[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 242 (Wednesday, December 17, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70240-70241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E3-00573]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission, 
Soliciting Additional Study Requests, and Establishing Procedures for 
Relicensing and a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

December 10, 2003.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Original Major License.

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    b. Project No.: 12454-001.
    c. Date Filed: November 26, 2003.
    d. Applicant: Energie Group, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Williams Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the East Fork of the White River, in the Town of 
Williams, Lawrence County, Indiana. The project does not affect federal 
lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Andrew R. Blystra, A.R. Blystra, Ltd. 15 West 
Sixth Street, Holland, MI 49423, (616) 394-0606 or Stacy Harriott, 641 
Monroe Street Suite 108, Sheboygan Falls, WI 53085, (920) 467-9048.
    i. FERC Contact: Carolyn Holsopple at (202) 502-6407, or 
[email protected].
    j. Cooperating Agencies: We are asking federal, state, local, and 
tribal agencies with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect 
to environmental issues to cooperate with us in the preparation of the 
environmental document. Agencies who would like to request cooperating 
status should follow the instructions for filing comments described in 
item l below.
    k. Pursuant to Sec.  4.32(b)(7) of 18 CFR of the Commission's 
regulations, if any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person believes 
that an additional scientific study should be conducted in order to 
form an adequate factual basis for a complete analysis of the 
application on its merit, the resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person 
must file a request for a study with the Commission not later than 60 
days from the date of filing of the application, and serve a copy of 
the request on the applicant.
    l. Deadline for Filing Additional Study Requests and Requests for 
Cooperating Agency Status: 60 days from the filing date shown in 
paragraph (c), or January 25, 2004.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. The Commission's Rules of 
Practice require all interveners filing documents with the Commission 
to serve a copy of that document on each person 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.
    Additional study requests may be filed electronically via the 
Internet in lieu of paper. The Commission strongly encourages 
electronic filing. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 
on the Commission's Web site http://www.ferc.gov under the ``e-Filing'' 
link. After logging into the e-Filing system, select ``Comment on 
Filing'' from the Filing Type Selection screen and continue with the 
filing process.
    m. Status: This application is not ready for environmental analysis 
at this time.
    n. Description of Project: The proposed Williams Project would be 
operated manually in a run-of-river mode by an operator living on site. 
The proposed project would consist of the following features: (1) A 
295-foot-long, 32.5-foot-tall concrete spillway dam, with 2.5-foot 
buttresses on each side; (2) eight new intake gates (two to each 
flume), with new trashracks; (3) a 263-acre reservoir, with a normal 
reservoir elevation of 475.0 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum and 
a storage capacity of 2,680 acre-feet; (4) four flumes, supplying water 
to the generating units; (5) stop-logs at the downstream end of each 
flume; (6) a 144-foot-long, 42-foot-wide concrete and steel powerhouse, 
containing five turbine and generating units (two Vertical Shaft 
Propeller--Nagler Type turbines, two Vertical shaft Double Runner 
Francis turbines and one new low-flow Vertical Shaft Francis turbine), 
having an installed capacity of 4,250 kilowatts; (7) a 12,470-volt 
transmission line; and (8) appurtenant facilities.
    The applicant estimates that the average annual generation would be 
about 21,286,200 kilowatt-hours.
    o. A copy of the application is available for review at the 
Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the 
Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``FERRIS'' link. 
Enter the docket number, excluding the last three digits in the docket 
number field (P-2603), to access the document. For assistance, contact 
FERC Online Support at [email protected], or toll-free at 1-
866-208-3676, or for TTY, (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available for 
inspection and reproduction at the address in item h above.
    You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.
    p. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the 
INDIANA STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER (SHPO), as required by 
section 106, National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of 
the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4.
    q. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule. 
Revisions to the schedule will be made if the Commission determines it 
necessary to do so:

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                  Action                           Tentative date
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Issue Deficiency Letter..................  January 2004.
Issue Acceptance letter..................  April 2004.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments....  May 2004.
Request Additional Information...........  July 2004.
Issue Scoping Document 2.................  August 2004.
Notice of application is ready for         November 2004.
 environmental analysis.
Notice of the availability of the draft    April 2005.
 EA.
Notice of the availability of the final    August 2005.
 EA.
Ready for Commission's decision on the     November 2005.
 application.
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    Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of this notice.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E3-00573 Filed 12-16-03; 8:45 am]
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