[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20682-20683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-07810]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 3267-020]


ECOsponsible, LLC; 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.: 3267-020.
    c. Date Filed: March 31, 2020.
    d. Applicant: ECOsponsible, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Ballard Mill Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Salmon River, in the Town of Malone, Franklin 
County, New York. The project does not occupy any federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825 (r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Dennis Ryan, Manager, ECOsponsible, LLC, PO 
Box 114, West Falls, NY 14170; (716) 222-2188; email_
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: John Stokely at (202) 502-8534; 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: May 30, 2020.
    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).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Ballard Mill Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) A 110-foot-long concrete capped timber crib overflow 
dam; (2) a 105-foot-long earth embankment dam with 2-foot-high 
flashboards; (3) a 4.75-foot-wide sluice gate located at the west 
abutment of the existing timber crib dam; (4) two 8-foot-wide flood 
sluice gates located between the existing timber crib dam and 
powerhouse; (5) an impoundment with a surface area of 10 acres and a 
volume of 50 acre-feet at the normal maximum pool elevation of 698 feet 
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929; (6) a 20-foot-wide, 28-foot-
long concrete masonry powerhouse with a single 255-kilowatt horizontal 
shaft Kaplan turbine-generator unit; (7) a 17.5-foot-wide, 16.67-foot-
high concrete intake leading to a trashrack with 1-inch clear spacing; 
(8) a 10- to 20-foot-wide, 250-foot-long excavated earth and rock 
channel tailrace; (9) a 150-foot-long underground cable connecting to a 
transformer pole; (10) a 0.48/13.2-kilovolt (kV) transformer; (11) a 
13.2-kV, 170-foot-long overhead transmission line; and (12) appurtenant 
facilities.
    The Ballard Mill Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with an 
average annual generation of 1,620 megawatt-hours.
    o. A copy of the application 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. At this time, the Commission has 
suspended access to the Commission's Public Reference Room, due to the 
proclamation declaring a National Emergency concerning the Novel 
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), issued by the President on March 13, 
2020. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
    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.
    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.

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Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)..  May 2020.
Request Additional Information..........  May 2020.
Issue Acceptance Letter August..........  2020.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments...  September 2020.
Request Additional Information (if        November 2020.
 necessary).
Issue Scoping Document 2................  December 2020.
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental   December 2020.
 Analysis.
Commission issues EA....................  June 2021.
Comments on EA..........................  July 2021.
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    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: April 8, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-07810 Filed 4-13-20; 8:45 am]
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