[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 201 (Tuesday, October 19, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 64303]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-26244]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project Nos. 2558-030; 2445-023; 2558-029; 2445-023; 2558-029]


Vermont Marble Power, Division of Omya Inc.; Central Vermont 
Public Service Corporation; Notice of Application of Transfer of 
Licenses, Substitution of Relicense Applicant, and Soliciting Comments 
and Motions To Intervene

October 12, 2010.
    On August 31, 2010, Vermont Marble Power, Division of Omya Inc. 
(transferor) and Central Vermont Public Service Corporation 
(transferee) filed an application for the transfer of licenses for the 
Otter Creek Hydroelectric Project No. 2558, and the Center Rutland 
Project No. 2445, located on the Otter Creek in Addison and Rutland 
Counties, Vermont. On October 8, 2010, the transferor and transferee 
filed a joint request to substitute the transferee for the transferor 
as the applicant in the pending application for a new license filed by 
the transferor in Project No. 2558-029.
    The transfer application was filed within five years of the 
expiration of the license for Project No. 2558, which is the subject of 
pending relicensing applications. In Hydroelectric Relicensing 
Regulations Under the Federal Power Act (54 FR 23,756 FERC Stats. and 
Regs., Regs. Preambles 1986-1990 30,854 at p. 31,437), the Commission 
declined to forbid all license transfers during the last five years of 
an existing license, and instead indicated that it would scrutinize all 
such transfer requests to determine if the transferor's primary purpose 
was to give the transferee an advantage in relicensing.
    Applicant Contacts: For transferor: Todd Allard, Operations 
Engineer Omya, Inc., Vermont Marble Power, 9987 Carver Road, Suite 300, 
Cincinnati, OH 45252, (513) 387-4344. Andrew D. Qua, Project Manager, 
Klienschmidt Associates, 75 Main Street, P.O. Box 576, Pittsfield, ME 
04967, (207) 487-3328. For transferee: Dale A. Rocheleau, Esq., Senior 
Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, 77 Grove 
Street, Rutland, VT 05701-3400, (802) 747-5355.
    FERC Contact: Kim Carter (202) 502-6486.
    Deadline for filing comments and motions to intervene: 30 days from 
the issuance date of this notice. Comments and motions to intervene may 
be filed electronically via the Internet. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1) and 
the instructions on the Commission's Web site under http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief 
comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the 
eComment system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You 
must include your name and contact information at the end of your 
comments. If unable to be filed electronically, documents may be paper-
filed. To paper-file, an original plus seven copies should be mailed 
to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 
888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. More information about 
this project can be viewed or printed on the eLibrary link of 
Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. 
Enter the docket number (P-2558, P-2445) in the docket number field to 
access the document. For assistance, call toll-free 1-866-208-3372.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-26244 Filed 10-18-10; 8:45 am]
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