[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51307-51308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24625]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Application Tendered for Filing with the Commission and
Soliciting Additional Study Requests
September 15, 1999.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: New Major License.
b. Project No: 2576-023 and 2597-018.
c. Date filed: August 31, 1999.
d. Applicant: Connecticut Light and Power Company.
e. Name of project: Housatonic River Project.
f. Location: The Falls Village, Bulls Bridge, Shepaug, Rocky River
and Stephenson developments are located on the Housatonic River, 76.2
miles, 52.9 miles, 44.1 miles, 30.0 miles and 19.3 miles, respectively,
from its mouth. The project is in the western portion of Connecticut in
the counties of Fairfield, New Haven and Litchfield. Approximately 74
acres of federal land are within project boundaries.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 USC Secs. 791(a)-
825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: William J. Nadeau, Vice President, The
Connecticut Light and Power Company, Post Office Box 270, Hartford,
Connecticut 06141-0270, (860) 665-5315.
i. FERC Contact: Any questions on this notice should be addressed
to James T Griffin, E-mail address james.griffin@ferc.fed.us, or
telephone (202) 219-2799.
j. Deadline for filing additional study requests: November 1, 1999,
all documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: David
P. Boegers, Secretary, Federal Energy Commission, 888 First Street,
N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426.
The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all
intervenors filing documents with the Commission to serve a copy of
that document on each person whose name appears on the official service
list for the project. Further, if an intervenor files comments or
documents with the Commission relating to the merits of an issue that
may affect the responsibilities of a particular resource agency, they
must also serve a copy of the document on that resource agency.
k. Status of environmental analysis: This application is not ready
for environmental analysis at this time.
l. Description of the Project: The combined projects consist of the
following five developments.
1. The Falls Village Development consists of the following existing
facilities: (1) a 300-foot-long, 14-foot-high concrete gravity dam with
two spillways having a combined overflow length of approximately 280
feet, and a crest at elevation 631.5 feet National Geodetic Vertical
Datum (NGVD); (2) an impoundment 3.8 miles long containing 1,135 acre-
feet when at elevation 633.2 feet NGVD; (3) a dam-integral powerhouse
with a total installed capacity of 9.0 megawatts (MW) producing
approximately 39,894 megawatthours (MWh) annually; and (4)
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a switchyard connected to the project via a 69 kilovolt (kV)
interconnected transmission line.
2. The Bulls Bridge Development consists of the following existing
facilities: (1) a 203-foot-long, 24-foot-high stone and concrete
gravity dam with a dam crest of 354 feet NGVD; (2) a two mile long
power canal; (3) a 156-foot-long, 17-foot-high rockfill gravity weir
dam; (4) a 2.25 mile-long reservoir with an 1,800 acre-feet storage
capacity, a surface area, which, at a normal elevation of 354 feet
NGVD, occupies approximately 120 acres; (5) a powerhouse with a
capacity of 7.2 MW, producing approximately 41,000 MWh annually; and
(6) a 69kV line connecting the development to the Rocky River
development.
3. The Rocky River Pumped Storage Development consists of the
following existing facilities: (1) a 952-foot-long earth-filled core
wall dam, a 2,500-foot-long earthen canal dike that forms the north
bank of the power canal to the intake structure, six dikes, a dam crest
elevation averaging 440.1 feet NGVD, and an intake canal of 3,190 feet
in length; (2) a seven mile-long, Candlewood Lake reservoir with a
5,610 acre impoundment at 428.1 feet NGVD; (3) a powerhouse with a
rated 31,000 kilowatts (kW) capacity averaging 14,238, 100
kilowatthours (kWh) per year; and (4) a development connection to the
applicant's transmission system via the Rocky River-Carmel Hill 1813
line, the Rocky River-Bull Bridge 1555 line and the Rocky River-West
Brookfield 1618 line.
4. The Shepaug Development consists of the following existing
facilities: (1) a 1,412-foot, bedrock-anchored, concrete gravity dam
having a crest elevation of 205.3 feet NGVD; (2) an impoundment, at
maximum operational elevation level of 198.3 feet NGVD, occupying 1870
acres; (3) a powerhouse with a rated capacity of 37,200 kWh, with a
1997 production of 118,880 MWh; and (4) a development connection to the
applicant's transmission system via the Shepaug-Bates 1622 line and the
Shepaug-Stony Hill-West Brookfield 1887 line.
5. The Stevenson Development consists of the following existing
facilities: (1) a 1,250-foot, bedrock-anchored, concrete gravity dam
with a crest elevation of 98.3 feet NGVD, 696 feet of spillway and an
integral powerhouse; (2) an impoundment occupying a surface area of
1,063 acres at 101.3 feet NGVD, which contains a storage volume of
2,650 acre-feet; (3) a powerhouse with a rated capacity of 30,500 kWh,
with 1997 production of 92,448 Mwh; and (4) a development connection to
the applicant's transmission system via several 115 kV transmission
lines.
m. Locations of the application: A copy of the application is
available for inspection and reproduction at the Commission's Public
Reference Room, located at 888 First Street, NE, Room 2A, Washington,
D.C. 20426, or by calling (202) 208-1371. The application may be viewed
on the web at www.ferc.fed.us. Call (202) 208-2222 for assistance. A
copy is also available for inspection and reproduction at the address
in item h above.
n. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the State
Historic Preservation Officer as required by Secs. 106, National
Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of the Advisory Council
on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR, Part 800.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-24625 Filed 9-21-99; 8:45 am]
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