[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 15, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12678-12679]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-1096]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Project No. 7758-004]


The City of Holyoke Gas & Electric Department; Notice of 
Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission, Soliciting 
Additional Study Requests and Establishing Procedural Schedule for 
Relicensing and a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

March 8, 2005.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Subsequent Licensing.
    b. Project No.: 7758-004.
    c. Date Filed: February 25, 2005.
    d. Applicant: The City of Holyoke Gas & Electric Department.
    e. Name of Project: Holyoke No. 4 Hydro Project.
    f. Location: On the Holyoke Canal (Connecticut River), Hampden 
County, Massachusetts. The project does not use lands of the United 
States.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Nancy J. Skancke, Law Offices of GKRSE, 1500 
K St. NW., Suite 330, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 408-5400.
    i. FERC Contact: Jack Hannula, [email protected], (202) 502-
8917.
    j. Cooperating Agencies: We are asking Federal, state, and local 
agencies and Indian tribes 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 section 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: April 25, 2005.
    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 intervenors 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 
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.
    Additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency 
status may be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. 
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings. See 18 CFR 
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site 
at (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-Filing'' link.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Description of Project: The Holyoke No. 4 Project consists of: 
(a) Two 7-foot-diameter and 76-foot-long penstocks drawing water from 
the first level canal of the Holyoke Canal System; (b) a powerhouse 
with 2 turbine-generator units with a total rated capacity of 760 kW in 
the first floor of a 3-story brick building; (c) two 13-foot-wide and 
300-foot-long tailraces discharging into the second level canal; (d) a 
4.8-kV, 25-foot-long transmission line; (e) the 0.48-kV generator 
leads; (f) the 0.48/4.8-kV transformer; and (g) appurtenant facilities.
    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 ``eLibrary'' 
link. Enter the docket number excluding the three digits in the docket 
number field to access the document. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support at [email protected] or toll free at 1-866-208-
3076 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://ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via e-mail 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 
Massachusetts 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., at Sec.  
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 as appropriate.

    Issue Acceptance or Deficiency Letter: April 2005.
    Issue Scoping Document for Comments: May 2005.
    Notice that application is ready for environmental analysis: 
August 2005.
    Notice of the availability of the EA: February 2006.

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    Ready for Commission's decision on the Application: March 2006.

    Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the ready 
for environmental analysis notice.

Linda Mitry,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. E5-1096 Filed 3-14-05; 8:45 am]
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