[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 130 (Wednesday, July 8, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39094-39095]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-16685]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14550-001]


New England Hydropower Company, LLC; 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.

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    b. Project No.: 14550-001.
    c. Date filed: June 26, 2015.
    d. Applicant: New England Hydropower Company, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Hanover Pond Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Quinnipiac River, near the city of Meriden, in 
New Haven County, Connecticut. No federal lands would be occupied by 
project works or located within the project boundary.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708.
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Michael C. Kerr, New England Hydropower 
Company, LLC, P.O. Box 5524, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts 01915; (978) 
360-2547, [email protected].
    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: August 25, 2015.
    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-14550-001.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Hanover Pond Dam Hydroelectric Project would consist of: (1) 
An existing 25-foot-high, 150-foot-long earth embankment dam with four 
low-level sluice gates and a 250-foot-long concrete spillway; (2) the 
existing approximately 71.0-acre Hanover Pond with a storage capacity 
of 1,800 acre-feet at a normal operating elevation of about 87.3 feet 
NGVD29; (3) an existing 175-foot-long, 16.0-foot-wide fish ladder; (4) 
a new 8-foot-high, 12.5-foot-wide hydraulically-powered sluice gate 
equipped with a new 8-foot-high, 17-foot-wide trashrack with 9-inch bar 
spacing; (5) a new 78-foot-long, 12-foot-diameter buried precast 
concrete penstock; (6) a new 46.5-foot-long, 11.65-foot wide Archimedes 
screw generator unit, with an installed capacity of 192 kilowatts; (7) 
a new 12-foot-high, 18-foot-long, 16.0-foot-wide concrete powerhouse 
containing a new gearbox, generator, and electrical controls; (8) a new 
15-foot-long, variable-width concrete tailrace; (9) a new 500-foot-
long, 35-kilovolt above ground transmission line connecting the 
powerhouse to Connecticut Light and Power's distribution system; and 
(10) appurtenant facilities. The estimated annual generation of the 
proposed Hanover Pond Dam Project would be about 900 megawatt-hours.
    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 
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., study requests and/or application 
deficiencies may lengthen the schedule).
    Issue Notice of Acceptance/Ready for Environmental Analysis--
September 2015
    Issue EA/Order--February 2016

    Dated: June 30, 2015.
Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-16685 Filed 7-7-15; 8:45 am]
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