[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 135 (Friday, July 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42456-42457]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-15164]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2853-073]


Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation; 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.: 2853-073.
    c. Date filed: June 30, 2022.
    d. Applicant: Montana Department of Natural Resources and 
Conservation (Montana DNRC).
    e. Name of Project: Broadwater Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Missouri River near the town of Toston in 
Broadwater County, Montana. The project occupies approximately two 
acres of federal lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management..
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: David Lofftus, Hydro Power Program Manager, 
Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, 1424 9th 
Avenue, P.O. Box 201601, Helena, Montana 59620; Phone at (406) 444-
6659; or email at [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Ingrid Brofman at (202) 502-8347, 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

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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: August 29, 2022.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
using the Commission's eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 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: Broadwater Hydroelectric Project (P-
2853-073).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Project Description: The existing Broadwater Hydroelectric 
Project consists of: (1) a 705-foot-long, 24-foot-high concrete gravity 
dam with a 360-foot-long spillway containing seven inflatable rubber 
gates capable of raising the dam's crest elevation by 11 feet; (2) a 
275-acre, 9-mile-long reservoir; (3) a 160-foot long rock jetty that 
extends upstream into the reservoir that serves to separate inflow to 
the powerhouse from the headworks of the non-project irrigation canal 
adjacent to the dam; (4) an intake integral with the powerhouse and 
covered by two inclined trashracks, each 20 feet wide and 40 feet high, 
with a clear bar spacing of 3 inches; (5) a 160-foot-long, 46-foot-
wide, 64-foot high powerhouse containing a single Kaplan turbine with a 
rated capacity of 9.66 megawatts; (6) a 100-kilovolt, 2.8-mile-long 
transmission line; and (6) appurtenant facilities.
    The project is operated in a run-of-river mode and generates an 
estimated average of 40,669 megawatt-hours per year.
    o. In addition to publishing the full text of this notice in the 
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an 
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this notice, as well 
as other documents in the proceeding (e.g., license application) via 
the internet through the Commission's Home Page (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 (P-
2853). For assistance, contact FERC at [email protected] or 
call toll-free, (866) 208-3676 or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
    You may also register online at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx 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: 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 2022.
    Request Additional Information (if needed): August 2022.
    Issue Acceptance Letter and Notice: November 2022.
    Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments: December 2022.
    Issue Scoping Document 2: February 2023.
    Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis: February 2023.
    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: July 11, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-15164 Filed 7-14-22; 8:45 am]
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