[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 52 (Thursday, March 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15236-15237]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05580]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. P-2376-052]


Eagle Creek Reusens 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.

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    b. Project No.: 2376-052.
    c. Date Filed: February 28, 2022.
    d. Applicant: Eagle Creek Reusens Hydro, LLC (Reusens Hydro).
    e. Name of Project: Reusens Hydroelectric Project (Reusens 
Project).
    f. Location: The project is located on the James River in Bedford 
and Amherst Counties, Virginia. 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 Contacts: Ms. Joyce Foster, Director, Licensing and 
Compliance Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, 
Suite 1100W, Bethesda, MD 20814; Phone at (804) 338-5110 or email at 
[email protected]; and Ms. Jody Smet, Vice President, 
Regulatory Affairs, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC, 7315 Wisconsin 
Ave., Suite 1100W, Bethesda, MD 20814; Phone at (240) 482-2700 or email 
at [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Laurie Bauer at (202) 502-6519, 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: April 29, 2022.
    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). 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: Reusens Project (P-
2376-052).
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Reusens Project consists of: (1) A 24-foot-high, 416-foot-
long concrete dam and spillway containing eight 16.75-foot-high, 44-
foot-wide floodgates; (2) a 25-foot-high concrete curved auxiliary 
spillway; (3) a 500-acre impoundment with a gross storage capacity of 
6,869 acre-feet at the normal pool elevation of 550.7 feet National 
Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929; (4) an intake sction of Powerhouse A 
containing three 6.83-foot-wide, 17.92-foot-high steel, concrete, and 
timber gates and Powerhouse B containing two 6.67-foot-wide, 17.5-foot-
high timber gates; (5) a 105.5-foot-long, 83-foot-wide, 86-foot-high 
steel frame, concrete and brick Powerhouse A containing three vertical 
Francis turbine-generator units with a total installed capacity of 7.5 
megawatts (MW); (5) a 55-foot-long, 27-foot-wide, 84-foot-high steel 
frame, concrete and brick Powerhouse B containing two vertical Francis 
turbine-generator units with a total installed capacity of 5 MW; (6) a 
100-foot-wide, 250-foot-long tailrace below Powerhouse A; (7) a 60-
foot-wide, 50-foot-long tailrace below Powerhouse B; (8) a 280-foot-
long transmission line to three 5,210 kilovolt-ampere 4/34.5 kilovolt 
step-up transformers which are connected to the grid via a 24-foot-long 
overhead line; and (9) appurtenant facilities.
    The Reusens Project operates in a peaking mode with an average 
annual generation of 22,504 megawatt-hours between 2018 and 2021.
    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 (P-2376). 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 email of new filings and issuances 
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.
    p. 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)--April 2022
Request Additional Information--April 2022
Issue Acceptance Letter--July 2022
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--August 2022
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--September 2022
Issue Scoping Document 2--November 2022
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--November 2022

    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: March 10, 2022.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-05580 Filed 3-16-22; 8:45 am]
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