[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 178 (Thursday, September 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56644-56645]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19931]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2955-011]


City of Watervliet; Notice of Settlement Agreement and Soliciting

Comments

    Take notice that the following settlement agreement has been filed 
with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Settlement Agreement.
    b. Project No.: 2955-011.
    c. Date filed: September 2, 2022.
    d. Applicant: City of Watervliet, New York.
    e. Name of Project: Normanskill Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: The existing project is located on the Normans Kill in 
the Town of Guilderland in Albany County, New York and approximately 
22.4 river miles upstream of the mouth of the

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Hudson River. The project does not affect federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Rule 602 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.602.
    h. Applicant Contact: Michele E. Stottler, Gomez and Sullivan 
Engineers, DPC, 399 Albany Shaker Road, Suite 203, Loudonville, NY 
12211; (518) 407-0050; [email protected] or Joseph 
LaCivita, General Manager, The City of Watervliet, 2 Fifteenth Street, 
Watervliet, NY 12189; (518) 270-3800; [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Woohee Choi, (202) 502-6336, [email protected].
    j. Deadline for Filing Comments: September 28, 2022. Reply comments 
due October 11, 2022.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
comments using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief comments up to 
6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the eComment system 
at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You must include your 
name and contact information at the end of your comments. 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. The first page of any filing should include docket 
number P-2955-011.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors filing 
documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each 
person on the official service list for the project. Further, if an 
intervenor files comments or documents with the Commission relating to 
the merits of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a 
particular resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document 
on that resource agency.
    k. The City of Watervliet filed the Settlement Agreement on behalf 
of itself, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the New York State 
Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Town of Guilderland. 
The purpose of the Settlement Agreement is to resolve, among the 
signatories, issues related to operational, fisheries, wildlife, water 
quality, and recreation resources associated with issuance of a 
subsequent license and water quality certification for the project. 
Specifically, the Settlement Agreement includes proposed protection, 
mitigation, and enhancements measures to address eel passage, 
streamflow and water level monitoring, water quality management, bat 
and eagle protection, invasive species management, and recreation. The 
City of Watervliet states that the terms of the Settlement Agreement 
are an integrated and individual set of measures intended to address 
and balance non-power and power values relating to the project and 
requests that the Commission approve the Settlement Agreement and 
incorporate the proposed measures set forth in section 3 into any 
subsequent license issued.
    l. A copy of the settlement agreement may 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 (i.e., P-2955). 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 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. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.

    Dated: September 8, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-19931 Filed 9-14-22; 8:45 am]
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