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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 4113–067]
Oswego Hydro Partners, LP; 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
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with the Commission and is available
for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: New Major
License.
b. Project No.: 4113–067.
c. Date Filed: February 27, 2024.
d. Applicant: Oswego Hydro Partners,
LP.
e. Name of Project: Phoenix
Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Oswego, Oneida,
and Seneca Rivers in Onondaga and
Oswego counties, New York.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Jody Smet, Vice
President Regulatory Affairs, Eagle
Creek Renewable Energy, LLC, 7315
Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1100W,
Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone at (240)
482–2700; email at Jody.smet@
eaglecreekre.com.
i. FERC Contact: Joshua Dub, Project
Coordinator, Great Lakes Branch,
Division of Hydropower Licensing;
telephone at (202) 502–8138; email at
Joshua.Dub@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
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: April 27, 2024.
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
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FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (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: Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.
Submissions sent via any other carrier
must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A.
Reese, Acting 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: Phoenix Hydroelectric Project (P–
4113–067).
m. The application is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
n. Project Description: The Phoenix
Project includes a concrete dam, known
as the Phoenix Dam, that includes: (1)
a 107-foot-long section with two 41.5foot-long Tainter gates; (2) a 390-footlong ogee spillway with 1-foot-high
flashboards that have a crest elevation of
364.0 feet Barge Canal Datum (BCD); (3)
a 206.1-foot-long section with a 32.4foot-long Tainter gate and three 46.5foot-long Tainter gates; (4) a 163-footlong ogee spillway with 1-foot-high
flashboards that have a crest elevation of
364.0 feet BCD; (5) a 44-foot-long
section with a 10-foot-long debris sluice
gate and a 7-foot-long timber sluice gate;
and (6) an 80-foot-long, 45-foot-wide
concrete and steel powerhouse that
includes two 55-foot-long trashracks
with 1-inch clear bar spacing, two
intake openings, and two 1.590megawatt (MW) vertical Kaplan turbinegenerator units, for a total installed
capacity of 3.180 MW.
The Phoenix Dam and a non-project
lock, known as the Phoenix Lock,
comprise Lock and Dam No. 1, which
creates an impoundment that has a
surface area of approximately 1,400
acres at an elevation of 364.0 BCD. From
the impoundment, water flows through
powerhouse and is discharged through
draft tubes to an approximately 120foot-long tailrace that discharges to the
Oswego River.
The project generators are connected
to the regional electric grid by: (1) a 90foot-long, 4.16-kilovolt (kV)
underground generator lead line; (2) a
4.16/34.5-kV step-up transformer
located approximately 10 feet south of
the powerhouse; and (3) a 230-foot-long,
34.5-kV underground transmission line
that connects to a switchyard located
approximately 150 feet northwest of the
powerhouse.
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The project includes an upstream
American eel passage facility that
consists of a trap and truck facility that
consists of: (1) a 20-foot-long, 1.7-footwide metal and wood eel ramp; and (2)
a 2.5-foot-wide, 2-foot-long plastic eel
collection box located approximately
160 feet downstream of the project dam
on the east shore of the Oswego River.
The project also includes a downstream
fishway that consists of the 7-foot-long
sluice gate and a 7-foot-wide, 14-footlong concrete plunge pool. Additionally,
the project includes a 274.6-foot-long,
5.4-foot-wide aluminum walkway that
provides access to the 206.1-foot-long
section of the dam. There are no project
recreation facilities.
The minimum and maximum
hydraulic capacities of the powerhouse
are 500 and 4,580 cubic feet per second
(cfs), respectively. The average annual
energy production of the Phoenix
Project from 2016 through 2023 was
10,518 megawatt-hours.
The current license requires Oswego
Hydro to minimize impoundment
fluctuations by operating the project in
a run-of-river mode, such that project
outflow approximates inflow, and
maintaining a maximum impoundment
surface elevation of 364.0 feet BCD.
Oswego Hydro currently maintains the
surface elevation of the impoundment
between 363.5 feet and 364.0 feet BCD,
with a normal impoundment elevation
of 363.8 feet BCD. The current license
also requires Oswego Hydro to: (1)
release a year-round minimum flow of
300 cfs or inflow, whichever is less, to
the Oswego River downstream of the
project, including flows over the
spillway sections and/or through the
Tainter gates; and (2) when inflow is
less than 1,900 cfs from June 1 through
October 31, implement water quality
monitoring and, if average tailwater
dissolved oxygen drops below 5
milligrams per liter, provide mitigative
flow releases for the protection of
downstream water quality.
