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preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant
the permit holder priority to file a
license application during the permit
term. A preliminary permit does not
authorize the permit holder to perform
any land-disturbing activities or
otherwise enter upon lands or waters
owned by others without the owners’
express permission.
The proposed project would consist of
the following: (1) A new upper reservoir
with a surface area of 100 acres and a
storage capacity of 1,500 acre-feet at a
surface elevation of approximately 2,960
feet above mean sea level (msl) created
through construction of a new rollercompacted concrete or rock-filled dam
and/or dike; (2) excavating a new lower
reservoir with a surface area of 33 acres
and a total storage capacity of 1,800
acre-feet at a surface elevation of 1,800
feet msl; (3) a new 5,920-foot-long, 48inch-diameter penstock connecting the
upper and lower reservoirs; (4) a new
150-foot-long, 50-foot-wide powerhouse
containing two turbine-generator units
with a total rated capacity of 143
megawatts; (5) a new transmission line
connecting the powerhouse to a nearby
electric grid interconnection point at the
Shaffer Wind Farm; and (6) appurtenant
facilities. Possible initial fill water and
make-up water would come from the
nearby Raystown Branch Juniata River,
including groundwater. The proposed
project would have an annual
generation of 520,671 megawatt-hours.
Applicant Contact: Adam Rousselle,
Merchant Hydro Developers, LLC, 5710
Oak Crest Drive, Doylestown, PA 18902;
phone: 267–254–6107.
FERC Contact: Monir Chowdhury;
phone: (202) 502–6736.
Deadline for filing comments, motions
to intervene, competing applications
(without notices of intent), or notices of
intent to file competing applications: 60
days from the issuance of this notice.
Competing applications and notices of
intent must meet the requirements of 18
CFR 4.36.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. Please file comments,
motions to intervene, notices of intent,
and competing applications using the
Commission’s eFiling system at https://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp.
Commenters can submit brief comments
up to 6,000 characters, without prior
registration, using the eComment system
at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
ecomment.asp. You must include your
name and contact information at the end
of your comments. For assistance,
please contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866)
208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659
(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please
send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal
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Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.
The first page of any filing should
include docket number P–14832–000.
More information about this project,
including a copy of the application, can
be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’
link of the Commission’s Web site at
https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number
(P–14832) in the docket number field to
access the document. For assistance,
contact FERC Online Support.
Dated: May 15, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–10372 Filed 5–19–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 1892–030; Project No. 1855–
050; Project No. 1904–078]
Great River Hydro, LLC; Notice of
Applications 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 applications have been
filed with the Commission and are
available for public inspection.
a. Type of Applications: New Major
Licenses.
b. Project Nos.: 1892–030, 1855–050,
and 1904–078.
c. Date Filed: May 1, 2017.
d. Applicant: Great River Hydro, LLC
(Great River Hydro).
e. Names of Projects: Wilder, Bellows
Falls, and Vernon Hydroelectric
Projects.
f. Location: The existing projects are
located on the Connecticut River in
Orange, Windsor, and Windham
Counties, Vermont, and Grafton,
Cheshire, and Sullivan Counties, New
Hampshire. There are no federal lands
within the project boundaries.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: John Ragonese,
FERC License Manager, Great River
Hydro, LLC, One Harbour Place, Suite
330, Portsmouth, NH 03801; Telephone:
(603) 559–5513 or jragonese@
greatriverhydro.com.
i. FERC Contact: Brandon Cherry,
(202) 502–8328 or brandon.cherry@
ferc.gov.
