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6Hand delivered submissions in docketed 

proceedings should be delivered to Health and 

Human Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. 

7The applicant has 15 days from the submittal of 

a motion to intervene to file a written objection to 

the intervention. 

8 18 CFR 385.214(c)(1). 

9 18 CFR 385.214(b)(3) and (d). 

1 In a February 3, 2021 filing, the Commission 

was notified that Enel Green Power North America, 

Inc. transferred all its ownership interests for 

Walden Hydro, LLC to Hydroland, Inc. 

address below.6 Your motion to 

intervene must reference the Project 

docket number (CP21–44–000). 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic filing of motions to intervene 

(option 1 above) and has eFiling staff 

available to assist you at (202) 502–8258 

or FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. 

Motions to intervene must be served 

on the applicant either by mail or email 

at: 488 8th Avenue, San Diego, 

California 92101 or at jharrison@

sempraglobal.com. Any subsequent 

submissions by an intervenor must be 

served on the applicant and all other 

parties to the proceeding. Contact 

information for parties can be 

downloaded from the service list at the 

eService link on FERC Online. Service 

can be via email with a link to the 

document. 

All timely, unopposed 7 motions to 

intervene are automatically granted by 

operation of Rule 214(c)(1).8 Motions to 

intervene that are filed after the 

intervention deadline are untimely, and 

may be denied. Any late-filed motion to 

intervene must show good cause for 

being late and must explain why the 

time limitation should be waived and 

provide justification by reference to 

factors set forth in Rule 214(d) of the 

Commission’s Rules and Regulations.9

A person obtaining party status will be 

placed on the service list maintained by 

the Secretary of the Commission and 

will receive copies (paper or electronic) 

of all documents filed by the applicant 

and by all other parties. 

Tracking the Proceeding 

Throughout the proceeding, 

additional information about the project 

will be available from the Commission’s 

Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208– 

FERC, or on the FERC website at 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link 

as described above. The eLibrary link 

also provides access to the texts of all 

formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission offers a 

free service called eSubscription which 

allows you to keep track of all formal 

issuances and submittals in specific 

dockets. This can reduce the amount of 

time you spend researching proceedings 

by automatically providing you with 

notification of these filings, document 

summaries, and direct links to the 

documents. For more information and to 

register, go to www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/ 

esubscription.asp. 

Intervention Deadline: 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on March 3, 2021. 

Dated: February 10, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03157 Filed 2–16–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 4428–011] 

Walden Hydro, LLC; 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: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: P–4428–011. 

c. Date filed: May 29, 2020. 

d. Applicant: Walden Hydro, LLC. 

e. Name of Project: Walden 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the Wallkill River, in 

the Village of Walden, Orange 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: Tim Carlsen, 

CEO, Hydroland, Inc.,1 403 Madison 

Ave. #240, Bainbridge Island, WA 

98110; Phone at (844) 493–7612 or 

email at tim@hydrolandcorp.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Samantha Pollak at 

(202) 502–6419, or samantha.pollak@

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 scoping 

comments 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, 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–4428–011. 

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 has been accepted 

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 43,304). 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 Walden Project. Commission 

staff intends to conduct its NEPA review 

in accordance with CEQ’s new 

regulations. 

l. The Walden Project consists of: (1) 

A 417-foot-long (consisting of 165-footlong east-west and 252-foot-long northsouth portions), V-shaped concrete dam 

topped with 2-foot-high flashboards; (2) 

an impoundment with a surface area of 

69 acres at the normal pool elevation of 

321.3 feet National Geodetic Vertical 

Datum of 1929 (NGVD29); (3) an intake 

structure consisting of a 252-foot-long, 

56-foot-wide, 18-foot-deep canal 


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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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