[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 91 (Friday, May 12, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22131-22132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-09625]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2809-034]


KEI (Maine) Power Management (III) LLC; Notice of Application 
Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study 
Requests and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a 
Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

    Take notice that the following application has been filed with the

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Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Subsequent Minor License.
    b. Project No.: 2809-034.
    c. Date filed: April 28, 2017.
    d. Applicant: KEI (Maine) Power Management (III) LLC (KEI Power).
    e. Name of Project: American Tissue Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On Cobbosseecontee Stream, in the Town of Gardiner, 
Kennebec County, Maine. There are no federal or tribal lands within the 
project boundary.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Lewis Loon, Operations and Maintenance 
Manager, USA, KEI (Maine) Power Management (III) LLC, 423 Brunswick 
Avenue, Gardiner, ME 04345; (207) 203-3026.
    i. FERC Contact: John Baummer, 202-502-6837, or 
[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: June 27, 2017.
    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-2809-034.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing American Tissue Hydroelectric Project consists of: 
(1) a 256-foot-long, 23-foot-high stone masonry and concrete dam that 
includes a 61-foot-long west abutment section, a 100-foot-long spillway 
section with 1.0-foot-high flashboards and a crest elevation of 123.3 
feet mean sea level (msl), and a 95-foot-long east abutment section 
with an intake structure, inclined trashrack with 2-inch clear spacing, 
and three low level outlet gates; (2) a 5.5-acre, 1,000-foot-long 
impoundment with a normal maximum water surface elevation of 123.3 feet 
msl; (3) a 280-foot-long, 7-foot-diameter buried steel penstock; (4) a 
37-foot-long, 34-foot-wide concrete and wooden powerhouse containing a 
single 1,000-kilowatt turbine-generator unit; (5) a 250-foot-long, 12-
kilovolt transmission line; (6) a 300-foot-long tailrace; and (7) 
appurtenant facilities.
    KEI Power operates the project in a run-of-river mode with an 
average annual generation of 5,430 megawatt-hours. KEI Power proposes 
to release year-round minimum flows of 10 cubic feet per second (cfs) 
into the bypassed reach and 52 cfs into the tailrace. KEI Power 
Management also proposes to improve the existing downstream fish 
passage facility and construct and operate a new upstream passage 
facility for American eel.
    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. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following preliminary Hydro Licensing 
Schedule. Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate.
Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary), July 2017
Request Additional Information, July 2017
Issue Acceptance Letter, October 2017
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments, November 2017
Request Additional Information (if necessary), January 2018
Issue Scoping Document 2, February 2018
Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis, February 2018
Commission issues EA or draft EA, August 2018
Comments on EA or draft EA, September 2018
Commission issues final EA, November 2018
    Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the notice 
of ready for environmental analysis.

    Dated: May 5, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-09625 Filed 5-11-17; 8:45 am]
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