[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 184 (Friday, September 21, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47917-47918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-20553]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2883-009]


Notice of Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Motions 
To Intervene and Protests: Aquenergy Systems, LLC

    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.: 2883-009.
    c. Date filed: May 30, 2018.
    d. Applicant: Aquenergy Systems, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Fries Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the New River in the Town of Fries, Grayson County, 
Virginia. No federal lands are occupied by the project works or located 
within the project boundary.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Ms. Beth E. Harris, P.E., Southeast Regional 
Manager, Enel Green Power North America, Inc., 11 Anderson Street, 
Piedmont, SC 29673, Phone: (864) 846-0042 ext. 100, Email:

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[email protected], or Mr. Kevin Webb, Hydro Licensing Manager, Enel 
Green Power North America, Inc., 100 Brickstone Square, Suite 300, 
Andover, MA 01810, Phone: (978) 935-6039, Email: [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Brandi Sangunett, Phone: 202-502-8393, Email: 
[email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests: November 
13, 2018.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
motions to intervene and protests using the Commission's eFiling system 
at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 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-2883-009.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors 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 
intervenor 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 has been accepted, but is not ready for 
environmental analysis at this time.
    l. The existing Fries Hydroelectric Project (Fries Project) 
consists of: (1) A 41-foot-high, 610-foot-long rock masonry dam with a 
500-foot-long spillway; (2) an 88-acre impoundment at the normal pool 
elevation (spillway crest elevation) of 2,188.27 feet National Geodetic 
Vertical Datum of 1929; (3) an approximately 750-foot-long, 110- foot-
wide intake canal with four 15.5-foot-high, 6.5-foot-wide headgates; 
(4) a canal spillway consisting of 10 stoplog bays totaling 47 feet in 
length; (5) two 12.5-foot-high, 5.0-foot-wide canal gates; (6) a steel 
powerhouse that contains a single vertical Kaplan turbine with a 
capacity of 2.1 megawatts (MW) that discharges into a 180-foot-long, 
75-foot-wide, 12-foot-deep tailrace; (7) a masonry powerhouse that 
contains one vertical and two horizontal Francis turbines with a total 
capacity of 3.0 MW that discharges into a 180-foot-long, 120-foot-wide, 
12-foot-deep tailrace; (8) a 500-foot-long, 450-foot-wide bypassed 
reach that extends from the toe of the dam to the confluence with the 
tailraces; (9) a 567-foot-long, 13.2-kilovolt (kV) transmission line 
that runs from the steel powerhouse to the interconnection point with 
the grid; (10) a 130-foot-long transmission line that connects the 
masonry powerhouse to a 5,000 kilovolt-amp step-up transformer and an 
additional 323-foot-long, 13.2-kV transmission line leading from the 
transformer to the interconnection point; and (11) appurtenant 
facilities.
    The Fries Project is operated in a run-of-river mode. For the 
period 2003 through 2016, the average annual generation at the Fries 
Project was 26,150 megawatt-hours.
    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 website 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.
    n. Anyone may submit a protest or a motion to intervene in 
accordance with the requirements of the Rules of Practice and 
Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, 385.211, and 385.214. In determining the 
appropriate action to take, the Commission will consider all protests 
filed, but only those who file a motion to intervene in accordance with 
the Commission's Rules may become a party to the proceeding. Any 
protests or motions to intervene must be received on or before the 
specified deadline date for the particular application.
    All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title PROTEST 
or MOTION TO INTERVENE; (2) set forth in the heading the name of the 
applicant and the project number of the application to which the filing 
responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone number of the 
person protesting or intervening; and (4) otherwise comply with the 
requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. Agencies may obtain 
copies of the application directly from the applicant. A copy of any 
protest or motion to intervene must be served upon each representative 
of the applicant specified in the particular application.

    Dated: September 14, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-20553 Filed 9-20-18; 8:45 am]
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