[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 134 (Monday, July 13, 2020)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2206-089]


Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Notice of Availability of 
Environmental Assessment

    In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) regulations, 
18 CFR part 380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 47897), the Office of Energy 
Projects has reviewed an application submitted by Duke Energy 
Carolinas, LLC (licensee) to grant easements to the Town of Norwood, 
North Carolina and Union County, North Carolina (co-applicants) to 
allow the use of Yadkin-Pee Dee Hydroelectric Project No. 2206, project 
lands and waters on Lake Tillery for municipal water supply. The Yadkin 
Pee-Dee Project is located on the Yadkin and Pee Dee Rivers in Anson, 
Montgomery, Richmond, and Stanly counties, North Carolina. The project 
does not occupy federal land.
    An Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared as part of 
Commission staff's review of the proposal. In the application, the 
licensee proposes to grant easements to the co-applicants to construct 
and operate a raw water intake facility (facility) on Lake Tillery, one 
of the project's two storage reservoir. The easement area would total 
0.34 acres of land within the project boundary. The intake structure 
and intake piping would require a 0.25 acre easement and an adjacent 
boathouse and pier for use in servicing the withdrawal facility would 
require an additional 0.09 acre easement. The facility would withdrawal 
a maximum annual average of 19.6 million gallons per day (MGD) and an 
instantaneous maximum of 49.0 MGD. A maximum monthly average of up to 
23.3 MGD of the water withdrawn would be transferred out of the Yadkin 
River Basin into the Rocky River Basin, for consumptive use. A portion 
of the transferred water would be returned via treated wastewater 
effluent back through the Rocky River into the Pee Dee River 
approximately five miles downstream from the Lake Tillery Dam.
    The EA contains Commission staff's analysis of the potential 
environmental impacts of the construction and operation of the facility 
and the proposed water withdrawal volume and concludes that approval of 
the proposal would not constitute a major federal action significantly 
affecting the quality of the human environment.
    The EA may be viewed on the Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the docket number (P-
2206) in the docket number field to access the document. For 
assistance, contact FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov 
or toll-free at (866) 208-3372 or for TTY, (202) 502-8659.
    For further information, contact Robert Ballantine at (202) 502-
6289 or by email at robert.ballantine@ferc.gov.

    Dated: July 7, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-15022 Filed 7-10-20; 8:45 am]
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