j. These applications are not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
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k. Project Descriptions:
Wilder Project
The existing Wilder Project consists
of: (1) A 1,546-foot-long, 59-foot-high,
concrete dam that includes: (a) A 400foot-long non-overflow, earthen
embankment (north embankment); (b) a
232-foot-long non-overflow, concrete
bulkhead; (c) a 208-foot-long concrete
forebay; (d) a 526-foot-long concrete,
gravity spillway that includes: (i) six 30foot-high, 36-foot-long tainter gates; (ii)
four 17-foot-high, 50-foot-wide
stanchion flashboards; (iii) a 15-foothigh, 20-foot-long skimmer gate (north
gate); and (iv) a 10-foot-high, 10-footlong skimmer gate (south gate); and (e)
a 180-foot-long non-overflow, earthen
embankment (south embankment); (2) a
45-mile-long, 3,100-acre impoundment
with a useable storage volume of 13,350
acre-feet between elevations 380 and
385 feet National Geodetic Vertical
Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29); (3) four
approximately 25-foot-high, 20-footwide trashracks with 5-inch clear bar
spacing and one approximately 28-foothigh, 20-foot-wide trashrack with 1.625inch clear bar spacing; (4) a 181-footlong, 50-foot-wide, 50-foot-high steel
frame, brick powerhouse containing two
16.2-megawatt (MW) adjustable-blade
Kaplan turbine-generator units and one
3.2–MW vertical Francis turbinegenerator unit for a total project capacity
of 35.6 MW; (5) three concrete draft
tubes ranging from 9.5 to 20.5 feet in
diameter; (6) 13.8-kilovolt (kV)
generator leads that connect the turbinegenerator units to two substation
transformers; (7) an approximately 580foot-long, 6-foot-wide fishway; and (8)
appurtenant facilities.
Bellows Falls Project
The existing Bellows Falls Project
consists of: (1) A 643-foot-long, 30-foothigh concrete dam that includes: (a) two
18-foot-high, 115-foot-wide steel roller
gates; (b) two 13-foot-high, 121-footwide stanchion flashboards; and (c) a
13-foot-high, 100-foot-wide stanchion
flashboard; (2) a 26-mile-long, 2,804acre impoundment with a useable
storage volume of 7,467 acre-feet
between elevations 288.63 and 291.63
feet NGVD 29; (3) a 1,700-foot-long, 36to 100-foot-wide, 29-foot-deep stonelined power canal; (4) a 130.25-footwide concrete forebay that includes
trashracks with 4-inch clear bar spacing;
(5) a 186-foot-long, 106-foot-wide, 52foot-high steel frame, brick powerhouse
containing three 13.6–MW vertical
Francis turbine-generator units for a
total project capacity of 40.8 MW; (6)
three approximately 20-foot-high, 31foot-wide concrete draft tubes; (7) a 900-
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foot-long tailrace; (8) a 12-foot-wide, 10foot-high ice sluice; (9) three 80-footlong, 6.6-kV generator leads that
connect the turbine-generator units to
two step-up transformers; (10) a 920foot-long, 8-foot-wide fishway; (11) a
concrete fish barrier dam in the
bypassed reach; and (12) appurtenant
facilities.
Vernon Project
The existing Vernon Project consists
of: (1) a 956-foot-long, 58-foot-high
concrete dam that includes: (a) 356-footlong section integral to the powerhouse;
and (b) a 600-foot-long overflow
spillway section that includes: (i) a 9foot-high, 6-foot-wide fishway sluice;
(ii) a 13-foot-high, 13-foot-wide trash/ice
sluice; (iii) two 20-foot-high, 50-footwide tainter gates; (iv) four 10-foot-high,
50-foot-wide tainter gates; (v) two 10foot-high, 50-foot-wide hydraulic panel
bays; (vi) two 10-foot-high, 50-foot-wide
stanchion bays; (vii) a 10-foot-high,
42.5-foot-wide stanchion bay; and (viii)
eight 7-foot-high, 9-foot-wide hydraulic
flood gates; (2) a 26-mile-long, 2,550acre impoundment with a useable
storage volume of 18,300 acre-feet
between elevations 212.13 and 220.13
feet NGVD 29; (3) eight approximately
30-foot-high trashracks with 1.75-inch
clear bar spacing and two approximately
30-foot-high trashracks with 3.625-inch
clear bar spacing; (4) a 356-foot-long, 55foot-wide, 45-foot-high reinforced
concrete, steel, and brick powerhouse
containing four 2–MW vertical Francis
turbine-generator units, four 4–MW
vertical Kaplan turbine-generator units,
and two 4.2–MW vertical Francis
turbine-generator units for a total project
capacity of 32.4 MW; (5) ten concrete
draft tubes ranging from 16 to 27 feet in
diameter; (6) a 500-foot-long, 13.8-kV
underground generator lead that
connects the turbine-generator units to
two step-up transformers; (7) a 984-footlong, 15-foot-wide fishway; (8)
downstream fish passage facilities; and
(9) appurtenant facilities.
