Document ID: FERC-2019-0938-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Application: Cherokee Falls Hydroelectric Project, LLC
Posted Date: 2019-08-13T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 13, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40040-40041]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-17252]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2880-015]

Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and 
Soliciting Additional Study Requests and Establishing Procedural 
Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments: 
Cherokee Falls Hydroelectric Project, LLC

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: New License.
    b. Project No.: 2880-015.
    c. Date Filed: July 31, 2019.
    d. Applicant: Cherokee Falls Hydroelectric Project, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Cherokee Falls Hydroelectric Project (Cherokee 
Falls Project).
    f. Location: The existing project is located the Broad River, in 
Cherokee County, South Carolina. The project does not affect federal 
lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Beth E. Harris, Southwest Regional Engineer, 
Enel Green Power North America, Inc., 11 Anderson Street, Piedmont, SC 
29673; Telephone (864) 846-0042 ext. 100; Beth.Harris@Enel.com.
    i. FERC Contact: Michael Spencer at (202) 502-6093, or at 
michael.spencer@ferc.gov.
    j. 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 follow the instructions for filing such 
requests described in item l below. 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).
    k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 CFR of the Commission's 
regulations, if any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person believes 
that an additional scientific study should be conducted in order to 
form an adequate factual basis for a complete analysis of the 
application on its merit, the resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person 
must file a request for a study with the Commission not later than 60 
days from the date of filing of the application, and

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serve a copy of the request on the applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: September 30, 2019.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 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-2280-015.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Project Description: The Cherokee Falls Project consists of: (1) 
A 1,819-foot-long granite masonry dam with a 1,701-foot-long spillway 
and 4-foot-high flashboards; (2) a reservoir with a surface area of 83 
acres and a storage capacity of 140 acre-feet; (3) a trash rack intake; 
(4) a 130-foot-long powerhouse containing one generating unit with a 
capacity of 4,140 kilowatts and an annual generation of 9,354.9 
megawatt-hours; (5) a 150-foot-long tailrace; (6) 93-foot-long 
generator leads to three 500-kilovolt transformers and (7) a 200-foot-
long transmission line to a point of interconnection with the grid.
    The Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with a continuous 
year round minimum flow of 65 cubic feet per second (cfs) in the 
bypassed reach. Project operation starts when inflows exceed 665 cfs, 
the sum of the minimum hydraulic capacity of the turbine (600 cfs) and 
the minimum flow. All flows greater than 3,165 cfs, which is the sum of 
the maximum hydraulic capacity of the turbine (3,100 cfs) and the 
minimum flow, are passed over the spillway.
    o. A copy of the application is available for review at the 
Commission in the Public Reference Room or may 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. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support. A copy is also available for inspection and 
reproduction at the address in paragraph h.
    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.
    p. Procedural Schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following preliminary Hydro Licensing 
Schedule. Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)--October 2019
Issue Acceptance Letter--November 2019
Issue Scoping Document--December 2019
Request Additional information (if necessary)--February 2020
Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--May 2020
Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and 
fishway prescriptions--July 2020
Commission issues EA--October 2020
Comments on EA--November 2020

    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: August 7, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-17252 Filed 8-12-19; 8:45 am]
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