[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 153 (Thursday, August 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54312-54313]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-17155]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 7274-035]


Town of Wells; 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 License.
    b. Project No.: 7274-035.
    c. Date filed: July 31, 2023.
    d. Applicant: Town of Wells.
    e. Name of Project: Lake Algonquin Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Sacandaga River in the town of Wells, Hamilton 
County, New York.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Matthew Taylor, Principle-in-Charge, GZA 
GeoEnvironmental of New York, 104 West 29th Street, 10th Floor, New 
York 10001; Phone at (781) 278-5803 or email at [email protected]; 
or Rebekah Crewell, Supervisor, Town of Wells, P.O. Box 205, Wells, New 
York 12190; Phone at (518) 924-7912 or email at [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Samantha Pollak at (202) 502-6419, 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: September 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 https://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).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Lake Algonquin Hydroelectric Project consists of the 
following facilities: (1) a 239-foot-long, 26.5-foot-high concrete 
gravity dam composed of an ogee spillway section at each end and a 
gated spillway section in the middle with three steel 19-foot-wide by 
12-foot-high vertical lift roller gates; (2) an impoundment with a 
surface area of 275 acres and a storage capacity of 2,557 acre-feet at 
an elevation of 986.84 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929; 
(3) a 27-foot-high, 21-foot-wide, 52-foot-long intake structure; (4) a 
10-foot-diameter, 113-foot-long steel penstock; (5) a 25-foot-wide, 63-
foot-long concrete, steel, and masonry powerhouse containing one Kaplan 
turbine unit with a rated capacity of 740 kilowatts; (6) a 480-volt/
4.8-kilovolt (kV) step-up transformer; (7) a 4.8-kV, approximately 50-
foot-long overhead transmission line; and (8) appurtenant facilities.
    The project operates in a run-of-river mode with a minimum flow of 
20 cubic feet per second, or reservoir inflow, whichever is less. The 
project has an average annual generation of 1.363 megawatt-hours 
between 2015 and 2020.
    o. Copies of the application may be viewed on the Commission's 
website at https://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-7274). For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support at [email protected] or call tollfree, (866) 
208-3676 or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
    You may also register online at https://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.
    The Commission's Office of Public Participation (OPP) supports 
meaningful public engagement and participation in Commission 
proceedings. OPP can help members of the public, including landowners, 
environmental justice communities, Tribal members and others, access 
publicly available information and navigate Commission processes. For 
public inquiries and assistance with making filings such as 
interventions, comments, or requests for rehearing, the public is 
encouraged to contact OPP at (202) 502-6595 or [email protected].
    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)..  September 2023.
Request Additional Information..........  October 2023.
Issue Acceptance Letter.................  December 2023.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments...  December 2023.
Request Additional Information (if        January 2024.
 necessary).
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary).  February 2024.
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental   February 2024.
 Analysis.
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    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: August 4, 2023.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-17155 Filed 8-9-23; 8:45 am]
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