[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51307-51308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24625]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Application Tendered for Filing with the Commission and 
Soliciting Additional Study Requests

September 15, 1999.
    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: 2576-023 and 2597-018.
    c. Date filed: August 31, 1999.
    d. Applicant: Connecticut Light and Power Company.
    e. Name of project: Housatonic River Project.
    f. Location: The Falls Village, Bulls Bridge, Shepaug, Rocky River 
and Stephenson developments are located on the Housatonic River, 76.2 
miles, 52.9 miles, 44.1 miles, 30.0 miles and 19.3 miles, respectively, 
from its mouth. The project is in the western portion of Connecticut in 
the counties of Fairfield, New Haven and Litchfield. Approximately 74 
acres of federal land are within project boundaries.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 USC Secs. 791(a)-
825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: William J. Nadeau, Vice President, The 
Connecticut Light and Power Company, Post Office Box 270, Hartford, 
Connecticut 06141-0270, (860) 665-5315.
    i. FERC Contact: Any questions on this notice should be addressed 
to James T Griffin, E-mail address [email protected], or 
telephone (202) 219-2799.
    j. Deadline for filing additional study requests: November 1, 1999, 
all documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: David 
P. Boegers, Secretary, Federal Energy Commission, 888 First Street, 
N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all 
intervenors filing documents with the Commission to serve a copy of 
that document on each person whose name appears on the official service 
list for the project. Further, if an intervenor files comments or 
documents with the Commission relating to the merits of an issue that 
may affect the responsibilities of a particular resource agency, they 
must also serve a copy of the document on that resource agency.
    k. Status of environmental analysis: This application is not ready 
for environmental analysis at this time.
    l. Description of the Project: The combined projects consist of the 
following five developments.
    1. The Falls Village Development consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) a 300-foot-long, 14-foot-high concrete gravity dam with 
two spillways having a combined overflow length of approximately 280 
feet, and a crest at elevation 631.5 feet National Geodetic Vertical 
Datum (NGVD); (2) an impoundment 3.8 miles long containing 1,135 acre-
feet when at elevation 633.2 feet NGVD; (3) a dam-integral powerhouse 
with a total installed capacity of 9.0 megawatts (MW) producing 
approximately 39,894 megawatthours (MWh) annually; and (4)

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a switchyard connected to the project via a 69 kilovolt (kV) 
interconnected transmission line.
    2. The Bulls Bridge Development consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) a 203-foot-long, 24-foot-high stone and concrete 
gravity dam with a dam crest of 354 feet NGVD; (2) a two mile long 
power canal; (3) a 156-foot-long, 17-foot-high rockfill gravity weir 
dam; (4) a 2.25 mile-long reservoir with an 1,800 acre-feet storage 
capacity, a surface area, which, at a normal elevation of 354 feet 
NGVD, occupies approximately 120 acres; (5) a powerhouse with a 
capacity of 7.2 MW, producing approximately 41,000 MWh annually; and 
(6) a 69kV line connecting the development to the Rocky River 
development.
    3. The Rocky River Pumped Storage Development consists of the 
following existing facilities: (1) a 952-foot-long earth-filled core 
wall dam, a 2,500-foot-long earthen canal dike that forms the north 
bank of the power canal to the intake structure, six dikes, a dam crest 
elevation averaging 440.1 feet NGVD, and an intake canal of 3,190 feet 
in length; (2) a seven mile-long, Candlewood Lake reservoir with a 
5,610 acre impoundment at 428.1 feet NGVD; (3) a powerhouse with a 
rated 31,000 kilowatts (kW) capacity averaging 14,238, 100 
kilowatthours (kWh) per year; and (4) a development connection to the 
applicant's transmission system via the Rocky River-Carmel Hill 1813 
line, the Rocky River-Bull Bridge 1555 line and the Rocky River-West 
Brookfield 1618 line.
    4. The Shepaug Development consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) a 1,412-foot, bedrock-anchored, concrete gravity dam 
having a crest elevation of 205.3 feet NGVD; (2) an impoundment, at 
maximum operational elevation level of 198.3 feet NGVD, occupying 1870 
acres; (3) a powerhouse with a rated capacity of 37,200 kWh, with a 
1997 production of 118,880 MWh; and (4) a development connection to the 
applicant's transmission system via the Shepaug-Bates 1622 line and the 
Shepaug-Stony Hill-West Brookfield 1887 line.
    5. The Stevenson Development consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) a 1,250-foot, bedrock-anchored, concrete gravity dam 
with a crest elevation of 98.3 feet NGVD, 696 feet of spillway and an 
integral powerhouse; (2) an impoundment occupying a surface area of 
1,063 acres at 101.3 feet NGVD, which contains a storage volume of 
2,650 acre-feet; (3) a powerhouse with a rated capacity of 30,500 kWh, 
with 1997 production of 92,448 Mwh; and (4) a development connection to 
the applicant's transmission system via several 115 kV transmission 
lines.
    m. Locations of the application: A copy of the application is 
available for inspection and reproduction at the Commission's Public 
Reference Room, located at 888 First Street, NE, Room 2A, Washington, 
D.C. 20426, or by calling (202) 208-1371. The application may be viewed 
on the web at www.ferc.fed.us. Call (202) 208-2222 for assistance. A 
copy is also available for inspection and reproduction at the address 
in item h above.
    n. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the State 
Historic Preservation Officer as required by Secs. 106, National 
Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of the Advisory Council 
on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR, Part 800.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-24625 Filed 9-21-99; 8:45 am]
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