[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 117 (Thursday, June 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33368-33369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16189]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Amendment of Application Filed With the Commission

June 12, 1998.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: Major License.
    b. Project No.: P-11607-000.
    c. Date Filed: January 30, 1998.
    d. Applicant: Holyoke Gas & Electric Department, Ashburnham 
Municipal Light Plant, and Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric 
Company.
    e. Name of Project: Holyoke Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Connecticut River in Hampden, Hampshire, and 
Franklin Counties, Massachusetts.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. Secs. 791(a)-
825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact:

George E. Leary, Manager, Holyoke Gas & Electric Department, 99 Suffolk 
Street, Holyoke, MA 01040-4457, (413) 536-9311.
Roger W. Bacon, Director, Power Services Division, Massachusetts 
Wholesale Electric Company, Randall Road, P.O. Box 426, Ludlow, MA 
01056, (413) 589-1041
John LeMieur, Acting General Manager, Ashburnham Municipal Light Plant, 
78 Central Street, P.O. Box 823, Ashburnham, MA 01430-0823, (508) 827-
4424

    i. FERC Contact: Allan Creamer (202) 219-0365.
    j. Comment Date: July 20, 1998.
    k. Description of Amendment: On January 30, 1998, the Holyoke Gas & 
Electric Department (HG&E), the Ashburnham Municipal Light Plant 
(Ashburnham), and the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric 
Company (MMWEC) jointly filed an application to amend the license 
application filed by

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Ashburnham and MMWEC on August 29, 1997, for the Holyoke Hydroelectric 
Project (FERC Project No. 11607), which is pending before the 
Commission. The Commission staff will be acting on this license 
application in the future.
    The amendment: (1) adds HG&E as a co-applicant to the application 
originally filed by Ashburnham and MMWEC; (2) specifies that HG&E, 
rather than MMWEC, will finance the project and sell a portion of the 
project power to Ashburnham; and (3) adds several new environmental 
measures, including (a) sponsoring the annual shad derby, (b) providing 
canoe portage around the Holyoke dam, and (c) installing an exclusion 
structure at the mouth of the No. 2 Overflow spillway. The amendment 
also (1) changes the location where copies of the amended application 
are available to HG&E's offices, (2) names the applicant contact for 
HG&E, and (3) makes changes to the applicant contacts for Ashburnham 
and R.W. Beck, the applicant's consultant.
    l. Federal, state, and local agencies, as well as other interested 
parties, are invited to file comments on the described amendment of 
application. A copy of the amended application may be obtained by 
agencies directly from the applicant. If any agency or other party does 
not file comments within the time specified for filing comments, as 
shown in paragraph (j), it will be presumed to have no comments. One 
copy of an agency's comments must also be sent to the applicant's 
representative(s).
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-16189 Filed 6-17-98; 8:45 am]
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