[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 140 (Thursday, July 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45051-45052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-18336]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Application Ready for Environmental Analysis and 
Soliciting Comments, Recommendations, Terms and Conditions, and 
Prescriptions

July 14, 2000.
    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.: 2554-005.
    c. Date filed: December 20, 1991.
    d. Applicant: Erie Boulevard Hydropower, L.P.
    e. Name of Project: Feeder Dam.
    f. Location: On the Hudson River, at river mile 203 in the towns of 
Moreau (Saratoga County) and Queensbury (Warren County), New York. The 
project would not utilize federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. Secs. 791(a)-
825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Jerry L. Sabattis, Hydro Licensing 
Coordinator, 225 Greenfield Parkway, Suite 201, Liverpool, New York 
13088, (315) 413-2787.
    i. FERC Contact: Lee Emery, E-mail address, [email protected], 
or telephone (202) 219-2779.
    j. Deadline for comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, 
and prescriptions: 60 days from the issuance date of this notice.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
David P. Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all 
intervener 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 intervener 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 has been 
accepted for filing and is now ready for environmental analysis.
    l. Description of the Project: The existing, operating project 
consists of: (1) A 615-foot-long and 21-foot-high uncontrolled overflow 
concrete gravity dam with 3-feet-high flashboards; (2) a reservoir with 
a surface area of 717 acres, a usable storage capacity of 1,690 acre-
feet (ac-ft), and a gross storage capacity of 10,000 ac-ft, at a 
surface elevation ranging between 284.1 and 281.1 feet National 
Geodetic Vertical Datum; (3) a headgate structure with 4\1/2\-inch 
clear spaced steel bar trashracks and eight stoplog openings; (4) five 
waste gates and two Champlain Feeder Canal inlet gates at the north dam 
abutment; and (5) a powerhouse at the dam with five identical vertical 
fixed blade propeller turbines and generator units (1.2 megawatts 
each). There is no bypassed reach. The project has a total installed 
capacity of 6.0 megawatts and an average annual energy production of 
25,019 megawatt-hours. The New York State Thruway Authority owns the 
dam, waste gates, and Feeder Canal inlet gates at the Feeder Dam 
Project, and the licensee owns the powerhouse and appurtenant 
structures.

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    Feeder Dam servers as a re-regulating dam to even the flows 
released from peaking operations upstream at the Sherman Island 
Development (Hudson River Project, FERC No. 2482). Daily pond 
fluctuations range from three feet to six feet when the flashboards are 
in place. Water from the powerhouse is discharged directly into the 
upper reach of the Glens Falls (FERC No. 2385) and South Glens Falls 
(FERC No. 5461) reservoir.
    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, 
DC 20426, or by calling (202) 208-1371. The application may be viewed 
on the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 
for assistance). A copy is also available for inspection and 
reproduction at the address in item h. above.
    Filing and Service of 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 flings 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). Agencies may obtain copies of the 
application directly from the applicant. 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, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426. 
An additional copy must be sent to Director, Division of Environmental 
Engineering Review, 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.
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