[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 116 (Friday, June 15, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27977-27978]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-12880]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2883-009]


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: Aquenergy Systems, LLC

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.

    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 2883-009.
    c. Date Filed: May 30, 2018.
    d. Applicant: Aquenergy Systems, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Fries Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the New River in the Town of Fries, Grayson County, 
Virginia. No federal lands are occupied by the project works or located 
within the project boundary.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Kevin Webb, Hydro Licensing Manager, Enel

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Green Power North America, Inc., 100 Brickstone Square, Suite 300, 
Andover, MA 01810; (978) 935-6039.
    i. FERC Contact: Nicholas Ettema, (202) 502-6565 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.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: July 29, 2018.
    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, 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-2883-009.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Fries Hydroelectric Project (Fries Project) 
consists of: (1) A 41-foot-high, 610-foot-long rock masonry dam with a 
500-foot-long spillway; (2) an 88-acre impoundment at the normal pool 
elevation (spillway crest elevation) of 2,188.27 feet National Geodetic 
Vertical Datum of 1929; (3) an approximately 750-foot-long, 110-foot-
wide intake canal with four 15.5-foot-high, 6.5-foot-wide headgates; 
(4) a canal spillway consisting of 10 stoplog bays totaling 47 feet in 
length; (5) two 12.5-foot-high, 5.0-foot-wide canal gates; (6) a steel 
powerhouse that contains a single vertical Kaplan turbine with a 
capacity of 2.1 megawatts (MW) that discharges into a 180-foot-long, 
75-foot-wide, 12-foot-deep tailrace; (7) a masonry powerhouse that 
contains one vertical and two horizontal Francis turbines with a total 
capacity of 3.0 MW that discharges into a 180-foot-long, 120-foot-wide, 
12-foot-deep tailrace; (8) a 500-foot-long, 450-foot-wide bypassed 
reach that extends from the toe of the dam to the confluence with the 
tailraces; (9) a 567-foot-long, 13.2-kilovolt (kV) transmission line 
that runs from the steel powerhouse to the interconnection point with 
the grid; (10) a 130-foot-long transmission line that connects the 
masonry powerhouse to a 5,000 kilovolt-amp step-up transformer and an 
additional 323-foot-long, 13.2-kV transmission line leading from the 
transformer to the interconnection point; (11) and appurtenant 
facilities.
    The Fries Project is operated in a run-of-river mode. For the 
period 2003 through 2016, the average annual generation at the Fries 
Project was 26,150 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 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. 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. 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.

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary) August 2018
Request Additional Information August 2018
Issue Acceptance Letter October 2018
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments November 2018
Request Additional Information (if necessary) January 2019
Issue Scoping Document 2 February 2019
Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis February 2019
Commission issues EA August 2019
Comments on EA September 2019

    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: June 8, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-12880 Filed 6-14-18; 8:45 am]
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