[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 137 (Wednesday, July 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58155-58156]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-15734]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 9648-020]


One Hundred River Street, 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.: 9648-020.
    c. Date filed: June 28, 2024.
    d. Applicant: One Hundred River Street, LLC (River Street).
    e. Name of Project: Fellows Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Black River, Windsor County, Vermont.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Richard Genderson, One Hundred River Street, 
LLC, 300 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002; Phone at (202) 
543-9300 or email [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: John Baummer at (202) 502-6837, 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: August 27, 2024.

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    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: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. 
Submissions sent via any other carrier must be addressed to: Debbie-
Anne A. Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 
12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852. All filings must clearly 
identify the project name and docket number on the first page: Fellows 
Dam Hydroelectric Project (P-9648-020).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Fellows Dam Project consists of the following: (1) 
a 200-foot-long, 10-foot-high concrete dam (Fellows Dam) with a crest 
elevation of 435 feet mean sea level (msl); (2) an impoundment with a 
surface area of 21 acres and a storage capacity of 106 acre-feet at an 
elevation of 435 feet msl; (3) an intake structure equipped with an 
inclined trashrack with 1.5-inch clear bar spacing; (4) a 4-foot by 8-
foot, 30-foot-long reinforced concrete open flume; (5) a powerhouse 
with a Francis turbine-generator unit with an authorized installed 
capacity of 150 kilowatts; (6) a 0.60 kilovolt (kV) generator lead; (7) 
a 0.60/4.16-kV transformer; (8) a 0.6-kV, 100-foot-long transmission 
line; and (9) appurtenant facilities.
    The current license requires River Street to operate the project in 
a run-of-river mode and to release a minimum flow of 6 cubic feet per 
second (cfs) or inflow, whichever is less, over the spillway for the 
protection of fish and wildlife resources in the Black River. The 
project has an average annual generation of 500 megawatt-hours.
    The current license also requires River Street to provide 
downstream fish passage at the project from April 1 to June 15. River 
Street operates a downstream fish passage facility consisting of a 36-
inch-wide weir installed in the spillway adjacent to the existing 
trashrack, a fish collection box, and an 18-inch diameter steel sluice 
pipe that discharges to a natural plunge pool at the toe of the dam.
    River Street proposes to continue operating the project in a run-
of-river mode. River Street also proposes to: (1) increase the current 
year-round minimum flow release over the spillway from 0.5 inch (6 cfs) 
to 1 inch; (2) operate the existing downstream fish passage facility in 
the fall; and (3) develop a flow management, monitoring, and 
maintenance plan.
    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-9648). 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 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.
    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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               Milestone                           Target date
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Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary).  August 2024.
Request Additional Information.........  August 2024.
Issue Acceptance Letter................  January 2025.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments..  January 2025.
Request Additional Information (if       March 2025.
 necessary).
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)  March 2025.
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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: July 11, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-15734 Filed 7-16-24; 8:45 am]
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