Document ID: FERC-2015-0453-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Preliminary Permit Applications: Cascade Water Alliance
Posted Date: 2015-04-15T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 72 (Wednesday, April 15, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20212-20213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08649]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14660-000]

Cascade Water Alliance: Notice of Preliminary Permit Application 
Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 
Competing Applications

    On February 4, 2015, the Cascade Water Alliance 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 
White River-Lake Tapps Reservoir Ancillary Hydroelectric Project (White 
River Project or project) to be located on the White River, in Pierce 
County, Washington. 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 
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otherwise enter upon lands or waters owned by others without the 
owners' express permission.
    The proposed project would consist of the following existing 
facilities from a previously licensed project: (1) A 352-foot-long, 4-
foot-high rock-filled, timber crib barrier structure with 7-foot-high 
flashboards; (2) headworks consisting of two slide gates; (3) a 7.75-
mile-long flowline from the headworks to Lake Tapps which consists of a 
concrete flume, five settling basins, a concrete canal, an unlined 
earthen canal, and two concrete pipes; (4) a fish recovery pond and a 
fish screen facility along the flowline; (5) a valve house with a new 5 
megawatts (MW) turbine/generating unit; (6) a new transmission line 
from the valve house to a new substation near the valve house; (7) Lake 
Tapps with a surface area of 2,740 acres and storage capacity of 46,700 
acre-feet at elevation 542.5 feet above mean sea level; (8) an intake 
structure on Lake Tapps; (9) a 12-foot-diamter, 2,842-foot-long 
concrete lined tunnel; (10) a concrete and steel forebay; (11) four 
riveted steel penstocks with varying diameters up to 8 feet and lengths 
up to 1,619 feet; (12) a 225-foot-long, 85-foot-wide, 55-foot-high 
concrete-framed powerhouse containing an existing 27 MW Francis 
generating unit and a new 5 MW unit with a total installed capacity of 
32 MW; (13) a concrete and timber tailbay; (14) a 3,250-foot-long open 
channel tailrace; (15) a new 4,181-foot-long, 115-kilovolt transmission 
line connecting to a nearby substation; and (16) appurtenant 
facilities. The estimated annual generation of the project would be 50 
gigawatt-hours.
    Applicant Contact: Chuck Clark, Chief Executive Officer, Cascade 
Water Alliance, 520 112th Avenue NE., Suite 400, Bellevue, Washington 
98004; phone: (425) 453-0930.
    FERC Contact: John Matkowski; phone: (202) 502-8576.
    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-14660-000.
    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/elibrary.asp. 
Enter the docket number (P-14660) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

     Dated: April 9, 2015.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-08649 Filed 4-14-15; 8:45 am]
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