Public Service Company of New Hampshire; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments, 930-931 [2016-127]

Download as PDF 930 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 5 / Friday, January 8, 2016 / Notices Filed Date: 12/31/15. Accession Number: 20151231–5070. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/29/16. Docket Numbers: ER16–672–000. Applicants: Golden Spread Panhandle Wind Ranch, LLC. Description: Market-Based Triennial Review Filing: Updated Market Power Analysis to be effective 3/1/2014. Filed Date: 12/31/15. Accession Number: 20151231–5072. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/29/16. The filings are accessible in the Commission’s eLibrary system by clicking on the links or querying the docket number. Any person desiring to intervene or protest in any of the above proceedings must file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission’s Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the specified comment date. Protests may be considered, but intervention is necessary to become a party to the proceeding. eFiling is encouraged. More detailed information relating to filing requirements, interventions, protests, service, and qualifying facilities filings can be found at: https://www.ferc.gov/ docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For other information, call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. Dated: December 31, 2015. Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2016–94 Filed 1–7–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 2457–041] asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Public Service Company of New Hampshire; 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.: 2457–041 c. Date Filed: December 18, 2015 d. Applicant: Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) e. Name of Project: Eastman Falls Hydroelectric Project (Eastman Falls Project) f. Location: The existing project is located on the Pemigewasset River in Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire. The project boundary includes approximately 476 acres of federal land. g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r) h. Applicant Contact: Curtis R. Mooney, Project Manager, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, 780 North Commercial Street, P.O. Box 330, Manchester, NH 03105–0330; Telephone: (603) 744–8855 or curtis.mooney@eversource.com. i. FERC Contact: Steve Kartalia, (202) 502–6131 or stephen.kartalia@ferc.gov. j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this time. k. The Project Description: The Eastman Falls Project has a total installed capacity of 6.4-megawatts (MW). The project’s average annual generation is 27,871 megawatt-hours. The power generated by the project is sold to PSNH’s electrical distribution customers. The dam for the Eastman Falls Project is located approximately 1.5 miles downstream of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) Franklin Falls Flood Control Dam (Franklin Falls Dam). While the project boundary for the Eastman Falls Project extends through and upstream of Franklin Falls Dam, it does not encompass Franklin Falls Dam or any Corps facilities. The existing project consists of: (1) A 341-foot-long, 37-foot-high concrete gravity dam and spillway with a crest elevation of 301 feet above mean sea level (msl) that includes: (i) 6-foot-high steel flashboards with a crest elevation of 307 feet msl; and (ii) a concrete waste gate structure that includes a 16-foothigh, 30-foot-wide steel slide gate; (2) a 582-acre, 9-mile-long impoundment, with a normal maximum pool elevation of 307 feet msl; (3) a 342-foot-long, 8foot-deep floating louver array; (4) generating facility No. 1 that includes: (i) A 12.5-foot-high, 15-foot-wide headgate structure with a 23.75-foothigh, 17-foot-wide trashrack with 3.5inch clear-bar spacing; (ii) a 12.5-foothigh, 12.5-foot-wide, 21-foot-long concrete penstock; (iii) a 40-foot-high, 20-foot-wide stop log slot; (iv) a 29-footlong, 29-foot-wide, 34-foot-high concrete and masonry powerhouse containing a single 1.8–MW turbinegenerator unit; and (v) a 23-foot-wide, 14.5-foot-high, 60-foot-long draft tube; (5) generating facility No. 2 facility that includes: (i) An intake structure with a 20-foot-high, 21-foot-wide headgate with two 12.3-foot-wide, 9.3-foot-high trashracks with 3.5-inch clear-bar spacing; (ii) a 20.8-foot-high, 22.4-footwide stop log slot; (iii) a 88-foot-long, 78-foot-wide, 56-foot-high concrete and masonry powerhouse containing a single 4.6 MW turbine-generator unit; (iv) a 23-foot-wide, 14.5-foot-high, 60foot-long draft tube; (6) a 100-foot-long, 2.4-kilovolt transmission line that connects the turbine-generator units to the regional grid; and (7) appurtenant facilities. The Eastman Falls Project operates in a run-of-river mode. The existing license (Article 401) requires that the project release a continuous minimum flow of 410 cubic feet per second (cfs), or inflow (whichever is less). PSNH proposes to continue run-of-river operation and to eliminate the requirement to release a minimum flow. l. Locations of the Application: 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, please contact FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 (TTY). A copy is also available for inspection and reproduction at the address in item (h) above. m. You may also register online at https://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 Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the schedule may be made as appropriate. Milestone Target date Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis ................................................................................ Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and fishway prescriptions .............................................. Commission issues Non-Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) .................................................................................... Comments on EA ............................................................................................................................................................. VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:40 Jan 07, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\08JAN1.SGM 08JAN1 February 2016. April 2016. September 2016. October 2016. 