February 4, 1970 (12 pages)

The'Nevada County Nugget, "UNITED STATES OF AMERICAS, AB mlles of ditch, 0.40 mile of ftnme and 1.04 miles of Pacific Gas and Electric Company ) ProjectNo. 2310, NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT OF LICENSE FOR CONSTRUCTED PROJECT (January 23, 1970) Public notice is hereby given that application for amendment oflicense has been filed under the FEDERAL POWER ACT (16 U.S.C 791a 825r) by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (correspondence to: J, F. Roberts, Jr., Vice President « Rates and Valuation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 245 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94106, for the constructed Drum Spaulding Project No, 2310, located in Nevada and Placer Counties, California, near the Cities of Auburn, Colfax, Grass Valley and Nevada City, and affecting lands of the United States within Tahoe National Forest. : The subject application, which consolidates and supersedes applications for amendment filed October 31, 1963 and December 2, 1965, respectively, seeks to include in the license for the.project the following described constructed project works: Dam and Reservoirs Lake Van Norden an earth fill dam located on the South Yuba River, a spillway located at the left abutment, a reservoir. with an area of about 382 acres and a storage capacity of. about 5,261 acre-feet and a controlled outlet under the dam; Kidd Lake an earth and rock-fill dam, located on a tributary of << South Yuba River, a spillway located -at the left abutment, and “a reservoir with an area of about 86 acres, and a storage capacity of about 1,500 acre-feet and a controlled outlet under the’ dam; White Rock Lake an earth fill dam and concrete spillway on North White Rock Creek, a reservoir with an area of about 90 acres and storage capacity of about 570 acre-feet, a controlled outlet through the bottom of the dam; Kelly an earth-fill dam located on a tributary of the North N Fork American River, a spillway located at the , @ reservoir with an area of about 28 acres and of about 376 acre-feet and a controlled ; Lake Valley an earth-fill main dam orth Fork American River and an eartheservoir with an area of about 298 acres. about 7,964 acre-feet, and a controlled abutment; Alta Forebay an earth-fill lower end of Towle Canal, a reservoir of about 5 acres and storage capacity of 37.5 acreDiversion a rubble masonry gravity overon the Bear River diverting water into the g sg cs 25 r res : 3 : E g E 2 Bee E z re i 8 BB a B ABE eg g . £38 2 < ® . & 1 + 3 8 z ° 2 capacity of about 111 acre-feet; Halsey -fill dams and spillway at the downstream er Canal, a reservoir with an area of about and a storage capacity of approximately 68 acre-feet; Halsey Afterbay a rock-fill and concrete dam and spillway on the South Fork of Dry Creek, a reservoir with an area of about 9 acres storage capacity of about 96 acre-feet, and Wise Canal; Rock Creek Reservoir 3 dam, two. auxiliary earth-fill dams and spillway on Rock Creek, @ reservoir with an area of about 55 acres and a storage capacity of about 550 acre-feet, and a controlled outlet through the dam; and Wise Forebay an earth-fill dam and spillway at the downstream end of Wise Canal, a reservoir with an area of about 8.3 acres and a storage capacity of about $2 acre-feet; oe Conduits Jordan Creek Canal a 0,6-mile long conduit diverting =I e _ i fi ae g oe -_ oo . Q” water from a tributary of Jordan Creek to Lake Spaulding . ’ through 0.07-mile of flume. and 0,53-mile of natural channel; 3 of 0,24 miles stock a 5,383-foot long to Alta Power Plant; Dutch Flat Tunnel a tunnel, diverting water from stock; Dutch Flat Penstockfeet long which conveys water Flat powerhouse; Bear River Canal L miles long, consisting of 20.74 miles of ditch, 0.65 of a mile of flume, and 1.32 miles of tunnel, conducting water from the Bear River Diversion to Halsey Forebay; Halsey Penstock and Tunnels No. 5 and 6 1,566 feet of woodstave pipe, two tunnels 2,615 feet long and 1,207 feet of steel pipe; Wise Canal a conduit about 5.77 miles long from Halsey Afterbay to Reck Creek Reservoir to Wise Forebay consisting of 4.95 miles of and 0.76 miles of tunnel; Wise Penof woodstave pipe, 436 feet of tunpipe; and South Canal a conduit