[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 121 (Tuesday, June 23, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37652-37653]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-13442]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2814-025]


Great Falls Hydroelectric Company, City of Paterson, New Jersey; 
Notice of Application Ready for Environmental Analysis, and Soliciting 
Comments, Recommendations, Terms and Conditions, and Prescriptions

    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.: 2814-025.
    c. Date Filed: February 28, 2019.
    d. Applicant: Great Falls Hydroelectric Company and the City of 
Paterson, New Jersey, as co-licensees.
    e. Name of Project: Great Falls Hydroelectric Project (Great Falls 
Project or project).
    f. Location: On the Passaic River, near the City of Paterson, 
Passaic County, New Jersey. 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: Mr. Robert Gates, Senior Vice President of 
Operations, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, 65 Madison Avenue, Suite 500, 
Morristown, NJ 07960; (973) 998-8400; [email protected] 
and/or Ben-David Seligman, 2nd Assistant Corp. Counsel, City of 
Paterson, 155 Market Street, Paterson, NJ; (973) 321-1366; email_
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Christopher Millard at (202) 502-8256; or email at 
[email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing comments, recommendations, terms and 
conditions, and prescriptions: 60 days from the issuance date of this 
notice; reply comments are due 105 days from the issuance date of this 
notice.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and prescriptions 
using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief comments up to 6,000 
characters, without prior registration, using the eComment system at 
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You must include your 
name and contact information at the end of your comments. For 
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected]">FERC[email protected], (866)

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208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
    The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors filing 
documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each 
person on the official service list for the project. Further, if an 
intervenor files comments or documents with the Commission relating to 
the merits of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a 
particular resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document 
on that resource agency.
    k. This application has been accepted and is ready for 
environmental analysis at this time.
    l. The existing project works consist of: (1) The Society for the 
Establishment of Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.) dam, an overflow granite 
stone gravity structure about 315 feet long, with a maximum height of 
15 feet and having a crest elevation of 114.6 feet mean sea level 
(msl); (2) a reservoir with a surface area of 114.69 acres and a 
storage capacity of 1,415 acre-feet at elevation 114.6 feet msl; (3) a 
forebay inlet structure; (4) a headgate control structure containing 
three trashracks and three steel gates; (5) three penstocks, each 8.5 
feet in diameter and approximately 55 feet long; (6) a powerhouse 
containing three turbine-generator units with a total rated capacity of 
10.95 megawatts; (7) a 37-foot-long, 4.16-kilovolt (kV) underground 
transmission line connecting the powerhouse to a 4.16/26.4-kV step-up 
transformer which in turn is connected to a 26.4-kV transmission grid 
via an approximately 30-foot-long, 26.4-kV underground transmission 
line; (8) and appurtenant facilities.
    The Great Falls Project is operated in a run-of-river mode. For the 
period 2010 through 2018, the average annual generation at the Great 
Falls Project was 17,484 megawatt-hours.
    m. A copy of the application may be viewed and/or printed on the 
Commission's website (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 at [email protected]">FERC[email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-8659 
(TTY).
    All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title 
COMMENTS, REPLY COMMENTS, RECOMMENDATIONS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS, or 
PRESCRIPTIONS; (2) set forth in the heading the name of the applicant 
and the project number of the application to which the filing responds; 
(3) furnish the name, address, and telephone number of the person 
submitting the filing; and (4) otherwise comply with the requirements 
of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. All comments, recommendations, 
terms and conditions or prescriptions must set forth their evidentiary 
basis and otherwise comply with the requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). 
Agencies may obtain copies of the application directly from the 
applicant. Each filing must be accompanied by proof of service on all 
persons listed on the service list prepared by the Commission in this 
proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b) and 385.2010.
    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. A license applicant must file no later than 60 days following 
the date of issuance of this notice: (1) A copy of the water quality 
certification; (2) a copy of the request for certification, including 
proof of the date on which the certifying agency received the request; 
or (3) evidence of waiver of water quality certification.
    o. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following schedule. Revisions to the schedule will be made as 
appropriate.

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                Milestone                           Target date
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Deadline for filing comments,             August 2020.
 recommendations, terms and conditions,
 and prescriptions.
Reply comments due......................  September 2020.
Commission issues EA....................  January 2021.
Comments on EA due......................  February 2021.
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    Dated: June 16, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-13442 Filed 6-22-20; 8:45 am]
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