[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 136 (Tuesday, July 16, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33934-33935]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-15065]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 3452-017]
Erie Boulevard Hydropower, L.P.; 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: Subsequent Minor License.
b. Project No.: 3452-017.
c. Date Filed: June 28, 2019.
d. Applicant: Erie Boulevard Hydropower, L.P.
e. Name of Project: Oak Orchard Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The project is located adjacent to the New York State
Canal Corporation's barge canal in the Village of Medina, Orleans
County, New York. The project does not occupy any federal lands.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825 (r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Steven P. Murphy, Director, U.S.
Licensing, Erie Boulevard Hydropower, L.P., 33 West 1st Street South,
Fulton, NY 13069; (315) 598-6130; email
[email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Laurie Bauer at (202) 502-6519; 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 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
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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-3452-017.
m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. The Oak Orchard Project consists of the following existing
facilities: (1) A concrete gravity dam containing a spillway with a
crest elevation of 507.6 feet mean sea level (msl) surmounted by 2-
foot-high flashboards and two 5-foot-high, 5-foot-wide flood gates; (2)
a forebay with a surface area of 0.25 acres and a storage capacity of 3
acre-feet at the normal pool elevation of 509.6 feet msl; (3) an intake
structure with trashracks; (4) a 7-foot-diameter, 85-foot-long welded
steel penstock from the intake to the turbine; (5) a 20-foot-long, 43-
foot-wide powerhouse containing a single turbine-generator unit with a
rated capacity of 350 kilowatts; (6) a tailrace located on the left
(west) bank of Oak Orchard Creek; (7) a 55-foot-long underground
generation lead; (8) three single-phase 167 kilovolt-ampere pole-
mounted power transformers; (9) a 400-foot-long access road; and (10)
appurtenant facilities.
The Oak Orchard Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with an
average annual generation of 1,147 megawatt-hours between 2009 and
2018.
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
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 10, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-15065 Filed 7-15-19; 8:45 am]
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