[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20683-20684]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-07807]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 10481-069, Eagle Creek Hydro Power, LLC, Eagle Creek Water 
Resources, LLC, Eagle Creek Land Resources, LLC]


Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and 
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and 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: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 10481-069.
    c. Date Filed: March 31, 2020.
    d. Applicant: Eagle Creek Hydro Power, LLC, Eagle Creek Water 
Resources, LLC, and Eagle Creek Land Resources, LLC (collectively 
referred to as Eagle Creek).
    e. Name of Project: Mongaup Falls Hydroelectric Project (Mongaup 
Falls Project).
    f. Location: The existing project is located on the Mongaup River 
and Black Brook in Sullivan County, New York. The project does not 
occupy federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Robert Gates, Senior Vice President--
Regulatory, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC., 116 N State Street, 
P.O. Box 167, Neshkoro, WI 54960-0167; (973)998-8400 or 
bob.gates@eaglecreekre.com.
    i. FERC Contact: Nicholas Ettema at (312) 596-4447 or email at 
nicholas.ettema@ferc.gov.
    j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    k. Project Description: The Mongaup Falls Project includes the 
Mongaup Falls Development and the Black Brook Development. The Black 
Brook Development has been permanently out of service since 1984, when 
portions of the penstock, stoplogs, and flashboards were removed.
    The Mongaup Fall Development consists of: (1) A reservoir with a 
gross storage capacity of 1,782 acre-feet and a surface area of 133 
acres; (2) a 155-foot-long by 40-foot-high, ungated, concrete gravity 
spillway with 4-foot, 10-inch-high flashboards; (2) an 83-foot-long, by 
25-foot, 4-inch-high earth dam section with a concrete core wall along 
the right abutment; (3) a 125-foot-long, 127-foot-high concrete 
retaining wall along the left abutment; (4) a 11-foot-high, 22-foot-
square intake and gatehouse; (5) a 250-foot-long by 4.5-foot-high 
earthen closure dike; (6) a 6,650-foot-long bypassed reach; (7) a 
2,650-foot-long, 8-foot-diameter wood-stave penstock; (8) a 26-foot-
diameter, 106-foot-high steel surge tank; (9) a 9-foot-diameter steel 
manifold branching into four 5-foot-diameter steel penstocks; (10) a 
14-foot-wide by 32-foot-high inclined trashracks with 1.7-inch bar 
clear spacing; (11) a 90-foot-long by 25-foot, 2-inch-wide by 33-foot-
high reinforced concrete powerhouse containing four 1-megawatt 
vertical-axis turbines; and (12) a 100-foot-long, 2.3-kilovolt 
underground transmission line. The project generates an average of 
10,860 megawatt-hours annually. Eagle Creek proposes to continue to 
operate the project in a peaking mode.
    The Black Brook Development consists of a 70-foot-long dam with a 
34-foot-long concrete spillway section and 10-foot-long stoplog 
section. The stoplog section consists of a 2-foot-wide concrete pier 
that divides the 8-foot-long stoplog section from the spillway. The 
concrete spillway is approximately 10-foot-high from the base to the 
crest and is keyed into bedrock with a 3-foot by 3-foot keyway. Prior 
to removal of the penstock, pond control was accomplished with an 
8[hyphen]foot[hyphen]wide stoplog section and 
34[hyphen]foot[hyphen]wide flashboard section, each erected to a height 
of 5 feet above the dam crest. The failure of the penstock in 1984, 
resulted in the removal of the 8-foot-wide, 5-foot-high stoplog section 
on the right side of the dam and the 5-foot-high flashboards. 
Currently, the Black Brook Development is a run-of-river, uncontrolled 
spillway with a crest elevation of 943 feet National Geodetic Vertical 
Datum of 1929 (NGVD29) and a dam/spillway toe elevation of 
approximately 930-933 feet NGVD29 (including the 3-foot by 3-foot 
keyway).
    l. A copy of the application is available for review 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. At this time, the 
Commission has suspended access to the Commission's Public Reference 
Room due to the Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency 
Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak, issued by 
the President on March 13, 2020. For assistance, please contact FERC 
Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 208-3676 (toll 
free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
    m. 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.
    n. Procedural Schedule: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule may be 
made as appropriate.

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               Milestone                           Target date
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Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready    July 2020.
 for Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary  November 2020.
 terms and conditions, and fishway
 prescriptions.
Commission issues Environmental         May 2021.
 Assessment (EA).
Comments on EA........................  June 2021.

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Modified terms and conditions.........  August 2021.
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    o. 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: April 8, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-07807 Filed 4-13-20; 8:45 am]
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