[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 140 (Monday, July 22, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35110-35111]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-15466]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14799-001]


Lock 13 Hydro Partners, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for 
Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Original Major License.
    b. Project No.: P-14799-001.
    c. Date filed: July 1, 2019.
    d. Applicant: Lock 13 Hydro Partners, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Evelyn Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Kentucky River, in Lee and Estill Counties, 
Kentucky. The project would be located at the Commonwealth of 
Kentucky's existing Lock and Dam No. 13. No federal land would be 
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: David Brown Kinloch, Lock 13 Hydro Partners, 
LLC, 414 S Wenzel Street, Louisville, KY 40204; (502) 589-0975; email_
[email protected]
    i. FERC Contact: Sarah Salazar, (202) 502-6863 or 
sarah.salazar@ferc.gov.
    j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies 
with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect to 
environmental issues that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the 
environmental document should follow the instructions for filing such 
requests described in item l below. Cooperating agencies should note 
the Commission's policy that agencies that cooperate in the preparation 
of the environmental document cannot also intervene. See, 94 FERC 
61,076 (2001).
    k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 CFR of the Commission's 
regulations, if any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person believes 
that an additional scientific study should be conducted in order to 
form an adequate factual basis for a complete analysis of the 
application on its merit, the resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person 
must file

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a request for a study with the Commission not later than 60 days from 
the date of filing of the application, and serve a copy of the request 
on the applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: August 30, 2019.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 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 number P-14799-001.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The proposed Evelyn Project would be operated in a run-of-river 
mode and would consist of: (1) An existing estimated 223-acre 
impoundment at a pool elevation of 617.38 feet mean sea level (North 
American Vertical Datum of 1988); (2) an existing concrete dam with a 
246-foot-long, 34-foot-wide, and 38.2-foot-high spillway and a 148-
foot-long, 38.2-foot-high, and 52-foot-wide lock chamber; (3) a new 73-
foot-long by 52-foot-wide reinforced concrete powerhouse that would be 
submerged in the existing lock chamber, with five Flygt axial-flow 
propeller turbine generator units each rated at 560-kilowatts (kW), for 
a total installed capacity of 2.8 MW; (4) a new 110-foot-long buried 
cable transmitting power from the submerged powerhouse to a new two 
story, 48-foot-long by 30-foot-wide Control Building onshore which 
would house the project controls; (5) a new 600-foot-long, 12.47-
kilovolt overhead transmission line that would connect to an existing 
Jackson Energy Cooperative line of the same voltage; and (6) 
appurtenant facilities. The estimated average annual generation would 
be 11,274 megawatt-hours.
    o. 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.
    p. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the 
schedule will be made as appropriate.

Issue Notice of Acceptance--December 2019
Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis--December 2019
Commission issues EA--August 2020
Comments on EA--September 2020

    Dated: July 15, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-15466 Filed 7-19-19; 8:45 am]
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