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Dated: July 19, 2023.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
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Moretown Hydroelectric, LLC; Notice
of Availability of Environmental
Assessment
In accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and
the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission’s (Commission)
regulations, 18 CFR part 380, the Office
of Energy Projects has reviewed the
application for a new license to
continue to operate and maintain the
Moretown No. 8 Hydroelectric Project.
The project is located on the Mad River
in Washington County, Vermont.
Commission staff has prepared an
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Environmental Assessment (EA) for the
project.
The EA contains staff’s analysis of the
potential environmental impacts of the
project and concludes that licensing the
project, with appropriate environmental
protective measures, would not
constitute a major federal action that
would significantly affect the quality of
the human environment.
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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
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Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225
Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland
20852. The first page of any filing
should include docket number P–5944–
024.
For further information, contact
Maryam Zavareh at (202) 502–8474 or
by email at Maryam.Zavareh@ferc.gov.
Dated: July 19, 2023.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 10615–058]
Tower Kleber Limited Partnership;
Notice 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.: 10615–058.
c. Date Filed: April 28, 2022.
d. Applicant: Tower Kleber Limited
Partnership (Tower Kleber).
e. Name of Project: Tower and Kleber
Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Black River in
Cheboygan County, Michigan.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Nelson
Turcotte, General Partner, Tower Kleber
Limited Partnership, 764 Lexington
Crescent, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 7B8,
Canada; Phone at (807) 633–3362, or
email at hydro@eastlink.ca.
i. FERC Contact: Arash Barsari at
(202) 502–6207, or Arash.JalaliBarsari@
ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing scoping
comments: August 18, 2023.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. Please file scoping
comments using the Commission’s
eFiling system at https://
ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx.
Commenters can submit brief comments
up to 6,000 characters, without prior
registration, using the eComment system
at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/
QuickComment.aspx. 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, you may submit a
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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, MD 20852.
All filings must clearly identify the
project name and docket number on the
first page: Tower and Kleber
Hydroelectric Project (P–10615–058).
The Commission’s Rules of Practice
and Procedure require all interveners
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 intervener
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. This application is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
l. Project Description: The Tower and
Kleber Hydroelectric Project consists of
two developments, the Tower
Development and Kleber Development.
The Tower Development consists of a
22.75-foot-high concrete gravity dam
that includes a 110-foot-long spillway
section with a crest elevation of 722.2
feet National Geodetic Vertical Dam of
1929 (NGVD 29), and a 35.3-foot-long
intake structure with four wooden
sluice gates that are each equipped with
a trashrack with 1.25-inch clear bar
spacing. The Tower Development dam
creates an impoundment that has a
normal elevation of 722.1 feet NGVD 29.
From the impoundment, water flows
through the intake structure to two 280kilowatt (kW) vertical Francis turbinegenerator units located in an
approximately 32.5-foot-long, 35.3-footwide powerhouse. Water is discharged
from the turbines to a tailrace.
Electricity generated at the Tower
Development powerhouse is transmitted
to the electric grid via an 87-foot-long,
2.4-kilovolt (kV) underground generator
lead line, a 2.4/12.5-kV step-up
transformer, and a 12.5-kV underground
transmission line.
Project recreation facilities at the
Tower Development include: (1) a boat
access site and parking area
approximately 1,300 feet upstream of
the dam on the western shore of the
impoundment; (2) a canoe take-out site
located west of the non-overflow
concrete embankment section of the
dam; (3) an approximately 270-foot-long
canoe portage route; (4) a canoe put-in
site immediately downstream of the
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dam; (5) a handicapped-accessible
fishing site and parking area
approximately 700 feet upstream of the
dam on the western shore of the
impoundment; and (6) an approximately
370-foot-long tailrace access footpath
from the parking area of the fishing site
to the canoe portage route.
The Kleber Development consists of
an approximately 535-foot-long dam
that includes a 12-foot-wide ogee
spillway and two 11-foot-wide intake
gates that are each equipped with a
trashrack with 2.56-inch clear bar
spacing. The Kleber Development dam
creates an impoundment that has a
normal elevation of 701.1 feet NGVD 29.
