[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 178 (Monday, September 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 56594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-20164]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2955-011]
City of Watervliet, NY; 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: Subsequent Minor License.
b. Project No.: P-2955-011.
c. Date filed: February 28, 2020.
d. Applicant: City of Watervliet, New York.
e. Name of Project: Normanskill Hydropower Project.
f. Location: The project is located on the Normans Kill in
Guilderland, Albany County, New York. The project does not occupy any
federal land.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Michele E. Stottler, Gomez and Sullivan
Engineers, DPC, 399 Albany Shaker Road, Suite 203, Loudonville, NY
12211; (518) 407-0050; [email protected] or Joseph
LaCivita, General Manager, The City of Watervliet, 2 Fifteenth Street,
Watervliet, NY 12189; (518) 270-3800; [email protected]
i. FERC Contact: Woohee Choi at (202) 502-6336; or email at
woohee.choi@ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: October 8, 2020.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
scoping comments using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief
comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the
eComment system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. 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:
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,
Maryland 20852. The first page of any filing should include docket
number P-2955-011.
The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors 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
intervenor 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. The Normanskill Project consists of the following existing
facilities: (1) A 380-foot-long reinforced concrete Ambursen-type dam
with a 306-foot-long overflow section having a crest elevation of 259
feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29) surmounted by 3-
foot-high flashboards; (2) a 380-acre reservoir with a gross volume of
3,600 acre-feet at the normal maximum pool elevation of 262 feet
NGVD29; (3) an intake structure and sluiceway; (4) a 700-foot-long, 6-
foot-diameter, concrete-encased steel, buried penstock; (5) a
reinforced concrete underground powerhouse containing a single 1,250-
kilowatt tube-type generating unit; (6) a 600-foot-long, 2.4-kilovolt
(kV) transmission line; (7) a 2.4/13.2-kV transformer bank; and (8)
appurtenant facilities.
m. 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., scoping document) via the
internet through the Commission's Home Page (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 (P-2955). At
this time, the Commission has suspended access to the Commission's
Public Reference Room due to the proclamation declaring a National
Emergency concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) issued by
the President on March 13, 2020. For assistance, contact FERC at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call toll-free, (886) 208-3673 or (202)
502-8659 (TTY).
n. 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.
o. Scoping Process
The Commission staff intends to prepare a single Environmental
Assessment (EA) for the Normanskill Hydroelectric Project in accordance
with the National Environmental Policy Act. The EA will consider both
site-specific and cumulative environmental impacts and reasonable
alternatives to the proposed action.
Commission staff does not propose to conduct any on-site scoping
meetings at this time. Instead, we are soliciting comments,
recommendations, and information, on the Scoping Document (SD) issued
on September 8, 2020.
Copies of the SD outlining the subject areas to be addressed in the
EA were distributed to the parties on the Commission's mailing list and
the applicant's distribution list. Copies of the SD may be viewed on
the web 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. For assistance, call 1-866-208-3676 or
for TTY, (202) 502-8659.
Dated: September 8, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-20164 Filed 9-11-20; 8:45 am]
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