Wise Tailrace to various water Fork American River consisting ‘connected to a 22,000 kw generator, step-up transformers and Arthur an earth-fill dam and spillway <a reservoir with an area of about: Powerhouses pee _Flat Powerhouse a powerhouse located on the iver containing one 29,000 horsepower turbine direct switching facilities; Alfa Power Plant a powerhouse located on Little Bear River housing two 1,500 hp turbines, each connected to a 1,000 kw generator, a step-up transformer, and switching facilities connected directly to a non-project transmission system; Halsey Power Plapt -.a powerhouse located on South Fork Dry Creek housing an 18,000 hp turbine connected to a 12,000 kw generator, and step-up transformers and cir‘cuit breakers; and Wise Power Plant a powerhouse located on Auburn Ravine housing an 18,700 hp turbine connected to a 12,000 kw generator, step-up transformers and circuit breakers; a Transmission Facilities : Drum Halsey Junction 115-kv Transmission Lines two 115-kv circuits extending about 22.39 miles from the Drum Powerhouse to a junction with the licensee's mission system at its Halsey Junction Switching ; Duteh FlatHalsey Junction 115 kv Transmission Line a 115-kv line extending about 19.12 miles from the Dutch Flat Powerhouse to a function with the licensee's interconnected transmission system atits Halsey Junction Switching Station; Drum-Colfax Junction 60-kv Transmission Line a single-circuit 60-kv Transmission line extending about 15.08 miles from the Drum Powerhouse to a junction with licensee's interconnected transmission system at Colfax Junction about 1.1 miles northerly from Licensee's Colfax Substation; Drum-Summit 115 kv Transmission Lines two single circuit, 115-kv wood-pole lines ex“tending about 27.09 and 28,06 miles, respectively, from Drum Powerhouse to a connection with Sierra Pacific Power Company's system in the vicinity of Licensee's Summit Metering Station; Drum-Spaulding-Summit 60-kv Transmission Linesa single-circuit 60-kv wood-pole line extending about 9.33 miles from Drum Powerhouse to Spaulding Powerhouse No, 1, where it connects with another single-circuit 60-kv wood-pole line which extends about 20,03 miles to a connection with Sierra Pacific Power Company's system near the Licensee's Summit Substation; Halsey 60 kv and 115 kv Tap Lines two 60. ky tap lines, 0.3 of a mile long from Halsey powerhouse to the Licensee's transmission system, two 115 kv tap linesto Licensee's non-project 115 kv transmission lines passing through the plant yard; and Wise 60 kv Tap Lines two 60 kv tap. lines, 0.1 mile long from Wise powerhouse to the Licensee's transmission system. ne + Recreational Facilities = 5 Halsey Forebay picnic and fishing access facilities are provided and are to be expanded; Lake Valley Reservoir fishing access and picnicking, camping, boat launching and swimming facilities-the camping facilities are to be expanded; Lake Sterling unimproved campground, boat launching and fishing access; Kidd Lake unimprove campground and fishing access and an improved’ group campground with swimming and fishing access; Kelly Lake unimproved campground and fishing access and an improved picnic area; Lake Van Norden improved picnicking, camping and fishing access area; Lake Fordyce, Upper and Lower Feeley Lakes, Upper, Middle and Lower Lindsay Lakes, Culbertson Lake, Upper and Lower Rock Lakes, Upper and Lower Peak Lakes, Rucker Lake, Blue Lake, and Fuller Lake unimproved camping and fishing access areas; Lake Spaulding unimproved camping, picnicking, boat laun and fishing access areas; and Deer Creek Forebay picnicking and fishing access areas. Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with reference to said application should on or before March 16, 1970, file with the Federal Power Commission, Washington, _D. C, 20426, petitions to intervene or protests in ce of Practice with the requirements of the Commission's Rules and Procedure (18 CFR 1.8 or 1,10), All protests filed with the commission will be considered by it in determining the appropriate action to be taken but not serve to make the -protestants parties to the proceeding. Persons wishing to become parties to a proceeding or to participate as a party in “any hearing therein must file petitions to intervene in accordance with the Commission's Rules. The application is on file with the Commission and available for public inspection, GORDON M,,.GRANT . Secretary _ ‘Date of Publication: February 4, 1970, ae LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE SUMMONS. ALLEN LEROY ARNOLD SUUTE OF CALIFORNIA FOR PEOPLE OF THE STATE. OF OUNTY ALIFORNIA above ee ee ne 202 “My ahs Street You are, directed to file with Nevada City, California the Clerk of this Court awritten . Telephone 265-4760 pl in response to the DiAttorney for Plaintiff vorce Co! t in an action 5 pan asas aoe eat in the Superior nam ; r oe “aes Court of the State of C rnia vs for the County of N within TEN days the service on gon, Bs Pt + ‘CLASSIFIED ee 10. Crafts & Services vices. ROBERT L. ROSS, JR. OPTOMETRIST _. 147 Mill St, Ph, 273-6246 PPR LOO LILLE MEMBERSHIP IN ALTA SIERRA Golf & Country Club. $380 cash. P, O, Box 207, Yuba City, Calif, or ph, 674-6215, RR LILO LTR CLDR GC LLE IE AENEAN, RIEL LALO LL ILD UNFORTUNATE circumstances force us’ to sell in this vicinity 2 famous make spinet pianos, 1 walnut, for bal. due, Write Adjuster: P. O. Box 1055, Chico, Calif,95926. WINNER. @p) TRAFFIC SAFETY. POSTER CONTEST LEGAL NOTICE. you of this Summons, if served within the County of Nevada, or within THIRTY daysifserved. , elsewhere, except that if theaction is the state pursuant to Section 738.5 of theCode of Civil Procedure, within 180 days, and you are notified that unless you file a written responsive pleading to the Dilaint as above required, the plaintiff will take ‘judgment for any money or dam-_ ages demanded in the Divorce Complaint, as arising upon con~ tract, or will apply to the Court’ for any other relief demanded in the Divorce Complaint. YOU MAY SEEK THE ADVICE OF AN ATTORNEY ON ANY MATTER CONNECTED WITH THE COMPLAINT OR THIS SUMMONS FOR FILING A WRITTEN PLEADING TO THE COMPLAINT. "THEO, A, KOHLER, JR. COUNTY CLERK AND CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF NEVADA __ BY MELBA J, POLGLASE Dated Dec, 19, 1969 ourts). Dates of Publication: January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 1970.

The'Nevada County Nugget, "UNITED STATES OF AMERICAS, AB mlles of ditch, 0.40 mile of ftnme and 1.04 miles of Pacific Gas and Electric Company ) ProjectNo. 2310, NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT OF LICENSE FOR CONSTRUCTED PROJECT (January 23, 1970) Public notice is hereby given that application for amendment oflicense has been filed under the FEDERAL POWER ACT (16 U.S.C 791a 825r) by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (correspondence to: J, F. Roberts, Jr., Vice President « Rates and Valuation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 245 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94106, for the constructed Drum Spaulding Project No, 2310, located in Nevada and Placer Counties, California, near the Cities of Auburn, Colfax, Grass Valley and Nevada City, and affecting lands of the United States within Tahoe National Forest. : The subject application, which consolidates and supersedes applications for amendment filed October 31, 1963 and December 2, 1965, respectively, seeks to include in the license for the.project the following described constructed project works: Dam and Reservoirs Lake Van Norden an earth fill dam located on the South Yuba River, a spillway located at the left abutment, a reservoir. with an area of about 382 acres and a storage capacity of. about 5,261 acre-feet and a controlled outlet under the dam; Kidd Lake an earth and rock-fill dam, located on a tributary of << South Yuba River, a spillway located -at the left abutment, and “a reservoir with an area of about 86 acres, and a storage capacity of about 1,500 acre-feet and a controlled outlet under the’ dam; White Rock Lake an earth fill dam and concrete spillway on North White Rock Creek, a reservoir with an area of about 90 acres and storage capacity of about 570 acre-feet, a controlled outlet through the bottom of the dam; Kelly an earth-fill dam located on a tributary of the North N Fork American River, a spillway located at the , @ reservoir with an area of about 28 acres and of about 376 acre-feet and a controlled ; Lake Valley an earth-fill main dam