[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 179 (Monday, September 20, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52141-52142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20272]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 6115-016]


Pyrites 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.: 6115-016.
    c. Date Filed: August 31, 2021.
    d. Applicant: Pyrites Hydro, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Pyrites Hydroelectric Project (Pyrites 
Project).
    f. Location: The existing project is located on the Grass River 
near the Town of Canton, St. Lawrence 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: Mr. Kevin M. Webb, Hydro Licensing Manager, 
Pyrites Hydro, LLC, 670 N. Commercial Street, Suite 204, Manchester, NH 
03101, (978) 935-6039; [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Christopher Millard at (202) 502-8256; 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: October 30, 2021.\1\
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    \1\ The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure provide 
that if a filing deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or 
other day when the Commission is closed for business, the filing 
deadline does not end until the close of business on the next 
business day. 18 CFR 385.2007(a)(2) (2020). Because the 60-day 
filing deadline falls on a Saturday (i.e., October 30, 2021), the 
filing deadline is extended until the close of business on Monday, 
November 1, 2021.
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    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: Pyrites Hydroelectric Project (P-6115-
016).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Project Description: The existing Pyrites Project consists of: 
(1) A 170-foot-long and 12-foot-high concrete Ambursen overflow 
spillway with 1.5-foot-high flashboards, a 115-foot-long concrete 
auxiliary spillway, and a 208-foot-long non-overflow dam, which 
includes a 50-foot-wide intake structure; (2) a 6-foot-diameter, 700-
foot-long steel penstock running from the intake structure to an upper 
powerhouse and a 10-foot-diameter, 2,160-foot-long penstock running 
from the intake structure to a lower powerhouse; (3) a 21-foot by 31-
foot upper powerhouse located 700 feet downstream of the intake 
structure containing one 1.2-megawatt (MW) turbine/generator unit 
operating under a rated head of 76 feet and a 50-foot by 53-foot lower 
powerhouse located 1,200 feet downstream of the tailrace containing two 
3.5-MW turbine/generator units operating under a rated head of 111 
feet; (4) a 50-foot by 97-foot 115/4.16/2.3-kilovolt (kV) switchyard 
and substation for use by both powerhouses; (5) a 470-foot-long 2.3-kV 
transmission line connecting the upper powerhouse to the

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switchyard; (6) a 1,150-foot-long 4.16 kV transmission line connecting 
the lower powerhouse to the switchyard; and (7) appurtenant facilities.
    The Pyrites Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with an 
average annual generation of 27,865 megawatt-hours.
    o. In addition to publishing the full text of this notice in the 
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an 
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this notice, as well 
as other documents in the proceeding (e.g., license application) via 
the internet through the Commission's Home Page (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-
6115). 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 https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx 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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                 Milestone                           Target date
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Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)....  October 2021.
Request Additional Information............  October 2021.
Issue Acceptance Letter...................  January 2022.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments.....  February 2022.
Issue Scoping Document 2..................  May 2022.
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental     May 2022.
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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: September 14, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-20272 Filed 9-17-21; 8:45 am]
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