Document ID: FERC-2014-0661-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Applications: Go With the Flow Hydro Power, LLC
Posted Date: 2014-05-22T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 99 (Thursday, May 22, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29434-29435]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-11865]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14538-001]

Go with the Flow Hydro Power, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered 
for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Exemption From Licensing
    b. Project No.: P-14538
    c. Date filed: May 5, 2014
    d. Applicant: Go with the Flow Hydro Power, LLC
    e. Name of Project: Go with the Flow Hydroelectric Project
    f. Location: The proposed project is located on the Umatilla River, 
approximately 1.3 miles southwest of the city of Hermiston, Umatilla 
County, Oregon. The proposed project would not occupy any federal 
lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708.
    h. Applicant Contact: Mark Sigl, Go with the Flow Hydro Power, LLC, 
8021 Firestone Way, Antelope, California 95843
    i. FERC Contact: Sean O'Neill at (202) 502-6462; or email at 
sean.oneill@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 serve a copy of 
the request on the applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: July 7, 2014

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    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-14538-001.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The proposed project would use the following existing facilities 
from an abandoned hydroelectric project: (1) a 3.5-foot-high, 120-foot-
long concrete diversion weir, (2) a concrete intake structure with 
trashrack, (3) a 5,350-foot-long earthen power canal, (4) a concrete 
penstock headworks structure, (5) four 5-foot-diameter, 280-foot-long 
welded steel penstocks, (6) a 60-foot by 35-foot powerhouse, (7) a 20-
foot by 12-foot metal controlhouse, (8) four 300-kilowatt vertical 
propeller turbine-generators, (9) a substation interconnecting to the 
transmissions lines operated by Pacific Power and Light Company, (10) a 
60-foot-wide, 25-foot-long screened earthen tailrace discharging into 
the Umatilla River, and (11) appurtenant facilities. The applicant is 
proposing a new fish bypass at the diversion weir, and refurbishing and 
replacing the fish screens at the intake structure. The estimated 
annual project generation is 3,000 megawatt-hours.
    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 Web site 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 item h above.
    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. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the Oregon 
State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by section 106 
of the National Historic Preservation Act and the regulations of the 
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4.
    q. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will 
be made as appropriate (e.g., if there are no deficiencies and/or 
scoping is waived, the schedule would be shortened).

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Issue Deficiency Letter...................  May 2014
Issue Notice of Acceptance................  July 2014
Issue Scoping Document August 2014........
Issue Notice ready for environmental        October 2014
 analysis.
Issue Notice of the availability of the EA  March 2015
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    Dated: May 16, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-11865 Filed 5-21-14; 8:45 am]
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