[Federal Register: July 28, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 144)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 12187-000]

 
Price Dam Partnership, LTD; Notice of Application Ready for 
Environmental Analysis and Soliciting Comments, Recommendations, Terms 
and Conditions, and Prescriptions

July 21, 2004.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Original Major License.
    b. Project No.: 12187-000.
    c. Date filed: June 3, 2002.
    d. Applicant: Price Dam Partnership, LTD.
    e. Name of Project: Price Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Mississippi River, in the City of Alton, Wood 
River Township, Madison County, Illinois. The proposed project would be 
constructed on the U.S. Corps of Engineers (Corps) Melvin Price Locks & 
Dam and would occupy 7.8 acres of federal lands (including six of nine 
existing gate bays in the dam and a portion of the Illinois shoreline 
for the construction of the proposed transmission line).
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. James B. Price; Price Dam Partnership 
LTD; P.O. Box 5550; Aiken, SC 29804-5550; (803) 642-5581.
    i. FERC Contact: Lee Emery, (202) 502-8379, or lee.emery@ferc.gov.
    j. Deadline for filing comments, recommendations, terms and 
conditions, and prescriptions is 60 days from the issuance of this 
notice; reply comments are due 105 days from the issuance date of this 
notice.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. Please indicate the project 
number (P-12187) on any comments or motions filed.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors filing 
documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each 
person 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.
    Comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and prescriptions 
may be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. The 
Commission strongly encourages electronic filings. See 18 CFR 
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site 
(http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-Filing'' link.

    k. This application has been accepted and is now ready for 
environmental analysis.
    l. The proposed project would use the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' 
Melvin Price Locks & Dam and Reservoir, and would consist of the 
following new facilities: (1) 192 individual, turbine/generator units 
grouped in six moveable steel modules with each module containing 32 
bulb-type generators having a capacity of 550 kilowatts; (2) six air-
operated spillway gates containing an inflatable rubber bladder; (3) a 
mobile, 1,000 metric ton crane; (4) a fish bypass on each module; (5) a 
trashrack assembly with a two-inch clear spacing between the bars and a 
crane-operated trash rake; (6) a new 0.8-mile-long, 138-kilovolt 
transmission line; and (7) appurtenant facilities. The average annual 
generation is estimated to be 319,000 megawatt-hours.
    m. A copy of the application is available for review at the 
Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the 
Commission's Web site at 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. For assistance, contact 
FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll-free at (866) 
208-3676, or for TTY, (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available for 
inspection and reproduction at the address in item h above.
    All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title 
``COMMENTS'', ``REPLY COMMENTS'', ``RECOMMENDATIONS'', ``TERMS AND 
CONDITIONS'', or ``PRESCRIPTIONS''; (2) set forth in the heading the 
name of the applicant and the project number of the application to 
which the filing responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone 
number of the person submitting the filing; and (4) otherwise comply 
with the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. All 
comments, recommendations, terms and conditions or prescriptions must 
set forth their evidentiary basis and otherwise comply with the 
requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). Agencies may obtain copies of the 
application directly from the applicant.

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Each filing must be accompanied by proof of service on all persons 
listed on the service list prepared by the Commission in this 
proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b), and 385.2010.
    You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp
 to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.
    n. Public notice of the filing of the initial development 
application, which has already been given, established the due date for 
filing competing applications or notices of intent. Under the 
Commission's regulations, any competing development application must be 
filed in response to and in compliance with public notice of the 
initial development application. No competing applications or notices 
of intent may be filed in response to this notice.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E4-1665 Filed 7-27-04; 8:45 am]

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