Document ID: FERC-2010-0784-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Applications: Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC
Posted Date: 2010-06-08T04:00Z

[Federal Register: June 8, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 109)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 12713-002]

 
Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC; Notice of Application Accepted for 
Filing, Ready for Environmental Analysis, and Soliciting Motions To 
Intervene and Protests, Comments, Terms and Conditions, 
Recommendations, and Prescriptions

June 1, 2010.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Filing: Original Minor License.
    b. Project No.: 12713-002.
    c. Dated Filed: February 1, 2010.
    d. Applicant: Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Reedsport OPT Wave Park.
    f. Location: Pacific Ocean in state waters about 2.5 miles off the 
coast near Reedsport, in Douglas County, Oregon. The project would 
occupy about 5 acres of federal lands in the Siuslaw National Forest 
(Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area).
    g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 4.61 of the Commission's regulations.
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Philip Pellegrino, Reedsport OPT Wave 
Park, LLC, 1590 Reed Road, Pennington, New Jersey 08534; (609) 730-
0400.
    i. FERC Contact: Jim Hastreiter at (503) 552-2760 or 
james.hastreiter@ferc.gov.
    j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests, comments, 
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and conditions, recommendations, and prescriptions: 90 days from the 
issuance of this notice. All reply comments must be filed with the 
Commission within 135 days from the date of this notice.
    All documents 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 ``Quick Comment.'' For assistance, please contact 
FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov; call toll-free at 
(866) 208-3676; or, for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. Although the 
Commission strongly encourages electronic filing, documents may also be 
paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an original and eight copies to: 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
    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 and is now ready 
for environmental analysis.
    l. Project description: The project facilities would include 10 
PowerBuoy wave-powered generating units attached to seabed anchors, 
tendon lines, subsurface floats, and catenary mooring lines. The 
PowerBuoy units would be deployed in an array of three to four rows, 
approximately in a SW-NE orientation, and would occupy about 0.25 
square mile of the Pacific Ocean. Each PowerBuoy would have a maximum 
diameter of 36 feet, extend 29.5 feet above the water surface, and have 
a draft of 115 feet.
    A power/fiber optic cable would exit the bottom of each PowerBuoy, 
descending to the seabed in a lazy ``S'' shape with subsurface floats 
attached to the cable and a clump weight at the seabed. The 10 
PowerBuoy units would be connected to a single Underwater Substation 
Pod (USP) via power/fiber-optic lines. The USP would be about 6 feet in 
diameter and 15 feet in length, and would rest on the seabed below the 
PowerBuoys, held in place with pre-cured concrete ballast blocks. A 
submarine transmission cable, buried in the seabed to a depth of 3 to 6 
feet, would extend from the USP to an existing wastewater discharge 
pipe. The submarine cable would extend through the wastewater pipe to 
an underground vault, which would be constructed at the existing turn-
around at the end of Sparrow Park Road, immediately inland of the sand 
dunes. At the vault, the subsea transmission cable would exit the 
effluent pipe, transition to an underground cable, and reenter the 
effluent pipe.
    The underground transmission cable would continue within the 
effluent pipe eastward for approximately 3 miles, where it would 
connect to the Douglas Electric Cooperative transmission line at a 
proposed shore station. The shore station would consist of a 100- to 
200-square foot building.
    m. A copy of the license application is available for review at the 
Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the 
Commission's Web site (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 (P-12713). For assistance, 
contact FERC Online Support at FERCONlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free 
at 1-866-208-3676, of for TTY, (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available 
for inspection and reproduction at the address in paragraph i.
    Register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
esubscription.asp to be notified via e-mail of new filing and issuances 
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.
    n. Any qualified applicant desiring to file a competing application 
must submit to the Commission, on or before the specified intervention 
deadline date, a competing development application, or a notice of 
intent to file such an application. Submission of a timely notice of 
intent allows an interested person to file the competing development 
application no later than 120 days after the specified intervention 
deadline date. Applications for preliminary permits will not be 
accepted in response to this notice.
    A notice of intent must specify the exact name, business address, 
and telephone number of the prospective applicant, and must include an 
unequivocal statement of intent to submit a development application. A 
notice of intent must be served on the applicant(s) named in this 
public notice.
    Anyone may submit comments, a protest, or a motion to intervene in 
accordance with the requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 
CFR 385.210, .211, .214. In determining the appropriate action to take, 
the Commission will consider all protests or other comments filed, but 
only those who file a motion to intervene in accordance with the 
Commission's Rules may become a party to the proceeding. Any comments, 
protests, or motions to intervene must be received on or before the 
specified comment date for the particular application.
    All filings must (1) Bear in all capital letters the title 
``PROTEST'', ``MOTION TO INTERVENE'', ``NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE 
COMPETING APPLICATION,'' ``COMPETING APPLICATION,'' ``COMMENTS,'' 
``REPLY COMMENTS,'' ``RECOMMENDATIONS,'' ``TERMS AND CONDITIONS,'' or 
``PRESCRIPTIONS;'' (2) set forth in the heading the name of the 
applicant and the project number of the application to which the filing 
responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone number of the 
person protesting or intervening; and (4) otherwise comply with the 
requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. All comments, 
recommendations, terms and conditions or prescriptions must set forth 
their evidentiary basis and otherwise comply with the requirements of 
18 CFR 4.34(b). Agencies may obtain copies of the application directly 
from the applicant. A copy of any protest or motion to intervene must 
be served upon each representative of the applicant specified in the 
particular application. A copy of all other filings in reference to 
this application must be accompanied by proof of service on all persons 
listed in the service list prepared by the Commission in this 
proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b) and 385.2010.
    o. Cooperating agencies: Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies 
with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect to 
environmental issues that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the 
environmental document should file such within 90 days from issuance of 
this notice. Cooperating agencies should note the Commission's policy 
that agencies that cooperate in the preparation of the environmental 
document cannot also intervene. See 94 FERC ] 61,076 (2001).
    p. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the Oregon 
State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by 106, 
National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of the Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR, at 800.4.
    q. Procedural Schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the schedule 
will be made as appropriate.

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                 Milestone                           Target date
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Notice of Acceptance and Ready for           June 1, 2010.
 Environmental Analysis.
Filing comments, recommendations,            August 30, 2010.
 preliminary terms and conditions, and
 fishway prescriptions.
Reply comments.............................  October 14, 2010.
Notice of availability of Final EA.........  November 15, 2010.
Comments on EA.............................  January 14, 2011.
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Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-13564 Filed 6-7-10; 8:45 am]
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