[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 19, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10063-10064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05051]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 10624-026]
French Paper Company; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing
With The Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing
and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments
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.: 10624-026.
c. Date Filed: February 27, 2019.
d. Applicant: French Paper Company.
e. Name of Project: French Paper Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The French Paper Project is located on the St. Joseph
River in the City of Niles, Michigan. The project does not occupy
federal land.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Shane Fenske, President, French Paper
Company, 100 French Street, Niles, MI 49120; phone (269) 683-1100 or
email at [email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Jay Summers, phone: (202) 502-8764 or email at
[email protected].
j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
k. The French Paper Project consists of the following existing
facilities: (1) An 80 acre reservoir with a storage capacity of 510
acre-feet at a water surface elevation of 653.75 feet mean sea level;
(2) a 321-foot-long, 13-foot-high concrete spillway structure, topped
by 2.3-foot-high flashboards; (3) a 100-foot-wide, 600-foot-long intake
channel; (4) a 115-foot-wide, 55-foot-long, 56-foot-high powerhouse,
with an operating head of 14 feet; (5) trash racks at the entrance to
the intake channel and at the entrance to the powerhouse; (6) two
vertical shaft propeller turbines each coupled to a 400-kilowatt (kW)
generator, one vertical shaft propeller turbine coupled to a 300-kW
generator, and one vertical shaft Francis turbine coupled to a 200-kW
generator, for a total installed capacity of 1.3 megawatts; (7) a 6-
foot-wide, 220-foot-long reinforced concrete fish ladder; (8) a 480-
volt to 12-kilovolt (kV) transformer located adjacent to the
powerhouse, which is connected to Indiana Michigan Power Company's 3-
phase, 12-kV overhead transmission line; and (9) appurtenant
facilities.
The French Paper Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with an
estimated annual energy production of approximately 8,442.8 megawatt
hours. The French Paper Company proposes to continue to operate the
project in a run-of-river mode and does not propose any new
construction or modifications to the project.
l. 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 at [email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll
free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY). A copy is also available for inspection
and reproduction at the address in item h above.
m. You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
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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.
n. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will
be made as appropriate.
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Milestone Target date
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Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready for June 2019.
Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary August 2019.
terms and conditions, and fishway
prescriptions.
Commission issues Environmental January 2020.
Assessment (EA).
Comments on EA.......................... February 2020.
Modified terms and conditions........... April 2020.
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o. 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: March 11, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-05051 Filed 3-18-19; 8:45 am]
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