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2 In an October 14, 2020 filing, Walden Hydro 

stated that although the total rated capacity of the 

project as stated in the license application is 2,110 

kW (980 kW, 630 kW, and 500 kW), the maximum 

achievable output from each turbine/generator unit 

is lower than the stated capacities. 

forebay; (4) a 6-foot-wide sluice gate for 

a minimum flow of 31 cfs; (5) four 40- 

foot-long steel penstocks; (6) a 60-footlong, 45-foot-wide, 29-foot-high 

powerhouse containing three horizontal 

double-runner Francis turbine units 

with actual ratings of 740 kilowatts 

(kW), 540 kW, and 360 kW, 

respectively, for a total capacity of 1,640 

kW; 2 (7) a 30-foot-long, 37-foot-wide 

tailrace; (8) a 230-foot-long bypassed 

reach; (9) a 115-foot-long transmission 

line from the project generators to a 

New York State Electric and Gas 

Corporation’s 4.16-kilovolt (kV) 

distribution line; (10) a substation with 

a single-phase 13.2-kV transformer; and 

(11) appurtenant facilities. 

Walden Hydro proposes to continue 

operating the project in a run-of-river 

mode, with no changes to the existing 

operation or facilities. 

m. A copy of the application is 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed 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. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. A copy is also available 

for inspection and reproduction at the 

address in item h above. 

All filings must (1) bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS’’, ‘‘REPLY 

COMMENTS’’, 

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS,’’ ‘‘TERMS 

AND CONDITIONS,’’ or 

‘‘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 submitting the 

filing; 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. 

Each filing must be accompanied by 

proof of service on all persons listed on 

the service list prepared by the 

Commission in this proceeding, in 

accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b) and 

385.2010. 

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. A license applicant must file no 

later than 60 days following the date of 

issuance of this notice: (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. 

o. Procedural schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following schedule. Revisions to 

the schedule will be made as 

appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Deadline for Filing Comments, 

Recommendations, and 

Agency Terms and Conditions/Prescriptions.

April 2021. 

Deadline for Filing Reply Comments.May 2021. 

Dated: February 10, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03156 Filed 2–16–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 4451–024] 

Green Mountain Power Corporation, 

City of Somersworth, New Hampshire; 

Notice of Application Ready for 

Environmental Analysis and Soliciting 

Comments, Recommendations, Terms 

and Conditions, and Prescriptions 

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.: 4451–024. 

c. Date filed: April 30, 2020. 

d. Applicants: Green Mountain Power 

and the City of Somersworth, New 

Hampshire. 

e. Name of Project: Lower Great Falls 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the Salmon Falls River 

in Strafford County, New Hampshire, 

and York County, Maine. The project 

does not occupy federal land. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. John 

Greenan, Green Mountain Power 

Corporation, 1252 Post Road, Rutland, 

VT 05701; Phone at (802) 770–2195, or 

email at john.greenan@

greenmountainpower.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Amanda Gill, (202) 

502–6773 or amanda.gill@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and 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 comments, 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and prescriptions 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–4451– 

024. 

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 

and is ready for environmental analysis 

at this time. 

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 the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (see 

Update to the Regulations Implementing 

the Procedural Provisions of the 

National Environmental Policy Act, 85 

FR 43,304). The Final Rule became 

effective on and applies to any NEPA 


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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 Lower Great Falls 

Hydroelectric Project relicensing. 

Commission staff intends to conduct its 

NEPA review in accordance with CEQ’s 

new regulations. 

l. Project Description: The existing 

Lower Great Falls Hydroelectric Project 

consists of: (1) A 297-foot-long, 32-foothigh stone masonry and concrete dam 

that includes the following sections: (a) 

a 176-foot-long spillway section with a 

crest elevation of 102.37 feet National 

Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 

(NGVD) and 4-foot-high flashboards at 

an elevation of 106.37 feet NGVD at the 

top of the flashboards; (b) a 50-foot-long 

left abutment section with two 8-footwide, 8-foot-high low-level outlet gates 

(only one of which is operational), that 

control flow into two 7-foot-diameter, 

40-foot-long outlet pipes; and (c) a 71- 

foot-long right abutment section; (2) a 

40-acre impoundment with a normal 

elevation of 106.37 feet NGVD; (3) a 

40.5-foot-wide, 20-foot-high intake 

structure with four 5-foot-wide, 10.5- 

foot-high steel frame gates and a 

trashrack with 2-inch bar spacing; (4) an 

8.5-foot-diameter, 120-foot-long steel 

penstock that bifurcates into a 5.3-footdiameter, 85-foot-long section and a 7.6- 

