Village of Enosburg Falls, Vermont; 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, 27077-27078 [2021-10542]

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• DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27077-27078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-10542]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2905-035]


Village of Enosburg Falls, Vermont; 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.: 2905-035.
    c. Date Filed: April 30, 2021.
    d. Applicant: Village of Enosburg Falls, Vermont (Village).
    e. Name of Project: Enosburg Falls Hydroelectric Project (project).
    f. Location: On the Missisquoi River in Franklin County, Vermont. 
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: Paul V. Nolan, Representative of Village of 
Enosburg Falls, 5515 North 17th Street, Arlington, VA 22205-2722; phone 
at (703) 534-5509; email at [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Bill Connelly at (202) 502-8587, or 
[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: June 29, 2021.
    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://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 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, you may submit a paper copy. 
Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via 
any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852. All filings must clearly identify the project name and 
docket number on the first page: Enosburg Falls Project (P-2905-035).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Project Description: The existing Enosburg Falls Project 
consists of: (1) A 195-foot-long, 18.5-foot-high concrete gravity dam 
that includes the following sections: (a) A left abutment section; (b) 
a 165-foot-long spillway with 24-inch-high pneumatic crest gates and a 
crest elevation of 386.87 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 
(NGVD 29) at the top of the pneumatic crest gates; and (c) a right 
abutment section; (2) a 121-acre impoundment with a usable storage 
capacity of 240 acre-feet and a gross storage capacity of 750 acre-feet 
at an elevation of 386.87 feet NGVD 29; (3) a steel headgate structure 
equipped with an inclined steel trashrack, that includes two 10-foot-
wide, 8-foot-high hydraulically-powered sluice gates and a concrete 
penstock intake structure with a 12-foot-wide, 8-foot-high 
hydraulically-powered sluice gate; (4) an 80-foot-long, 5.6-foot-
diameter steel penstock that provides flow to a 375-kilowatt (kW) semi-
Kaplan regulated turbine-generator unit located inside of a 39.9-foot-
long, 24.3-foot-wide concrete and brick masonry powerhouse (Kendall 
Plant); (5) an approximately 5-foot-long, 10-foot-wide tailrace of the 
Kendall Plant that discharges into the Missisquoi River; (6) an 
approximately 210-foot-long, 29-foot-wide headrace canal located at the 
downstream of the headgate structure; (7) an intake structure, at the 
downstream end of the headrace canal, equipped with a sluice gate and 
an inclined trashrack; (8) a 28.7-foot-long, 29.9-foot-wide concrete 
and brick masonry powerhouse (Village Plant) containing a vertical 
Kaplan turbine-generator unit with an authorized capacity of 600 kW; 
(9) an approximately 240-foot-long, 25-foot-wide tailrace of the 
Village Plant that discharges into the Missisquoi River; (10) two 2.4-
kilovolt (kV) generator lead lines, respectively 200-foot-long and 250-
foot-long, and a 4.16/12.47-kV transformer that connects the project to 
the local utility distribution system at the Enosburg Substation; and 
(11) appurtenant facilities.
    The Village voluntarily operates the project in a run-of-river mode 
using an automatic pond level control system to regulate turbines 
operation, such that outflow from the project approximates inflow. The 
project creates an approximately 1400-foot-long bypassed reach of the 
Missisquoi River.
    Downstream fish passage is provided by a bypass facility located on 
the right side of the dam and consists of a weir gate, a 3-foot-wide, 
6-foot-long concrete fish collection box, and an approximately 65-foot-
long, 24-inch-diameter concrete encased fish passage pipe.
    For the purpose of protecting aquatic resources, the current 
license requires the Village to: (1) Maintain a continuous minimum flow 
of 293 cubic feet per second (cfs) or inflow, whichever is less, in the 
bypassed reach, as measured downstream of the tailrace of the Village 
Plant; and (2) maintain a continuous minimum flow of 293 cfs from April 
15 until June 15, and 120 cfs from June 16 until April 14, or inflow, 
whichever is less, in the bypassed reach between the Kendall Plant 
tailrace and the Village Plant tailrace.
    The Village proposes to: (1) Continue to operate the project in a 
run-of-river mode; (2) provide a year-round continuous minimum flow of 
243 cfs, or inflow, whichever is less, in the bypassed reach between 
the Kendall Plant tailrace and the Village Plant tailrace; (3) develop 
a plan for maintaining minimum flows, impoundment levels, and run-of-
river operation; and (4) develop a historic properties management plan 
to address and mitigate any project effects on historic or cultural 
properties.
    o. In addition to publishing the full text of this notice in the 
Federal Register, the Commission provides all

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interested persons an opportunity to view and/or print the contents of 
this notice, as well as other documents in the proceeding (e.g., 
license application) via the internet through the Commission's Home 
Page (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 (P-2905). 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 [email protected] or 
call toll-free, (866) 208-3676 or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
    You may also register online at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx 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: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will 
be made as appropriate.

Issue Deficiency Letter--June 2021
Request Additional Information--June 2021
Issue Acceptance Letter--September 2021
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--September 2021
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--September 2021
Issue Scoping Document 2--November 2021
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--November 2021

    q. 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: May 13, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-10542 Filed 5-18-21; 8:45 am]
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