[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 184 (Monday, September 27, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 53297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20896]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 6951-018]


Tallassee Shoals, 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 License.
    b. Project No.: 6951-018.
    c. Date filed: September 15, 2021.
    d. Applicant: Tallassee Shoals, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Tallassee Shoals Hydroelectric Project 
(project).
    f. Location: On the Middle Oconee River, in Athens-Clarke and 
Jackson Counties, Georgia. 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: Walter Puryear, Tallassee Shoals, LLC, 2399 
Tallassee Road, Athens, Georgia 30607; Phone at (706) 540-7621, or 
email at [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Michael Spencer at (202) 502-6093, 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. With this notice, we are designating Tallassee Shoals, LLC as 
the Commission's non-federal representative for carrying out informal 
consultation pursuant to section 7 of the Endangered Species Act; and 
consultation pursuant to section 106 of the National Historic 
Preservation Act.
    m. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: November 14, 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: Tallassee Shoals Hydroelectric Project 
(P-6951-018).
    n. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    o. Project Description: The existing Tallassee Shoals Project 
consists of: (1) A 365-foot-long, 25-foot-high concrete dam; (2) a 100-
kilowatt fixed Kaplan unit within the dam; (3) a 1,400-foot-long 
headrace canal from the dam to the powerhouse; (4) an 80-foot-long, 11-
foot-diameter penstock; (5) a powerhouse containing a single 2.2-
megawatt (MW) adjustable Kaplan unit; (6) a 75-foot-long tailrace; and 
(7) a 100-foot-long, 42-kilovolt transmission line. The project creates 
a 2,100-foot-long bypassed reach of the Middle Oconee River. The 
project's total capacity is 2.3 MW and its average annual generation is 
approximately 6,100 megawatt-hours.
    Tallassee Shoals, LLC does not propose any changes to the project's 
run-of-river operation and required 70 cubic-feet-per-second minimum 
flow.
    p. 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-
6951). 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 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.
    q. Procedural schedule: 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)--January 2022
Request Additional Information--January 2022
Issue Acceptance Letter--March 2022
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--April 2022
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--July 2022

    r. 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 21, 2021.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-20896 Filed 9-24-21; 8:45 am]
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