. The estimated annual generation of the Medicine Bow Project 
would be 1,226,400 megawatt-hours.
    Applicant Contact: Matthew Shapiro, Gridflex Energy, LLC, 1210 W. 
Franklin Street, Ste. 2, Boise, ID 83702; phone: (208) 246-9925.
    FERC Contact: Jennifer Harper (202) 502-6136.
    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. 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/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. Although the Commission strongly encourages electronic filing, 
documents may also be paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an original and 
seven copies to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
    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-13836-000) in the docket number field to 
access the

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document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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