ECOsponsible, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments, 20682-20683 [2020-07810]

Download as PDF jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES 20682 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 72 / Tuesday, April 14, 2020 / Notices companies or associated service companies (collectively, the BAM Companies), filed a petition for a declaratory order seeking waiver from the accounting, record-retention, and reporting requirements of 18 CFR 366.21, 366.22, and 366.23 following the acquisition by certain BAM Companies of indirect voting securities in Arcadia Fuel Cell, LLC, as more fully explained in the petition. 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 Petitioner. The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings of comments, protests and interventions in lieu of paper using the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at https:// www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically may mail similar pleadings to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. Hand delivered submissions in docketed proceedings should be delivered to Health and Human Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852. In addition to publishing the full text of this document in the Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this document via the internet through the Commission’s Home Page (https:// ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket number excluding the last three digits in the docket number field to access the document. At this time, the Commission has suspended access to the Commission’s Public Reference Room, due to the proclamation declaring a National Emergency concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued by the President on March 13, 2020. For assistance, contact FERC at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or call tollfree, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 502– 8659. Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on May 7, 2020. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:26 Apr 13, 2020 Jkt 250001 Dated: April 8, 2020. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2020–07808 Filed 4–13–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 3267–020] ECOsponsible, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a 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: Subsequent Minor License. b. Project No.: 3267–020. c. Date Filed: March 31, 2020. d. Applicant: ECOsponsible, LLC. e. Name of Project: Ballard Mill Hydroelectric Project. f. Location: On the Salmon River, in the Town of Malone, Franklin County, New York. The project does not occupy any federal land. g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825 (r). h. Applicant Contact: Dennis Ryan, Manager, ECOsponsible, LLC, PO Box 114, West Falls, NY 14170; (716) 222– 2188; email—denryan@gmail.com. i. FERC Contact: John Stokely at (202) 502–8534; or email at john.stokely@ ferc.gov. j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect to environmental issues that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the environmental document 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 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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 30, 2020. The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status using the Commission’s eFiling system at https:// www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 (TTY). m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this time. n. The Ballard Mill Project consists of the following existing facilities: (1) A 110-foot-long concrete capped timber crib overflow dam; (2) a 105-foot-long earth embankment dam with 2-foot-high flashboards; (3) a 4.75-foot-wide sluice gate located at the west abutment of the existing timber crib dam; (4) two 8-footwide flood sluice gates located between the existing timber crib dam and powerhouse; (5) an impoundment with a surface area of 10 acres and a volume of 50 acre-feet at the normal maximum pool elevation of 698 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929; (6) a 20-foot-wide, 28-foot-long concrete masonry powerhouse with a single 255kilowatt horizontal shaft Kaplan turbine-generator unit; (7) a 17.5-footwide, 16.67-foot-high concrete intake leading to a trashrack with 1-inch clear spacing; (8) a 10- to 20-foot-wide, 250foot-long excavated earth and rock channel tailrace; (9) a 150-foot-long underground cable connecting to a transformer pole; (10) a 0.48/13.2kilovolt (kV) transformer; (11) a 13.2-kV, 170-foot-long overhead transmission line; and (12) appurtenant facilities. The Ballard Mill Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with an average annual generation of 1,620 megawatthours. o. A copy of the application 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. At this time, the Commission has suspended access to the Commission’s Public Reference Room, due to the proclamation declaring a National Emergency concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued by the President on March 13, 2020. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support. You may also register online at https:// www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ E:\FR\FM\14APN1.SGM 14APN1 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 72 / Tuesday, April 14, 2020 / Notices 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. p. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will be processed according to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate. Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary). Request Additional Information .. Issue Acceptance Letter August Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments. Request Additional Information (if necessary). Issue Scoping Document 2 ........ Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis. Commission issues EA ............... Comments on EA ....................... May 2020. May 2020. 2020. September 2020. November 2020. December 2020. December 2020. June 2021. July 2021. 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: April 8, 2020. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2020–07810 Filed 4–13–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 10481–069, Eagle Creek Hydro Power, LLC, Eagle Creek Water Resources, LLC, Eagle Creek Land Resources, LLC] Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES 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.: 10481–069. c. Date Filed: March 31, 2020. d. Applicant: Eagle Creek Hydro Power, LLC, Eagle Creek Water Resources, LLC, and Eagle Creek Land Resources, LLC (collectively referred to as Eagle Creek). e. Name of Project: Mongaup Falls Hydroelectric Project (Mongaup Falls Project). f. Location: The existing project is located on the Mongaup River and Black Brook in Sullivan County, New York. The project does not occupy federal lands. g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r). h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Robert Gates, Senior Vice President— Regulatory, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC., 116 N State Street, P.O. Box 167, Neshkoro, WI 54960–0167; (973)998–8400 or bob.gates@ eaglecreekre.com. i. FERC Contact: Nicholas Ettema at (312) 596–4447 or email at nicholas.ettema@ferc.gov. j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this time. k. Project Description: The Mongaup Falls Project includes the Mongaup Falls Development and the Black Brook Development. The Black Brook Development has been permanently out of service since 1984, when portions of the penstock, stoplogs, and flashboards were removed. The Mongaup Fall Development consists of: (1) A reservoir with a gross storage capacity of 1,782 acre-feet and a surface area of 133 acres; (2) a 155-footlong by 40-foot-high, ungated, concrete gravity spillway with 4-foot, 10-inchhigh flashboards; (2) an 83-foot-long, by 25-foot, 4-inch-high earth dam section with a concrete core wall along the right abutment; (3) a 125-foot-long, 127-foothigh concrete retaining wall along the left abutment; (4) a 11-foot-high, 22-footsquare intake and gatehouse; (5) a 250foot-long by 4.5-foot-high earthen closure dike; (6) a 6,650-foot-long bypassed reach; (7) a 2,650-foot-long, 8foot-diameter wood-stave penstock; (8) a 26-foot-diameter, 106-foot-high steel surge tank; (9) a 9-foot-diameter steel manifold branching into four 5-footdiameter steel penstocks; (10) a 14-footwide by 32-foot-high inclined trashracks with 1.7-inch bar clear spacing; (11) a 90-foot-long by 25-foot, 2-inch-wide by 33-foot-high reinforced concrete powerhouse containing four 1-megawatt vertical-axis turbines; and (12) a 100foot-long, 2.3-kilovolt underground transmission line. The project generates an average of 10,860 megawatt-hours annually. Eagle Creek proposes to continue to operate the project in a peaking mode. The Black Brook Development consists of a 70-foot-long dam with a 34foot-long concrete spillway section and 10-foot-long stoplog section. The stoplog section consists of a 2-foot-wide concrete pier that divides the 8-footlong stoplog section from the spillway. The concrete spillway is approximately 10-foot-high from the base to the crest and is keyed into bedrock with a 3-foot by 3-foot keyway. Prior to removal of the penstock, pond control was accomplished with an 8-foot-wide stoplog section and 34-foot-wide flashboard section, each erected to a height of 5 feet above the dam crest. The failure of the penstock in 1984, resulted in the removal of the 8-foot-wide, 5-foothigh stoplog section on the right side of the dam and the 5-foot-high flashboards. Currently, the Black Brook Development is a run-of-river, uncontrolled spillway with a crest elevation of 943 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29) and a dam/spillway toe elevation of approximately 930–933 feet NGVD29 (including the 3-foot by 3-foot keyway). l. A copy of the application is available for review 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. At this time, the Commission has suspended access to the Commission’s Public Reference Room due to the Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19) Outbreak, issued by the President on March 13, 2020. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 (TTY). 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 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 Environmental Assessment (EA) ................................................................................................................ Comments on EA ........................................................................................................................................................................ VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:26 Apr 13, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4703 20683 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\14APN1.SGM 14APN1 July 2020. November 2020. May 2021. June 2021.

