[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27078-27079]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-10541]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 5596-020]


Town of Bedford; 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.: 5596-020.
    c. Date Filed: April 30, 2021.
    d. Applicant: Town of Bedford.
    e. Name of Project: Bedford Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the James River in the town of Bedford in Bedford 
and Amherst counties, Virginia. The project does not affect federal 
lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: M. Scott Salmon, Electric Systems Engineer, 
Town of Bedford Electric Department, 877 Monroe Street, Bedford, 
Virginia 24523; (540) 587-6079.
    i. FERC Contact: Allyson Conner, (202) 502-6082 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: June 29, 2021.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
using the Commission's eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 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, you may submit a paper copy. 
Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via 
any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852. All filings must clearly identify the project name and 
docket number on the first page: Bedford Hydroelectric Project (P-5596-
020).
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Bedford Hydroelectric Project (Bedford Project) 
consists of: (1) A 9-to 17-foot-high concrete gravity dam with a 1,680-
foot-long concrete spillway; (2) a 57-acre impoundment with a storage 
capacity of 350 acre-feet at the normal maximum water surface elevation 
of 628.0 feet above mean sea level; (3) a 1,200-foot-long, 180-foot-
wide, 16-foot-deep power canal; (4) a power canal headgate composed of 
three 21.6-foot-wide, 15.9-foot-high steel gates; (5) a 49.1-foot-wide, 
29.02-foot-high steel trashrack with a clear bar spacing of 3.5-inches; 
(6) a 55-foot-long, 80-foot-wide powerhouse; (7) two 2.5-megawatt (MW) 
turbine-generator units with a total capacity of 5.0 MW; (8) a 65-foot-
long, 120-foot-wide tailrace; (9) a 4.0-kilovolt, 120-foot-long 
underground transmission line from the powerhouse to the project 
substation; (10) two 3.75-megavolt-ampere step-up transformers; and 
(11) appurtenant facilities.
    The Bedford Project is operated in run-of-river mode. The average 
annual generation is estimated to be 1,114.75 megawatt-hours.
    o. A copy of the application can 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.
    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.

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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 2021
Request Additional Information--July 2021
Issue Acceptance Letter--October 2021
Issue Scoping Document 1--October 2021
Comments on Scoping Document 1 due--November 2021
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)--January 2022
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--February 2022
Commission issues EA--July 2022
Comments on EA--August 2022
    q. 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: May 13, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-10541 Filed 5-18-21; 8:45 am]
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