[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 223 (Tuesday, November 19, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63872-63873]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-25028]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 10887-030]


Carthage Specialty Paperboard, Inc.; 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 Minor License.
    b. Project No.: 10887-030.
    c. Date Filed: October 31, 2019.
    d. Applicant: Carthage Specialty Paperboard, Inc.
    e. Name of Project: Carthage Paper Maker Mill Hydroelectric 
Project.
    f. Location: On the Black River, near the Village of Carthage, 
Jefferson and Lewis Counties, 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: Martin Weller, Corporate Project Engineer, Ox 
Industries, Inc., 600 West Elm Avenue, Hanover, PA 17331; (717) 698-
3329; and/or E. Steve O'Donnell, General Counsel, Ox Industries, Inc., 
600 West Elm Avenue, Hanover, PA 17331; (717) 632-9580.
    i. FERC Contact: Monir Chowdhury at (202) 502-6736; 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 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: December 30, 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-10887-030.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing project consists of the following: (1) An 829-foot-
long concrete gravity dam with a maximum height of 8 feet at a crest 
elevation of 726.4 feet above mean sea level (msl); (2) an impoundment 
with a surface area of about 158 acres and a storage capacity of 767 
acre-feet at a normal pool elevation of 726.4 feet msl; (3) a forebay 
canal approximately 500 feet long, 58 feet wide, and 10 feet deep at 
the west bank of the river; (4) a masonry and concrete powerhouse 31 
feet long, 25 feet wide, and approximately 45 feet high, containing one 
open flume turbine-generator unit with a rated capacity of 800 
kilowatts; (5) an excavated 200-foot-long, 35-foot-wide tailrace; (6) a 
750-foot-long generator lead that connects the powerhouse with a 
substation; and (7) appurtenant facilities.
    The Carthage Paper Maker Mill Project is operated in a run-of-river 
mode with an estimated average annual generation of 3,991 megawatt-
hours between 2014 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.

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    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) December 2019
Request Additional Information December 2019
Issue Acceptance Letter March 2020
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments April 2020
Request Additional Information (if necessary) June 2020
Issue Scoping Document 2 July 2020
Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis July 2020
Commission issues EA January 2021
Comments on EA February 2021
    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: November 12, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-25028 Filed 11-18-19; 8:45 am]
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