GR Catalyst Two, LLC; 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, 103810-103811 [2024-30276]

Download as PDF 103810 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 244 / Thursday, December 19, 2024 / Notices of all documents filed by the applicant and by all other parties. lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 Comments Any person wishing to comment on the project may do so. The Commission considers all comments received about the project in determining the appropriate action to be taken. To ensure that your comments are timely and properly recorded, please submit your comments on or before February 10, 2025. The filing of a comment alone will not serve to make the filer a party to the proceeding. To become a party, you must intervene in the proceeding. How To File Protests, Interventions, and Comments There are two ways to submit protests, motions to intervene, and comments. In both instances, please reference the Project docket number CP25–28–000 in your submission. (1) You may file your protest, motion to intervene, and comments by using the Commission’s eFiling feature, which is located on the Commission’s website (www.ferc.gov) under the link to Documents and Filings. New eFiling users must first create an account by clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be asked to select the type of filing you are making; first select ‘‘General’’ and then select ‘‘Protest’’, ‘‘Intervention’’, or ‘‘Comment on a Filing’’; or 6 (2) You can file a paper copy of your submission by mailing it to the address below. Your submission must reference the Project docket number CP25–28– 000. To file via USPS: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426 To file via any other method: DebbieAnne A. Reese, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852 The Commission encourages electronic filing of submissions (option 1 above) and has eFiling staff available to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. Protests and motions to intervene must be served on the applicant either by mail at: Arthur Diestel, Director, Regulatory, Texas Eastern Transmission, LP, P.O. Box 1642, Houston, Texas 77251–1642, or by email (with a link to the document) at Arthur.Diestel@ 6 Additionally, you may file your comments electronically by using the eComment feature, which is located on the Commission’s website at www.ferc.gov under the link to Documents and Filings. Using eComment is an easy method for interested persons to submit brief, text-only comments on a project. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:08 Dec 18, 2024 Jkt 265001 enbridge.com. Any subsequent submissions by an intervenor must be served on the applicant and all other parties to the proceeding. Contact information for parties can be downloaded from the service list at the eService link on FERC Online. Tracking the Proceeding Throughout the proceeding, additional information about the project will be available from the Commission’s Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208– FERC, or on the FERC website at www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link as described above. The eLibrary link also provides access to the texts of all formal documents issued by the Commission, such as orders, notices, and rulemakings. In addition, the Commission offers a free service called eSubscription which allows you to keep track of all formal issuances and submittals in specific dockets. This can reduce the amount of time you spend researching proceedings by automatically providing you with notification of these filings, document summaries, and direct links to the documents. For more information and to register, go to www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ esubscription.asp. Dated: December 12, 2024. Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2024–30061 Filed 12–18–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 4644–017] GR Catalyst Two, LLC; 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: New Major License. b. Project No.: 4644–017. c. Date filed: December 2, 2024.1 1 The Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure provide that if a deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or other day when the Commission is closed for business, the deadline does not end until the close of business on the next business day. 18 CFR 385.2007(a)(2). Because the deadline for filing a license application fell on a Saturday (i.e., November 30, 2024), the deadline PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 d. Applicant: GR Catalyst Two, LLC (GR Catalyst). e. Name of Project: Dahowa Hydroelectric Project (Dahowa Project or project). f. Location: On the Battenkill River in Washington County, New York. g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). h. Applicant Contact: Katharine D. Nicholson, Chief Financial Officer, Gravity Renewables, Inc., P.O. Box 7580, Boulder, CO 80306, Phone: (303) 615–3105, Email: kathy@ gravityrenewables.com; Celeste Fay, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Gravity Renewables, Inc, 5 Dartmouth Drive, Suite 104, Auburn, NH 03032, Phone: (413) 262–9466, Email: Celeste@ gravityrenewables.com. i. FERC Contact: Claire Rozdilski at (202) 502–8259, or claire.rozdilski@ 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: January 31, 2025. 