Document ID: FERC-2018-1525-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Preliminary Permit Applications: Badger Mountain Hydro, LLC
Posted Date: 2018-11-28T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 28, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61152-61153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-25923]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14892-000]

Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and 
Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications: 
Badger Mountain Hydro, LLC

    On October 2, 2018, Badger Mountain Hydro, LLC filed an application 
for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power 
Act, proposing to study the feasibility of the Badger Mountain Pumped 
Storage Project (project) to be located near East Wenatchee in Douglas 
County, Washington. The sole purpose of a preliminary permit, if 
issued, is to grant the permit holder priority to file a license 
application during the permit term. A preliminary permit does not 
authorize the permit holder to perform any land-disturbing activities 
or otherwise enter upon lands or waters owned by others without the 
owners' express permission.
    The proposed project will be a closed-loop pumped storage project 
with initial fill and make up water coming from local water rights 
holders, tentatively

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identified as the Greater Wenatchee Irrigation District. Water would be 
delivered from the District's Veedol Tank via an approximately 0.7-
mile-long, 12-inch-diameter buried steel pipe to a new lower reservoir. 
The proposed project would consist of: An upper 5- to 40-foot-high, 
7,500-foot-long zoned earth/rockfill ring dam enclosing the 70-acre 
upper reservoir with storage capacity of 2,000 acre-feet; a lower 35-
foot-high, 540-foot-long zoned earth/rockfill primary dam and 10-foot-
high, 830-foot-long earthen supplemental dam enclosing the 80-acre 
lower reservoir with storage capacity of 2,600 acre-feet; a 600-foot-
long, 14-foot-diameter unlined or concrete-lined low pressure tunnel; a 
30-foot-diameter, 50-foot-high concrete surge tank; two 5,200-foot-
long, 10-foot-diameter steel penstocks; a powerhouse with a 220-foot-
high, 65-foot-diameter steel and concrete shaft, and two 150-megawatt 
(MW) reversible pump-turbines/motor-generators for a total installed 
capacity of 300 MW; a 1,200-foot-long, 17-foot-diameter concrete-lined 
tailrace tunnel; a 230-kilovolt (kV), 3.7-mile-long transmission line 
interconnecting with the existing Puget Sound Energy Rocky Reach-
Cascade transmission line, and a possible second transmission line 
interconnecting with the existing 230-kV Bonneville Power 
Administration Rocky Reach-Columbia transmission line 500 feet from the 
powerhouse.
    The estimated average annual generation of the project would be 
473,040 megawatt-hours.
    Applicant Contact: Matthew Shapiro, CEO, Gridflex Energy, LLC, 1210 
W. Franklin St. #2, Boise, ID 837021, phone (208) 246-9925.
    FERC Contact: Peter McBride, (202) 502-8132, 
[email protected].
    Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing 
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file 
competing applications: 60 days from the issuance of this notice. 
Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements 
of 18 CFR 4.36.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing 
applications 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 
[email protected], (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-14892-000.
    More information about this project, including a copy of the 
application, can be viewed or printed on the eLibrary link of 
Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. 
Enter the docket number (P-14892) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: November 21, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-25923 Filed 11-27-18; 8:45 am]
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