Document ID: FERC-2023-0359-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Application: City of St. Cloud, MN
Posted Date: 2023-03-27T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 58 (Monday, March 27, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18131-18132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06184]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 4108-019]

City of St. Cloud; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With 
the Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and 
Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 4108-019.
    c. Date Filed: December 15, 2022.
    d. Applicant: City of St. Cloud.
    e. Name of Project: St. Cloud Hydroelectric Project (St. Cloud 
Project or project).
    f. Location: The project is located on the Mississippi River 
approximately 75 miles northwest of St. Paul, Minnesota in the City of 
St. Cloud, Stearns and Sherburne Counties, Minnesota. The project does 
not occupy any federal or Tribal lands.

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    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Ms. Tracy Hodel, City of St. Cloud--Public 
Services Director, 1201 7th Street South, St. Cloud, MN 56301; 
Telephone: (320) 255-7226 or [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Nicholas Ettema at (312) 596-4447, or 
[email protected].
    j. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    k. Project Description: The project consists of: (1) an 
approximately 3.5-mile-long, 294-surface-acre reservoir with a storage 
capacity of 2,254 acre-feet at a normal pool elevation of 981.0 feet 
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929; (2) a 420-foot-long earthen 
embankment that abuts the east side of the dam; (3) a 550-foot-long, 
19.5-foot-high concrete gravity dam and main spillway topped with 
inflatable crest gates; (4) a 50-foot-wide spillway containing two 20-
foot-wide Tainter gates; (5) a 70-foot-wide, 122-foot-long reinforced 
concrete powerhouse containing two turbine-generator units with a total 
installed generating capacity of 8.64 megawatts and with an average 
annual generation of 51,500 megawatt-hours; (6) a 200-foot-long earthen 
embankment that abuts the west side of the dam; (7) an underground 180-
foot-long, 5-kilovolt (kV) transmission line connecting the powerhouse 
to a step-up transformer; (8) a 5/34.5-kV step-up transformer; (9) an 
underground 900-foot-long, 34.5-kV transmission line connecting the 
step-up transformer to a non-project substation; and (10) appurtenant 
facilities. Average annual generation at the St. Cloud Project was 
51,500 MW-hours from 2014 through 2021. City of St. Cloud is not 
proposing any new project facilities or changes to the operation of the 
project.
    l. A copy of the application can be viewed on the Commission's 
website at 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-4108). For assistance, contact FERC at 
[email protected], or call toll-free, (866) 208-3676 or (202) 
502-8659 (TTY).
    m. You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.
    n. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will 
be made as appropriate.

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                Milestone                           Target date
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Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)..  April 2023.
Request Additional Information (if        May 2023.
 necessary).
Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready for  October 2023.
 Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary    December 2023.
 terms and conditions, and preliminary
 fishway prescriptions.
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    o. Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the notice 
of ready for environmental analysis.

    Dated: March 15, 2023.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-06184 Filed 3-24-23; 8:45 am]
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