[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 137 (Wednesday, July 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58152-58153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-15735]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 9649-020]


Lovejoy Tool Company Inc.; 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.: 9649-020.
    c. Date Filed: June 28, 2024.
    d. Applicant: Lovejoy Tool Company Inc. (Lovejoy Company).
    e. Name of Project: Lovejoy 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: Todd Priestley, Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc., 
133 Main Street, Springfield, Vermont, 05156; Phone at (800) 843-8376 
or email at [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Erin Kimsey at (202) 502-8621, 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

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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 Sec.  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.
    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). 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: Lovejoy 
Dam Hydroelectric Project (P-9649-020).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Lovejoy Dam Project consists of the following: (1) 
a 150-foot-long, 15-foot-high concrete gravity dam (Lovejoy Dam) that 
includes a spillway with 1-foot-high flashboards with a crest elevation 
of 345 feet mean sea level (msl) at top of the flashboards; (2) an 
impoundment with a surface area of 3.6 acres at an elevation of 345 
feet msl; (3) an intake structure equipped with a headgate and 
trashrack with 1.5-inch clear bar spacing; (4) a 15-foot-long, 4-foot-
wide, 8-foot-deep concrete penstock; (5) a 40-foot-long, 18-foot-wide, 
brick and concrete powerhouse with two Vertical Francis turbine-
generator unit with a total authorized installed capacity of 150 
kilowatts; (6) a 36-foot-long tailrace; (7) two 0.6 kilovolt (kV) 
generator leads; (8) a 0.6/4.16 kV step-up transformer; (9) a 100-foot-
long 4.16 kV transmission line; (10) a downstream fish passage facility 
for Atlantic Salmon; and (11) appurtenant facilities.
    The current license requires Lovejoy Company to operate the project 
in instantaneous run[hyphen]of[hyphen]river mode, so that flow in the 
Black River, as measured immediately downstream from the project 
tailrace, approximates the instantaneous sum of the inflow to the 
project impoundment. The current license also request Lovejoy Company 
to release a minimum flow of 4 cubic feet per second (cfs) over the dam 
spillway or through the fish passage facility during passage season, 
and operate the downstream fish passage facility from April 1 through 
June 15 with an attraction flow of 20 cfs plus the 4 cfs minimum flow. 
The project has an average annual generation of 500 megawatt-hours.
    Lovejoy Tool Company Inc is not proposing any changes to project 
facilities or operation.
    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-9649). 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)..  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. 2024-15735 Filed 7-16-24; 8:45 am]
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