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3.0 Previously Constructed Facilities

The Project will use the existing Seminoe Reservoir as the Project’s lower reservoir. Seminoe Reservoir is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) as part of the Kendrick Project on the North Platte River. The Kendrick Project was authorized by Congress in 1933 and $12 million was appropriated for its construction (Klajic 2000). Reclamation operates Seminoe Dam and Reservoir for irrigation and electric power generation. Existing Reclamation facilities and current operations will not be affected by the Project’s pumped storage operations.

4.0 Schedule

4.1 Design Stage

The schedule in Appendix A is based on the execution of an EPC contract immediately upon the issuance of a FERC license. The schedule also assumes Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) will relocate the portion of the existing Miracle Mile-Snowy Ridge 1 115kV and Miracle Mile-Snowy Ridge 2 230kV transmission lines in the vicinity of the upper reservoir during the first year of construction. The design tasks necessary to prepare EPC bidding documents, together with the bidding and adjudication, will be performed during the latter stages of FERC’s review process for the license application.

4.2 First year of Construction

During the first year of construction, the following work will be completed.

4.2.1 Pre-Hydropower Facilities Construction

No work will be performed on site within the first 12 months of execution of the EPC contract, except for the initial on-site construction tasks as follows:

• Mobilize and construct temporary office, storage, maintenance, and staging facilities; • Construct and improve permanent and construction access roads; and • Relocation of the segment of existing WAPA transmission lines in the vicinity of the upper reservoir facility.

4.2.2 Roads

• Improvement of the access road to the upper reservoir; • Required roads around the reservoir and to the tops of the high-pressure shaft and the cable shaft; and, • The access road to the main access tunnel portal, including the bridge over the tailrace of Seminoe Dam.