[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 224 (Monday, November 24, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52941-52942]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20701]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 8369-050]
Village of Saranac Lake; 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.: 8369-050.
c. Date Filed: September 30, 2025.
d. Applicant: Village of Saranac Lake (Village).
e. Name of Project: Lake Flower Dam Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Saranac River in the Franklin and Essex
Counties, New York.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Bachana Tsiklauri, Village Manager, Village
of Saranac Lake, 39 Main Street, Saranac Lake, New York 12983;
telephone at (518) 891-4150; email at [email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Arash Barsari, Project Coordinator, Great Lakes
Branch, Division of Hydropower Licensing; telephone at (202) 502-6207;
email at [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: on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
December 1, 2025.
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://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 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, 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,
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: Lake Flower Dam Hydroelectric
Project (P-8369-050).
m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
Project Description: The project includes a dam with a spillway
crest elevation of 1,528.0 feet National Geodetic Vertical Dam of 1929
(NGVD 29). The dam creates an impoundment that has a surface area of
1,360 acres at 1,528.0 feet NGVD 29. From the impoundment, water flows
through an intake structure located on the southern shoreline of the
impoundment, approximately 100 feet upstream of the dam. The intake
structure includes trashracks with 1-inch clear bar spacing. From the
intake structure, water flows to a powerhouse that contains a 200-
kilowatt Kaplan turbine-generator unit. Water is discharged from the
powerhouse to a tailrace that empties into the Saranac River.
Electricity generated at the powerhouse is transmitted to the
electric grid via an underground generator lead line, transformer, and
overhead transmission line.
Project recreation facilities include: (1) Riverside Park that
includes picnic tables and a pavilion; (2) Hydropoint Park that
includes a hand-carry boat access site on the shoreline of the
impoundment; (3) Beaver Park that includes a hand-carry boat put-in
site on the west bank of the Saranac River downstream of the dam; and
(4) the River Walk that includes a recreation trail along the Saranac
River.
The Village proposes to: (1) continue operating the project in a
run-of-river mode such that project outflow approximates inflow to the
impoundment and the normal maximum surface elevation of the impoundment
is maintained at 1,528.67 feet NGVD 29; (2) continue releasing a
minimum flow of 55 cfs or inflow, whichever is less, as measured
immediately downstream of the dam; (3) continue maintaining the project
recreation facilities; (4) implement invasive species and bat and bald
eagle plans filed with the license application; and (5) implement an
impoundment drawdown plan and operation and compliance monitoring plan
filed with the license application.
n. In addition to publishing the full text of this notice in the
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this notice, as well
as other documents in the proceeding (e.g., license application) via
the internet through the Commission's Home Page (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-
8369). For assistance, contact FERC at [email protected],
(866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
You may also register online at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx to be notified via email of new filings and issuances
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
o. 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,
community organizations, 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: The application will be processed according
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to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will
be made as appropriate.
Issue Deficiency Letter and Request Additional Information November
2025
Request Additional Information (if necessary) March 2026
Issue Notice of Application Accepted for Filing March 2026
Issue Notice of Scoping March 2026
Comments on Scoping April 2026
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis April 2026
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: October 14, 2025.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-20701 Filed 11-21-25; 8:45 am]
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