
[Federal Register: March 11, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 47)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[[Project No. 12690-003]

 
Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, WA; Notice of 
Technical Meeting To Discuss Information and Monitoring Needs for a 
License Application for a Pilot Project

March 4, 2010.
    a. Type of Application: Draft License Application for Pilot 
Project.
    b. Project No.: 12690-003.
    c. Applicant: Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, 
Washington (Snohomish PUD).
    d. Name of Project: Admiralty Inlet Pilot Tidal Project.
    e. Location: On the east side of Admiralty Inlet in Puget Sound, 
Washington, about 1 kilometer west of Whidbey Island, entirely within 
Island County, Washington.
    f. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 5.3 of the Commission's regulations.
    g. Applicant Contact: Steven J. Klein, Public Utility District of 
Snohomish County, Washington, P.O. Box 1107, 2320, California Street, 
Everett, WA 98206-1107; (425) 783-8473.
    h. FERC Contact: David Turner (202) 502-6091; e-mail at 
david.turner@ferc.gov.
    i. Project Description: The proposed Admiralty Inlet Pilot Tidal 
Project would consist of (1) Two 10-meter, 500-kilowatt (kW) Open-
Centre Turbines supplied by OpenHydro Group Ltd., mounted on completely 
submerged gravity foundations; (2) two 250-meter service cables 
connected at a subsea junction box or spliced to a 0.5-kilometer subsea 
transmission cable, connecting to a cable termination vault about 50 
meters from shore; (3) two 81-meter-long buried conduits containing the 
two DC transmission lines from the turbines and connecting to a power 
conditioning and control building; (4) a 140-meter long buried cable 
from the control building to the grid; and (5) appurtenant facilities 
for operation and maintenance. The estimated annual generation of the 
project is 383,000 kilowatt-hours.
    j. Meeting Purpose and Schedule: On December 31, 2009, Snohomish 
PUD filed a Notice of Intent and request for waivers of certain 
regulations of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) 
Integrated Licensing Process to expedite processing of a license 
application for the Admiralty Inlet Pilot Tidal Project.
    Commission staff will hold a technical meeting to scope issues and 
to discuss information and monitoring needs for the license 
application. At the technical meeting, Commission staff will focus the 
discussion on the information gaps that need to be addressed to ensure 
that sufficient information exists for the Commission to make a 
determination on whether the proposed project meets the criteria for a 
pilot project and for processing a license application for a pilot 
project once it is filed with the Commission.
    All interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited 
to attend the meeting. The time and location of the meeting is as 
follows: Monday, April 12, 2010, 8:30 a.m. (local time), PUD Electric 
Building Headquarters, 2320 California Street, Everett, Washington.
    The meetings will be recorded by a stenographer and will become 
part of the formal record of the Commission proceeding on the project.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-5207 Filed 3-10-10; 8:45 am]
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