[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 178 (Thursday, September 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56640-56641]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19980]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2373-016]


Midwest Hydro, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing 
With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests 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: Subsequent License.
    b. Project No.: 2373-016.
    c. Date filed: August 30, 2022.
    d. Applicant: Midwest Hydro, LLC (Midwest Hydro).
    e. Name of Project: Rockton Hydroelectric Project (Rockton 
Project).
    f. Location: The project is located on the Rock River in the town 
of Rockton in Winnebago County, Illinois. The project does not include 
any federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. David Fox, Senior Director of Regulatory 
Affairs, Eagle Creek RE Management, LLC, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 
1100W, Bethesda, Maryland 20814, (240) 724-8765, 
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Laura Washington (202) 502-6072, 
[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: October 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 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. The first page of any filing should include 
docket number P-2373-016.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Rockton Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) a 40.67-acre reservoir; (2) a 1000-foot-long the 
concrete overflow dam; (3) a 1600-foot-long earthen dike; (4) power 
canal headworks; (5) transmission equipment consisting of the 
generators connected through two oil filled, three phase, 400 Ampere-
rated, 7.5-kilovolt (kV) circuit breakers to the 4.1-kV bus and three 
4.1-kV/12.4-kV, 500-kilovolt amperes single phase transformers 
connected to the non-project 12.4-kV distribution system; (6) a 
tailrace; and (7) a powerhouse containing two generating units with a 
total installed capacity of 1.1 megawatts.
    The Rockton Project is currently operated in a run-of-river mode 
and generates an annual average of approximately 5,076 megawatt hours. 
Midwest Hydro proposes to continue operating the project as a run-of-
river facility and does not propose any new construction to the 
project.
    o. A copy of the application can 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 on March 13, 2020. 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 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: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will 
be made as appropriate.

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                 Milestone                           Target date
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Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)....  December 2022.
Request Additional Information............  December 2022.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments.....  June 2023.

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Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)...  October 2023.
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental     October 2023.
 Analysis.
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    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: September 9, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-19980 Filed 9-14-22; 8:45 am]
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