Great Falls Hydroelectric Company, City of Paterson, New Jersey; Notice of Scoping Meetings and Environmental Site Review and Soliciting Scoping Comments, 53135-53136 [2019-21676]
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Upper Reservoir Alternative 2: Copper
Canyon Reservoir
The Copper Canyon Reservoir
alternative consists of: (1) A 235-acre
upper reservoir having a total storage
capacity of 36,266 acre-feet at a normal
maximum operating elevation of 5,740
feet msl; (2) a 505-foot-high, 6,105-footlong roller compacted concrete upper
reservoir dam; (3) a 0.56-mile-long, 35foot-diameter concrete-lined headrace
tunnel; (4) a 0.2-mile-long, 31-footdiameter concrete-lined vertical shaft;
(5) a 1.05-mile-long, 31-foot-diameter
concrete-lined horizontal tunnel; (6) five
0.1-mile-long, 20-foot-diameter steel
penstocks; (7) a 500-foot-long, 85-footwide, 160-foot-high concrete-lined
powerhouse located in an underground
cavern, housing five pump-turbine
generator-motor units rated for 400 MW
each; and (8) a 0.6-mile-long, 38-footdiameter concrete-lined tailrace tunnel
discharging into the existing Walker
Lake.
Upper Reservoir Alternative 3: Dry
Creek Reservoir
The Dry Creek Canyon Reservoir
alternative consists of: (1) A 105-acre
upper reservoir having a total storage
capacity of 21,953 acre-feet at a normal
maximum operating elevation of 6,560
feet msl; (2) a 775-foot-high, 6,870-footlong roller compacted concrete upper
reservoir dam; (3) a 0.98-mile-long, 29foot-diameter concrete-lined headrace
tunnel; (4) a 0.33-mile-long, 26-footdiameter concrete-lined vertical shaft;
(5) a 2.56-mile-long, 26-foot-diameter
concrete-lined horizontal tunnel; (6) five
0.1-mile-long, 17-foot-diameter steel
penstocks; (7) a 500-foot-long, 85-footwide, 160-foot-high concrete-lined
powerhouse located in an underground
cavern, housing five pump-turbine
generator-motor units rated for 400 MW
each; and (8) a 0.23-mile-long, 31-footdiameter concrete-lined tailrace tunnel
discharging into the existing Walker
Lake.
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Lower Reservoir: Walker Lake
The existing Walker Lake has a
surface are of 32,120 acres at 3,920 feet
msl, and a total storage capacity of 1.4
million acre-feet.
Interconnection
For each upper reservoir alternative,
project power would be transmitted to
the grid via: (1) A new, approximately
10-mile-long, 500 kilovolt (kV)
transmission line extending from the
powerhouse to the proposed Walker
Converter Station (the point of
interconnection); and (2) appurtenant
facilities. The estimated annual
generation of the Pyramid Lake Project
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under each of the alternatives would be
6,900 gigawatt-hours.
Applicant Contact: Victor M. Rojas,
Managing Director, Premium Energy
Holdings, LLC, 355 South Lemon
Avenue, Suite A, Walnut, California
91789; phone: (909) 595–5314.
FERC Contact: Kyle Olcott; phone:
(202) 502–8963.
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
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426.
The first page of any filing should
include docket number P–15002–000.
More information about this project,
including a copy of the application, can
be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’
link of Commission’s website at https://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp.
Enter the docket number (P–15002) in
the docket number field to access the
document. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
Dated: September 30, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 2814–025]
Great Falls Hydroelectric Company,
City of Paterson, New Jersey; Notice of
Scoping Meetings and Environmental
Site Review and Soliciting Scoping
Comments
Take notice that the following
hydroelectric application has been filed
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with the Commission and is available
for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: New Major
License.
b. Project No.: 2814–025.
c. Date Filed: February 28, 2019.
d. Applicants: Great Falls
Hydroelectric Company and the City of
Paterson, New Jersey, as co-licensees.
e. Name of Project: Great Falls
Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Passaic River, near
the City of Paterson, Passaic County,
New Jersey. The project does not occupy
federal land.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825 (r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Robert
Gates, Senior Vice President of
Operations, Eagle Creek Renewable
Energy, 65 Madison Avenue, Suite 500,
Morristown, NJ 07960; (973) 998–8400;
email—bob.gates@eaglecreekre.com
and/or Ben-David Seligman, 2nd
Assistant Corp. Counsel, City of
Paterson, 155 Market Street, Paterson,
NJ; (973) 321–1366; email—bseligman@
patersonnj.gov.
i. FERC Contact: Christopher Millard
at (202) 502–8256; or email at
christopher.millard@ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing scoping
comments: November 23, 2019.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. Please file scoping
comments 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
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426.
