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Federal Register/Vol. 85, No. 29/Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 29 / Wednesday, February 12, 2020 / Notices 7983 requirements, interventions, protests, North Hope Street, Room 921, Los west and adjacent to the southernmost service, and qualifying facilities filings Angeles, CA 90012, (213) 367–0881, or section of Lower Quail Canal. can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ [email protected]. The Peace Valley pipeline begins at docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For i. FERC Contact: Kyle Olcott at (202) the Peace Valley pipeline intake other information, call (866) 208–3676 502–8963; or email at kyle.olcott@ embankment. The Peace Valley pipeline (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. ferc.gov. intake embankment is a zoned earth and Dated: February 6, 2020. j. This application is not ready for rockfill embankment at the downstream Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., environmental analysis at this time. end of the Lower Quail canal. The Peace Deputy Secretary. k. The project consists of two Valley pipeline intake embankment is developments: Warne Development and [FR Doc. 2020–02815 Filed 2–11–20; 8:45 am] 50 feet tall, with a crest length of 350 Castaic Development. The average feet, and crest elevation of 3,330 feet. BILLING CODE 6717–01–P annual generation of the South SWP Project from 2007 to 2017 was 304 SWP water flowing from Quail Lake through Lower Quail canal is routed DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY gigawatt-hours (GWh) at the Warne powerplant and 379 GWh at the Castaic into the Peace Valley pipeline to Warne powerplant and then to Pyramid Lake. Federal Energy Regulatory powerplant. The Peace Valley pipeline, which has a Commission Warne Development 12-foot-diameter and is completely [Project No. 2426–227] The major features of the Warne underground, serves as the penstock to Development include: (1) Quail Lake, the Warne powerplant. It extends about California Department of Water (2) Lower Quail Canal, (3) Peace Valley 5.5 miles from the Peace Valley pipeline Resources and Los Angeles pipeline intake embankment, (4) Peace intake structure to the Warne Department of Water and Power; Valley pipeline, (5) Gorman bypass powerplant. In the event of a Peace Notice of Application Tendered for channel, (6) the William E. Warne Valley pipeline outage or scheduled Filing with the Commission and powerplant (Warne powerplant), (7) SWP water releases exceeding the Establishing Procedural Schedule for switchyard, (8) the transmission line pipeline’s capacity, the water is routed Relicensing and a Deadline for that interconnects Warne powerplant through the Gorman bypass channel Submission of Final Amendments with the Southern California Edison directly into Pyramid Lake. Take notice that the following (SCE) Pastoria-Pardee transmission line, The Gorman bypass channel flow hydroelectric application has been filed and (9) appurtenant facilities. capacity is 700 cfs and conveys SWP with the Commission and is available Quail Lake is a small regulating water from Lower Quail canal to for public inspection. reservoir along the State Water Project Pyramid Lake, bypassing the Peace a. Type of Application: New Major (SWP) that was created by constructing Valley pipeline and Warne powerplant, License. an embankment along a sag pond when necessary, with an alignment b. Project No.: 2426–227. formed by the San Andreas fault. The generally paralleling that of the Peace c. Date filed: January 30, 2020. lake is located 5 miles southwest of the Valley pipeline. The man-made channel d. Co-Applicants: California bifurcation of the East and West begins at the Peace Valley pipeline Department of Water Resources and Los branches of the SWP. Quail Lake has a intake embankment and crosses Angeles Department of Water and maximum storage capacity of 8,790 Interstate 5 about 0.7 mile downstream Power. acre-feet and a surface area of about 290 from the embankment. Local drainage, if e. Name of Project: South SWP acres. The Quail Lake outlet into Lower any, drains into the bypass channel near Hydropower Project, Quail canal is a double-box culvert Interstate 5. structure that passes beneath State f. Location: Along the West Branch of The Warne powerplant, an above- Highway 138. Quail Lake and Lower the California Aqueduct, and along Piru ground, steel-reinforced, concrete Creek and Castaic Creek, tributaries to Quail canal serve as a forebay to Warne powerhouse, is located at the northern the Santa Clara River, in Los Angeles powerplant. The Lower Quail canal has (upstream) end of Pyramid Lake, at the County, California. The project an emergency outflow weir that is terminus of the Peace Valley pipeline. currently occupies 2,790 acres of federal described below, and a spillway is not The powerplant has two 37.5–MW land administered by the U.S. required for Quail Lake. Pelton-type generating units. Each Department of Agriculture, Forest Water released from Quail Lake turbine has a rated head of 650 feet, Service, as part of the Angeles National through the Quail Lake outlet flows into runner speed of 200 revolutions per Forest and the Los Padres National the 2-mile-long Lower Quail canal. The minute (rpm), rated output of 51,000 Forest; and 17 acres of federal land concrete-lined canal serves as a horsepower (hp), and a rated discharge administered by the U.S. Department of conveyance to the Peace Valley pipeline of 782 cfs. The total combined flow Interior, Bureau of Land Management. intake and is the forebay for the Warne g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power powerplant. Lower Quail canal has a capacity for the powerplant is 1,564 cfs. Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r). bottom width of 24 feet, northern The project includes a 3-mile-long, h. Applicant Contacts: Gwen embankment height of approximately 50 single-circuit, 220-kilovolt (kV) Knittweis, Chief, Hydropower License feet, southern embankment height of transmission line that connects output Planning and Compliance Office, about 40 feet, and maximum flow from the project through the Warne California Department of Water capacity of 3,129 cubic feet per second switchyard to SCE’s Pardee-Pastoria Resources, P.O. Box 924836, (cfs). The Lower Quail canal storage transmission line. The line is built on Sacramento, California 94236–0001, capacity is 1,150 acre-feet. An ungated steel lattice towers along a 150-foot- (916) 557–4554, or Gwen.Knittweis@ emergency overflow weir is located on wide right-of-way. The Warne water.ca.gov; and Simon Zewdu, the north side of Lower Quail canal. If switchyard is located west and Manager of Strategic Initiatives, Power an unplanned release occurs, water can immediately adjacent to the Warne Planning and Development, Los Angeles be discharged over the ungated weir powerplant and contains two generator Department of Water and Power, 111 into a detention basin located to the step-up transformers. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:03 Feb 11, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\12FEN1.SGM 12FEN1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with NOTICES 7984 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 29 / Wednesday, February 12, 2020 / Notices Castaic Development Angeles tunnel, the principal outlet An overflow weir built into a natural from Pyramid Lake, supplies water to topographic saddle located The major features of the Castaic the Castaic powerplant in the generating approximately 300 feet east of the left Development include: (1) Pyramid dam, mode and returns water to the lake from abutment of the dam serves as an (2) Pyramid Lake, (3) the Angeles tunnel Elderberry forebay when the powerplant uncontrolled emergency spillway. The and seven penstocks, (4) the Castaic is operating in the pumping mode. crest elevation of the overflow weir is powerplant and switchyard, (5) the Angeles tunnel is 7.2 miles long, has a 1,540 feet, with a capacity of at least Elderberry forebay and dam, (6) storm diameter of 30 feet, and has a maximum 12,000 cfs. Elderberry forebay dam, bypass channel and check dams, (7) the flow capacity of 18,400 cfs. including this emergency spillway, is transmission lines that interconnect The penstock assembly for the six the most downstream project facility. Castaic switchyard with the units in the Castaic powerplant consists Elderberry forebay serves as an Independent System Operator power of a double trifurcation immediately afterbay for the Castaic powerplant grid, and (8) appurtenant facilities. DWR downstream of the south portal of when the plant is generating power, and owns and operates the facilities above Angeles tunnel, a penstock shutoff valve as a forebay when the plant is pumping the surge chamber at the southeastern on each branch of the trifurcations, and water back to Pyramid Lake. The end of the Angeles tunnel, and LADWP six 2,200-foot-long steel penstocks forebay also receives a small amount of owns and operates the remainder of the ranging in diameter from 9 feet to 13.5 local inflow from Castaic Creek, which facilities, including the surge chamber. feet serving the six powerhouse units enters at the northern end of the Pyramid dam, at the southern end of (Unit Nos. 1–6). Unit No. 7 powerplant reservoir. The remaining inflow to Pyramid Lake, is a 1,090-foot-long, 400- is served by a 1,900-foot-long steel Elderberry forebay is SWP water from foot-high zoned earth and rock fill dam. penstock ranging in diameter from 7 feet Pyramid Lake conveyed via the Angeles The crest of the dam is 35 feet wide to 9 feet branching from a Y-connection tunnel. At a NMWSE of 1,530 feet, with an elevation of 2,606 feet. Water is between the tunnel portal and the main Elderberry forebay has a storage typically released from a low-level trifurcation. Combined flow capacity for capacity of 28,231 acre-feet, a surface outlet to an 18-mile-long section of Piru all seven penstocks is 17,840 cfs.
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