Oswego Hydro proposes to continue
operating the project in a manner that is
consistent with current operation,
except that Oswego Hydro does not
propose to continue water quality
monitoring and mitigative flow releases
when inflow is less than 1,900 cfs from
June 1 through October 31. In addition,
Oswego Hydro proposes to develop a
fish passage operation and maintenance
plan, implement a draft Bat and Bald
Eagle Protection Plan, and maintain an
existing interpretative display and
fencing for the protection of historic
properties.
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o. In addition to publishing the full
text of this notice in the Federal
Register, the Commission provides all
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–4113).
For assistance, contact FERC at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866)
208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659
(TTY).
You may also register online at
https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERC
Online.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. 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.
q. Procedural Schedule: 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 and Request
Additional Information April 2024
Issue Scoping Document 1 for
comments July 2024
Request Additional Information (if
necessary) August 2024
Issue Acceptance Letter August 2024
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)
September 2024
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental
Analysis September 2024
r. 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: March 8, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 2392–040]
Ampersand Gilman Hydro, LP; 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.: P–2392–040.
c. Date Filed: March 29, 2022.
d. Applicant: Ampersand Gilman
Hydro, LP.
e. Name of Project: Gilman
Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The project is located on
the Connecticut River and straddles the
Village of Gilman, within the Town of
Lunenburg, Essex County, Vermont, and
the Town of Dalton, Coos County, New
Hampshire.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Sayad
Moudachirou, Licensing Manager, 717
Atlantic Avenue, Suite 1A, Boston, MA
02111; (617) 933–7206 or sayad@
ampersandenergy.com.
i. FERC Contact: Ousmane Sidibe,
(202) 502–6245 or ousmane.sidibe@
ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing scoping
comments: April 8, 2024.
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/.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 paper copy. Submissions
sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be
addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.
Submissions sent via any other carrier
must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A.
Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins
Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852. All
filings must clearly identify the
following on the first page: Gilman
Hydroelectric Project (P–2392–040).
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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. The application is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
l. The existing Gilman Hydroelectric
Project consists of: (1) a 38.3-foot-high,
324.5-foot-wide concrete gravity dam
with a crest elevation of 826.8 feet
(NGVD29) that includes: (a) a 5-foothigh, 108-foot-long rubber bladder along
an overflow spillway on the New
Hampshire side of the dam; (b) a 6.5foot-high, 109-foot-long rubber bladder
along the overflow spillway on the
Vermont side of the dam; and (c) an 18foot-high, 27-foot-wide hydraulically
operated crest gate; (2) a 130-acre
project reservoir with a storage capacity
of 705 acre-feet at a normal maximum
surface elevation of 833.3 feet; (3) a
brick and steel/timber-framed
powerhouse integral to the dam on the
Vermont side that contains four
generating turbine units with a total
generating capacity of 4.95 megawatts;
(4) a 242-foot-long, 23.75-foot-wide
trash rack with approximately 2-inch
spacing and 11 wooden or steel head
gates that span 117 feet across the
upstream face of the powerhouse; (5) a
downstream fish passage facility that
diverts and guides fish to a 5-foot-wide
bypass at the dam controlled by a tilting
gate that releases water a 5-foot-deep
plunge pool immediately downstream of
the dam; (6) a tailrace channel; (7) a
34.5-kilovolt, 200-foot-long transmission
line connecting to the grid; and (8)
appurtenant facilities.
Ampersand Gilman Hydro, LP
proposes to continue to operate the
project in a run-of-river mode with no
storage or flood control capacity. In
accordance with Condition A of the
Vermont Department of Environmental
Conservation’s water quality
certification issued for the project, the
project adheres to the following
downstream minimum flow release
requirements: (1) from June 1 through
October 15, whenever inflow to the
project is 1,000 cubic feet per second
(cfs) or less, maintain a continuous
downstream minimum flow of 210 cfs
or inflow to the project, whichever is
less; (2) when inflow falls below 600 cfs,
conduct dissolved oxygen sampling
downstream of the dam to determine
whether additional flow release is
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 4113-067]
Oswego Hydro Partners, LP; 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
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with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: New Major License.
b. Project No.: 4113-067.
c. Date Filed: February 27, 2024.
d. Applicant: Oswego Hydro Partners, LP.
e. Name of Project: Phoenix Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Oswego, Oneida, and Seneca Rivers in Onondaga
and Oswego counties, New York.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Jody Smet, Vice President Regulatory Affairs,
Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1100W,
Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone at (240) 482-2700; email at
[email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Joshua Dub, Project Coordinator, Great Lakes
Branch, Division of Hydropower Licensing; telephone at (202) 502-8138;
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: April 27, 2024.