931 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 5 / Friday, January 8, 2016 / Notices Milestone Target date Modified terms and conditions ......................................................................................................................................... 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: January 4, 2016. Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2016–127 Filed 1–7–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. EL11–66–000] asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Martha Coakley, Massachusetts Attorney General; Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority; Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities; New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission; Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel; Maine Office of the Public Advocate; George Jepsen, Connecticut Attorney General; New Hampshire Office of Consumer Advocate; Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities and Carriers; Vermont Department of Public Service; Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company; Associated Industries of Massachusetts; The Energy Consortium; Power Options, Inc.; and the Industrial Energy Consumer Group, v. Bangor HydroElectric Company; Central Maine Power Company; New England Power Company d/b/a National Grid; New Hampshire Transmission LLC d/b/a NextEra; NSTAR Electric and Gas Corporation; Northeast Utilities Service Company; The United Illuminating Company; Unitil Energy Systems, Inc. and Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company; Vermont Transco, LLC; Notice of Filing Take notice that on December 31, 2015, the Connecticut Light and Power Company, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, and Western Massachusetts Electric Company submitted tariff filing per: Refund Report to be effective N/A, pursuant to the Commission’s Opinion No. 531–A, issued on October 16, 2014.1 Any person desiring to intervene or to protest this filing must file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). Protests will be considered by the Commission in determining the appropriate action to be taken, but will not serve to make protestants parties to the proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party must file a notice of intervention or motion to intervene, as appropriate. Such notices, motions, or protests must be filed on or before the comment date. Anyone filing a motion to intervene or protest must serve a copy of that document on the Applicant and all the parties in this proceeding. The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and interventions in lieu of paper using the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at https://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should submit an original and 5 copies of the protest or intervention to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. This filing is accessible on-line at https://www.ferc.gov, using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for electronic review in the Commission’s Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the Web site that enables subscribers to receive email notification when a document is added to a subscribed docket(s). For assistance with any FERC Online service, please email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on January 21, 2016. Dated: January 4, 2016. Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2016–121 Filed 1–7–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 1 Martha Coakley, Mass. Attorney Gen., et al. v. Bangor Hydro-Elec. Co., et al., Opinion No. 531, 147 FERC ¶ 61,234 (2014) (Opinion No. 531), order on paper hearing, Opinion No. 531–A, 149 FERC ¶ 61,032 (2014) (Opinion No. 531–A). VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:40 Jan 07, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 December 2016. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. EL11–66–000] Martha Coakley, Massachusetts Attorney General; Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority; Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities; New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission; Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel; Maine Office of the Public Advocate; George Jepsen, Connecticut Attorney General; New Hampshire Office of Consumer Advocate; Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities and Carriers; Vermont Department of Public Service; Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company; Associated Industries of Massachusetts; The Energy Consortium; Power Options, Inc.; and the Industrial Energy Consumer Group, v. Bangor HydroElectric Company; Central Maine Power Company; New England Power Company d/b/a National Grid; New Hampshire Transmission LLC d/b/a NextEra; NSTAR Electric and Gas Corporation; Northeast Utilities Service Company; The United Illuminating Company; Unitil Energy Systems, Inc. and Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company; Vermont Transco, LLC; Notice of Filing Take notice that on December 31, 2015, New Hampshire Transmission, LLC submitted tariff filing per: Refund Report to be effective N/A, pursuant to the Commission’s Opinion No. 531–A, issued on October 16, 2014.1 Any person desiring to intervene or to protest this filing must file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). Protests will be considered by the Commission in determining the appropriate action to be taken, but will not serve to make protestants parties to the proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party must file a notice of intervention or motion to intervene, as appropriate. Such notices, motions, or protests must be filed on or before the comment date. Anyone filing a motion 1 Martha Coakley, Mass. Attorney Gen., et al. v. Bangor Hydro-Elec. Co., et al., Opinion No. 531, 147 FERC ¶ 61,234 (2014) (Opinion No. 531), order on paper hearing, Opinion No. 531–A, 149 FERC ¶ 61,032 (2014) (Opinion No. 531–A). Frm 00030 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\08JAN1.SGM 08JAN1

