[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 114 (Friday, June 12, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35929-35930]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-12719]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 4428-011]


Walden Hydro, 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: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 4428-011.
    c. Date filed: May 29, 2020.
    d. Applicant: Walden Hydro, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Walden Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Wallkill River, in the Village of Walden, 
Orange 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: Ms. Elise Anderson, Senior Environmental 
Permitting Specialist, Walden Hydro, LLC, Enel Green Power North 
America, Inc., 100 Brickstone Square, Suite 300, Andover, MA 01810; 
Phone at (978) 447-4408 or email at [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Samantha Pollak at (202) 502-6419, or 
[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: July 28, 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 Walden Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) A 417-foot-long, V-shaped concrete dam topped with 2-
foot-high flashboards; (2) an impoundment with a surface area of 69 
acres at the normal pool elevation of 321.3 feet National Geodetic 
Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29); (3) an intake structure consisting of 
a 252-foot-long, 56-foot-wide, 18-foot-deep canal forebay; (4) four 40-
foot-long steel penstocks; (5) a 60-foot-long, 45-foot-wide, 29-foot-
high powerhouse containing three horizontal double-runner Francis 
turbine units with ratings of 980 kilowatts (kW), 630 kW, and 500 kW, 
respectively for a total rated capacity of 2,110 kW; (6) a 30-foot-
long, 37-foot-wide tailrace; (7) a 230-foot-long bypass reach 
consisting primarily of bedrock; (8) a transmission line; (9) a 
substation with a single-phase 12.5-kilovolt transformer; and (10) 
appurtenant facilities.
    The project operates in a run-of-river mode with a minimum flow of 
31 cubic feet per second. The project has an average annual generation 
of 3,333 megawatt-hours between 2012 and 2019.
    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 (P-4428). For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support. 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 at [email protected] or call toll-free, (866) 
208-3676 or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
    You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via

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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)--July 2020
Request Additional Information--July 2020
Issue Acceptance Letter--October 2020
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--November 2020
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--January 2021
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)--February 2021
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--February 2021
Commission issues EA--September 2021
Comments on EA--October 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: June 8, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-12719 Filed 6-11-20; 8:45 am]
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