[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 154 (Monday, August 11, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46784-46785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-18884]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 13806-004]


5440 Hydro Inc.; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With 
the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

    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.: 13806-004.
    c. Date filed: July 28, 2014.
    d. Applicant: 5440 Hydro Inc.
    e. Name of Project: Brooklyn Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Upper Ammonoosuc River, in the Town of 
Northumberland, Coos County, New Hampshire. The project would not 
occupy lands of the United States.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708.
    h. Applicant Contact: Lutz Loegters, 5440 Hydro Inc., 717 Atlantic 
Avenue, Suite 1A, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, (416) 643-6615.
    i. FERC Contact: John Ramer, (202) 502-8969, [email protected].
    j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies 
with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect to 
environmental issues that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the 
environmental document should follow the instructions for filing such 
requests described in item l below. Cooperating agencies should note 
the Commission's policy that agencies that cooperate in the preparation 
of the environmental document cannot also intervene. See, 94 FERC ] 
61,076 (2001).
    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: September 26, 2014.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support 
at [email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 
502-8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please send a paper copy 
to: Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 
NE., Washington, DC 20426. The first page of any filing should include 
docket number P-13806-004.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Brooklyn Dam Hydroelectric Project would consist of: (1) An 
existing 163-foot-long, 14-foot-high dam with three 49.5-foot-wide 
trashracks, a 50-foot-long floodgate structure with 5 floodgates, and a 
113-foot-long spillway with a crest elevation 878.69 feet National 
Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29) and 2.54-foot-high 
flashboards; (2) an existing 100-foot-long, 45-foot-wide forebay; (3) 
an existing 9-foot-wide slide gate located in the forebay; (4) an 
existing 26-acre impoundment having a gross storage capacity of 52-
acre-feet at the top of the flashboards (i.e., elevation 881.23 feet 
NGVD29); (5) an existing 45-foot-long, 50-foot-wide powerhouse 
containing two new 300-kilowatt (kW), Kaplan turbine-generating units 
for a total installed capacity of 600 kW; (6) an existing tailrace; (7) 
a new transformer and 250-foot-long, 35.4-kilovolt transmission line; 
and (8) appurtenant facilities. The project would generate 
approximately 2,800 megawatt-hours annually. The applicant proposes to 
rehabilitate the powerhouse and tailrace and operate the project in a 
run-of-river mode.
    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 last three digits in the 
docket number field to access the document. For assistance, contact 
FERC Online Support. 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

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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 New 
Hampshire State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by 
section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the 
regulations of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 
800.4.
    q. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will 
be made as appropriate (e.g., if there are no deficiencies and/or 
scoping is waived, the schedule would be shortened).

Issue Deficiency Letter--September 2014
Issue Notice of Acceptance--November 2014
Issue Scoping Document--December 2014
Issue Notice Ready for Environmental Analysis--February 2015
Issue Notice of the Availability of the EA--July 2015

     Dated: August 4, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-18884 Filed 8-8-14; 8:45 am]
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