Domtar Maine Corporation; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, and Establishing Procedual Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments, 14976 [E9-7346]

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• DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 62 (Thursday, April 2, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 14976]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-7346]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2660-024]


Domtar Maine Corporation; Notice of Application Tendered for 
Filing With the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, and 
Establishing Procedual Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for 
Submission of Final Amendments

March 26, 2009.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: New License.
    b. Project No.: 2660-024.
    c. Date Filed: March 19, 2009.
    d. Applicant: Domtar Maine Corporation.
    e. Name of Project: Forest City Project.
    f. Location: On Forest City Stream, a portion of the St. Croix 
River in Washington and Aroostock Counties, Maine and Canada. The 
project does not affect federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Scott Beal, Domtar Maine Corporation, 144 
Main Street, Baileyville, Maine 04694 (207) 427-4004.
    i. FERC Contact: John Costello, (202) 502-6119 or 
john.costello@ferc.gov.
    j. Cooperating agencies: We are asking Federal, state, local, and 
tribal agencies with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect 
to environmental issues to cooperate with us in the preparation of the 
environmental document. Agencies who would like to request cooperating 
status 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: May 18, 2009.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
    Additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency 
status may be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. 
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings. See 18 CFR 
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site 
(https://www.ferc.gov) under the ``eFiling'' link.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Forest City Project comprise an earth embankment 
dam containing a gated timber spillway and two impoundments (East Grand 
and North lakes). There are no generating facilities located at the 
project. Approximately one-quarter of the 544-foot-long dam (i.e., 
approximately 147 feet) is within the United States. The United States 
(western) section of the dam is an earth embankment measuring 
approximately 110 feet long with a maximum height of 12 feet.
    The center section of the dam (i.e., that portion located in the 
river channel) contains a 55-foot-wide gated timber crib spillway 
structure with three wooden gates (gates 1 and 2 are located within the 
United States). The spillway is approximately 33 feet wide with an 
elevation of 426.61 feet. A 5-foot-wide vertical slot design fishway is 
located in Canada. The eastern (Canadian) embankment is an earth 
structure approximately 397 feet long, 30 feet long with a crest 
elevation of 437.27 feet msl.
    No new construction is planned.
    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 Web site at https://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 at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll-free at 1-
866-208-3676, or for TTY, (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available for 
inspection and reproduction at the address in item h above.
    You may also register online at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via e-mail of new filings and 
issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, 
contact FERC Online Support.
    p. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the Maine 
State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by section 106, 
National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of the Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR at section 800.4.
    q. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule. 
Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate. The Commission 
staff proposes to issue one environmental assessment rather than issue 
a draft and final EA. The assessment for Domtar's application for new 
license for the West Branch Project, P-2618-020, may be included with 
the Forest City EA. Comments, terms and conditions, recommendations, 
prescriptions, and reply comments, if any, will be addressed in an EA. 
Staff intends to give at least 30 days for entities to comment on the 
EA, and will take into consideration all comments received on the EA 
before final action is taken on the license application.

 
 
 
Issue Acceptance letter/Additional          May 2009.
 Information Requests.
Issue Scoping Document....................  June 2009.
Additional Information Response due.......  September 2009.
Notice of application is ready for          October 2009.
 environmental analysis.
Comments, recommendations, prescriptions    December 2009.
 due.
Notice of availability of the EA..........  June 2010.
 

    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.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-7346 Filed 4-1-09; 8:45 am]
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