[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 20 (Monday, February 1, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5070-5071]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1985]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 13656-000]


TideWorks, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With 
the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

January 22, 2010.
    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-13656-000.
    c. Date Filed: January 15, 2010.
    d. Applicant: TideWorks, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: TideWorks Project.
    f. Location: On the Sasanoa River adjacent to Bareneck Island, in 
Sagadahoc County, Maine. The project would not 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: Shana Lewis, 730 N. Yellowstone Street, 
Livingston, MT 59047, (406) 224-2908.
    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.

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    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: March 16, 2010.
    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 TideWorks Project would consist of: 
(1) A new 10-foot-wide, 20-foot-long steel pontoon float suspending 
into the river; (2) a new submerged 5 kilowatt single vertical shaft 
turbine generating unit with four 4-inch-wide, 5-foot-long blades; (3) 
a new 3.5-foot-wide, 40-foot-long walkway ramp connecting the pontoon 
float to Bareneck Island; (4) a new 100-foot-long, 220-volt 
transmission line; and (5) appurtenant facilities. The project would 
have an average annual generation of about 22,000 kilowatt-hours. The 
project would operate in a run-of-river mode using the river current 
flood and ebb tidal flows to rotate the hydrokinetic turbine generating 
unit.
    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 
issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, 
contact FERC Online Support.
    p. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the Maine 
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.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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