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 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 was extended until the close of business on Monday, December 2, 2024. E:\FR\FM\19DEN1.SGM 19DEN1 lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 244 / Thursday, December 19, 2024 / Notices sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 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, 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: Dahowa Hydroelectric Project (P– 4644–017). m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this time. n. The Dahowa Project consists of the following existing facilities: (1) a 163foot-long concrete ogee dam that varies from 3 to 15 feet in height (averaging 6 feet high) with a crest elevation of 235 feet 2 and fitted with 5-foot-high timber flashboards; (2) a 228-foot-long, 8-foothigh concrete headrace wall with a crest elevation of 237 feet and 3-foot-high timber flashboards; (3) an impoundment with a surface area of approximately 2.7 acres, a storage capacity of approximately 12.5 acre-feet, and a normal water surface elevation of 240.0 feet; (4) an intake with a trashrack with 2.5-inch clear bar spacing; (5) a circular 142-foot-deep concrete powerhouse with an exterior diameter of approximately 44 feet and containing one vertical Kaplan turbine-generator unit with a capacity of 10.5 megawatts; (6) an underground tailrace tunnel; (7) a 5/34.5-kilovolt (kV) step-up transformer; (8) a substation; (9) a 690foot-long 34.5-kV transmission line; and (10) appurtenant facilities. The current Commission-approved recreation management plan requires the licensee to maintain a public fishing area upstream of the dam on the east side of the impoundment. The area consists of a 700-foot-long access trail, a parking area, and signage. The recreation management plan also requires the licensee to provide access to a conservation and preservation area located on the west side of the impoundment and maintain a parking area, signage, an approximately 1,300foot-long access trail loop, and overlook walkway structures for viewing Dionondahowa (Dahowa) Falls. The Dahowa Project operates in a runof-river mode. There is no available usable storage behind the dam. Article 402 of the current license requires a minimum flow release of 40 cubic feet per second (cfs) over the flashboards between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. from the third Saturday in May through Labor 2 All elevation values reported herein reference the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:08 Dec 18, 2024 Jkt 265001 Day weekend and from sunrise to sunset on weekends and holidays from Labor Day weekend through November 30 to provide flows over Dahowa Falls, a natural waterfall with an approximate height of 70 feet, to enhance aesthetic resources. At all other times, a minimum flow release of 25 cfs over the flashboards is required for water quality purposes and for the protection of flowdependent resources. GR Catalyst is not proposing any modifications to existing project facilities or changes to the operation of the project. The Dahowa Project has an annual generation of approximately 33,500 megawatt-hours. o. A copy of the application can 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–4644). For assistance, contact FERC at FERCOnlineSupport@ ferc.gov, or call toll-free, (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 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. Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary). Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis. February 2025. PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 4703 February 2025. June 2025. July 2025. September 2025. September 2025. Sfmt 4703 103811 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: December 13, 2024. Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2024–30276 Filed 12–18–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. RD24–5–000] Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC–725S); Comment Request; Revision Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, (DOE). ACTION: Notice of information collection and request for comments. AGENCY: In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is soliciting public comment on the currently approved information collection, FERC– 725S, (Emergency Preparedness and Operations (EOP) Reliability Standards) and submitting the information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. Any interested person may file comments directly with OMB and should address a copy of those comments to the Commission as explained below. DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due January 21, 2025. ADDRESSES: Send written comments on FERC–725S (1902–0270) to OMB through www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ PRAMain. Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Desk Officer. Please identify the OMB Control Numbers in the subject line of your comments. Comments should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ PRAMain. Please submit copies of your comments to the Commission. You may submit copies of your comments (identified by Docket No. RD24–5–000) by one of the following methods: Electronic filing through https:// www.ferc.gov, is preferred. • Electronic Filing: Documents must be filed in acceptable native applications and print-to-PDF, but not in scanned or picture format. • For those unable to file electronically, comments may be filed SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\19DEN1.SGM 19DEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 244 (Thursday, December 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-30276]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 4644-017]


GR Catalyst Two, LLC; 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: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 4644-017.
    c. Date filed: December 2, 2024.\1\
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    \1\ The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure provide 
that if a deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or other 
day when the Commission is closed for business, the deadline does 
not end until the close of business on the next business day. 18 CFR 
385.2007(a)(2). Because the deadline for filing a license 
application fell on a Saturday (i.e., November 30, 2024), the 
deadline was extended until the close of business on Monday, 
December 2, 2024.
