[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 22, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72202-72203]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-30123]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14306-000]


 The City of East Providence; Notice of Preliminary Permit 
Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To 
Intervene, and Competing Applications

    On October 14, 2011, The City of East Providence filed an 
application for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the 
Federal Power Act (FPA), proposing to study the feasibility of the 
Hunt's Mill Dam Hydropower Project (Hunt's Mill Dam Project or project) 
to be located on Ten Mile River, in the City of East Providence, 
Providence County, Rhode Island. The sole purpose of a preliminary 
permit, if issued, is to grant the permit holder priority to file a 
license application during the permit term. A preliminary permit does 
not authorize the permit holder to perform any land-disturbing 
activities or otherwise enter upon lands or waters owned by others 
without the owners' express permission.
    The proposed project would consist of the following: (1) The 
existing 175-foot-long Hunt's Mill dam, which is owned by the City of 
East Providence, Rhode Island and includes a 125-foot-long, 10-foot-
high curved stone masonry spillway; (2) an existing 32 acre impoundment 
with 140 acre-feet of storage capacity at elevation 33.5 feet NAVD 88; 
(3) a newly constructed or refurbished powerhouse; (4) a new or 
refurbished vertical Francis turbine/generator with total hydraulic 
capacity of 100 cubic feet per second (cfs) and total installed 
generating capacity of 0.3 megawatts connected to a rehabilitated or 
new penstock; (5) a rehabilitated intake, with new downstream fish 
protection measures; (6) an existing 900-foot-long open tailrace 
channel; (7) an existing switchyard with interconnected transmission 
line located at the existing powerhouse; and (8) appurtenant 
facilities. The estimated annual generation of the Hunt's Mill Dam 
Project would be 0.85 gigawatt-hours (GWH).
    Applicant Contact: Mr. Jonathan Petrillo, Agent, The Essex 
Partnership, LLC, 27 Vaughan Ave., Newport, RI 02840; phone: (401) 619-
4872.
    FERC Contact: John Ramer; phone: (202) 502-8969.
    Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing 
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file 
competing applications: 60 days from the issuance of this notice. 
Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements 
of 18

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CFR 4.36. Comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and 
competing applications may be filed electronically via the Internet. 
See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's 
Web site 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. For assistance, please contact FERC Online 
Support at [email protected] or toll free at 1-866-208-3676, 
or for TTY, (202) 502-8659. Although the Commission strongly encourages 
electronic filing, documents may also be paper-filed. To paper-file, 
mail an original and seven copies to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, 
DC 20426.
    More information about this project, including a copy of the 
application, 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-14306-000) in the docket number field to 
access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: November 16, 2011.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-30123 Filed 11-21-11; 8:45 am]
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