Document ID: FERC-2016-1240-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Preliminary Permit Applications: Prineville Energy Storage LLC and Ochoco Irrigation District
Posted Date: 2016-09-09T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 175 (Friday, September 9, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62496-62497]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-21747]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project Nos. 14453-001; 14791-000]

Prineville Energy Storage LLC, Ochoco Irrigation District; Notice 
of Competing Preliminary Permit Applications Accepted for Filing and 
Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications

    On July 1, 2016, Prineville Energy Storage LLC (Prineville) and 
Ochoco Irrigation District (Ochoco) 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) Prineville Reservoir and Arthur Bowman 
Dam, located on the Crooked River near the City of Prineville in Crook 
County, Oregon. 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.
    Prineville's project would be a pumped storage project that uses 
the Corps' Prineville Reservoir as the lower reservoir. The project 
would consist of the following new facilities: (1) A 40-foot-high, 
7,700-foot-long concrete-faced rockfill embankment creating a 64-acre 
upper reservoir; (2) a 15-foot-diameter, 1,400-foot-long low pressure 
tunnel; (3) two 11-foot-diameter, 1,880-foot-long high pressure 
conduit; (4) a powerhouse with two 100-megawatt (MW) reversible pump 
turbines located 365 feet west of the Prineville Reservoir; (5) a 
tailrace; and (6) a 16-mile-long, 115-kilovolt (kV) transmission line 
interconnecting with the Ponderosa substation. The Prineville Project 
would have an average annual generation of 525,600 megawatt-hours 
(MWh).
    Applicants Contact: Mr. Matthew Shapiro, CEO, Prineville Energy 
Storage, LLC, 1210 W. Franklin Street, Ste. 2, Boise, ID 83702. (208) 
246-9925.
    Ochoco's Bowman Dam Project would be a conventional project that 
uses the Corps' existing intake structure at the Bowman Dam and 
Prineville Reservoir, and the following new facilities: (1) A 10-foot-
diameter, 310-foot-long steel pipe inserted into the Corps' existing 
intake tunnel; (2) a valve chamber; (3) a 9-foot-diameter, 108.44-foot-
long steel penstock; (4) a powerhouse with one 3-MW and one 1-MW 
Francis turbine/

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generator units located on the bank next to the Corps' existing 
spillway; (5) a tailrace; and (6) a 15-mile-long, 24.5 kV transmission 
line interconnecting to the Central Electric Cooperative facilities. 
The Bowman Dam Project would have an average annual generation of 17.6 
MWh.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. Russell Rhoden, Manager, Ochoco Irrigation 
District, 1001 NW. Deer Street, Prineville, OR 97754. (541) 447-6449.
    FERC Contact: Kim Nguyen, kim.nguyen@ferc.gov, (202) 502-6105.
    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-14453-001 and P-14791-000.
    More information about this project, including a copy of the 
application, can be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of the 
Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. 
Enter the docket number (P-14453-001, or P-14791-000) in the docket 
number field to access the document. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.

    Dated: September 2, 2016.
 Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-21747 Filed 9-8-16; 8:45 am]
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