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:
Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.
Submissions sent via any other carrier must be addressed to: Debbie-
Anne A. Reese, Acting 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: Phoenix
Hydroelectric Project (P-4113-067).
m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. Project Description: The Phoenix Project includes a concrete
dam, known as the Phoenix Dam, that includes: (1) a 107-foot-long
section with two 41.5-foot-long Tainter gates; (2) a 390-foot-long ogee
spillway with 1-foot-high flashboards that have a crest elevation of
364.0 feet Barge Canal Datum (BCD); (3) a 206.1-foot-long section with
a 32.4-foot-long Tainter gate and three 46.5-foot-long Tainter gates;
(4) a 163-foot-long ogee spillway with 1-foot-high flashboards that
have a crest elevation of 364.0 feet BCD; (5) a 44-foot-long section
with a 10-foot-long debris sluice gate and a 7-foot-long timber sluice
gate; and (6) an 80-foot-long, 45-foot-wide concrete and steel
powerhouse that includes two 55-foot-long trashracks with 1-inch clear
bar spacing, two intake openings, and two 1.590-megawatt (MW) vertical
Kaplan turbine-generator units, for a total installed capacity of 3.180
MW.
The Phoenix Dam and a non-project lock, known as the Phoenix Lock,
comprise Lock and Dam No. 1, which creates an impoundment that has a
surface area of approximately 1,400 acres at an elevation of 364.0 BCD.
From the impoundment, water flows through powerhouse and is discharged
through draft tubes to an approximately 120-foot-long tailrace that
discharges to the Oswego River.
The project generators are connected to the regional electric grid
by: (1) a 90-foot-long, 4.16-kilovolt (kV) underground generator lead
line; (2) a 4.16/34.5-kV step-up transformer located approximately 10
feet south of the powerhouse; and (3) a 230-foot-long, 34.5-kV
underground transmission line that connects to a switchyard located
approximately 150 feet northwest of the powerhouse.
The project includes an upstream American eel passage facility that
consists of a trap and truck facility that consists of: (1) a 20-foot-
long, 1.7-foot-wide metal and wood eel ramp; and (2) a 2.5-foot-wide,
2-foot-long plastic eel collection box located approximately 160 feet
downstream of the project dam on the east shore of the Oswego River.
The project also includes a downstream fishway that consists of the 7-
foot-long sluice gate and a 7-foot-wide, 14-foot-long concrete plunge
pool. Additionally, the project includes a 274.6-foot-long, 5.4-foot-
wide aluminum walkway that provides access to the 206.1-foot-long
section of the dam. There are no project recreation facilities.
The minimum and maximum hydraulic capacities of the powerhouse are
500 and 4,580 cubic feet per second (cfs), respectively. The average
annual energy production of the Phoenix Project from 2016 through 2023
was 10,518 megawatt-hours.
The current license requires Oswego Hydro to minimize impoundment
fluctuations by operating the project in a run-of-river mode, such that
project outflow approximates inflow, and maintaining a maximum
impoundment surface elevation of 364.0 feet BCD. Oswego Hydro currently
maintains the surface elevation of the impoundment between 363.5 feet
and 364.0 feet BCD, with a normal impoundment elevation of 363.8 feet
BCD. The current license also requires Oswego Hydro to: (1) release a
year-round minimum flow of 300 cfs or inflow, whichever is less, to the
Oswego River downstream of the project, including flows over the
spillway sections and/or through the Tainter gates; and (2) when inflow
is less than 1,900 cfs from June 1 through October 31, implement water
quality monitoring and, if average tailwater dissolved oxygen drops
below 5 milligrams per liter, provide mitigative flow releases for the
protection of downstream water quality.
Oswego Hydro proposes to continue operating the project in a manner
that is consistent with current operation, except that Oswego Hydro
does not propose to continue water quality monitoring and mitigative
flow releases when inflow is less than 1,900 cfs from June 1 through
October 31. In addition, Oswego Hydro proposes to develop a fish
passage operation and maintenance plan, implement a draft Bat and Bald
Eagle Protection Plan, and maintain an existing interpretative display
and fencing for the protection of historic properties.
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o. In addition to publishing the full text of this notice in the
Federal Register, the Commission provides all 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-
4113). For assistance, contact FERC at [email protected],
(866) 208-3676 (toll free), 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. 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].
q. 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 and Request Additional Information April 2024
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments July 2024
Request Additional Information (if necessary) August 2024
Issue Acceptance Letter August 2024
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary) September 2024
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis September 2024
r. 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: March 8, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-05414 Filed 3-13-24; 8:45 am]
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