[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 195 (Wednesday, October 13, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56926-56927]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-22185]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 5867-054]


Alice Falls Hydro, LLC; 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

    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.: 5867-054.
    c. Date Filed: September 29, 2021.
    d. Applicant: Alice Falls Hydro, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Alice Falls Hydroelectric Project (Alice Falls 
Project).
    f. Location: On the Ausable River, in the Town of Chesterfield, 
Clinton and Essex Counties, New York. The project does not occupy 
federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Jody Smet, Vice President, Regulatory 
Affairs, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC, Two Bethesda Metro Center, 
Suite 1330, Bethesda, MD 20814; (804) 739-0654; email_
[email protected]
    i. FERC Contact: John Stokely at (202) 502-8534; or email at 
[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: November 28, 2021.
    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, you may submit a paper 
copy. Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed 
to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 
888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent 
via any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, 
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 
Rockville, Maryland 20852. All filings must clearly identify the 
project name and docket number on the first page: Alice Falls Project 
(P-5867-054).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Alice Falls Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) A stone masonry dam, 88 feet long and 63 feet high; (2) 
a 110-foot-long section of

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rock ledge adjacent to the dam with 2.5-foot-high pipe-supported 
flashboards; (3) a reservoir with a surface area of 4.8 acres with a 
normal water surface elevation of 350 feet mean sea level; (4) an 
intake structure; (5) a divided, 45-foot-long, reinforced concrete 
penstock; (6) a powerhouse containing two turbine-generator units of 
1.5 megawatts and 0.6 megawatts; (7) a substation; (8) a 1,500-foot-
long, 46.0-kilovolt buried transmission line; and (9) appurtenant 
facilities.
    The Alice Falls Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with an 
average annual generation of 4,021 megawatt-hours.
    o. A copy of the application 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. At this time, the Commission has 
suspended access to the Commission's Public Reference Room, due to the 
proclamation declaring a National Emergency concerning the Novel 
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), issued by the President on March 13, 
2020. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
    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) November 2021
Request Additional Information November 2021
Issue Acceptance Letter February 2022
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments March 2022
Request Additional Information (if necessary) May 2022
Issue Scoping Document 2 June 2022
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis June 2022

    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: October 5, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-22185 Filed 10-12-21; 8:45 am]
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