orth Fork American River and an eartheservoir with an area of about 298 acres. about 7,964 acre-feet, and a controlled abutment; Alta Forebay an earth-fill lower end of Towle Canal, a reservoir of about 5 acres and storage capacity of 37.5 acreDiversion a rubble masonry gravity overon the Bear River diverting water into the g sg cs 25 r res : 3 : E g E 2 Bee E z re i 8 BB a B ABE eg g . £38 2 < ® . & 1 + 3 8 z ° 2 capacity of about 111 acre-feet; Halsey -fill dams and spillway at the downstream er Canal, a reservoir with an area of about and a storage capacity of approximately 68 acre-feet; Halsey Afterbay a rock-fill and concrete dam and spillway on the South Fork of Dry Creek, a reservoir with an area of about 9 acres storage capacity of about 96 acre-feet, and Wise Canal; Rock Creek Reservoir 3 dam, two. auxiliary earth-fill dams and spillway on Rock Creek, @ reservoir with an area of about 55 acres and a storage capacity of about 550 acre-feet, and a controlled outlet through the dam; and Wise Forebay an earth-fill dam and spillway at the downstream end of Wise Canal, a reservoir with an area of about 8.3 acres and a storage capacity of about $2 acre-feet; oe Conduits Jordan Creek Canal a 0,6-mile long conduit diverting =I e _ i fi ae g oe -_ oo . Q” water from a tributary of Jordan Creek to Lake Spaulding . ’ through 0.07-mile of flume. and 0,53-mile of natural channel; 3 of 0,24 miles stock a 5,383-foot long to Alta Power Plant; Dutch Flat Tunnel a tunnel, diverting water from stock; Dutch Flat Penstockfeet long which conveys water Flat powerhouse; Bear River Canal L miles long, consisting of 20.74 miles of ditch, 0.65 of a mile of flume, and 1.32 miles of tunnel, conducting water from the Bear River Diversion to Halsey Forebay; Halsey Penstock and Tunnels No. 5 and 6 1,566 feet of woodstave pipe, two tunnels 2,615 feet long and 1,207 feet of steel pipe; Wise Canal a conduit about 5.77 miles long from Halsey Afterbay to Reck Creek Reservoir to Wise Forebay consisting of 4.95 miles of and 0.76 miles of tunnel; Wise Penof woodstave pipe, 436 feet of tunpipe; and South Canal a conduit Wise Tailrace to various water Fork American River consisting ‘connected to a 22,000 kw generator, step-up transformers and Arthur an earth-fill dam and spillway <a reservoir with an area of about: Powerhouses pee _Flat Powerhouse a powerhouse located on the iver containing one 29,000 horsepower turbine direct switching facilities; Alfa Power Plant a powerhouse located on Little Bear River housing two 1,500 hp turbines, each connected to a 1,000 kw generator, a step-up transformer, and switching facilities connected directly to a non-project transmission system; Halsey Power Plapt -.a powerhouse located on South Fork Dry Creek housing an 18,000 hp turbine connected

to a 12,000 kw generator, and step-up transformers and cir‘cuit breakers; and Wise Power Plant a powerhouse located on Auburn Ravine housing an 18,700 hp turbine connected to a 12,000 kw generator, step-up transformers and circuit breakers; a Transmission Facilities : Drum Halsey Junction 115-kv Transmission Lines two 115-kv circuits extending about 22.39 miles from the Drum Powerhouse to a junction with the licensee's mission system at its Halsey Junction Switching ; Duteh FlatHalsey Junction 115 kv Transmission Line a 115-kv line extending about 19.12 miles from the Dutch Flat Powerhouse to a function with the licensee's interconnected transmission system atits Halsey Junction Switching Station; Drum-Colfax Junction 60-kv Transmission Line a single-circuit 60-kv Transmission line extending about 15.08 miles from the Drum Powerhouse to a junction with licensee's interconnected transmission system at Colfax Junction about 1.1 miles northerly from Licensee's Colfax Substation; Drum-Summit 115 kv Transmission Lines two single circuit, 115-kv wood-pole lines ex“tending about 27.09 and 28,06 miles, respectively, from Drum Powerhouse to a connection with Sierra Pacific Power Company's system in the vicinity of Licensee's Summit Metering Station; Drum-Spaulding-Summit 60-kv Transmission Linesa single-circuit 60-kv wood-pole line extending about 9.33 miles from Drum Powerhouse to Spaulding Powerhouse No, 1, where it connects with another single-circuit 60-kv