[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 243 (Tuesday, December 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77824-77825]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-27589]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 3342-025]


Briar 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: New License.
    b. Project No.: 3342-025.
    c. Date Filed: November 30, 2022.
    d. Applicant: Briar Hydro Associates.
    e. Name of Project: Penacook Lower Falls Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Contoocook River, in City of Concord, and Town 
of Boscawen, Merrimack County, New

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Hampshire. No federal lands are located within the project boundary.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Andrew J. Locke, Essex Hydro Associates, LLC, 
55 Union Street, Boston, MA 02108; (617) 357-0032; email_
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Jeanne Edwards at (202) 502-6181; 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: January 29, 2023.
    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: Penacook Lower Falls 
Project (P-3342-025).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Penacook Lower Falls Project consists of the following 
existing facilities:
    (1) an impoundment with a surface area of 8.4-acres at an elevation 
of 278.6 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum 1929; (2) a concrete dam 
with a 15-foot-long, 70-foot-wide forebay, a 106-foot-long, gated 
spillway, a 316-foot-long auxiliary spillway, and a 140-foot-long, 
gated diversion structure; (3) a 23.3-foot-long, 46.1-foot-high trash 
rack with a 3.625-inch clear spacing; (4) a 35-foot-wide by 97.5-foot-
long concrete powerhouse, integral with the spillway, containing one 
Kaplan style turbine-generator unit with a capacity of 4.6 megawatts; 
(5) a 700-foot-long, 45-foot wide tailrace; (6) transmission facilities 
consisting of a 4.16/34.5 kilovolt (kV) transformer and 200-foot-long, 
34.5-kV transmission line; and (7) other appurtenances.
    The project operates in a run-of-river mode. The project had an 
average annual generation of 20,198,820 kWh kilowatt-hours between 2012 
and 2021. No changes in the project operation are proposed.
    o. Copies of the application 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 (P-3342). For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support 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.
    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.

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Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary).....................  February 2023.
Request Additional Information (if necessary)..............  March 2023.
Issue Acceptance Letter....................................  May 2023.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments......................  May 2023.
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)....................  August 2023
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis...........  August 2023.
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    q. 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: December 14, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-27589 Filed 12-19-22; 8:45 am]
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