Methuen Falls Hydroelectric Company; 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, 19589-19590 [2024-05728]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 54 / Tuesday, March 19, 2024 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. ER24–1456–000] ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 Tropicana Manufacturing Company Inc.; Supplemental Notice That Initial Market-Based Rate Filing Includes Request for Blanket Section 204 Authorization This is a supplemental notice in the above-referenced proceeding of Tropicana Manufacturing Company Inc.’s application for market-based rate authority, with an accompanying rate tariff, noting that such application includes a request for blanket authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of future issuances of securities and assumptions of liability. Any person desiring to intervene or to protest should file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214). 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[FR Doc. 2024–05789 Filed 3–18–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 8093–023] Methuen Falls Hydroelectric Company; 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.: 8093–023. c. Date filed: February 28, 2024.1 d. Applicant: Methuen Falls Hydroelectric Company (Methuen Hydro). e. Name of Project: Methuen Falls Hydroelectric Project. 1 On March 11, 2024, Methuen Hydro resubmitted the application to correctly identify and designate the single-line electrical diagram as critical energy and electric infrastructure information. PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 19589 f. Location: On the Spicket River in Essex County, Massachusetts. g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). h. Applicant Contact: Kevin Olson, Olson Electric Development Company, Inc., 30r Hampshire Street, Methuen, MA 01844; (978) 975–0400; email at kevin@olsonelectric.com. i. FERC Contact: Bill Connelly at (202) 502–8587, or william.connelly@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 29, 2024.2 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). 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 2 The Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure provide that if a filing deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or other day when the Commission is closed for business, the filing deadline does not end until the close of business on the next business day. 18 CFR 385.2007(a)(2). Because the 60-day filing deadline falls on a Sunday (i.e., April 28, 2024), the filing deadline is extended until the close of business on Monday, April 29, 2024. E:\FR\FM\19MRN1.SGM 19MRN1 ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 19590 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 54 / Tuesday, March 19, 2024 / Notices must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting 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: Methuen Falls Hydroelectric Project (P–7883–020). m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this time. n. The existing Methuen Falls Hydroelectric Project consists of the following: (1) a 20-foot-high stone masonry dam with two hydraulic sluice gates and a stone masonry spillway topped with 3-foot-high wooden flashboards with a crest elevation of 104.4 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) at the top of the flashboards; (2) an impoundment with a normal surface elevation of 104.4 feet NGVD 29; (3) an intake structure equipped with a trashrack and a headgate; (4) an underground penstock (4) a powerhouse with two Vertical Francis turbine-generator units with an authorized installed capacity of 357 kilowatts; (5) a 20-foot-long, 2-foot-wide tailrace; (6) two generator leads; (7) a transformer; (8) a 3.74-kV, 250-foot-long transmission line; and (9) appurtenant facilities. The project operates in a run-of-river mode with a minimum flow of 3 cubic feet per second (cfs) to the bypassed reach. The project has an average annual generation of 1,000 megawatt-hours. Methuen Hydro is proposing to continue run-of-river operation, increase the minimum flow from 3 cfs to 16 cfs, and install upstream and downstream passage for American eels. o. Copies 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 (P–8093). For assistance, contact FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call tollfree, (866) 208–3676 or (202) 502– 8659 (TTY). 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. 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 VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:41 Mar 18, 2024 Jkt 262001 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. 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. Milestone Target date Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary). Request Additional Information. Issue Acceptance Letter .. Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments. Request Additional Information (if necessary). Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary). Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis. April 2024. April 2024. August 2024. August 2024. September 2024. November 2024. November 2024. 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. [FR Doc. 2024–05728 Filed 3–18–24; 8:45 am] FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Sunshine Act Meetings 10 a.m. on March 21, 2024. This Board meeting will be open to public observation only by webcast. Visit https://www.fdic.gov/news/boardmatters/video.html for a link to the webcast. FDIC Board Members and staff will participate from FDIC Headquarters, 550 17th Street NW, Washington, DC. Observers requiring auxiliary aids (e.g., sign language interpretation) for this meeting should email DisabilityProgram@fdic.gov to make necessary arrangements. PLACE: Open to public observation via webcast. STATUS: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Board of Directors will meet to consider the following matters: MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Frm 00024 Fmt 4703 Summary Agenda No substantive discussion of the following items is anticipated. The Board will resolve these matters with a single vote unless a member of the Board of Directors requests that an item be moved to the discussion agenda. Disposition of Minutes of a Board of Directors’ Meeting Previously Distributed. Summary reports, status reports, and reports of actions taken pursuant to authority delegated by the Board of Directors. CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Direct requests for further information concerning the meeting to Debra A. Decker, Executive Secretary of the Corporation, at 202–898–8748. Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552b. Dated at Washington, DC, on March 14, 2024. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. James P. Sheesley, Assistant Executive Secretary. [FR Doc. 2024–05842 Filed 3–15–24; 11:15 am] FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies BILLING CODE 6717–01–P PO 00000 Memorandum and resolution re: Proposed Statement of Policy on Bank Merger Transactions. BILLING CODE 6714–01–P Dated: March 12, 2024. Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting Secretary. TIME AND DATE: Discussion Agenda Sfmt 4703 The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 225), and all other applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, including the companies listed below. The public portions of the applications listed below, as well as other related filings required by the Board, if any, are available for immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at the offices of the Board of Governors. This information may also be obtained on an expedited basis, upon request, by contacting the appropriate Federal Reserve Bank and from the Board’s Freedom of Information Office at https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/ request.htm. Interested persons may express their views in writing on the E:\FR\FM\19MRN1.SGM 19MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19589-19590]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05728]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 8093-023]


Methuen Falls Hydroelectric Company; 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.: 8093-023.
    c. Date filed: February 28, 2024.\1\
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    \1\ On March 11, 2024, Methuen Hydro resubmitted the application 
to correctly identify and designate the single-line electrical 
diagram as critical energy and electric infrastructure information.
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    d. Applicant: Methuen Falls Hydroelectric Company (Methuen Hydro).
    e. Name of Project: Methuen Falls Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Spicket River in Essex County, Massachusetts.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Kevin Olson, Olson Electric Development 
Company, Inc., 30r Hampshire Street, Methuen, MA 01844; (978) 975-0400; 
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: April 29, 2024.\2\
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    \2\ The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure provide 
that if a filing deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or 
other day when the Commission is closed for business, the filing 
deadline does not end until the close of business on the next 
business day. 18 CFR 385.2007(a)(2). Because the 60-day filing 
deadline falls on a Sunday (i.e., April 28, 2024), the filing 
deadline is extended until the close of business on Monday, April 
29, 2024.
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    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). 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

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must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting 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: Methuen Falls Hydroelectric Project (P-7883-
020).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Methuen Falls Hydroelectric Project consists of the 
following: (1) a 20-foot-high stone masonry dam with two hydraulic 
sluice gates and a stone masonry spillway topped with 3-foot-high 
wooden flashboards with a crest elevation of 104.4 feet National 
Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) at the top of the 
flashboards; (2) an impoundment with a normal surface elevation of 
104.4 feet NGVD 29; (3) an intake structure equipped with a trashrack 
and a headgate; (4) an underground penstock (4) a powerhouse with two 
Vertical Francis turbine-generator units with an authorized installed 
capacity of 357 kilowatts; (5) a 20-foot-long, 2-foot-wide tailrace; 
(6) two generator leads; (7) a transformer; (8) a 3.74-kV, 250-foot-
long transmission line; and (9) appurtenant facilities.
    The project operates in a run-of-river mode with a minimum flow of 
3 cubic feet per second (cfs) to the bypassed reach. The project has an 
average annual generation of 1,000 megawatt-hours.
    Methuen Hydro is proposing to continue run-of-river operation, 
increase the minimum flow from 3 cfs to 16 cfs, and install upstream 
and downstream passage for American eels.
    o. Copies 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 (P-8093). For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support at [email protected] or call tollfree, (866) 
208-3676 or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
    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.
    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].
    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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               Milestone                           Target date
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Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary).  April 2024.
Request Additional Information.........  April 2024.
Issue Acceptance Letter................  August 2024.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments..  August 2024.
Request Additional Information (if       September 2024.
 necessary).
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)  November 2024.
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental  November 2024.
 Analysis.
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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: March 12, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-05728 Filed 3-18-24; 8:45 am]
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