[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 215 (Tuesday, November 8, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67468-67469]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-24347]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 1922-052]


Ketchikan Public Utilities; Notice of Application Tendered for 
Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and 
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a Deadline for 
Submission of Final Amendments

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Subsequent Minor License.
    b. Project No.: 1922-052.
    c. Date filed: October 27, 2022.
    d. Applicant: Ketchikan Public Utilities (KPU).
    e. Name of Project: Beaver Falls Hydroelectric Project (project).
    f. Location: On Beaver Falls Creek in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, 
Alaska. The project occupies 478.4 acres of United States lands 
administered by U.S. Forest Service.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Jennifer Holstrom, Senior Project Engineer, 
Ketchikan Public Utilities, 1065 Fair Street, Ketchikan, Alaska 99901; 
(907) 228-4733; or email at [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Kristen Sinclair at (202) 502-6587, or 
[email protected].
    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 a request for a study with the Commission not later than 60 
days from the date of filing of the application, and

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serve a copy of the request on the applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: December 26, 2022.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
using the Commission's eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 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, 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. All filings must clearly identify the project name and 
docket number on the first page: Beaver Falls Hydroelectric Project (P-
1922-052).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Project Description: The existing Beaver Falls Project consists 
of two developments: Silvis and Beaver Falls. The Silvis development 
consists of: (1) a 60-foot-high, 135-foot-long concrete-face, rock-
filled Upper Silvis Lake dam; (2) an 800-foot-long excavated rock 
spillway channel leading from Upper Silvis Lake to Lower Silvis Lake; 
(3) a 300-acre reservoir (Upper Silvis Lake) with gross storage 
capacity of approximately 38,000 acre-feet; (4) a 980-foot-long 
underground power tunnel connecting to a 342-foot-long, 36-inch-
diameter steel penstock that conveys water to the Silvis Powerhouse; 
(5) a 30-feet by 40-feet by 25-feet-high Silvis powerhouse containing a 
single Francis-type turbine with a rated capacity of 2.1 megawatts; (6) 
a 150-foot-long trapezoidal shaped channel tailrace discharging into 
Lower Silvis Lake; (7) a 2,900-foot-long, 5-kilovolt submarine cable 
beneath Lower Silvis Lake; (8) a 7,000-foot-long, 34.5-kilovolt aerial 
transmission line; and (9) appurtenant facilities.
    The Beaver Falls development consists of: (1) a 32-foot-high, 140-
foot-long concrete-face, rock-filled Lower Silvis dam; (2) a spillway 
with an ungated control weir and unlined rock discharge channel; (3) a 
67.5-acre reservoir (Lower Silvis Lake) with gross storage capacity of 
approximately 8,052 acre-feet; (4) a 3-foot-high, 40-foot-long concrete 
diversion dam on Beaver Falls Creek; (5) a 3,800-foot-long underground 
power tunnel connecting to a 3,610-foot-long above ground steel 
penstock that conveys water from Lower Silvis Lake to the Beaver Falls 
powerhouse and supplies water to Units 3 and 4 in the powerhouse; (6) a 
225-foot-long adit that taps the 3,800-foot-long underground power 
tunnel and discharges water into Beaver Falls Creek approximately 500-
feet upstream of the Beaver Falls diversion dam; (7) a 4,170-foot-long 
above ground steel penstock that conveys water from the Beaver Falls 
Creek diversion dam to the Beaver Falls powerhouse and supplies Unit 1 
in the powerhouse; (8) a 30-feet by 147-feet by 25-feet-high Beaver 
Falls powerhouse containing three horizontal Pelton generating units 
with a total installed capacity of 5 MW (Units 1, 3 and 4; Unit 2 is 
decommissioned); (9) a Beaver Falls substation; and (10) appurtenant 
facilities. The project generates an annual average of 54,711,280 
megawatt-hours.
    o. In addition to publishing the full text of this notice in the 
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an 
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this notice, as well 
as other documents in the proceeding (e.g., license application) via 
the internet through the Commission's Home Page (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 (P-
1922). For assistance, contact FERC at [email protected] or 
call toll-free, (866) 208-3676 or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
    You may also register online at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx 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 and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions 
to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

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Additional Study Requests due.........  December 2022.
Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)  December 2022.
Request Additional Information (if      December 2022.
 needed).
Issue Notice of Acceptance............  March 2023.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments.  April 2023.
Issue Scoping Document 2..............  June 2023.
Issue Notice of Ready for               June 2023.
 Environmental Analysis.
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    Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the notice 
of ready for environmental analysis.

    Dated: November 2, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-24347 Filed 11-7-22; 8:45 am]
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