
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 145 (Thursday, July 28, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49644-49645]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-17849]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14680-002]


Water Street Land, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing 
With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

    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.: 14680-002.
    c. Date filed: July 13, 2016.
    d. Applicant: Water Street Land, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Natick Pond Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Pawtuxet River, in the Towns of Warwick and 
West Warwick, in Kent County, Rhode Island. No federal lands would be 
occupied by project works or located within the project boundary.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708 (2012), amended by the Hydropower Regulatory 
Efficiency Act of 2013, Pub. L. 113-23, 127 Stat. 493 (2013).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Rob Cioe, Water Street Land, LLC, P.O. 
Box 358, North Kingstown, Rhode Island 02852; (480) 797-3077.
    i. FERC Contact: John Ramer, (202) 502-8969, john.ramer@ferc.gov.
    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 12, 2016.
    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 FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 
502-8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please send a paper copy 
to: Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 
NE., Washington, DC 20426. The first page of any filing should include 
docket number P-14680-002.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The proposed Natick Pond Dam Project would consist of: (1) An 
existing 265-foot-long granite block dam with a 166-foot-long spillway; 
(2) an existing 58-foot to 125.3-foot-wide, 1-foot to 28-foot-deep 
earth embankment; (3) an existing 44-foot-long, 4-foot to 20-foot-high 
south granite block training wall; (4) an existing 1,244-foot-long, 18-
foot to 41.25-foot-high granite block and cobble stone north training 
wall; (5) an existing 4-foot-wide, 6-foot-high granite block low level 
outlet; (6) an existing 46.0-acre impoundment (Natick Pond) with a 
normal surface elevation of about 48.5 feet North American Vertical 
Datum of 1988; (7) a new 97-foot-long, 32.2-foot-wide, 6.6-foot-deep 
concrete intake channel; (8) a new 7.6-foot-high, 11.1-foot-wide steel 
sluice gate with a new 8.3-foot-high, 32.2-foot-wide steel trashrack 
with 6-inch clear bar spacing; (9) two new 113-foot-long, 28-foot-wide 
concrete turbine bays containing two 42.7-foot-long, 9.2-foot-diameter 
Archimedes screw turbine-generator units each rated at 180 kilowatts 
(kW) for a total installed capacity of 360 kW; (10) a new 20.8-foot-
high, 23.8-foot-long, 27.8-foot-wide concrete powerhouse containing a 
new gearbox and electrical controls; (11) a new 43-foot long, 29-foot-
wide, 5-foot-deep tailrace; (12) a new 220-foot-long, 12.47-kilovolt 
above-ground transmission line connecting the powerhouse to National 
Grid's distribution system; and (13) appurtenant facilities. The 
estimated annual generation of the proposed Natick Pond Dam Project 
would be about 1,800 megawatt-hours. The applicant proposes to operate 
the project in a run-of-river mode. There are no federal or state lands 
associated with the project.
    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 last three digits in the 
docket number field to access the document. For assistance, contact 
FERC Online Support. 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 email 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 Rhode 
Island State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by 
section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the 
regulations of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 
800.4.
    q. Procedural schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will 
be made as appropriate (e.g., study requests and/or application 
deficiencies may lengthen the schedule).

Issue Deficiency Letter August 2016
Issue Notice of Acceptance/
    Ready for Environmental Analysis October 2016
Issue EA/Order January 2017

    Dated: July 20, 2016.
Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-17849 Filed 7-27-16; 8:45 am]
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