

[Federal Register: January 3, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 1)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[ Project No. 12629-000]

 
F & B Wood Corp.; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With 
the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, Waiving Three 
Stage Consultation, and Establishing an Expedited Schedule for 
Relicensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

December 27, 2005.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Exemption From Licensing.
    b. Project No.: P-12629-000.
    c. Date filed: December 7, 2005.
    d. Applicant: F & B Wood Corp.
    e. Name of Project: Corriveau Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Swift River, near the town of Mexico, Oxford 
County, Maine. This project does not occupy Federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708.
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. James D. Sysko, Small Hydro East, 524 
Jim's Drive, Newry, Maine 04261. (207) 824-3244.
    i. FERC Contact: Michael Spencer, michael.spencer@ferc.gov (202) 
502-6093.
    j. Cooperating Agencies: We are asking Federal, state, and local 
agencies

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and Indian tribes with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with 
respect to environmental issues to cooperate with us in the preparation 
of the environmental document. Agencies who would like to request 
cooperating status should follow the instructions for filing comments 
described in item k below.
    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 a factual basis for complete analysis of the application on its 
merits, the resource agency, Indian tribe, or person must file a 
request for the study with the Commission no later than 60 days from 
the application filing date, and serve a copy of the request on the 
applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: February 6, 2006.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426
    The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors filing 
documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each 
person on the official service list for the project. Further, if an 
intervenor files comments or documents with the Commission relating to 
the merits of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a 
particular resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document 
on that resource agency.
    Additional study requests may be filed electronically via the 
Internet in lieu of paper. The Commission strongly encourages 
electronic filing. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 
on the Commission's Web site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the 

``eFiling'' link. After logging into the eFiling system, select 
``Comment on Filing'' from the Filing Type Selection screen and 
continue with the filing process.''
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Project Description: The Corriveau Hydroelectric Project 
consists of the following existing facilities: (1) The 150-foot-long by 
9-foot-high dam; (2) a 2.0 acre reservoir, (3) a 125-foot-long intake 
canal; (4) a powerhouse containing three generating units with total 
installed generating capacity of 338 kilowatts (kW); and (5) 
appurtenant facilities. The restored project would have an average 
annual generation of 1,306,900 kilowatt-hours. The dam and existing 
project facilities are owned by the applicant.
    o. A copy of the application is on file with the Commission and is 
available for public inspection. This filing may also be viewed on the 
Web at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the 

docket number, excluding the last three digits in the docket number 
filed to access the documents. For assistance, please contact FERC 
Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at (866) 208-
3676 or for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available for 
inspection and reproduction at the address in item h above.
    p. You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp
 to be notified via e-mail of new filings and 

issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, 
contact FERC Online Support.
    q. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the Maine 
State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by section 106, 
National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of the Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4.
    r. Procedural schedule and final amendments: We intend to waive the 
standard 3-stage consultation process (18 CFR 4.38). We also intend to 
substitute the pre-filing consultation that has occurred on this 
project for our standard National Environmental Policy Act scoping 
process. Commission staff proposes to issue a single environmental 
assessment rather than issue a draft and final EA. Staff intends to 
give at least 30 days for entities to comment on the EA, and will 
consider all comments received on the EA before final action is taken 
on the exemption application.
    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.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E5-8177 Filed 12-30-05; 8:45 am]

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