[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 167 (Friday, August 28, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46013-46014]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23114]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Application Ready for Environmental Analysis

August 24, 1998.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 2385-002.
    c. Date filed: December 4, 1991.
    d. Applicant: Finch, Pruyn, and Company, Inc.
    e. Name of Project: Glens Falls Project.
    f. Location: On the Hudson River in Warren and Saratoga Counties, 
New York.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 USC 791(a)-825(R).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. David P. Manny, Finch, Pruyn, and 
Company, Inc., 1 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801-0396, (518) 793-
2541.
    i. FERC Contact: John McEachern (202) 219-3056.
    j. Description of Project: The project consists of: (1) a portion 
of a seven-gate barrage-type dam that is 468-foot long, 16-foot-high, 
with 5-foot-high flashboards including: (a) a Wingwall No. 1, 
constructed in 1991, which together with Pier No. 1, is the left 
abutment of the dam and future right abutment of the proposed headgate 
structure (to be redeveloped in 1999), (b) an upper forebay wall; (c) a 
bridge pier of Route 9 Bridge integral with the forebay walls; and (d) 
a powerhouse headwall penetrated by six pressure cases, together with 
its left abutment; (2) a 167-acre impoundment with a normal minimum and 
maximum elevation of 268.6 and 269.1 feet national geodetic vertical 
datum (NGVP), respectively, and a gross and usable storage capacity of 
1,083 acre-feet; (3) a concrete headgate structure with eight 7.5-foot-
wide and 12-foot-high wooden slide gates that control flow to the power 
canal; (4) a 550-foot-long, 80-foot-wide, and 21 to 37-foot-deep power 
canal that supplies water to the powerhouse and to a paper mill; (5) a 
98-foot by 136-foot reinforced concrete powerhouse located in the FPC 
paper mill containing five horizontal Francis turbines and generators 
with an installed capacity of 12.09 mega-watts, hydraulic capacity of 
4,465 cubic feet per second (cfs), and design head of 46 feet; (6) 
five-arch tailrace tunnels of which two are interconnected that exit 
the powerhouse on the south side of the mill; (7) a 34.5 kV 
transmission line connected to the NiMo power grid; and (8) appurtenant 
structures.
    The existing dam is owned by Finch, Pruyn, Company (FPC) and 
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation (NiMo). FPC owns gates 6 and 7 and 
NiMo owns gates (1 through 5). All other elements of the facility are 
exclusively owned by FPC. A Commission consent order dated November 13, 
1991, required NiMo and FPC to rehabilitate the dam at Glens Falls. 
Subsequent to the order, NiMo leased its holdings to Adirondack Hydro 
Development Corporation (ADHC), the licensee of the South Glens Falls 
Hydroelectric Project No. 5461. Reconstruction of the dam included 121 
feet of the north section (including gate bays 6 and 7) owned by FPC. 
The only portion of the dam remaining to be rehabilitated is the FPC 
power canal headgate structure. FPC intends to complete rehabilitation 
of this feature in 1999. ADHC and FPC equally share the use of the 
river flows up to plant capacities. River flows above 5,565 cfs are 
spilled over the dam under existing project conditions when both FPC 
and ADHC are operating.
    k. Status of Environmental Analysis: This application is now ready 
for environmental analysis--see attached paragraph D9.

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    l. Deadline for comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, 
and prescriptions: See paragraph D9.
    m. This notice also consists of the following standard paragraphs: 
A4 and D9.
    n. Available Locations of Application: A copy of the application is 
available for inspection and reproduction at the Commission's Public 
Reference and Files Maintenance Branch, located at 888 First Street 
NW., Washington, DC 20426, or by calling (202) 208-1371. A copy is also 
available for inspection and reproduction at the address shown in item 
h.
    A4. Development Application--Public notice of the filing of the 
initial development application, which has already been given, 
established the due date for filing competing applications or notices 
of intent. Under the Commission's regulations, any competing 
development application must be filed in response to and in compliance 
with public notice of the initial development application. No competing 
applications or notices of intent may be filed in response to this 
notice.
    D9. Filing and Service and Responsive Documents--The application is 
ready for environmental analysis at this time, and the Commission is 
requesting comments, reply comments, recommendations, terms and 
conditions, and prescriptions.
    The Commission directs, pursuant to Section 4.34(b) of the 
Regulations (see Order No. 533, issued May 8, 1991, 56 FR 23108, May 
20, 1991) that all comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and 
prescriptions concerning the application be filed with the Commission 
within 60 days from the issuance date of this notice. All reply 
comments must be filed with the Commission within 105 days from the 
date of this notice.
    Anyone may obtain an extension of time for these deadlines from the 
Commission only upon a showing of good cause or extraordinary 
circumstances in accordance with 18 CFR 385.2008.
    All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title 
``COMMENTS'' ``REPLY COMMENTS'', ``RECOMMENDATIONS'', ``TERMS AND 
CONDITIONS'', or PRESCRIPTIONS''; (2) set forth in the heading the name 
of the applicant and the project number of the application to which the 
filing responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone number of 
the person submitting the filing; and (4) otherwise comply with the 
requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. All comments, 
recommendations, terms and conditions, or prescriptions must set forth 
their evidentiary basis and otherwise comply with the requirements of 
18 CFR 4.34(b). Any of these documents must be filed by providing the 
original and the number of copies required by the Commission's 
regulations to: The Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 
888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. An additional copy must be 
sent to Director, Office of Hydropower Licensing, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, at the above address. Each filing must be 
accompanied by proof of service on all persons listed on the service 
list prepared by the Commission in this proceeding, in accordance with 
18 CFR 4.34.(b), and 385.2010.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-23114 Filed 8-27-98; 8:45 am]
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