[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 21 (Tuesday, February 3, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5928-5929]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-2217]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 13356-000]


Slatersville Hydro, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for 
Filing With the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, and 
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for 
Submission of Final Amendments

January 27, 2009.
    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-13356-000.
    c. Date Filed: January 15, 2009.
    d. Applicant: Slatersville Hydro, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Slatersville Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Branch River in Providence County, Rhode 
Island. The project would not occupy any land of the United States.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708.
    h. Applicant Contact: Michael P. DeFrancesco, 87 Hall Road, Exeter, 
RI 02822, (401) 742-1968.
    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

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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 16, 2009.
    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 Slatersville Project would consist 
of: (1) The existing upper 13-foot-high RI Dam No. 43 consisting of: 
(a) An existing 175-foot-long spillway; and (b) a westerly abutment 
equipped with two 3.5-foot-wide, 5.7-foot-high sluice gates impounding; 
(2) an 172-reservoir with a normal water surface elevation of 250.7 
feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum 1988 (NGVD) leading to; (3) two 
new 150-foot-long, 4.5-foot-diameter penstocks connecting; (4) a new 
powerhouse containing two generating units with a total installed 
capacity of 360 kilowatts; (5) a new 25-foot-long tailrace discharging 
water back into the Branch River; and (6) appurtenant facilities. The 
project would have an average annual generation of about 1,250 
megawatt-hours.
    In addition to a new powerhouse, penstocks, and tailrace, project 
facilities would consist of: (1) New 1.5-foot-high flashboards on top 
of RI Dam No. 43; and (2) a new 0.5-mile-long, 13.8 kilovolt 
transmission line.
    Project facilities may also include: (1) The existing lower 6-foot-
high RI Dam No. 45 with a 105-foot-long spillway impounding; (2) the 
existing 0.3-acre reservoir with a normal water surface elevation of 
231.9 feet NGVD located in the bypassed reach between RI Dam No. 43 and 
the new tailrace.
    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 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 Rhode 
Island 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 Letter--April 2009.
    Issue Scoping Document--May 2009.
    Notice of application is ready for environmental analysis--June 
2009.
    Notice of the availability of the EA--November 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. E9-2217 Filed 2-2-09; 8:45 am]
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