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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 485-065]


Georgia Power Company; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing 
With the Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing 
and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 485-065.
    c. Date Filed: December 14, 2012.
    d. Applicant: Georgia Power Company.
    e. Name of Project: Bartletts Ferry Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: The existing project is located on the Chattahoochee 
River, along the Georgia-Alabama border, in Harris County, Georgia, and 
Lee and Chambers counties, Alabama. The project does not affect federal 
lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: George A. Martin, Hydro Relicensing Project 
Manager, Georgia Power Company, 241 Ralph McGill Blvd., NE., BIN 10221, 
Atlanta, GA 30308; Telephone--(404) 506-1357; Email_
gamartin@southernco.com.
    i. FERC Contact: Allan Creamer, (202) 502-8365, or 
allan.creamer@ferc.gov.
    j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    k. The Project Description: The project consists of a 2,052-foot-
long dam, two powerhouses, and a 5,850-acre reservoir (Bartletts Ferry 
Reservoir or Lake Harding) at a normal water surface elevation of 
520.16 feet mean sea level (msl; or 521.0 Plant Datum).
    The west side of the project, from west to east, consists of: (1) A 
1,230-foot-long, 11.25-foot-high, 22-bay auxiliary labyrinth spillway; 
(2) a 286-foot-long, 35-foot-high, earth-fill embankment dam; (3) a 92-
foot-long by 94-foot-high concrete gravity intake structure, equipped 
with four vertical lift steel intake gates, connected to the west 
powerhouse by four 15-foot diameter penstocks; (4) a powerhouse 
containing three vertical Francis turbines rated at 15 megawatts (MW) 
each and a fourth vertical Francis turbine rated at 20 MW, with a total 
installed capacity of 65 MW; and (5) a 634-foot-long concrete gravity 
spillway with nineteen 21-foot-high by 25-foot-wide radial gates, two 
9-foot-high by 11-foot-wide vertical lift trash gates, and four 
abandoned siphons in two spillway bays.
    The east side of the project, from west to east, consists of: (1) A 
915-foot-long, 125-foot-high, earth-fill embankment dam; (2) a 650-
foot-long intake canal leading to a 177-foot-long concrete gravity 
intake structure; (3) two penstocks; and (4) a powerhouse with two 
vertical Francis turbines rated at 54 MW each, with a total installed 
capacity of 108 MW.
    The project is operated in a peaking mode, and is coordinated with 
the peaking operations at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' upstream 
West Point Dam. The project is normally operated between elevations 
518.16 and 520.16 feet msl (or 519.0 and 521.0 PD), with normal daily 
average fluctuations of about \3/4\ foot. The project has an average 
annual generation of approximately 395,577 megawatt-hours.
    l. Locations of the Application: 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 at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, 
or toll-free at 1-866-208-3676, or for TTY, (202) 502-8659. A copy is 
also available for inspection and reproduction at the address in item 
(h) above.
    m. 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. Procedural Schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the 
schedule may be made as appropriate.

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               Milestone                           Target date
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Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready     April 2013.
 for Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary   June 2013.
 terms and conditions, and fishway
 prescriptions.
Commission issues Draft EA or EIS......  December 2013.
Comments on Draft EA or EIS............  January 2014.
Modified Terms and Conditions..........  March 2014.
Commission Issues Final EA or EIS......  May 2014.
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    o. Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the notice 
of ready for environmental analysis.

    Dated: December 21, 2012.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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