The first page of any filing should
include docket number P–2814–025.
k. This application is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
l. The existing project works consist
of: (1) The Society for the Establishment
of Useful Manufactures dam, an
overflow granite stone gravity structure
about 315 feet long, with a maximum
height of 15 feet and having a crest
elevation of 114.6 feet mean sea level
(msl); (2) a reservoir with a surface area
of 202 acres and a storage capacity of
1,415 acre-feet at elevation 114.6 feet
msl; (3) a forebay inlet structure; (4) a
headgate control structure containing
three trashracks and three steel gates; (5)
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three penstocks, each 8.5 feet in
diameter and approximately 55 feet
long; (6) a powerhouse containing three
turbine-generator units with a total rated
capacity of 10.95 megawatts; (7) a 37foot-long, 4.16-kilovolt (kV)
underground transmission line
connecting the powerhouse to a 4.16/
26.4-kV step-up transformer which in
turn is connected to a 26.4-kV
transmission grid via an approximately
30-foot-long, 26.4-kV underground
transmission line; (8) and appurtenant
facilities.
The Great Falls Project is operated in
a run-of-river mode. For the period 2010
through 2018, the average annual
generation at the Great Falls Project was
17,484 megawatt-hours.
m. 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 website 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. 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
email of new filings and issuances
related to this or other pending projects.
For assistance, contact FERC Online
Support.
n. Scoping Process
The Commission intends to prepare
an environmental assessment (EA) on
the projects in accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act. The
EA will consider both site-specific and
cumulative environmental impacts and
reasonable alternatives to the proposed
action.
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Scoping Meetings
FERC staff will conduct one agency
scoping meeting and one public
meeting. The agency scoping meeting
will focus on resource agency and nongovernmental organization (NGO)
concerns, while the public scoping
meeting is primarily for public input.
All interested individuals,
organizations, and agencies are invited
to attend one or both of the meetings,
and to assist the staff in identifying the
scope of the environmental issues that
should be analyzed in the EA. The times
and locations of these meetings are as
follows:
Public Scoping Meeting
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019.
Time: 7:00 p.m. (EDT).
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Place: Rogers Meeting Center, Second
Floor.
Address: 32 Spruce Street, Paterson,
New Jersey.
Agency Scoping Meeting
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2019.
Time: 2:00 p.m. (EDT).
Place: Rogers Meeting Center, Second
Floor.
Address: 32 Spruce Street, Paterson,
New Jersey.
Copies of the Scoping Document
(SD1) outlining the subject areas to be
addressed in the EA were distributed to
the parties on the Commission’s mailing
list. Copies of the SD1 will be available
at the scoping meeting or may be
viewed on the web at https://
www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link
(see item m above).
Environmental Site Review
The applicants and FERC staff will
conduct a project Environmental Site
Review beginning at 9:00 a.m. on
October 24, 2019. All interested
individuals, organizations, and agencies
are invited to attend. All participants
should meet at the Great Falls Project
facility, located at 72 McBride Avenue,
Paterson, New Jersey. All participants
are responsible for their own
transportation to the site and during the
site visit. Anyone with questions about
the Environmental Site Review should
contact Mr. Matt Nini, Relicensing
Project Manager for Eagle Creek, at 973–
998–8171 or matthew.nini@
eaglecreekre.com.
Objectives
At the scoping meetings, the staff will:
(1) Summarize the environmental issues
tentatively identified for analysis in the
EA; (2) solicit from the meeting
participants all available information,
especially quantifiable data, on the
resources at issue; (3) encourage
statements from experts and the public
on issues that should be analyzed in the
EA, including viewpoints in opposition
to, or in support of, the staff’s
preliminary views; (4) determine the
resource issues to be addressed in the
EA; and (5) identify those issues that
require a detailed analysis, as well as
those issues that do not require a
detailed analysis.
Procedures
The meetings are recorded by a
stenographer and become part of the
formal record of the Commission
proceeding on the projects. Individuals,
organizations, and agencies with
environmental expertise and concerns
are encouraged to attend the meeting
and to assist the staff in defining and
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clarifying the issues to be addressed in
the EA.
Dated: September 23, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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PJM Interconnection, LLC; Notice of
Filing
Take notice that on September 13,
2019, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM),
submitted a compliance filing
containing modifications to the
Amended and Restated Operating
Agreement of PJM, pursuant to the
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission’s (Commission) August 29,
2019 Order, 168 FERC 61,134.
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. On or before the
comment date, it is not necessary to
serve motions to intervene or protests
on persons other than the Applicant.
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 online at
https://www.ferc.gov, using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for
review in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room in Washington, DC.
