[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 179 (Friday, September 16, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56941-56942]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20065]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 6398-026]


Hackett Mills Hydro Associates, 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: Subsequent Minor License.
    b. Project No.: P-6398-026.
    c. Date filed: August 31, 2022.
    d. Applicant: Hackett Mills Hydro Associates, LLC (Hackett Mills 
Hydro).
    e. Name of Project: Hackett Mills Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Little Androscoggin River, in the towns of 
Poland and Minot, in Androscoggin County, Maine. 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: Matthew Nini, Hackett Mills Hydro Associates, 
LLC c/o Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 
1100W, Bethesda, Maryland 20814; phone: (973) 998-8171; email: 
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: John Matkowski at (202) 502-8576 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: October 31, 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 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: Hackett Mills Hydroelectric Project 
(P-6398-026).

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    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Hackett Mills Project consists of: (1) a 186-foot-
long dam that consists of two spillway sections: a 101-foot-long, 8-
foot-high rock filled timber crib dam with an uncontrolled spillway 
(main spillway section) and a 85-foot-long, 8-foot-high concrete 
gravity dam with three uncontrolled bays (secondary spillway section); 
(2) an obsolete sluice gatehouse that connects the main spillway and 
the secondary spillway sections; (3) a 3.5-mile-long, 60-acre 
impoundment with no useable storage capacity at a normal maximum water 
surface elevation of 234.75 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 
1929 (NGVD 29); (4) a canal intake gate structure containing five 
gates; (5) a 100-foot-long, 25-foot-wide, 10-foot-deep power canal; (6) 
a powerhouse located at the end of the canal containing one 485-
kilowatt right angle drive bulb turbine-generator unit, with a minimum 
hydraulic capacity of 80 cubic-feet-per-second (cfs) and a maximum 
hydraulic capacity of 474 cfs; (7) a downstream fish passage facility; 
(8) a 200-foot-long, 12.5-kilovolt transmission line; and (9) 
appurtenant facilities.
    The Hackett Mills Project is currently operated in a run-of-river 
mode and generates 1,602 megawatt-hours annually. Hackett Mills Hydro 
proposes to continue operating the project as a run-of-river facility 
and does not propose any new construction to the project.
    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-6398). 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.
Additional Study Requests due--October 31, 2022
Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)--November 2022
Request Additional Information--November 2022
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--February 2023
Comments on Scoping Document 1--March 2023
Issue Acceptance Notice and Letter--April 2023
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)--April 2023
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--April 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: September 12, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-20065 Filed 9-15-22; 8:45 am]
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