[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 73 (Tuesday, April 16, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15611-15612]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-07534]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 14633-001]
New England Hydropower Company, LLC; Notice of Application
Accepted for Filing, and Soliciting Motions To Intervene and Protests
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Exemption From Licensing.
b. Project No.: 14633-001.
c. Date filed: October 1, 2018.
d. Applicant: New England Hydropower Company, LLC (NEHC).
e. Name of Project: Albion Dam Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Blackstone River, near the Towns of Cumberland
and Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island. No federal or tribal
lands would be occupied by project works or located within the project
boundary.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708 (2012), amended by the Hydropower Regulatory
Efficiency Act of 2013, Public Law 113-23, 127 Stat. 493 (2013).
h. Applicant Contact: Michael C. Kerr, 100 Cummings Center, Suite
451C, Beverly, MA 01915; (978) 360-2547 or email at
[email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Patrick Crile, (202) 502-8042, or email at
[email protected].
j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests: 60 days
from the issuance date of this notice.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
motions to intervene and protests 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-14633-001.
The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors filing
documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each
person on the official service list for the project. Further, if an
intervenor files comments or documents with the Commission relating to
the merits of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a
particular resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document
on that resource agency.
k. This application has been accepted for filing, but is not ready
for environmental analysis at this time.
l. The proposed Albion Dam Hydroelectric Project would consist of:
(1) An approximately 266-foot-long existing concrete gravity dam with
an ogee spillway; (2) an existing 20.4-acre impoundment with a normal
storage capacity of 235 acre-feet at an operating elevation of
approximately 87.0 feet North American Vertical Datum of 1988; (3) a
new 51-foot-long, 45.75-foot-wide intake canal; (4) two new 14-foot-
wide, 10.4-foot-high hydraulically-powered sluice gates, each equipped
with a 15-foot-wide, 9.7-foot-high steel trashrack with 9-inch clear-
bar spacing; (5) two new 30-foot-long, 15-foot-wide, 9.7-foot-high
concrete penstocks; (6) a new 50-foot-long, 24-foot-wide, 18-foot-high
concrete powerhouse containing two 210-kilowatt (kW) Archimedes Screw
turbine-generator units, for a total installed capacity of 420 kW; (7)
a new 50-foot-long concrete tailrace; (8) a new step-up transformer and
500-foot-long, above-ground transmission line connecting the project to
the distribution system owned by the Narragansett Electric Company; (9)
a new access road; and (10) appurtenant facilities. The existing Albion
Dam and appurtenant works are owned by the State of Rhode Island.
NEHC proposes to operate the project in a run-of-river mode with an
estimated annual energy production of approximately 2,034 megawatt-
hours.
m. 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
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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.
n. Any qualified applicant desiring to file a competing application
must submit to the Commission, on or before the specified intervention
deadline date, a competing development application, or a notice of
intent to file such an application. Submission of a timely notice of
intent allows an interested person to file the competing development
application no later than 120 days after the specified intervention
deadline date. Applications for preliminary permits will not be
accepted in response to this notice.
A notice of intent must specify the exact name, business address,
and telephone number of the prospective applicant, and must include an
unequivocal statement of intent to submit a development application. A
notice of intent must be served on the applicant(s) named in this
public notice.
Anyone may submit a protest or a motion to intervene in accordance
with the requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR
385.210, 385.211, and 385.214. In determining the appropriate action to
take, the Commission will consider all protests filed, but only those
who file a motion to intervene in accordance with the Commission's
Rules may become a party to the proceeding. Any protests or motions to
intervene must be received on or before the specified deadline date for
the particular application.
All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title
``PROTEST'', ``MOTION TO INTERVENE,'' ``NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE
COMPETING APPLICATION,'' or ``COMPETING APPLICATION;'' (2) set forth in
the heading the name of the applicant and the project number of the
application to which the filing responds; (3) furnish the name,
address, and telephone number of the person protesting or intervening;
and (4) otherwise comply with the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001
through 385.2005. Agencies may obtain copies of the application
directly from the applicant. A copy of any protest or motion to
intervene must be served upon each representative of the applicant
specified in the particular application.
o. Waiver of Pre-filing Consultation: Based on a review of the
application, resource agency consultation letters, and comments filed
to date, we accept the consultation that has occurred on this project
as satisfying our requirements for the standard 3-stage consultation
process under 18 CFR 4.38, and are waiving the requirement to conduct
second stage consultation pursuant to section 4.38(c)(4) of the
regulations, as requested by NEHC.
Dated: April 10, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-07534 Filed 4-15-19; 8:45 am]
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