From the impoundment, water flows
through the intake gates to two 7-footdiameter penstocks that provide flow to
two 600-kW vertical Kaplan turbinegenerator units located in a 40-foot-long,
42-foot-wide powerhouse. Water is
discharged from the turbines to a
tailrace. Electricity generated at the
Kleber Development powerhouse is
transmitted to the electric grid via a 168foot-long, 2.4-kV generator lead line and
a 2.4/12.5-kV step-up transformer.
Project recreation facilities at the
Kleber Development include: (1) a boat
access site and parking area
approximately 4,000 feet upstream of
the dam on the eastern shore of the
impoundment; (2) a canoe take-out site
at the western embankment of the dam;
(3) an approximately 580-foot-long
canoe portage trail; (4) a tailrace access
site and parking area immediately
downstream of the powerhouse at the
northern shore of the Black River; and
(5) a tailrace access and canoe put-in
site at the southern shore of the Black
River approximately 400 feet
downstream of the dam.
The average annual energy production
of the project from 2017 through 2021
was 7,742 megawatt-hours.
Tower Kleber is proposing to include
the existing Black River Streamside
Rearing Facility (Rearing Facility) as
part of the project. Tower Kleber
proposes to remove the following land
parcels from the project boundary: (1)
an approximately 8-acre area adjacent to
the east and west shorelines of the Black
River from approximately 700 feet
upstream to 900 feet downstream of the
Tower Development dam; (2) an
approximately 10-acre area northeast of
the east earthen embankment of the
Kleber Development; and (3) an
approximately 0.2-acre area south of the
emergency spillway at the Kleber
Development. Tower Kleber also
proposes to: (1) continue to operate the
project in a run-of-river mode; (2)
continue to maintain an impoundment
elevation of 722.1 NGVD 29 for the
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Tower Development and 701.1 feet
NGVD 29 for the Kleber Development,
and limit impoundment fluctuations to
no more than +/¥ 0.25 foot; (3)
continue to limit the winter drawdown
in the impoundments to no more than
1 foot, from November 1 through March
31; (4) continue to maintain the Rearing
Facility; (5) implement an operation
compliance monitoring plan; (6)
monitor invasive species and install
signage for zebra mussels at the boat
launch areas; (7) monitor dissolved
oxygen, sediment, and mercury in the
impoundments; and (8) continue to
operate and maintain project recreation
facilities.
m. At this time, the Commission has
suspended access to the Commission’s
Public Reference Room. Copies of the
application can be viewed on the
Commission’s website at https://
www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link.
Enter the project’s docket number,
excluding the last three digits, in the
docket number field to access the
document (i.e., P–10615). For
assistance, contact FERC at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call
toll free, (886) 208–3676 or TTY (202)
502–8659.
You may also register 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, please
contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov.
n. The Commission’s Office of Public
Participation (OPP) supports meaningful
public engagement and participation in
Commission proceedings. OPP can help
members of the public, including
landowners, environmental justice
communities, Tribal members and
others, access publicly available
information and navigate Commission
processes. For public inquiries and
assistance with making filings such as
interventions, comments, or requests for
rehearing, the public is encouraged to
contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@
ferc.gov.
o. Scoping Process
Pursuant to the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),
Commission staff intends to prepare
either an environmental assessment
(EA) or an environmental impact
statement (EIS) (collectively referred to
as the ‘‘NEPA document’’) that describes
and evaluates the probable effects,
including an assessment of the sitespecific and cumulative effects, if any,
of the proposed action and alternatives.
The Commission’s scoping process will
help determine the required level of
analysis and satisfy the NEPA scoping
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requirements, irrespective of whether
the Commission issues an EA or an EIS.
At this time, we do not anticipate
holding public or agency scoping
meetings. Instead, we are soliciting
written comments and suggestions on
the preliminary list of issues and
alternatives to be addressed in the
NEPA document, as described in
Scoping Document 1 (SD1), issued July
19, 2023.
Copies of the SD1 outlining the
subject areas to be addressed in the
NEPA document were distributed to the
parties on the Commission’s mailing list
and the applicant’s distribution list.
Copies of the SD1 may be viewed on the
web at https://www.ferc.gov using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link (see item m above).
Dated: July 19, 2023.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
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Description: § 284.123 Rate Filing:
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Filed Date: 7/19/23.
Accession Number: 20230719–5041.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 8/9/23.
Docket Numbers: RP23–904–000.
