Document ID: FERC-2014-0104-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Applications: Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County; Scoping Meetings; Environmental Site Review
Posted Date: 2014-01-30T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 20 (Thursday, January 30, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4897-4898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-01866]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project Nos. 13948-002; 13994-002]

Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County; Notice of 
Scoping Meetings and Environmental Site Review and Soliciting Scoping 
Comments

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric applications have been 
filed with Commission and are available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project Nos.: 13948-002 and 13994-002.
    c. Date filed: August 1, 2013.
    d. Applicant: Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County 
(SnoPUD).
    e. Name of Projects: Calligan Creek Hydroelectric Project and 
Hancock Creek Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: The Calligan Creek Hydroelectric Project would be 
located on Calligan Creek in King County, approximately 9 miles 
northeast of North Bend, Washington. It would not occupy any federal 
lands.
    The Hancock Creek Hydroelectric Project would be located on Hancock 
Creek in King County, approximately 9 miles northeast of North Bend, 
Washington. It would not occupy any federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Kim D. Moore, P.E., Assistant General Manager 
of Generation, Water and Corporate Services; Public Utility District 
No. 1 of Snohomish County, 2320 California Street, P.O. Box 1107, 
Everett, WA 98206-1107; (425) 783-8606; KDMoore@snopud.com.
    i. FERC Contact: Kelly Wolcott, kelly.wolcott@ferc.gov, (202) 502-
6480.
    j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: March 29, 2014.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
scoping comments 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 numbers P-13948-002 and/or P-13994-002.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all 
interveners filing documents with the Commission to serve a copy of 
that document on each person on the official service list for the 
project. Further, if an intervener files comments or documents with the 
Commission relating to the merits of an issue that may affect the 
responsibilities of a particular resource agency, they must also serve 
a copy of the document on that resource agency.
    k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    l. The Calligan Creek Hydroelectric Project would consist of the 
following new facilities: (1) An approximately 130-foot-long, 15-foot-
wide diversion structure traversing Calligan Creek, consisting of a 45-
foot-long, 8-foot-high spillway and two 14-foot-high wingwalls; (2) a 
1.04-acre-foot impoundment; (3) an intake equipped with a 220-square-
foot fish screen with 0.125-inch-wide openings, a trashrack, and a 
sluice gate; (4) a 1.2-mile-long, approximately 41-inch-diameter buried 
penstock; (5) approximately 1.2 miles of buried power and fiber optic 
cable providing power to the intake area for monitoring the remote 
sensors and operating screens and gates; (6) a powerhouse containing a 
single 6-MW two-jet horizontal-shaft Pelton turbine/generator; (7) a 
135-foot-long rip-rap-lined tailrace channel discharging into Calligan 
Creek; (8) two access roads totaling 300 feet long; (9) a 2.5-mile-
long, 34.5-kilovolt buried transmission line connecting to the existing 
Black Creek Hydroelectric Project (P-6221) switching vault; and (10) 
appurtenant facilities. No federal lands are included in the project.
    The Hanock Creek Hydroelectric Project would consist of the 
following new facilities: (1) An approximately 130-foot-long, 10.7-
foot-wide diversion structure traversing Hancock Creek, consisting of a 
45-foot-long, 6-foot-high spillway and two 12-foot-high wingwalls; (2) 
a 0.85-acre-foot impoundment; (3) a 25-foot-wide, 12-foot-high, 53-
foot-long intake with a trashrack, a 220-square-foot fish screen, and a 
sluice gate; (4) a 1.5-mile-long, approximately 40-inch-diameter buried 
penstock; (5) approximately 1.5 miles of buried power and fiber optic 
cable providing power to the intake area for monitoring the remote 
sensors and operating screens and gates; (6) a powerhouse containing a 
single 6-MW two-jet horizontal-shaft Pelton turbine/generator; (7) a 
12-foot-wide, approximately 100-foot-long rip-rap-lined tailrace 
channel discharging into Hancock Creek; (8) two existing logging roads 
totaling 1,210 feet long; (9) three new access roads totaling 1,220 
feet long; (10) a 0.3-mile-long, 34.5-kilovolt buried transmission line 
connecting to the existing Black Creek Hydroelectric Project (P-6221) 
switching vault; and (11) appurtenant facilities. No federal lands are 
included in the project.
    m. 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

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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.
    n. Scoping Process
    The Commission intends to prepare an Environmental assessment (EA) 
on the project in accordance with the National Environmental Policy 
Act. The EA will consider both site-specific and cumulative 
environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the proposed 
action.

Scoping Meetings

    FERC staff will conduct one agency scoping meeting and one public 
meeting. The agency scoping meeting will focus on resource agency and 
non-governmental organization concerns, while the public scoping 
meeting is primarily for public input. All interested individuals, 
organizations, and agencies are invited to attend one or both of the 
meetings, and to assist the staff in identifying the scope of the 
environmental issues that should be analyzed in the EA.
    The scoping meetings and the site review for both projects will be 
conducted jointly since these projects are in close proximity to each 
other. At the scoping meetings, we will discuss the Calligan Creek 
Project first, followed by the Hancock Creek Project.
    The times and locations of these meetings are as follows:

Agency Scoping Meeting

    Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014.
    Time: 9:00 a.m. (PST).
    Place: North Bend Rail Depot.
    Address: 205 McClellan Street, North Bend, Washington.

Public Scoping Meeting

    Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014.
    Time: 7:00 p.m. (PST).
    Place: North Bend Rail Depot.
    Address: 205 McClellan Street, North Bend, Washington.
    Copies of the Scoping Document (SD1) outlining the subject areas to 
be addressed in the EA were distributed to the parties on the 
Commission's mailing list. Copies of the SD1 will be available at the 
scoping meeting or may be viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.gov 
using the ``eLibrary'' link (see item m above).

Environmental Site Review

    The Applicant and FERC staff will conduct a project Environmental 
Site Review beginning at 8:00 a.m. (PST) on Wednesday, February 26, 
2014. All interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are 
invited to attend. All participants should meet at Snoqualmie Falls 
Project parking area, across from the Salish Lodge. The address for the 
Snoqualmie Falls Project parking area is: 6501 Railroad Avenue, 
Snoqualmie, Washington. All participants are responsible for their own 
transportation to the site. Anyone with questions about the 
Environmental Site Review should contact Ms. Dawn Presler of SnoPUD at 
(425) 783-1709.

Objectives

    At the scoping meetings, the staff will: (1) Summarize the 
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the EA; (2) 
solicit from the meeting participants all available information, 
especially quantifiable data, on the resources at issue; (3) encourage 
statements from experts and the public on issues that should be 
analyzed in the EA, including viewpoints in opposition to, or in 
support of, the staff's preliminary views; (4) determine the resource 
issues to be addressed in the EA; and (5) identify those issues that 
require a detailed analysis, as well as those issues that do not 
require a detailed analysis.

Procedures

    The meetings are recorded by a stenographer and become part of the 
formal record of the Commission proceeding on the project.
    Individuals, organizations, and agencies with environmental 
expertise and concerns are encouraged to attend the meeting and to 
assist the staff in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed 
in the EA.

    Dated: January 24, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-01866 Filed 1-29-14; 8:45 am]
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