[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 221 (Monday, November 16, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 73035]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-25208]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 15035-000]


Premium Energy Holdings, LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit 
Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To 
Intervene, and Competing Applications

    On June 9, 2020, Premium Energy Holdings LLC, filed an application 
for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power 
Act (FPA), proposing to study the feasibility of the Isabella Pumped 
Storage Project (Isabella Project or project), a closed-loop pumped 
storage project to be located in Kern County, California. The sole 
purpose of a preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant the permit 
holder priority to file a license application during the permit term. A 
preliminary permit does not authorize the permit holder to perform any 
land-disturbing activities or otherwise enter upon lands or waters 
owned by others without the owners' express permission.
    The proposed project would consist of the following: (1) An upper 
reservoir created by a new dam at one of three alternative locations in 
the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains with a capacity between 19,073 and 
34,459 acre-feet, at an elevation between 4,500 and 5,960 feet above 
mean sea level; (2) a tunnel system of steel penstocks and concrete 
pressurized tunnels to connect the upper and lower reservoirs to the 
powerhouse; (3) pump-turbine units in an underground powerhouse with 
generation capacity of 2,000 megawatts located at one of the three 
alternative locations; (4) a cavern of the transformers chamber 
adjacent to the powerhouse; (5) the existing Isabella Reservoir, to be 
used as the lower reservoir, with a storage capacity of 568,000 acre-
feet, at an elevation of 2,580 feet above mean sea level; (6) 
electrical switchyards and interconnecting transmission lines from the 
powerhouse to the nearest major transmission interconnection at one of 
the six alternative locations; and (7) appurtenant facilities. The 
estimated average annual generation of the Isabella Project would be 
6,900 gigawatt-hours.
    Applicant Contact: Victor M. Rojas, Premium Energy Holdings, 355 
South Lemon Avenue, Suite A, Walnut, California 91789; phone: (909) 
595-5314.
    FERC Contact: Khatoon Melick, (202) 502-8433, 
khatoon.melick@ferc.gov.
    Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing 
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file 
competing applications: 60 Days from the issuance of this notice. 
Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements 
of 18 CFR 4.36.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing 
applications using the Commission's eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. Commenters can submit brief 
comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the 
eComment system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/QuickComment.aspx. You 
must include your name and contact information at the end of your 
comments. 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, you may submit a paper copy. 
Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via 
any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852. The first page of any filing should include docket 
number P-15035-000.
    More information about this project, including a copy of the 
application, can be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of 
Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. 
Enter the docket number (P-15035) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: November 9, 2020.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-25208 Filed 11-13-20; 8:45 am]
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