Great River Hydro operates all three
projects in coordination and in a
peaking mode. Average annual
generation is approximately 161,739;
247,373; and 162,557 MW-hours at the
Wilder, Bellows Falls, and Vernon
Projects, respectively. Great River Hydro
is not proposing any new project
facilities or changes to operation of
these projects at this time.
l. Locations of the Applications:
Copies of the applications are 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
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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). Copies are 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 these or other pending
projects. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
n. Procedural Schedule: In the final
license applications, Great River Hydro
states that it will file amended final
license applications after it completes
additional field work for two studies,
conducts additional consultation with
stakeholders on the study results, and
models operational alternatives. After
Great River Hydro completes and files
the revised study reports and amended
final license applications, Commission
staff will issue a revised procedural
schedule with target dates for the postfiling milestones listed below.
Target
date
Milestone
Amended Final License Applications.
Notice of Acceptance/Notice of
Ready for Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and
fishway prescriptions.
Commission issues Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
Comments on Draft EIS ..................
Modified terms and conditions ........
Commission issues Final EIS .........
TBD.
TBD.
TBD.
TBD.
TBD.
TBD.
TBD.
o. Final amendments to the
applications must be filed with the
Commission no later than 30 days from
the issuance date of the notice of ready
for environmental analysis.
Dated: May 15, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 14831–000]
Merchant Hydro Developers, LLC;
Notice of Preliminary Permit
Application Accepted for Filing And
Soliciting Comments, Motions To
Intervene, and Competing Applications
On January 18, 2017, Merchant Hydro
Developers, LLC, filed an application for
a preliminary permit, pursuant to
section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act
(FPA), proposing to study the feasibility
of the Savage Mountain Pumped Storage
Hydroelectric Project to be located in
Allegany County, Maryland. The sole
purpose of a preliminary permit, if
issued, is to grant the permit holder
priority to file a license application
during the permit term. A preliminary
permit does not authorize the permit
holder to perform any land-disturbing
activities or otherwise enter upon lands
or waters owned by others without the
owners’ express permission.
The proposed project would consist of
the following: (1) A new upper reservoir
with a surface area of 75 acres and a
storage capacity of 1,125 acre-feet at a
surface elevation of approximately 2,800
feet above mean sea level (msl) created
through construction of a new rollercompacted concrete or rock-filled dam
and/or dike; (2) excavating a new lower
reservoir with a surface area of 50 acres
and a total storage capacity of 1,350
acre-feet at a surface elevation of 1,820
feet msl; (3) a new 6,762-foot-long, 48inch-diameter penstock connecting the
upper and lower reservoirs; (4) a new
150-foot-long, 50-foot-wide powerhouse
containing two turbine-generator units
with a total rated capacity of 90
megawatts; (5) a new transmission line
connecting the powerhouse to a nearby
electric grid interconnection point at the
Savage Mountain Wind Farm; and (6)
appurtenant facilities. Possible initial
fill water and make-up water would
come from the nearby Casselman River,
including groundwater. The proposed
project would have an annual
generation of 329,908 megawatt-hours.
