[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 111 (Monday, June 12, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26923-26924]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-12053]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2839-015]


Notice of Application Tendered For Filing With the Commission, 
Soliciting Additional Study Requests, and Establishing Procedural 
Schedule for Relicensing and a Deadline for Submission of Final 
Amendments; Village of Lyndonville Electric Department

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Subsequent Minor License.
    b. Project No.: 2839-015.
    c. Date filed: May 26, 2017.
    d. Applicant: Village of Lyndonville Electric Department.
    e. Name of Project: Great Falls Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Passumpsic River, in the Town of Lyndonville, 
Caledonia County Vermont. The project does not occupy lands of the 
United States.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Bill Humphrey, Village of Lyndonville 
Electric Department, 119 Park Avenue, Lyndonville, VT 05851; (802) 626-
3366.
    i. FERC Contact: Bill Connelly, (202) 502-8587 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: July 25, 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-2839-015.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Great Falls Hydroelectric Project consists of: (1) 
A 160-foot-long, 32-foot-high curved, concrete dam with 2-foot-high

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flashboards; (2) an approximately 12-acre impoundment having a storage 
capacity of 135-acre-feet at a normal maximum elevation of 668.38 feet 
above mean sea level; (3) an 18.5-foot-wide headworks structure with 
two headgates; (4) a 290-foot-long partially covered, power canal; (5) 
a gatehouse with two 15-foot-wide trashracks with 1.5-inch clear 
spacing; (6) a 200-foot-long, 6- to 10-foot-diameter metal penstock 
that bifurcates before entering two powerhouses; (7) a 47-foot-long, 
25-foot-wide powerhouse containing a 1,350 kilowatt (kW) horizontal 
turbine-generator unit and a 40-foot-long, 40-foot-wide powerhouse 
containing two 350 kW horizontal turbine-generator units for a total 
capacity of 2,050 kW; (8) a 350-foot-long, 2.4-kilovolt (kV) above-
ground generator lead that connects the turbine-generator units to a 
step-up transformer; (9) a 1.75-mile-long, 12.5-kV above-ground 
transmission line; and (10) appurtenant facilities.
    The Village of Lyndonville Electric Department operates the project 
in a run-of-river mode with an annual average generation of 
approximately 3,960 megawatt-hours. The Village of Lyndonville Electric 
Department is not proposing any new project facilities or changes in 
project operation.
    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 designating Lyndonville Electric 
Department as the Commission's non-federal representative for carrying 
out informal consultation pursuant to section 7 of the Endangered 
Species Act and consultation pursuant to section 106 of the National 
Historic Preservation Act.
    q. 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 Acceptance or Deficiency Letter--August 2017
Request Additional Information--August 2017
Issue Acceptance Letter--November 2017
Issue Scoping Document 1 for Comments--December 2017
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--February 2018
Issue Scoping Document 2--March 2018
Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis--March 2018
Commission issues EA or draft EA--September 2018
Comments on EA or draft EA--October 2018
Commission issues final EA--December 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: June 5, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-12053 Filed 6-9-17; 8:45 am]
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