[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 42 (Monday, March 4, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7359-7360]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-03767]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 10674-017]


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: Kaukauna Utilities

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed

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with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: New Major license.
    b. Project No.: 10674-017.
    c. Date filed: February 14, 2019.
    d. Applicant: Kaukauna Utilities.
    e. Name of Project: Kimberly Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: The Kimberly Project is located at the U.S. Army Corps 
of Engineers' (Corps) Cedars Dam on the Lower Fox River in the Village 
of Kimberly in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. The project does not occupy 
federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mike Pedersen, Manager of Generation and 
Operations, Kaukauna Utilities, 777 Island Street, P.O. Box 1777, 
Kaukauna, WI 54130-7077, (902) 766-05721.
    i. FERC Contact: Colleen Corballis, (202) 502-8598, 
[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: April 15, 2019.
    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-10674-017.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The project consists of: (1) A 161-foot-long, 43-foot-wide, 61-
foot-high reinforced concrete and brick masonry powerhouse located at 
the south abutment of Cedars Dam and containing three turbine-generator 
units each rated at 723 kilowatts for a total installed capacity of 
2.170 megawatts; (2) a 2.4 kilovolts (kV) to 34.5 kV step-up 
transformer; and (3) appurtenant facilities. The project is directly 
connected to a 34.5 kV local distribution line which is not part of the 
project. The average annual generation was 12,324,827 kilowatt-hours 
for the period 2011 to 2017.
    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 website 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 schedule. Revisions 
to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)--April 2019
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--April 2019
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--August 2019
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--October 2019
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)--November 2019
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--November 2019
Commission issues EA--May 2020

    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: February 22, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-03767 Filed 3-1-19; 8:45 am]
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