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    d. Applicant: GR Catalyst Two, LLC (GR Catalyst).
    e. Name of Project: Dahowa Hydroelectric Project (Dahowa Project or 
project).
    f. Location: On the Battenkill River in Washington County, New 
York.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Katharine D. Nicholson, Chief Financial 
Officer, Gravity Renewables, Inc., P.O. Box 7580, Boulder, CO 80306, 
Phone: (303) 615-3105, Email: [email protected]; Celeste Fay, 
Director of Regulatory Affairs, Gravity Renewables, Inc, 5 Dartmouth 
Drive, Suite 104, Auburn, NH 03032, Phone: (413) 262-9466, Email: 
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Claire Rozdilski at (202) 502-8259, 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: January 31, 2025.
    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

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sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. 
Reese, 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, 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: Dahowa Hydroelectric Project (P-4644-
017).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Dahowa Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) a 163-foot-long concrete ogee dam that varies from 3 to 
15 feet in height (averaging 6 feet high) with a crest elevation of 235 
feet \2\ and fitted with 5-foot-high timber flashboards; (2) a 228-
foot-long, 8-foot-high concrete headrace wall with a crest elevation of 
237 feet and 3-foot-high timber flashboards; (3) an impoundment with a 
surface area of approximately 2.7 acres, a storage capacity of 
approximately 12.5 acre-feet, and a normal water surface elevation of 
240.0 feet; (4) an intake with a trashrack with 2.5-inch clear bar 
spacing; (5) a circular 142-foot-deep concrete powerhouse with an 
exterior diameter of approximately 44 feet and containing one vertical 
Kaplan turbine-generator unit with a capacity of 10.5 megawatts; (6) an 
underground tailrace tunnel; (7) a 5/34.5-kilovolt (kV) step-up 
transformer; (8) a substation; (9) a 690-foot-long 34.5-kV transmission 
line; and (10) appurtenant facilities.
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    \2\ All elevation values reported herein reference the National 
Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
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    The current Commission-approved recreation management plan requires 
the licensee to maintain a public fishing area upstream of the dam on 
the east side of the impoundment. The area consists of a 700-foot-long 
access trail, a parking area, and signage. The recreation management 
plan also requires the licensee to provide access to a conservation and 
preservation area located on the west side of the impoundment and 
maintain a parking area, signage, an approximately 1,300-foot-long 
access trail loop, and overlook walkway structures for viewing 
Dionondahowa (Dahowa) Falls.
    The Dahowa Project operates in a run-of-river mode. There is no 
available usable storage behind the dam. Article 402 of the current 
license requires a minimum flow release of 40 cubic feet per second 
(cfs) over the flashboards between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. from the 
third Saturday in May through Labor Day weekend and from sunrise to 
sunset on weekends and holidays from Labor Day weekend through November 
30 to provide flows over Dahowa Falls, a natural waterfall with an 
approximate height of 70 feet, to enhance aesthetic resources. At all 
other times, a minimum flow release of 25 cfs over the flashboards is 
required for water quality purposes and for the protection of flow-
dependent resources. GR Catalyst is not proposing any modifications to 
existing project facilities or changes to the operation of the project.
    The Dahowa Project has an annual generation of approximately 33,500 
megawatt-hours.
    o. A copy of the application can 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-4644). 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://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)..  February 2025.
Request Additional Information..........  February 2025.
Issue Acceptance Letter.................  June 2025.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments...  July 2025.
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary).  September 2025.
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental   September 2025.
 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: December 13, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-30276 Filed 12-18-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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