foot-diameter, 85-foot-long section; (5) 

an 8.5-foot-diameter, 140-foot-long steel 

penstock that bifurcates into a 7-footdiameter, 85-foot-long section and a 7.6- 

foot-diameter, 85-foot-long section; (6) a 

46-foot-long, 30-foot-wide concrete and 

brick powerhouse with two 260-kilowatt 

(kW) F-type Francis turbine-generator 

units and two 380-kW F-type Francis 

turbine-generator units, for a total 

installed capacity of 1.28 megawatts; (7) 

a 55-foot-long, 30-foot-wide tailrace; (8) 

a 260-foot-long underground 

transmission line that delivers power to 

a 4.16-kilovolt distribution line; and (9) 

appurtenant facilities. The project 

creates a 250-foot-long bypassed reach 

of the Salmon Falls River between the 

dam and the downstream end of the 

tailrace. 

The project operates as a run-of-river 

(ROR) facility with no storage or flood 

control capacity. The project 

impoundment is maintained at a 

flashboard crest elevation of 106.37 feet 

NGVD. The current license requires the 

project to maintain a continuous 

minimum flow of 6.05 cubic feet per 

second (cfs) or inflow, whichever is less, 

to the bypassed reach for the purpose of 

protecting and enhancing aquatic 

resources in the Salmon Falls River. The 

average annual generation production of 

the project was 3,916,825 kilowatt-hours 

from 2005 through 2018. 

The applicant proposes to: (1) 

Continue operating the project in a ROR 

mode; (2) provide a minimum flow of 30 

cfs or inflow, whichever is less, to the 

bypassed reach; (3) install an eel ramp 

for upstream eel passage at the project; 

(4) implement targeted nighttime 

turbine shutdowns to protect eels 

during downstream passage; and (5) 

install a downstream fish passage 

structure for eels and other fish species. 

m. A copy of the application can be 

viewed 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. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

All filings must: (1) Bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS,’’ ‘‘REPLY 

COMMENTS,’’ 

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS,’’ ‘‘TERMS 

AND CONDITIONS,’’ or 

‘‘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 submitting the 

filing; 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. Each filing must be 

accompanied by proof of service on all 

persons listed on the service list 

prepared by the Commission in this 

proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 

4.34(b) and 385.2010. 

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. The applicant must file no later 

than 60 days following the date of 

issuance of this notice: (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. 

o. Procedural Schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following schedule. Revisions to 

the schedule will be made as 

appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Deadline for filing comments, 

recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, 

and preliminary fishway prescriptions.

April 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. 

Dated: February 10, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03159 Filed 2–16–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings 

Take notice that the Commission has 

received the following Natural Gas 

Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings: 

Docket Number: PR21–28–000. 

Applicants: Columbia Gas of Ohio, 

Inc. 

Description: Tariff filing per 

284.123(b),(e)/: COH Rates effective Jan 

29 2021 to be effective 1/29/2021 under 

PR21–28. 

Filed Date: 2/9/2021. 

Accession Number: 202102095078. 

Comments/Protests Due: 5 p.m. ET 3/ 

2/2021. 

Docket Numbers: RP21–427–001. 

Applicants: LA Storage, LLC. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: Filing 

of Negotiated Rate, Conforming IW 

Agreements (Amendment) to be 

effective 1/1/2021. 

Filed Date: 2/8/21. 

Accession Number: 20210208–5127. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/22/21. 

Docket Numbers: RP20–1111–004. 

Applicants: Transcontinental Gas 

Pipe Line Company, LLC. 

Description: Compliance filing GT&C 

Section 49—Bid Evaluation— 

Compliance Filing 2 to be effective 3/ 

12/2021. 

Filed Date: 2/9/21. 

Accession Number: 20210209–5081. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/22/21. 

Docket Numbers: RP21–466–000. 

Applicants: Viking Gas Transmission 

Company. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: 

Negotiated Rate PAL Agreement—World 

Fuel to be effective 2/10/2021. 


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