wood-pole line which extends about 20,03 miles to a connection with Sierra Pacific Power Company's system near the Licensee's Summit Substation; Halsey 60 kv and 115 kv Tap Lines two 60. ky tap lines, 0.3 of a mile long from Halsey powerhouse to the Licensee's transmission system, two 115 kv tap linesto Licensee's non-project 115 kv transmission lines passing through the plant yard; and Wise 60 kv Tap Lines two 60 kv tap. lines, 0.1 mile long from Wise powerhouse to the Licensee's transmission system. ne + Recreational Facilities = 5 Halsey Forebay picnic and fishing access facilities are provided and are to be expanded; Lake Valley Reservoir fishing access and picnicking, camping, boat launching and swimming facilities-the camping facilities are to be expanded; Lake Sterling unimproved campground, boat launching and fishing access; Kidd Lake unimprove campground and fishing access and an improved’ group campground with swimming and fishing access; Kelly Lake unimproved campground and fishing access and an improved picnic area; Lake Van Norden improved picnicking, camping and fishing access area; Lake Fordyce, Upper and Lower Feeley Lakes, Upper, Middle and Lower Lindsay Lakes, Culbertson Lake, Upper and Lower Rock Lakes, Upper and Lower Peak Lakes, Rucker Lake, Blue Lake, and Fuller Lake unimproved camping and fishing access areas; Lake Spaulding unimproved camping, picnicking, boat laun and fishing access areas; and Deer Creek Forebay picnicking and fishing access areas. Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with reference to said application should on or before March 16, 1970, file with the Federal Power Commission, Washington, _D. C, 20426, petitions to intervene or protests in ce of Practice with the requirements of the Commission's Rules and Procedure (18 CFR 1.8 or 1,10), All protests filed with the commission will be considered by it in determining the appropriate action to be taken but not serve to make the -protestants parties to the proceeding. Persons wishing to become parties to a proceeding or to participate as a party in “any hearing therein must file petitions to intervene in accordance with the Commission's Rules. The application is on file with the Commission and available for public inspection, GORDON M,,.GRANT . Secretary _ ‘Date of Publication: February 4, 1970, ae LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE SUMMONS. ALLEN LEROY ARNOLD SUUTE OF CALIFORNIA FOR PEOPLE OF THE STATE. OF OUNTY ALIFORNIA above ee ee ne 202 “My ahs Street You are, directed to file with Nevada City, California the Clerk of this Court awritten . Telephone 265-4760 pl in response to the DiAttorney for Plaintiff vorce Co! t in an action 5 pan asas aoe eat in the Superior nam ; r oe “aes Court of the State of C rnia vs for the County of N within TEN days the service on gon, Bs Pt + ‘CLASSIFIED ee 10. Crafts & Services vices. ROBERT L. ROSS, JR. OPTOMETRIST _. 147 Mill St, Ph, 273-6246 PPR LOO LILLE MEMBERSHIP IN ALTA SIERRA Golf & Country Club. $380 cash. P, O, Box 207, Yuba City, Calif, or ph, 674-6215, RR LILO LTR CLDR GC LLE IE AENEAN, RIEL LALO LL ILD UNFORTUNATE circumstances force us’ to sell in this vicinity 2 famous make spinet pianos, 1 walnut, for bal. due, Write Adjuster: P. O. Box 1055, Chico, Calif,95926. WINNER. @p) TRAFFIC SAFETY. POSTER CONTEST LEGAL NOTICE. you of this Summons, if served within the County of Nevada, or within THIRTY daysifserved. , elsewhere, except that if theaction is the state pursuant to Section 738.5 of theCode of Civil Procedure, within 180 days, and you are notified that unless you file a written responsive pleading to the Dilaint as above required, the plaintiff will take ‘judgment for any money or dam-_ ages demanded in the Divorce Complaint, as arising upon con~ tract, or will apply to the Court’ for any other relief demanded in the Divorce Complaint. YOU MAY SEEK THE ADVICE OF AN ATTORNEY ON ANY MATTER CONNECTED WITH THE COMPLAINT OR THIS SUMMONS FOR FILING A WRITTEN PLEADING TO THE COMPLAINT. "THEO, A, KOHLER, JR. COUNTY CLERK AND CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF NEVADA __ BY MELBA J, POLGLASE Dated Dec, 19, 1969 ourts). Dates of Publication: January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 1970.