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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 Accepted for Filing, 

Soliciting Motions To Intervene and 

Protests, Ready for Environmental 

Analysis, and Soliciting Comments, 

Recommendations, Preliminary Terms 

and Conditions, and Preliminary 

Fishway Prescriptions 

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. Applicants: 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: Jody J. Smet, 

Vice President Regulatory Affairs, 116 N 

State Street, P.O. Box 167, Neshkoro, WI 

54960; Telephone (804) 739–0654. 

i. FERC Contact: Nicholas Ettema, 

(312) 596–4447 or nicholas.ettema@

ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing motions to 

intervene and protests, comments, 

recommendations, preliminary terms 

and conditions, and preliminary 

prescriptions: 60 days from the issuance 

date of this notice; reply comments are 

due 105 days from the issuance date of 

this notice. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at https:// 

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

QuickComment.aspx. 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–9690– 

115. 

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 has been accepted 

for filing and is now ready for 

environmental analysis. 

The Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ) issued a final rule on July 

15, 2020, revising the regulations under 

40 CFR parts 1500–1518 that federal 

agencies use to implement NEPA (see 

Update to the Regulations Implementing 

the Procedural Provisions of the 

National Environmental Policy Act, 85 

FR 43304). The Final Rule became 

effective on and applies to any NEPA 

process begun after September 14, 2020. 

An agency may also apply the 

regulations to ongoing activities and 

environmental documents begun before 

September 14, 2020, which includes the 

proposed Rio Project. Commission staff 

intends to conduct its NEPA review in 

accordance with CEQ’s new regulations. 

l. 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, gravitytype concrete spillway with a maximum 

height of 101 feet at a crest elevation of 

810 feet National Geodetic Vertical 

Datum of 1929 (NGVD29); (3) a 22-footlong, concrete gravity intake structure; 

(4) a 99-foot-long, concrete gravity nonoverflow section; (5) a 540-foot-long, 

earth-fill embankment; (6) a 102-footlong, 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 22- 

foot-square reinforced-concrete 

gatehouse with a 14-foot-high, 11-footwide steel intake gate; (10) a 15-footwide by 46-foot-high trashrack with 2.9- 

inch bar clear spacing at the entrance to 

the intake; (11) a 22-foot-long, 12.5-foothigh, and 9.5-foot-wide reinforced 

concrete intake structure; (12) a 90-footlong, 11-foot-diameter, steel-elbow 

penstock that leads from the intake to a 

7,000-foot-long, 11-foot-diameter steel 

penstock connected to a 40-footdiameter by 65-foot-high steel surge 

tank; (13) a 10-foot-diameter, 290-footlong underground steel penstock from 

the surge tank branching into two 7- 

foot-diameter, 90-foot-long steel 

penstocks leading to the main 

powerhouse; (14) an 82-foot-long by 30- 

feet-wide by 33-foot-high brick and steel 

main powerhouse containing two 5 

megawatt (MW) vertical-axis turbines; 

(15) a 100-foot-long, 4-foot-diameter, 

high density polyethylene penstock that 

branches off the main penstock about 

300 feet downstream of the dam and 

leads to 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; (16) 

a 45-foot-wide by 225-foot-long tailrace 

with a 65-foot-long concrete weir from 

the main powerhouse; (17) a 10-footwide by 38-foot-long tailrace from the 

minimum flow powerhouse; (18) a 150- 

foot-long, 4-kilovolt (kV) underground 

transmission line from the main 

powerhouse to an adjacent substation; 

and (19) a 7,600-foot-long, 4-kV 

aboveground transmission line from the 

minimum flow powerhouse to the 

substation. 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. 

m. 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. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

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. Anyone may submit comments, a 

protest, or a motion to intervene in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 

385.210, .211, and .214. In determining 

the appropriate action to take, the 

Commission will consider all protests or 

other comments filed, but only those 

who file a motion to intervene in 

accordance with the Commission’s 


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Rules may become a party to the 

proceeding. Any comments, protests, or 

motions to intervene must be received 

on or before the specified comment date 

for the particular application. 

All filings must (1) bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘PROTEST’’, ‘‘MOTION 

TO INTERVENE’’, ‘‘COMMENTS,’’ 

‘‘REPLY COMMENTS,’’ 

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS,’’ 

‘‘PRELIMINARY TERMS AND 

CONDITIONS,’’ or ‘‘PRELIMINARY 

FISHWAY PRESCRIPTIONS’’; (2) set 

forth in the heading the name of the 

applicant and the project number of the 

application to which the filing 

responds; (3) furnish the name, address, 

and telephone number of the person 

protesting or intervening; and (4) 

otherwise comply with the requirements 

of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. 

All comments, recommendations, terms 

and conditions or prescriptions must set 

forth their evidentiary basis and 

otherwise comply with the requirements 

of 18 CFR 4.34(b). Agencies may obtain 

copies of the application directly from 

the applicant. A copy of any protest or 

motion to intervene must be served 

upon each representative of the 

applicant specified in the particular 

application. A copy of all other filings 

in reference to this application must be 

accompanied by proof of service on all 

persons listed in the service list 

prepared by the Commission in this 

proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 

4.34(b) and 385.2010. 

o. Procedural Schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following schedule. Revisions to 

the schedule may be made as 

appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Deadline for filing comments, recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and preliminary fishway prescriptions ............ March 2021. 

Deadline for Filing Reply Comments .................................................................................................................................................. May 2021. 

p. Final amendments to the 

application must be filed with the 

Commission no later than 30 days from 

the issuance date of this notice. 

q. A license applicant must file no 

later than 60 days following the date of 

issuance of the notice of acceptance and 

ready for environmental analysis 

provided for in § 5.22: (1) A copy of the 

water quality certification; (2) a copy of 

the request for certification, including 

proof of the date on which the certifying 

agency received the request; or (3) 

evidence of waiver of water quality 

certification. Please note that the 

certification request must be sent to the 

certifying authority and to the 

Commission concurrently. 

Dated: January 29, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02333 Filed 2–3–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 3273–024] 

Chittenden Falls Hydropower, Inc.; 

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 subsequent license for 

the Chittenden Falls Hydroelectric 

Project No. 3273 (Chittenden Falls 

Project), located on Kinderhook Creek 

near the Town of Stockport, Columbia 

County, New York, and has prepared an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) for the 

project. 

The EA contains staff’s analysis of the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

Chittenden Falls 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 

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 declaring a 

National Emergency concerning the 

Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), 

issued by the President on March 13, 

2020. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, (202) 

502–8659. 

You may also register online at 

https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

eSubscription.aspx to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

Any comments should be filed within 

45 days from the date of this notice. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments 

using the Commission’s eFiling system 

at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

eFiling.aspx. Commenters can submit 

brief comments up to 6,000 characters, 

without prior registration, using the 

eComment system at https://

ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

QuickComment.aspx. You must include 

your name and contact information at 

the end of your comments. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support. 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–3273–024. 

For further information, contact 

Monir Chowdhury at (202) 502–6736, or 

at Monir.Chowdhury@ferc.gov. 

Dated: January 29, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02332 Filed 2–3–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 


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