[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 133 (Thursday, July 11, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33064-33065]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14735]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 3251-010]


Cornell University; 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

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 3251-010.
    c. Date Filed: June 28, 2019.
    d. Applicant: Cornell University.
    e. Name of Project: Cornell University Hydroelectric Project 
(Cornell Project).
    f. Location: On Fall Creek within the Cornell University campus in 
the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York. 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. Frank Perry, Manager of Projects, Energy 
and Sustainability, Humphreys Service Building, Room 131, Cornell 
University, Ithaca, NY 14853-3701; (607) 255-6634; email 
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Christopher Millard at (202) 502-8256; or email at 
[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

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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: August 27, 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-3251-010.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The project works consist of: (1) An existing 28-foot-high, 260-
foot-long reinforced-concrete gravity overflow-type dam, known as Beebe 
Lake Dam, with a crest elevation of 780.7 feet mean sea level (msl); 
(2) an impoundment (Beebe Lake) with a surface area of 16 acres and a 
storage capacity of 50 acre-feet at the normal pool elevation of 780.7 
feet msl; (3) a concrete forebay wall and reinforced-concrete intake 
with a 6-foot-high, 6-foot-wide steel vertical-slide gate along the 
right (north) bank; (4) a 5-foot-diameter, 1,507-foot-long reinforced-
concrete underground pipeline and a 5-foot-diameter, 200-foot-long 
riveted-steel underground penstock; (5) a 79-foot-long, 29-foot-wide, 
24-foot-high powerhouse containing two Ossberger turbines and induction 
generators with a combined authorized capacity of 1,718 kilowatts; (6) 
a tailrace located on the river right-side of Fall Creek directly below 
the powerhouse; (7) a 385-foot-long, 2.4-kilovolt transmission line 
connecting to Cornell's distribution system; and (8) appurtenant 
facilities.
    The Cornell Project is operated in a run-of-river mode and bypasses 
a 1,800-foot-long reach of Fall Creek that extends from the toe of the 
dam to the powerhouse tailrace. From 2013 through 2018, the average 
annual generation was 4,599 megawatt-hours.
    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)--August 2019
Request Additional Information--August 2019
Issue Acceptance Letter--November 2019
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--December 2019
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--February 2020
Issue Scoping Document 2--March 2020
Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis--March 2020
Commission issues EA--September 2020
Comments on EA--October 2020

    q. 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: July 5, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-14735 Filed 7-10-19; 8:45 am]
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