Applicant Contact: Adam Rousselle,
Merchant Hydro Developers, LLC, 5710
Oak Crest Drive, Doylestown, PA 18902;
phone: 267–254–6107.
FERC Contact: Monir Chowdhury;
phone: (202) 502–6736.
Deadline for filing comments, motions
to intervene, competing applications
(without notices of intent), or notices of
intent to file competing applications: 60
days from the issuance of this notice.
Competing applications and notices of
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 1892-030; Project No. 1855-050; Project No. 1904-078]
Great River Hydro, LLC; Notice of Applications 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 applications have been
filed with the Commission and are available for public inspection.
a. Type of Applications: New Major Licenses.
b. Project Nos.: 1892-030, 1855-050, and 1904-078.
c. Date Filed: May 1, 2017.
d. Applicant: Great River Hydro, LLC (Great River Hydro).
e. Names of Projects: Wilder, Bellows Falls, and Vernon
Hydroelectric Projects.
f. Location: The existing projects are located on the Connecticut
River in Orange, Windsor, and Windham Counties, Vermont, and Grafton,
Cheshire, and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire. There are no federal
lands within the project boundaries.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: John Ragonese, FERC License Manager, Great
River Hydro, LLC, One Harbour Place, Suite 330, Portsmouth, NH 03801;
Telephone: (603) 559-5513 or jragonese@greatriverhydro.com.
i. FERC Contact: Brandon Cherry, (202) 502-8328 or
brandon.cherry@ferc.gov.
j. These applications are not ready for environmental analysis at
this time.
k. Project Descriptions:
Wilder Project
The existing Wilder Project consists of: (1) A 1,546-foot-long, 59-
foot-high, concrete dam that includes: (a) A 400-foot-long non-
overflow, earthen embankment (north embankment); (b) a 232-foot-long
non-overflow, concrete bulkhead; (c) a 208-foot-long concrete forebay;
(d) a 526-foot-long concrete, gravity spillway that includes: (i) six
30-foot-high, 36-foot-long tainter gates; (ii) four 17-foot-high, 50-
foot-wide stanchion flashboards; (iii) a 15-foot-high, 20-foot-long
skimmer gate (north gate); and (iv) a 10-foot-high, 10-foot-long
skimmer gate (south gate); and (e) a 180-foot-long non-overflow,
earthen embankment (south embankment); (2) a 45-mile-long, 3,100-acre
impoundment with a useable storage volume of 13,350 acre-feet between
elevations 380 and 385 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929
(NGVD 29); (3) four approximately 25-foot-high, 20-foot-wide trashracks
with 5-inch clear bar spacing and one approximately 28-foot-high, 20-
foot-wide trashrack with 1.625-inch clear bar spacing; (4) a 181-foot-
long, 50-foot-wide, 50-foot-high steel frame, brick powerhouse
containing two 16.2-megawatt (MW) adjustable-blade Kaplan turbine-
generator units and one 3.2-MW vertical Francis turbine-generator unit
for a total project capacity of 35.6 MW; (5) three concrete draft tubes
ranging from 9.5 to 20.5 feet in diameter; (6) 13.8-kilovolt (kV)
generator leads that connect the turbine-generator units to two
substation transformers; (7) an approximately 580-foot-long, 6-foot-
wide fishway; and (8) appurtenant facilities.
