Document ID: FERC-2020-1148-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Anticipated Schedule for Lake Elsinore Advanced Pumped Storage Project Nevada Hydro, Inc.
Posted Date: 2020-09-02T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 2, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 54554]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-19384]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14227-003]

Nevada Hydro Inc.; Notice of Anticipated Schedule for Lake 
Elsinore Advanced Pumped Storage Project

    On October 2, 2017, Nevada Hydro Inc. filed an application 
requesting authorization to construct and operate the Lake Elsinore 
Advanced Pumped Storage Project. The project would be located on Lake 
Elsinore and San Juan Creek near the town of Lake Elsinore in Riverside 
and San Diego Counties, California. The project would occupy about 845 
acres of federal land administered by the U.S. Forest Service.
    The application will be processed according to the following 
revised schedule.

Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis: December 11, 2020
Draft Environmental Impact Statement: July 9, 2021
Final Environmental Impact Statement: December 10, 2021

    In addition, in accordance with Title 41 of the Fixing America's 
Surface Transportation Act, enacted on December 4, 2015, agencies are 
to publish completion dates for all federal environmental reviews and 
authorizations. This notice identifies the Commission's anticipated 
schedule for issuance of the final order for the project, which is 
based on the anticipated date of issuance of the final Environmental 
Impact Statement. Accordingly, we currently anticipate issuing a final 
order for the project no later than:

Issuance of Final Order March 17, 2022

    If a schedule change becomes necessary, an additional notice will 
be provided so that interested parties and government agencies are kept 
informed of the project's progress.

    Dated: August 27, 2020.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-19384 Filed 9-1-20; 8:45 am]
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