Applicants: Alliance Pipeline L.P.
Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: GT&C
Section 23 Cleanup to be effective 8/1/
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Accession Number: 20230719–5002.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 7/31/23.
Docket Numbers: RP23–905–000.
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Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing:
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Accession Number: 20230719–5010.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 7/31/23.
Any person desiring to intervene, to
protest, or to answer a complaint in any
of the above proceedings must file in
accordance with Rules 211, 214, or 206
of the Commission’s Regulations (18
CFR 385.211, 385.214, or 385.206) on or
before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the
specified comment date. Protests may be
considered, but intervention is
necessary to become a party to the
proceeding.
The filings are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system (https://
elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/
fercgensearch.asp) by querying the
docket number.
eFiling is encouraged. More detailed
information relating to filing
requirements, interventions, protests,
service, and qualifying facilities filings
can be found at: https://www.ferc.gov/
docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For
other information, call (866) 208–3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.
For other information, call (866) 208–
3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–
8659. The Commission’s Office of
Public Participation (OPP) supports
meaningful public engagement and
participation in Commission
proceedings. OPP can help members of
the public, including landowners,
environmental justice communities,
Tribal members and others, access
publicly available information and
navigate Commission processes. For
public inquiries and assistance with
making filings such as interventions,
comments, or requests for rehearing, the
public is encouraged to contact OPP at
(202) 502–6595 or OPP@ferc.gov.
Dated: July 19, 2023.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023–15705 Filed 7–24–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 10615-058]
Tower Kleber Limited Partnership; Notice 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.: 10615-058.
c. Date Filed: April 28, 2022.
d. Applicant: Tower Kleber Limited Partnership (Tower Kleber).
e. Name of Project: Tower and Kleber Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Black River in Cheboygan County, Michigan.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Nelson Turcotte, General Partner, Tower
Kleber Limited Partnership, 764 Lexington Crescent, Thunder Bay, ON P7B
7B8, Canada; Phone at (807) 633-3362, or email at [email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Arash Barsari at (202) 502-6207, or
[email protected].
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: August 18, 2023.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
scoping comments using the Commission's eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. Commenters can submit brief
comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the
eComment system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/QuickComment.aspx. 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
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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, MD 20852. All filings must clearly identify the
project name and docket number on the first page: Tower and Kleber
Hydroelectric Project (P-10615-058).
The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all
interveners 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 intervener 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. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
l. Project Description: The Tower and Kleber Hydroelectric Project
consists of two developments, the Tower Development and Kleber
Development.
The Tower Development consists of a 22.75-foot-high concrete
gravity dam that includes a 110-foot-long spillway section with a crest
elevation of 722.2 feet National Geodetic Vertical Dam of 1929 (NGVD
29), and a 35.3-foot-long intake structure with four wooden sluice
gates that are each equipped with a trashrack with 1.25-inch clear bar
spacing. The Tower Development dam creates an impoundment that has a
normal elevation of 722.1 feet NGVD 29. From the impoundment, water
flows through the intake structure to two 280-kilowatt (kW) vertical
Francis turbine-generator units located in an approximately 32.5-foot-
long, 35.3-foot-wide powerhouse. Water is discharged from the turbines
to a tailrace. Electricity generated at the Tower Development
powerhouse is transmitted to the electric grid via an 87-foot-long,
2.4-kilovolt (kV) underground generator lead line, a 2.4/12.5-kV step-
up transformer, and a 12.5-kV underground transmission line.
Project recreation facilities at the Tower Development include: (1)
a boat access site and parking area approximately 1,300 feet upstream
of the dam on the western shore of the impoundment; (2) a canoe take-
out site located west of the non-overflow concrete embankment section
of the dam; (3) an approximately 270-foot-long canoe portage route; (4)
a canoe put-in site immediately downstream of the dam; (5) a
handicapped-accessible fishing site and parking area approximately 700
feet upstream of the dam on the western shore of the impoundment; and
(6) an approximately 370-foot-long tailrace access footpath from the
parking area of the fishing site to the canoe portage route.
