[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20679-20680]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-07811]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Project No. 9690-115; Eagle Creek Hydro Power, LLC, Eagle Creek Water
Resources, LLC, Eagle Creek Land Resources, LLC
Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and 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.: 9690-115.
c. Date Filed: March 31, 2020.
d. Applicant: Eagle Creek Hydro Power, LLC, Eagle Creek Water
Resources, LLC, and Eagle Creek Land Resources, LLC (collectively
referred to as Eagle Creek).
e. Name of Project: Rio Hydroelectric Project (Rio Project).
f. Location: The existing project is located on the Mongaup River
in Sullivan and Orange Counties, New York. The project does not occupy
federal lands.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Robert Gates, Senior Vice President--
Regulatory, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC., 116 N State Street,
P.O. Box 167, Neshkoro, WI 54960-0167; (973) 998-8400 or
bob.gates@eaglecreekre.com.
i. FERC Contact: Nicholas Ettema at (312) 596-4447 or email at
nicholas.ettema@ferc.gov.
j. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
k. Project Description: The Rio Project consists of: (1) A
reservoir with a gross storage capacity of 14,536 acre-feet and a
surface area of 444 acres; (2) a 264-foot-long, gravity-type concrete
spillway with a maximum height of 101 feet at a crest elevation of 810
feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929
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(NGVD29); (3) a 22-foot-long, concrete gravity intake structure; (4) a
99-foot-long, concrete gravity non-overflow section; (5) a 540-foot-
long, earth-fill embankment; (6) a 102-foot-long, concrete gravity non-
overflow section; (7) a 460-foot-long, earth-fill embankment with a 20-
foot-wide crest at an elevation of 825 feet NGVD29; (8) a 1.5-mile-long
bypassed reach; (9) a 7,000-foot-long, 11-foot-diameter steel penstock
connected to a 40-foot-diameter by 65-foot-high steel surge tank; (10)
a 10-foot-diameter, 280-foot-long underground steel penstock from the
surge tank branching into two 7-foot-diameter, 100-foot-long steel
penstocks leading to the main and minimum flow powerhouses; (11) a 22-
foot-square reinforced-concrete gatehouse; (12) a 15-foot-wide by 46-
foot-high trashrack with 2.9-inch bar clear spacing; (13) a 82-foot-
long by 30-feet-wide by 33-foot-high brick and steel main powerhouse
containing two 5 megawatt (MW) vertical-axis turbines; (14) a 30-foot-
long by 27-foot-wide by 24-foot-high reinforced concrete minimum flow
powerhouse containing one 0.8 MW horizontal-axis turbine; (15) a 45-
foot-wide by 225-foot-long tailrace with a 65-foot-long concrete weir
from the main powerhouse; (16) a 10-foot-wide by 38-foot-long tailrace
from the minimum flow powerhouse; and (17) a 760-foot-long, 4-kilovolt
aboveground transmission line. The project generates an average of
24,859 megawatt-hours annually. The megawatt-hours represents Units 1
through 3 from 2014-2019, including an extended outage of Unit 3 in
2015. Eagle Creek proposes to continue to operate the project in a
peaking mode.
l. A copy of the application is available for review on the
Commission's website at http://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. At this time, the
Commission has suspended access to the Commission's Public Reference
Room due to the Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency
Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak, issued by
the President on March 13, 2020. For assistance, please contact FERC
Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 208-3676 (toll
free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
m. You may also register online at http://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.
n. Procedural Schedule: The application will be processed according
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule may be
made as appropriate.
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Milestone Target date
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Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready July 2020.
for Environmental Analysis.
Filing of recommendations, preliminary November 2020.
terms and conditions, and fishway
prescriptions.
Commission issues Environmental May 2021.
Assessment (EA).
Comments on EA........................ June 2021.
Modified terms and conditions......... August 2021.
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o. 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: April 8, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-07811 Filed 4-13-20; 8:45 am]
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