There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the
website that enables subscribers to
receive email notification when a
document is added to a subscribed
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Online service, please email
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2814-025]
Great Falls Hydroelectric Company, City of Paterson, New Jersey;
Notice of Scoping Meetings and Environmental Site Review and Soliciting
Scoping Comments
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.: 2814-025.
c. Date Filed: February 28, 2019.
d. Applicants: Great Falls Hydroelectric Company and the City of
Paterson, New Jersey, as co-licensees.
e. Name of Project: Great Falls Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Passaic River, near the City of Paterson,
Passaic County, New Jersey. The project does not occupy federal land.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825 (r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Robert Gates, Senior Vice President of
Operations, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, 65 Madison Avenue, Suite 500,
Morristown, NJ 07960; (973) 998-8400; [email protected]
and/or Ben-David Seligman, 2nd Assistant Corp. Counsel, City of
Paterson, 155 Market Street, Paterson, NJ; (973) 321-1366; email_
[email protected]
i. FERC Contact: Christopher Millard at (202) 502-8256; or email at
[email protected].
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: November 23, 2019.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
scoping comments 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
[email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please send a paper copy to:
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE,
Washington, DC 20426. The first page of any filing should include
docket number P-2814-025.
k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
l. The existing project works consist of: (1) The Society for the
Establishment of Useful Manufactures dam, an overflow granite stone
gravity structure about 315 feet long, with a maximum height of 15 feet
and having a crest elevation of 114.6 feet mean sea level (msl); (2) a
reservoir with a surface area of 202 acres and a storage capacity of
1,415 acre-feet at elevation 114.6 feet msl; (3) a forebay inlet
structure; (4) a headgate control structure containing three trashracks
and three steel gates; (5)
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three penstocks, each 8.5 feet in diameter and approximately 55 feet
long; (6) a powerhouse containing three turbine-generator units with a
total rated capacity of 10.95 megawatts; (7) a 37-foot-long, 4.16-
kilovolt (kV) underground transmission line connecting the powerhouse
to a 4.16/26.4-kV step-up transformer which in turn is connected to a
26.4-kV transmission grid via an approximately 30-foot-long, 26.4-kV
underground transmission line; (8) and appurtenant facilities.
The Great Falls Project is operated in a run-of-river mode. For the
period 2010 through 2018, the average annual generation at the Great
Falls Project was 17,484 megawatt-hours.
m. 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 website 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. 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 email of new filings and issuances
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
n. Scoping Process
The Commission intends to prepare an environmental assessment (EA)
on the projects in accordance with the National Environmental Policy
Act. The EA will consider both site-specific and cumulative
environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the proposed
action.
Scoping Meetings
FERC staff will conduct one agency scoping meeting and one public
meeting. The agency scoping meeting will focus on resource agency and
non-governmental organization (NGO) concerns, while the public scoping
meeting is primarily for public input. All interested individuals,
organizations, and agencies are invited to attend one or both of the
meetings, and to assist the staff in identifying the scope of the
environmental issues that should be analyzed in the EA. The times and
locations of these meetings are as follows:
Public Scoping Meeting
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019.
Time: 7:00 p.m. (EDT).
Place: Rogers Meeting Center, Second Floor.
Address: 32 Spruce Street, Paterson, New Jersey.
Agency Scoping Meeting
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2019.
Time: 2:00 p.m. (EDT).
Place: Rogers Meeting Center, Second Floor.
Address: 32 Spruce Street, Paterson, New Jersey.
Copies of the Scoping Document (SD1) outlining the subject areas to
be addressed in the EA were distributed to the parties on the
Commission's mailing list. Copies of the SD1 will be available at the
scoping meeting or may be viewed on the web at https://www.ferc.gov
using the ``eLibrary'' link (see item m above).
Environmental Site Review
The applicants and FERC staff will conduct a project Environmental
Site Review beginning at 9:00 a.m. on October 24, 2019. All interested
individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to attend. All
participants should meet at the Great Falls Project facility, located
at 72 McBride Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey. All participants are
responsible for their own transportation to the site and during the
site visit. Anyone with questions about the Environmental Site Review
should contact Mr. Matt Nini, Relicensing Project Manager for Eagle
Creek, at 973-998-8171 or [email protected].
Objectives
At the scoping meetings, the staff will: (1) Summarize the
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the EA; (2)
solicit from the meeting participants all available information,
especially quantifiable data, on the resources at issue; (3) encourage
statements from experts and the public on issues that should be
analyzed in the EA, including viewpoints in opposition to, or in
support of, the staff's preliminary views; (4) determine the resource
issues to be addressed in the EA; and (5) identify those issues that
require a detailed analysis, as well as those issues that do not
require a detailed analysis.
Procedures
The meetings are recorded by a stenographer and become part of the
formal record of the Commission proceeding on the projects.
Individuals, organizations, and agencies with environmental expertise
and concerns are encouraged to attend the meeting and to assist the
staff in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed in the EA.
Dated: September 23, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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