[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 96 (Wednesday, May 18, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30211-30212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-10601]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 7153-018]


Consolidated Hydro New York, 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.: 7153-018.
    c. Date Filed: April 29, 2022.
    d. Applicant: Consolidated Hydro New York, LLC (Consolidated 
Hydro).
    e. Name of Project: Victory Mills Hydroelectric Project (Victory 
Mills Project).
    f. Location: The project is located on Fish Creek in the village of 
Victory in Saratoga County, New York. The project does not occupy any 
federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contacts: Mr. Kevin M. Webb, Licensing Manager, 
Consolidated Hydro New York, LLC, 670 N Commercial Street, Suite 204, 
Manchester, NH 03101; Phone at (978) 935-6039 or email at 
[email protected]; and Mr. Curtis Mooney, Manager, 
Regulatory Compliance, Consolidated Hydro New York, LLC, 670 N 
Commercial Street, Suite 204, Manchester, NH 03101; Phone at (603) 774-
0846 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: June 28, 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

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the first page: Victory Mills Project (P-7153-018).
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Victory Mills Project includes: (1) A dam that consists of: 
(a) An approximately 150-foot-long concrete spillway varying in height 
from 4 to 6 feet with a crest elevation of 187.5 feet National Geodetic 
Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29), and (b) a sluice gate section 
approximately 19 feet high and 40 feet long with four gated spillway 
bays, each with a sill elevation of 181 feet NGVD29 and containing a 7-
foot-high by 8-foot-wide wooden timber gate; (2) a 4.3-acre reservoir 
with a gross storage capacity of approximately 18 acre-feet at the 
normal surface elevation of 187.5 feet NGVD29; (3) an intake channel 
feeding a 51-foot-long, 25-foot-high concrete intake structure; (4) an 
8-foot-diameter, 300-foot-long steel penstock; (5) a 27-foot by 46-foot 
concrete powerhouse containing a single Kaplan turbine with an 
installed capacity of 1,656 kilowatts; (6) an approximately 30-foot-
wide by 530-foot-long tailrace channel; (7) a 480-foot-long, 4.8-
kilovolt transmission line; and (8) appurtenant facilities.
    The Victory Mills Project operates in a run-of-river mode with an 
average annual generation of 6,073 megawatt-hours between 2011 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-7153). 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)--July 2022
Request Additional Information--July 2022
Issue Acceptance Letter and Notice--October 2022
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--November 2022
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--November 2022
Issue Scoping Document 2--February 2023
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--February 2023

    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 11, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-10601 Filed 5-17-22; 8:45 am]
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