[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 28, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 73752]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-28203]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 15239-000]


PacifiCorp; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for 
Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing 
Applications

    On October 13, 2021, PacifiCorp filed an application for a 
preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, 
proposing to study the feasibility of the Crooked Creek Pumped Storage 
Project (Crooked Creek Project or project) to be located near Valley 
Falls, Lake County, Oregon. 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 with a surface area of 52 acres and a storage volume of 
approximately 2,344 acre-feet created by a 4,200-foot-long, 100-foot-
high embankment dam; (2) a lower reservoir with a surface area of 50 
acres and a storage volume of approximately 2,052 acre-feet created by 
a 4,300-foot-long, 130 foot-high embankment dam; (3) a 2-mile-long 
excavated tunnel and 1.3-mile-long steel penstock totaling 3.3 miles 
with a diameter of 18-feet connecting the upper reservoir with the 
powerhouse/pump station; (4) a 150-foot-long, 50-foot-wide concrete 
powerhouse/pump station located on the lower reservoir shoreline 
containing three 167-megawatt generating/pumping units; (5) a 19.7-
mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line interconnecting to PacifiCorp's 
existing Mile Hi substation in Lakeview, Oregon; (6) an 8.7 mile 
underground pipeline diverting water from the Chewaucan River to the 
project for initial and maintenance fill; and, (7) appurtenant 
facilities. The estimated annual generation of the Crooked Creek 
Project would be 1,460 gigawatt-hours.
    Applicant Contact: Tim Hemstreet, Managing Director, Renewable 
Energy Development, PacifiCorp, 825 NE Multnomah, Suite 1800, Portland, 
OR 97232; email: [email protected]; phone: (503) 813-6170.
    FERC Contact: Kristen Sinclair; email: [email protected]; 
phone: (202) 502-6587.
    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 http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief 
comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the 
eComment system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You 
must include your name and contact information at the end of your 
comments. 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-15239-000.
    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-15239) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: December 21, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-28203 Filed 12-27-21; 8:45 am]
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