[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 217 (Thursday, November 10, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67888-67889]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-24531]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2489-049]


Green Mountain Power Corporation; 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-2489-049.
    c. Date filed: October 31, 2022.
    d. Applicant: Green Mountain Power Corporation.
    e. Name of Project: Cavendish Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Black River, in the town of Cavendish, in 
Windsor County, Vermont. 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: John Greenan, Green Mountain Power 
Corporation, 2152 Post Road, Rutland, VT 05701; Phone at (802) 770-
2195, or email at [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Adam Peer at (202) 502-8449 or email at 
[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.

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    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: December 30, 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: Cavendish Hydroelectric Project (P-
2489-049).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Cavendish Project consists of: (1) a 3,000 foot-
long, 10-acre impoundment with a gross storage capacity of 18.4-acre-
feet at a normal water surface elevation of 884.13 feet National 
Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29); (2) a 111-foot-long concrete 
gravity dam that consists of: (a) a 90-foot-long by 25-foot-high north 
spillway section topped with a 6-foot-high inflatable flashboard 
system; and (b) a 21-foot-long by 6-foot-high south spillway section 
topped with 2.5-foot-high steel flashboards; (3) an 18-inch wide 
downstream fish passage chute located on the north side of the 
spillway; (4) a concrete intake structure equipped with a mechanically 
operated headgate, and a trash rack with 2-inch clear bar spacing; (5) 
a 178-foot-long concrete and rock tunnel that carries flows from the 
intake to a penstock; (6) a 6-foot-diameter, 1,090-foot-long steel 
penstock; (7) a 64-foot-long by 34-foot-wide powerhouse containing 
three turbine-generator units with a combined capacity of 1.44 
megawatts; (8) a 100-foot-long transmission line that runs from the 
powerhouse to a substation within the project boundary; and (9) 
appurtenant facilities. The project creates a 1,570-foot-long bypassed 
reach of the Black River.
    The current license requires Green Mountain Power Corporation to: 
(1) operate the project in run-of-river mode; (2) maintain the 
impoundment water level no lower than 6 inches below the crest of the 
flashboards; (3) release a continuous minimum flow of 10 cubic feet per 
second (cfs) to the bypassed reach; and (4) release downstream flows of 
at least 42 cfs from June 1 to September 30, at least 83 cfs from 
October 1 to March 31, and at least 332 cfs from April 1 to May 31 when 
refilling the impoundment after project maintenance or flashboard 
installation. If inflows are insufficient to meet the downstream flows 
during impoundment refill, Green Mountain Power Corporation is required 
to release 90 percent of instantaneous inflow through the turbines. The 
project generates about 4,864 megawatt-hours annually.
    Green Mountain Power Corporation proposes to: (1) continue 
operating the project in run-of-river mode; (2) maintain a stable 
impoundment water level at the top of the flashboard crest; (3) 
continue releasing a continuous minimum flow of 10 cfs to the bypassed 
reach; and (4) release 90 percent of instantaneous inflow through the 
turbines at all times when refilling the impoundment. Green Mountain 
Power Corporation also proposes to modify the penstock geometry and 
replace the three existing turbines.
    o. 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-
2489). 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.

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)--January 2022
Request Additional Information--January 2022
Issue Acceptance Letter--May 2022
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--May 2023
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)--July 2023
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--July 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: November 4, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-24531 Filed 11-9-22; 8:45 am]
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