Lansing Board of Water and Light; Notice of Existing Licensee's Failure To File a Notice of Intent To File a Subsequent License Application, and Soliciting Notices of Intent To File a License Application and Pre-Application Documents, 2210-2211 [2019-01189]

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• DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 6, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2210-2211]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-01189]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 10684-000]


Lansing Board of Water and Light; Notice of Existing Licensee's 
Failure To File a Notice of Intent To File a Subsequent License 
Application, and Soliciting Notices of Intent To File a License 
Application and Pre-Application Documents

    The current license for the Lansing Board of Water and Light's 
Moores Park Project No. 10684 (Moores Park Project) was issued on 
January 5, 1994, for a term of 30 years, ending December 31, 2023.\1\ 
The 600-kilowatt (kW) project is located on the Grand River in the City 
of Lansing, in Ingham County, Michigan.
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    \1\ Lansing Board of Water and Light, 66 FERC 62,002 (1994).
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    The principal project works consist of: (1) A 240-acre reservoir 
with 2,000-acre-feet of storage at a normal water surface elevation of 
833.6 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum; (2) a 190-foot-long, 21-
foot-high reinforced concrete gravity dam divided into a 120-foot-long 
flashboard-crested spillway section and a 70-foot-long, three-bay 
Taintor-gate section, each gate measuring 20-foot-long by 10-foot-high; 
(3) a 110-foot-long, 50- to 83-foot-wide, 61-foot-high integral water-
impounding powerhouse constructed of reinforced concrete and brick 
masonry containing one horizontal axis turbine-generator unit rated at 
600 kW; (4) a 200-foot-long, 4,160-volt underground transmission line 
connected to a step-up transformer; and (5) appurtenant equipment and 
facilities.
    At least five years before the expiration of a license for a minor 
water power project in which sections 14 and 15 of the Federal Power 
Act were waived, the Commission's regulations require the licensee to 
file with the Commission a notice of intent (NOI) that contains an 
unequivocal statement of the licensee's intention to file or not to 
file an application for a subsequent license, details on the principal 
project works and installed plant capacity, and other information.\2\
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    \2\ 18 CFR 16.19(b) (2018) (citing 18 CFR 16.6(b) (2018)).
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    If such a licensee does not inform the Commission that it intends 
to file an application for, in this case, a subsequent license for the 
project, the licensee may not file an application for a subsequent 
license, either individually or in conjunction with an entity or

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entities that are not currently licensees of the project.\3\
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    \3\ 18 CFR 16.24(b) (2018).
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    Because the existing license expires on December 31, 2023, the NOI 
was due to be filed by the close of business on December 31, 2018. The 
Lansing Board of Water and Light, the existing licensee for the Moores 
Park Project, failed to file an NOI for the project by this date.\4\
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    \4\ 18 CFR 16.23(b) (2018).
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    Any party interested in filing a license application for the Moores 
Park Project No. 10684 must first file a NOI \5\ and pre-application 
document (PAD) \6\ pursuant to Part 5 of the Commission's regulations. 
Although the integrated licensing process (ILP) is the default pre-
filing process, section 5.3(b) of the Commission's regulations allows a 
potential license applicant to request to use the traditional licensing 
process or alternative procedures when it files its NOI.\7\
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    \5\ 18 CFR 5.5 (2018).
    \6\ 18 CFR 5.6 (2018).
    \7\ 18 CFR 5.3(b) (2018).
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    This notice sets a deadline of 120 days from the date of this 
notice for interested applicants, other than the existing licensee, to 
file NOIs, PADs, and requests to use the traditional licensing process 
or alternative procedures.
    Applications for a subsequent license from potential applicants 
must be filed with the Commission at least 24 months prior to the 
expiration of the existing license.\8\ Because the existing license 
expires on December 31, 2023, applications for license for this project 
must be filed by December 31, 2021.\9\
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    \8\ 18 CFR 16.20 (2018).
    \9\ To the extent an interested applicant files an NOI and PAD 
and elects or is required to use the Commission's ILP, a process 
plan will be issued within 180 days of this notice, which 
accelerates the steps of the ILP to allow for filing a timely 
subsequent license application by the December 31, 2021 deadline.
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    Questions concerning this notice should be directed to Lee Emery at 
(202) 502-8379 or lee.emery@ferc.gov.

    Dated: January 31, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-01189 Filed 2-5-19; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 6717-01-P