Document ID: FERC-2014-0352-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Portland General Electric Co.
Posted Date: 2014-03-28T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 60 (Friday, March 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17527-17528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06877]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2195-088]

Portland General Electric Company, Notice of Availability of 
Environmental Assessment

    In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) 
regulations, 18 CFR Part 380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 47897), the Office 
of Energy Projects has reviewed an application submitted by Portland 
General Electric Company (licensee) to construct, operate and maintain 
minimum flow turbines at its 136.6-MW Clackamas River Hydroelectric 
Project. The new

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minimum flow turbines would increase the capacity of the project by 
3.89 MW. The project is located on the Oak Grove Fork of the Clackamas 
River and the mainstem of the Clackamas River in Clackamas County, 
Oregon. The project occupies federal lands within the Mt. Hood National 
Forest, under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Forest Service, and a 
reservation of the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land 
Management.
    An environmental assessment (EA) has been prepared as part of 
staff's review of the proposal. In the application the licensee 
proposes to construct, operate and maintain: (1) A powerhouse at the 
base of Timothy Lake Dam housing two 0.95-MW turbines, (2) a powerhouse 
at Crack-in-the-Ground located downstream of Lake Harriet housing a 1 
MW turbine, (3) a powerhouse housing a 135-kW turbine utilizing return 
flows from the juvenile downstream migrant collection systems and the 
North Fork fishway adult fish trap, and (4) a turbine and an 850-kW 
turbine and induction generator utilizing North Fork fishway attraction 
flows. The EA contains Commission staff's analysis of the probable 
environmental impacts of the proposed action and concludes that 
approval of the proposal would not constitute a major federal action 
significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.
    The EA is available for review and reproduction at the Commission's 
Public Reference Room, located at 888 First Street NE., Room 2A, 
Washington, DC 20426. The EA may also be viewed on the Commission's Web 
site at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``elibrary'' link. Enter the 
docket number (P-2195) in the docket number field to access the 
document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support at 
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll-free at 1-866-208-3372, or for TTY, 
(202) 502-865.

    Dated: March 20, 2014.
 Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-06877 Filed 3-27-14; 8:45 am]
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