[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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