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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 5 (Friday, January 8, 2016)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-127]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2457-041]


Public Service Company of New Hampshire; 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.: 2457-041
    c. Date Filed: December 18, 2015
    d. Applicant: Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH)
    e. Name of Project: Eastman Falls Hydroelectric Project (Eastman 
Falls Project)
    f. Location: The existing project is located on the Pemigewasset 
River in Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire. The project 
boundary includes approximately 476 acres of federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r)
    h. Applicant Contact: Curtis R. Mooney, Project Manager, Public 
Service Company of New Hampshire, 780 North Commercial Street, P.O. Box 
330, Manchester, NH 03105-0330; Telephone: (603) 744-8855 or 
curtis.mooney@eversource.com.
    i. FERC Contact: Steve Kartalia, (202) 502-6131 or 
stephen.kartalia@ferc.gov.
    j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    k. The Project Description: The Eastman Falls Project has a total 
installed capacity of 6.4-megawatts (MW). The project's average annual 
generation is 27,871 megawatt-hours. The power generated by the project 
is sold to PSNH's electrical distribution customers.
    The dam for the Eastman Falls Project is located approximately 1.5 
miles downstream of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps) Franklin 
Falls Flood Control Dam (Franklin Falls Dam). While the project 
boundary for the Eastman Falls Project extends through and upstream of 
Franklin Falls Dam, it does not encompass Franklin Falls Dam or any 
Corps facilities.
    The existing project consists of: (1) A 341-foot-long, 37-foot-high 
concrete gravity dam and spillway with a crest elevation of 301 feet 
above mean sea level (msl) that includes: (i) 6-foot-high steel 
flashboards with a crest elevation of 307 feet msl; and (ii) a concrete 
waste gate structure that includes a 16-foot-high, 30-foot-wide steel 
slide gate; (2) a 582-acre, 9-mile-long impoundment, with a normal 
maximum pool elevation of 307 feet msl; (3) a 342-foot-long, 8-foot-
deep floating louver array; (4) generating facility No. 1 that 
includes: (i) A 12.5-foot-high, 15-foot-wide headgate structure with a 
23.75-foot-high, 17-foot-wide trashrack with 3.5-inch clear-bar 
spacing; (ii) a 12.5-foot-high, 12.5-foot-wide, 21-foot-long concrete 
penstock; (iii) a 40-foot-high, 20-foot-wide stop log slot; (iv) a 29-
foot-long, 29-foot-wide, 34-foot-high concrete and masonry powerhouse 
containing a single 1.8-MW turbine-generator unit; and (v) a 23-foot-
wide, 14.5-foot-high, 60-foot-long draft tube; (5) generating facility 
No. 2 facility that includes: (i) An intake structure with a 20-foot-
high, 21-foot-wide headgate with two 12.3-foot-wide, 9.3-foot-high 
trashracks with 3.5-inch clear-bar spacing; (ii) a 20.8-foot-high, 
22.4-foot-wide stop log slot; (iii) a 88-foot-long, 78-foot-wide, 56-
foot-high concrete and masonry powerhouse containing a single 4.6 MW 
turbine-generator unit; (iv) a 23-foot-wide, 14.5-foot-high, 60-foot-
long draft tube; (6) a 100-foot-long, 2.4-kilovolt transmission line 
that connects the turbine-generator units to the regional grid; and (7) 
appurtenant facilities.
    The Eastman Falls Project operates in a run-of-river mode. The 
existing license (Article 401) requires that the project release a 
continuous minimum flow of 410 cubic feet per second (cfs), or inflow 
(whichever is less). PSNH proposes to continue run-of-river operation 
and to eliminate the requirement to release a minimum flow.
    l. Locations of the Application: 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, please contact FERC Online Support at 
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). A copy is also available for inspection and reproduction at 
the address in item (h) above.
    m. You may also register online at https://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 Hydro Licensing 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     February 2016.
 Ready for Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations,         April 2016.
 preliminary terms and
 conditions, and fishway
 prescriptions.
Commission issues Non-Draft        September 2016.
 Environmental Assessment (EA).
Comments on EA...................  October 2016.

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Modified terms and conditions....  December 2016.
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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: January 4, 2016.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-127 Filed 1-7-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 6717-01-P

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