[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 161 (Tuesday, August 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67435-67436]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-18642]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. P-15331-001]


Marlow Hydro LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With 
the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and 
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing 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: Original Minor License.
    b. Project No.: 15331-001.
    c. Date filed: July 31, 2024.
    d. Applicant: Marlow Hydro LLC (Marlow Hydro).
    e. Name of Project: Nash Mill Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Ashuelot River, in town of Marlow, Cheshire 
County, New Hampshire. The project does not occupy federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)--825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Anthony B. Rosario, Marlow Hydro, 139 
Henniker St, Hillsborough, NH, 03244; Phone at (603) 494-1854; or email 
at [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Prabha Madduri at 202-502-8017, 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.

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    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: September 30, 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 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: Nash 
Mill Dam Project (P-15331-001).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Nash Mill Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) a 57-foot-long, 9-foot-high, concrete gravity dam 
topped with 3-foot-high collapsible wooden flashboards with a crest 
elevation of 1,133.41 feet North American Vertical Datum 1988 (NAVD 88) 
at the top of the flashboards; (2) a 2-acre impoundment; (3) an intake 
structure on the north side of the dam equipped with a 10-foot-high by 
10-foot-wide trash rack with 1-inch clear bar spacing; (4) a 4-feet-
diameter, 1,525-feet-long round steel penstock that trifurcates into 
two 24-inch-diameter penstocks and one 4-foot-diameter pipe; (5) a 31-
foot-long by 18-foot-wide powerhouse that contains two vertical-shaft, 
fixed propeller turbine-generator units and one horizontal-shaft 
turbine-generator unit for a total installed capacity of 225 kilowatts; 
(6) a 600-foot-long tailrace; (7) a 1,800-foot long bypassed reach (8) 
a 0.48 kilovolt (kV), 75 kilo-volt-amperes transformer; (9) a 1,830-
foot-long, 12.5-kV transmission line; and (10) appurtenant facilities.
    Marlow Hydro currently operates the project in a run-of-river mode. 
The current license requires Marlow Hydro to release a continuous 
minimum flow of 23 cubic feet per second (cfs) from the project as 
measured downstream of the powerhouse, with a continuous flow of 5.2 
cfs over the dam. From 2016 to 2020, average annual generation of the 
Nash Mill Project was 552 megawatt-hours.
    Marlow Hydro proposes to continue operating the project in a run-
of-river mode and would increase the bypass flow from 5.2 cfs to 14.5 
cfs.
    o. A copy of the application can 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-15331). 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)..  October 2024
Request for Additional Information......  October 2024
Issue Notice of Acceptance..............  January 2025
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments...  February 2025
Request Additional Information (if        April 2025
 necessary).
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary).  May 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: August 14, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-18642 Filed 8-19-24; 8:45 am]
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