Applications: Natural Currents Energy Services, LLC

Federal Register: August 27, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 167)

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Project No. 13246-000

Natural Currents Energy Services, LLC; Notice of Preliminary

Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions

To Intervene, and Competing Applications

August 20, 2008.

On June 23, 2008 and supplemented on August 12, 2008, Natural

Currents Energy Services, LLC filed an application, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, proposing to study the feasibility of the Wiscasset Tidal Energy Project, located on the Sheepscot River in

Lincoln County, Maine. The project uses no dam or impoundment.

The proposed project would consist of: (1) 6 Tidal In-Stream Energy

Conversion (TISEC) generating units, with a total installed capacity of 10-megawatts, (2) an underwater cable approximately 0.5 to 1 km in length, and (3) appurtenant facilities. The project is estimated to have an annual generation of 4.38-gigawatt-hours, which would be sold to a local utility.

Applicant Contact: Mr. Roger Bason, Natural Currents Energy

Services, LLC, 24 Roxanne Boulevard, Highland, New York 12561, (845) 691-4009.

FERC Contact: Kelly Houff (202) 502-6393.

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.

Comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing applications may be filed electronically via the Internet. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site under the ``e-Filing'' link. If unable to be filed electronically, documents may be paper-filed. To paper-file, an original and eight copies should be mailed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. For more information on how to submit these types of filings please go to the Commission's Web site located at http://www.ferc.gov/filing- comments.asp. More information about this project can be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of Commission's Web site at http:// www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number (P- 13246) in the docket number field to access the document. For assistance, call toll-free 1-866-208-3372.

Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.

FR Doc. E8-19813 Filed 8-26-08; 8:45 am

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