Topsham Hydro Partners Limited Partnership (L.P.); Notice of Settlement Agreement and Soliciting Comments, 12688 [2022-04684]

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• DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 44 (Monday, March 7, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 12688]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-04684]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 4784-106]


Topsham Hydro Partners Limited Partnership (L.P.); Notice of 
Settlement Agreement and Soliciting Comments

    Take notice that the following settlement agreement has been filed 
with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Settlement Agreement.
    b. Project No.: 4784-106.
    c. Date filed: February 24, 2022.
    d. Applicant: Topsham Hydro Partners Limited Partnership (L.P.)
    e. Name of Project: Pejepscot Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Androscoggin River in Sagadahoc, Cumberland, 
and Androscoggin Counties in the village of Pejepscot and the town of 
Topsham, Maine. The project does not affect federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Rule 602 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.602.
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Luke T. Anderson, Manager, Licensing, 
Brookfield Renewable, 150 Main Street, Lewiston, Maine 04240, telephone 
207-755-5613, [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Ryan Hansen, telephone (202) 502-8074, and email 
[email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing comments: March 20, 2022. Reply comments due 
March 30, 2022.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
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, 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. The first page of any filing should include docket 
number P-4784-106.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors filing 
documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each 
person on the official service list for the project. Further, if an 
intervenor files comments or documents with the Commission relating to 
the merits of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a 
particular resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document 
on that resource agency.
    k. Topsham Hydro Partners Limited Partnership (L.P.) (Topsham 
Hydro) filed a Settlement Agreement for Modified Prescription for 
Fishways executed by and between the licensee and the U.S. Department 
of Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildldife Service. The purpose of the 
agreement is to resolve the parties' disagreements over the appropriate 
terms of a prescription for fishways for upstream and downstream 
passage of American eel at the project under the new license. Topsham 
Hydro requests that the Commission consider the Settlement Agreement in 
its environmental analysis of the project relicensing, acknowledge the 
Offer of Settlement, and incorporate the terms of the agreement which 
will be reflected in the modified fishway prescription in the new 
license for the project. The Settlement Agreement details the terms of 
the modified prescription for upstream and downstream passage of 
American eel at the project to be filed by the Department within 60 
days after the deadline for filing comments on the Commission's draft 
environmental document. With respect to downstream passage of American 
eel, the Agreement provides for both interim and permanent downstream 
passage measures, based on the outcome of studies to be conducted by 
Topsham Hydro, as well as effectiveness testing of those interim and 
permanent measures. With respect to upstream passage of American eel, 
the Agreement includes temporary upstream passage measures, permanent 
upstream passage measures, and effectiveness testing of those permanent 
measures.
    l. 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 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 (i.e., P-
4784). 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/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.

    Dated: February 28, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-04684 Filed 3-4-22; 8:45 am]
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