

[Federal Register: February 16, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 32)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 12769-000]

 
Ice House Partners, Inc.; Notice of Application Tendered for 
Filing With the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, and 
Establishing Procedual Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for 
Submission of Final Amendments

February 9, 2007.
    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-12769-000

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    c. Date Filed: January 22, 2007
    d. Applicant: Ice House Partners, Inc.
    e. Name of Project: Ice House Power Project
    f. Location: On the Nashua River in the Town of Ayer, Middlesex 
County, Massachusetts. The project does not utilize lands of the United 
States.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708
    h. Applicant Contact: Liisa Dowd, Ice House Partners, Inc., 323 
West Main Street, Ayer, MA 01432, (978) 772-3303
    i. FERC Contact: Tom Dean, (202) 502-6041
    j. Cooperating Agencies: We are asking Federal, state, and local 
agencies 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 l 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 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: March 23, 2007.
    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 and requests for cooperating agency 
status may be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. 
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings. See 18 CFR 
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site 
at (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``eFiling'' link.

    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Description of Project: The Ice House Power Project would 
consist of the existing facilities: (1) The 300-foot-long, 10-foot-high 
Ice House Dam consisting of a 210-foot-long spillway topped with 
flashboards; (2) a 137-acre reservoir with a normal full pond elevation 
of 215 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum; (3) a 50-foot-wide, 600-
foot-long power canal; (4) a restored powerhouse containing two 
generating units with a total installed capacity of 270 kilowatts; and 
(5) appurtenant facilities. The project would have an average annual 
generation of 2,500 megawatt-hours.
    o. A copy of the application is available for review at the 
Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the 
Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' 

link. Enter the docket number excluding the three digits in the docket 
number field to access the document. 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.
    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.
    p. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the 
Massachusetts 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.
    q. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule. 
Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate. The Commission 
staff proposes to issue one environmental assessment rather than issue 
a draft and final EA. Comments, terms and conditions, recommendations, 
prescriptions, and reply comments, if any, will be addressed in an EA. 
Staff intends to give at least 30 days for entities to comment on the 
EA, and will take into consideration all comments received on the EA 
before final action is taken on the license application.

    Issue Acceptance Letter or Deficiency Letter--April 2007.
    Issue Scoping Document--May 2007.
    Notice of application is ready for environmental analysis--July 
2007.
    Notice of the availability of the EA--November 2007.

    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. E7-2700 Filed 2-15-07; 8:45 am]

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