[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 31 (Thursday, February 14, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8657-8658]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-2722]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 12551-001]


Salvatore and Michelle Shifrin; Notice of Application Tendered 
for Filing with the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, 
and Establishing Procedual Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for 
Submission of Final Amendments

February 7, 2008.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Exemption From Licensing.
    b. Project No.: P-12551-001.
    c. Date Filed: January 25, 2008.
    d. Applicant: Salvatore and Michelle Shifrin.
    e. Name of Project: Mansfield Hollow Hydro Power Project.
    f. Location: On the Natchaug River in Tolland County, Connecticut. 
The project would occupy lands of the United States.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708.
    h. Applicant Contact: Salvatore or Michelle Shifrin, 78 Bricktop 
Road, Windham, CT 06280, (860) 423-7709.
    i. FERC Contact: Tom Dean, (202) 502-6041.
    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: March 25, 2008.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
    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 ``eFiling'' link.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Description of Project: The Mansfield Hollow Hydro Power Project 
would consist of: (1) The existing 80-foot-long, 10-foot-high Kirby 
Mill Dam; (2) the existing 1.6-acre reservoir; (3) the existing 
headgate structure; (4) the existing 12-foot-wide, 8-foot-foot-high, 
330-foot-long head race channel; (5) a new powerhouse containing five 
generating units with a total installed capacity of 500 kilowatts; (6) 
the existing 5-foot-wide, 7-foot-high, 100-foot-long conduit and 75-
foot-long open tailrace; and (7) appurtenant facilities. The project 
would have an average annual generation of about 2,500 megawatt-hours.
    In addition to a new powerhouse, project restoration would consist 
of: (1) A new 12-foot-wide, 8-foot-high, 330-foot-long head race 
channel; (2) a new 20-foot-wide, 8-foot-high, 20-foot-long box culvert 
connected to a new 25-foot-wide, 4-foot-high, 153-foot-long open 
channel tail race; and (3) a new 275-foot-long transmission line.
    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, please contact 
FERC Online Support at [email protected] or toll free at (866) 
208-3676, or for TTY, contact (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/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via e-mail of new filings and 
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related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.
    p. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the 
Connecticut 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 as appropriate. The Commission 
staff proposes to issue one environmental assessment rather than issue 
a draft and final EA. Comments, terms and conditions, recommendations, 
prescriptions, and reply comments, if any, will be addressed in an EA. 
Staff intends to give at least 30 days for entities to comment on the 
EA, and will take into consideration all comments received on the EA 
before final action is taken on the license application.

Issue Acceptance Letter or Deficiency       April 2008.
 Letter.
Issue Scoping Document....................  May 2008.
Notice of application is ready for          August 2008.
 environmental analysis.
Notice of the availability of the EA......  April 2009.
 

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

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E8-2722 Filed 2-13-08; 8:45 am]
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