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[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20682-20683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-07810]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 3267-020]


ECOsponsible, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With 
the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and 
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a 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: Subsequent Minor License.
    b. Project No.: 3267-020.
    c. Date Filed: March 31, 2020.
    d. Applicant: ECOsponsible, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Ballard Mill Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Salmon River, in the Town of Malone, Franklin 
County, New York. The project does not occupy any federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825 (r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Dennis Ryan, Manager, ECOsponsible, LLC, PO 
Box 114, West Falls, NY 14170; (716) 222-2188; email_
[email protected]
    i. FERC Contact: John Stokely at (202) 502-8534; or email at 
[email protected].
    j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies 
with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect to 
environmental issues that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the 
environmental document 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 30, 2020.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
using the Commission's eFiling system at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support 
at [email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 
502-8659 (TTY).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Ballard Mill Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) A 110-foot-long concrete capped timber crib overflow 
dam; (2) a 105-foot-long earth embankment dam with 2-foot-high 
flashboards; (3) a 4.75-foot-wide sluice gate located at the west 
abutment of the existing timber crib dam; (4) two 8-foot-wide flood 
sluice gates located between the existing timber crib dam and 
powerhouse; (5) an impoundment with a surface area of 10 acres and a 
volume of 50 acre-feet at the normal maximum pool elevation of 698 feet 
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929; (6) a 20-foot-wide, 28-foot-
long concrete masonry powerhouse with a single 255-kilowatt horizontal 
shaft Kaplan turbine-generator unit; (7) a 17.5-foot-wide, 16.67-foot-
high concrete intake leading to a trashrack with 1-inch clear spacing; 
(8) a 10- to 20-foot-wide, 250-foot-long excavated earth and rock 
channel tailrace; (9) a 150-foot-long underground cable connecting to a 
transformer pole; (10) a 0.48/13.2-kilovolt (kV) transformer; (11) a 
13.2-kV, 170-foot-long overhead transmission line; and (12) appurtenant 
facilities.
    The Ballard Mill Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with an 
average annual generation of 1,620 megawatt-hours.
    o. A copy of the application 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. At this time, the Commission has 
suspended access to the Commission's Public Reference Room, due to the 
proclamation declaring a National Emergency concerning the Novel 
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), issued by the President on March 13, 
2020. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
    You may also register online at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

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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.
    p. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions 
to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

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Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)..  May 2020.
Request Additional Information..........  May 2020.
Issue Acceptance Letter August..........  2020.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments...  September 2020.
Request Additional Information (if        November 2020.
 necessary).
Issue Scoping Document 2................  December 2020.
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental   December 2020.
 Analysis.
Commission issues EA....................  June 2021.
Comments on EA..........................  July 2021.
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    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: April 8, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-07810 Filed 4-13-20; 8:45 am]
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