78316 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 234 / Friday, December 4, 2020 / Notices 

assistance, contact the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on December 15, 2020. 

Dated: November 30, 2020. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26711 Filed 12–3–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2530–057] 

Brookfield White Pine Hydro 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.: 2530–057. 

c. Date Filed: November 20, 2020. 

d. Applicant: Brookfield White Pine 

Hydro LLC (White Pine Hydro). 

e. Name of Project: Hiram 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The existing project is 

located on the Saco River in the towns 

of Hiram, Baldwin, Brownfield, and 

Denmark within Oxford and 

Cumberland Counties, Maine. The 

project does not affect federal lands. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Luke Anderson, 

Licensing Manager, Brookfield White 

Pine Hydro LLC, 150 Main Street, 

Lewiston, ME 04240; Telephone (207) 

755–5600. 

i. FERC Contact: Dianne Rodman, 

(202) 502–6077 or dianne.rodman@

ferc.gov. 

j. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

k. Project Description: The existing 

Hiram Project consists of a 255-acre, 7.5- 

mile-long impoundment at normal full 

pond elevation 349.0 feet; a 448-footlong dam located at the top of Great 

Falls fitted with an inflatable dam 

across the spillway crest; an intake that 

is integral to the dam; a 320-foot-long, 

15.5-foot-diameter penstock that 

bifurcates to one 170-foot-long by 10- 

foot-wide penstock (to Unit 1), and one 

80-foot-long by 15.5-foot-diameter 

penstock (to Unit 2); a powerhouse 

containing two turbine-generator units, 

Unit 1 rated at 2.4 megawatts (MW) and 

Unit 2 at 8.1 MW, for a total installed 

capacity of 10.5 MW; and appurtenant 

facilities. The project’s transmission 

facilities include: (1) Generator leads; 

(2) a substation located adjacent to, and 

north of, the powerhouse; and (3) a 

transmission circuit connecting the 

substation to a non-project switching 

station. The project generates an annual 

average of 45,142 megawatt-hours. 

White Pine Hydro proposes to 

continue to: operate the project in a runof-river mode from October 1 through 

November 15, with head pond 

drawdowns limited to 1 foot or less 

from the full pond elevation, or from the 

spillway crest when the inflatable dam 

is down. From November 16 through 

September 30, White Pine Hydro 

proposes to continue to cycle daily 

operations whereby it would turn on 

and off its generating units when inflow 

is sufficient to meet load demands, 

resulting in drawdown of the head pond 

by up to 2 feet from the full pond 

elevation during normal project 

operation, or from the spillway crest 

when the inflatable dam is down. 

During this period, White Pine Hydro 

would continue to provide a minimum 

flow of 300 cubic feet per second (cfs), 

of inflow, whichever is less below the 

powerhouse. 

White Pine Hydro proposes to remove 

from the current project boundary 152 

acres of land and 25 acres of water. 

l. 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 (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–2530). 

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, (866) 208–3676 or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY). 

m. 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. 

n. Procedural Schedule: 

The application will be processed 

according to the following preliminary 

Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to 

the schedule may be made as 

appropriate. 

Milestone Target Date 

Notice of Acceptance/ 

Notice of Ready for 

Environmental Analysis.

January 2021. 

Filing of recommendations, preliminary 

terms and conditions, 

and fishway prescriptions.

March 2021. 

Reply Comments due .. May 2021. 

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: November 30, 2020. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26712 Filed 12–3–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 3251–010] 

Cornell University; Notice of 

Availability of Environmental 

Assessment 

In accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission’s (Commission) 

regulations, 18 CFR part 380, the Office 

of Energy Projects has reviewed the 

application for a new license for the 

Cornell University Hydroelectric 

Project, located on Fall Creek in the City 

of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, 

and has prepared an Environmental 

Assessment (EA) for the project. The 

project does not occupy federal land. 

The EA contains staff’s analysis of the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

project and concludes that licensing the 

project, with appropriate environmental 

protective measures, would not 

constitute a major federal action that 

would significantly affect the quality of 

the human environment. 

The Commission provides all 

interested persons with an opportunity 

to view and/or print the EA via the 

internet through the Commission’s 

Home Page (http://www.ferc.gov/) using