Bellows Falls Project
The existing Bellows Falls Project consists of: (1) A 643-foot-
long, 30-foot-high concrete dam that includes: (a) two 18-foot-high,
115-foot-wide steel roller gates; (b) two 13-foot-high, 121-foot-wide
stanchion flashboards; and (c) a 13-foot-high, 100-foot-wide stanchion
flashboard; (2) a 26-mile-long, 2,804-acre impoundment with a useable
storage volume of 7,467 acre-feet between elevations 288.63 and 291.63
feet NGVD 29; (3) a 1,700-foot-long, 36- to 100-foot-wide, 29-foot-deep
stone-lined power canal; (4) a 130.25-foot-wide concrete forebay that
includes trashracks with 4-inch clear bar spacing; (5) a 186-foot-long,
106-foot-wide, 52-foot-high steel frame, brick powerhouse containing
three 13.6-MW vertical Francis turbine-generator units for a total
project capacity of 40.8 MW; (6) three approximately 20-foot-high, 31-
foot-wide concrete draft tubes; (7) a 900-
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foot-long tailrace; (8) a 12-foot-wide, 10-foot-high ice sluice; (9)
three 80-foot-long, 6.6-kV generator leads that connect the turbine-
generator units to two step-up transformers; (10) a 920-foot-long, 8-
foot-wide fishway; (11) a concrete fish barrier dam in the bypassed
reach; and (12) appurtenant facilities.
Vernon Project
The existing Vernon Project consists of: (1) a 956-foot-long, 58-
foot-high concrete dam that includes: (a) 356-foot-long section
integral to the powerhouse; and (b) a 600-foot-long overflow spillway
section that includes: (i) a 9-foot-high, 6-foot-wide fishway sluice;
(ii) a 13-foot-high, 13-foot-wide trash/ice sluice; (iii) two 20-foot-
high, 50-foot-wide tainter gates; (iv) four 10-foot-high, 50-foot-wide
tainter gates; (v) two 10-foot-high, 50-foot-wide hydraulic panel bays;
(vi) two 10-foot-high, 50-foot-wide stanchion bays; (vii) a 10-foot-
high, 42.5-foot-wide stanchion bay; and (viii) eight 7-foot-high, 9-
foot-wide hydraulic flood gates; (2) a 26-mile-long, 2,550-acre
impoundment with a useable storage volume of 18,300 acre-feet between
elevations 212.13 and 220.13 feet NGVD 29; (3) eight approximately 30-
foot-high trashracks with 1.75-inch clear bar spacing and two
approximately 30-foot-high trashracks with 3.625-inch clear bar
spacing; (4) a 356-foot-long, 55-foot-wide, 45-foot-high reinforced
concrete, steel, and brick powerhouse containing four 2-MW vertical
Francis turbine-generator units, four 4-MW vertical Kaplan turbine-
generator units, and two 4.2-MW vertical Francis turbine-generator
units for a total project capacity of 32.4 MW; (5) ten concrete draft
tubes ranging from 16 to 27 feet in diameter; (6) a 500-foot-long,
13.8-kV underground generator lead that connects the turbine-generator
units to two step-up transformers; (7) a 984-foot-long, 15-foot-wide
fishway; (8) downstream fish passage facilities; and (9) appurtenant
facilities.
Great River Hydro operates all three projects in coordination and
in a peaking mode. Average annual generation is approximately 161,739;
247,373; and 162,557 MW-hours at the Wilder, Bellows Falls, and Vernon
Projects, respectively. Great River Hydro is not proposing any new
project facilities or changes to operation of these projects at this
time.
l. Locations of the Applications: Copies of the applications are
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). Copies are 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 these or other pending projects. For assistance, contact
FERC Online Support.
n. Procedural Schedule: In the final license applications, Great
River Hydro states that it will file amended final license applications
after it completes additional field work for two studies, conducts
additional consultation with stakeholders on the study results, and
models operational alternatives. After Great River Hydro completes and
files the revised study reports and amended final license applications,
Commission staff will issue a revised procedural schedule with target
dates for the post-filing milestones listed below.
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Milestone Target date
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Amended Final License Applications.......... TBD.
Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready for TBD.
Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms TBD.
and conditions, and fishway prescriptions.
Commission issues Draft Environmental Impact TBD.
Statement (EIS).
Comments on Draft EIS....................... TBD.
Modified terms and conditions............... TBD.
Commission issues Final EIS................. TBD.
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o. Final amendments to the applications must be filed with the
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the notice
of ready for environmental analysis.
Dated: May 15, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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