[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20679-20680]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-07811]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Project No. 9690-115; Eagle Creek Hydro Power, LLC, Eagle Creek Water 
Resources, LLC, Eagle Creek Land Resources, LLC


Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and 
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and 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.: 9690-115.
    c. Date Filed: March 31, 2020.
    d. Applicant: Eagle Creek Hydro Power, LLC, Eagle Creek Water 
Resources, LLC, and Eagle Creek Land Resources, LLC (collectively 
referred to as Eagle Creek).
    e. Name of Project: Rio Hydroelectric Project (Rio Project).
    f. Location: The existing project is located on the Mongaup River 
in Sullivan and Orange Counties, New York. The project does not occupy 
federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Robert Gates, Senior Vice President--
Regulatory, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC., 116 N State Street, 
P.O. Box 167, Neshkoro, WI 54960-0167; (973) 998-8400 or 
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Nicholas Ettema at (312) 596-4447 or email at 
[email protected].
    j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    k. Project Description: The Rio Project consists of: (1) A 
reservoir with a gross storage capacity of 14,536 acre-feet and a 
surface area of 444 acres; (2) a 264-foot-long, gravity-type concrete 
spillway with a maximum height of 101 feet at a crest elevation of 810 
feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929

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(NGVD29); (3) a 22-foot-long, concrete gravity intake structure; (4) a 
99-foot-long, concrete gravity non-overflow section; (5) a 540-foot-
long, earth-fill embankment; (6) a 102-foot-long, concrete gravity non-
overflow section; (7) a 460-foot-long, earth-fill embankment with a 20-
foot-wide crest at an elevation of 825 feet NGVD29; (8) a 1.5-mile-long 
bypassed reach; (9) a 7,000-foot-long, 11-foot-diameter steel penstock 
connected to a 40-foot-diameter by 65-foot-high steel surge tank; (10) 
a 10-foot-diameter, 280-foot-long underground steel penstock from the 
surge tank branching into two 7-foot-diameter, 100-foot-long steel 
penstocks leading to the main and minimum flow powerhouses; (11) a 22-
foot-square reinforced-concrete gatehouse; (12) a 15-foot-wide by 46-
foot-high trashrack with 2.9-inch bar clear spacing; (13) a 82-foot-
long by 30-feet-wide by 33-foot-high brick and steel main powerhouse 
containing two 5 megawatt (MW) vertical-axis turbines; (14) a 30-foot-
long by 27-foot-wide by 24-foot-high reinforced concrete minimum flow 
powerhouse containing one 0.8 MW horizontal-axis turbine; (15) a 45-
foot-wide by 225-foot-long tailrace with a 65-foot-long concrete weir 
from the main powerhouse; (16) a 10-foot-wide by 38-foot-long tailrace 
from the minimum flow powerhouse; and (17) a 760-foot-long, 4-kilovolt 
aboveground transmission line. The project generates an average of 
24,859 megawatt-hours annually. The megawatt-hours represents Units 1 
through 3 from 2014-2019, including an extended outage of Unit 3 in 
2015. Eagle Creek proposes to continue to operate the project in a 
peaking mode.
    l. A copy of the application is available for review 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 on Declaring a National Emergency 
Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak, issued by 
the President on March 13, 2020. For assistance, please contact FERC 
Online Support at [email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll 
free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
    m. 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. Procedural Schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule may be 
made as appropriate.

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               Milestone                           Target date
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Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready    July 2020.
 for Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary  November 2020.
 terms and conditions, and fishway
 prescriptions.
Commission issues Environmental         May 2021.
 Assessment (EA).
Comments on EA........................  June 2021.
Modified terms and conditions.........  August 2021.
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    o. 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. 2020-07811 Filed 4-13-20; 8:45 am]
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