The Kleber Development consists of an approximately 535-foot-long
dam that includes a 12-foot-wide ogee spillway and two 11-foot-wide
intake gates that are each equipped with a trashrack with 2.56-inch
clear bar spacing. The Kleber Development dam creates an impoundment
that has a normal elevation of 701.1 feet NGVD 29. From the
impoundment, water flows through the intake gates to two 7-foot-
diameter penstocks that provide flow to two 600-kW vertical Kaplan
turbine-generator units located in a 40-foot-long, 42-foot-wide
powerhouse. Water is discharged from the turbines to a tailrace.
Electricity generated at the Kleber Development powerhouse is
transmitted to the electric grid via a 168-foot-long, 2.4-kV generator
lead line and a 2.4/12.5-kV step-up transformer.
Project recreation facilities at the Kleber Development include:
(1) a boat access site and parking area approximately 4,000 feet
upstream of the dam on the eastern shore of the impoundment; (2) a
canoe take-out site at the western embankment of the dam; (3) an
approximately 580-foot-long canoe portage trail; (4) a tailrace access
site and parking area immediately downstream of the powerhouse at the
northern shore of the Black River; and (5) a tailrace access and canoe
put-in site at the southern shore of the Black River approximately 400
feet downstream of the dam.
The average annual energy production of the project from 2017
through 2021 was 7,742 megawatt-hours.
Tower Kleber is proposing to include the existing Black River
Streamside Rearing Facility (Rearing Facility) as part of the project.
Tower Kleber proposes to remove the following land parcels from the
project boundary: (1) an approximately 8-acre area adjacent to the east
and west shorelines of the Black River from approximately 700 feet
upstream to 900 feet downstream of the Tower Development dam; (2) an
approximately 10-acre area northeast of the east earthen embankment of
the Kleber Development; and (3) an approximately 0.2-acre area south of
the emergency spillway at the Kleber Development. Tower Kleber also
proposes to: (1) continue to operate the project in a run-of-river
mode; (2) continue to maintain an impoundment elevation of 722.1 NGVD
29 for the Tower Development and 701.1 feet NGVD 29 for the Kleber
Development, and limit impoundment fluctuations to no more than +/-
0.25 foot; (3) continue to limit the winter drawdown in the
impoundments to no more than 1 foot, from November 1 through March 31;
(4) continue to maintain the Rearing Facility; (5) implement an
operation compliance monitoring plan; (6) monitor invasive species and
install signage for zebra mussels at the boat launch areas; (7) monitor
dissolved oxygen, sediment, and mercury in the impoundments; and (8)
continue to operate and maintain project recreation facilities.
m. At this time, the Commission has suspended access to the
Commission's Public Reference Room. Copies of the application can be
viewed on the Commission's website at https://www.ferc.gov using the
``eLibrary'' link. Enter the project's docket number, excluding the
last three digits, in the docket number field to access the document
(i.e., P-10615). For assistance, contact FERC at
[email protected], or call toll free, (886) 208-3676 or TTY
(202) 502-8659.
You may also register 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, please
contact FERC Online Support at [email protected].
n. The Commission's Office of Public Participation (OPP) supports
meaningful public engagement and participation in Commission
proceedings. OPP can help members of the public, including landowners,
environmental justice communities, Tribal members and others, access
publicly available information and navigate Commission processes. For
public inquiries and assistance with making filings such as
interventions, comments, or requests for rehearing, the public is
encouraged to contact OPP at (202) 502-6595 or [email protected].
o. Scoping Process
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),
Commission staff intends to prepare either an environmental assessment
(EA) or an environmental impact statement (EIS) (collectively referred
to as the ``NEPA document'') that describes and evaluates the probable
effects, including an assessment of the site-specific and cumulative
effects, if any, of the proposed action and alternatives. The
Commission's scoping process will help determine the required level of
analysis and satisfy the NEPA scoping
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requirements, irrespective of whether the Commission issues an EA or an
EIS.
At this time, we do not anticipate holding public or agency scoping
meetings. Instead, we are soliciting written comments and suggestions
on the preliminary list of issues and alternatives to be addressed in
the NEPA document, as described in Scoping Document 1 (SD1), issued
July 19, 2023.
Copies of the SD1 outlining the subject areas to be addressed in
the NEPA document were distributed to the parties on the Commission's
mailing list and the applicant's distribution list. Copies of the SD1
may be viewed on the web at https://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary''
link (see item m above).
Dated: July 19, 2023.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-15702 Filed 7-24-23; 8:45 am]
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