Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 162 / Monday, August 24, 2009 / Notices 42659 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13565–000] 

Claire Fay and Charles Hotchkin; 

Notice of Application Tendered for 

Filing With the Commission, Soliciting 

Additional Study Requests, Intent To 

Waive Three Stage Consultation, and 

Establishing an Expedited Schedule 

for Processing 

August 14, 2009. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Exemption 

from licensing. 

b. Project No.: P–13565–000. 

c. Date filed: August 4, 2009. 

d. Applicant: Claire Fay and Charles 

Hotchkin. 

e. Name of Project: Alder Brook Mini 

Hydro Project. 

f. Location: On the Alder Brook, near 

the town of Richford, Franklin County, 

Vermont. This project does not occupy 

federal lands. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utilities 

Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, 16 

U.S.C. 2705, 2708. 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Charles 

Hotchkin, 321 Prive Hill Road, Richford, 

Vermont 05476. (802) 933–2217. 

i. FERC Contact: Michael Spencer, 

michael.spencer@ferc.gov (202) 502– 

6093. 

j. Cooperating Agencies: We are 

asking Federal, state, and local agencies 

and Indian tribes with jurisdiction and/ 

or special expertise with respect to 

environmental issues to cooperate with 

us in the preparation of the 

environmental document. Agencies who 

would like to request cooperating status 

should follow the instructions for filing 

comments described in item k below. 

k. Pursuant to Section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 

CFR of the Commission’s regulations, if 

any resource agency, Indian tribe, or 

person believes that an additional 

scientific study should be conducted in 

order to form a factual basis for 

complete analysis of the application on 

its merits, the resource agency, Indian 

tribe, or person must file a request for 

the study with the Commission no later 

than 60 days from the application filing 

date, and serve a copy of the request on 

the applicant. 

l. Deadline for filing additional study 

requests and requests for cooperating 

agency status: With this notice, we are 

waiving the 60-day timeframe in Section 

4.32(b)(7) of 18 CFR for requesting 

additional studies and requests for 

cooperating agency status. Instead, 

requests for studies and cooperating 

agency status will be due 30 days from 

the date of this notice. 

Additional study requests and 

requests for cooperating agency status 

may be filed electronically via the 

Internet in lieu of paper. The 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ferconline.asp) 

under the ‘‘e-filing’’ link. For a simpler 

method of submitting text only 

comments, click on ‘‘Quick Comment.’’ 

All paper documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filled with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

m. The application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. Project Description: The Alder 

Brook Mini Hydro Project would consist 

of the following: (1) A 4-foot-wide by 8- 

foot-long by 3-foot-high drop inlet to be 

located below the Town of Richford’s 

culvert on Alder Brook; (2) a 12-inchdiameter, 250-foot-long penstock; (3) a 

shed containing one generating unit 

with total installed generating capacity 

of 7.0 kilowatts (kW); and (4) a 170-footlong transmission line from the shed to 

the barn. The project would have an 

average annual generation of 37,621 

kilowatt-hours. 

o. A copy of the application is on file 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. This filing may 

also 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 

filed to access the documents. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at (866) 208–3676 or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. A copy is also 

available for inspection and 

reproduction at the address in item h 

above. 

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. 

p. With this notice, we are initiating 

consultation with the Vermont State 

Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as 

required by section 106, National 

Historic Preservation Act, and the 

regulations of the Advisory Council on 

Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4. 

q. Procedural schedule and final 

amendments: We intend to accept the 

consultation that has occurred on this 

project during the pre-filing period as 

satisfying our requirements for the 

standard 3-stage consultation process 

under 18 CFR 4.38 and for National 

Environmental Policy Act scoping. In 

addition, Commission staff propose to 

issue a single environmental assessment 

rather than issue a draft and final EA. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–20234 Filed 8–21–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13554–000] 

Free Flow Power Ohio River 17, LLC; 

Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

August 14, 2009. 

On July 14, 2009, Free Flow Power 

Ohio River 17, LLC filed an application 

for a preliminary permit, pursuant to 

section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, 

proposing to study the feasibility of the 

Stouts Pass Hydrokinetic Energy Project, 

located on the Atchafalaya River, Saint 

Mary Parish, Louisiana. The sole 

purpose of a preliminary permit, if 

issued, is to grant the permit holder 

priority to file a license application 

during the permit term. A preliminary 

permit does not authorize the permit 

holder to perform any land disturbing 

activities or otherwise enter upon lands 

or waters owned by others without the 

owners’ express permission. 

The proposed project would consist 

of: (1) 720 turbine-generator units 

configured in a series of turbine arrays 

which in turn will be grouped to form 

turbine fields; (2) a combination of 

freestanding pilings, a floating bargelike platform, or existing shore 

infrastructure such as dock pilings onto 

which the turbine arrays will be 

moored; (3) submersible electric cables 

interconnecting the arrays within each 

turbine field and transmitting the 

turbine field’s generation to a shore 

station; (4) several shore stations each 

consisting of less than 100 square 

meters which will transition the 

submersible cabling to the overhead 

transmission; (5) a 2.6-mile, 69 kV line 

interconnecting the shore stations and 

delivering power to the project 

substation; and (6) appurtenant 


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facilities. The proposed project would 

generate about 63 gigawatt-hours 

annually. 

Applicant contact: Ramya 

Swaminathan, Free Flow Power 

Corporation, 33 Commercial Street, 

Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930, 

phone: (978) 226–1531. 

FERC Contact: Sergiu Serban, 202– 

502–6211. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Comments, motions to intervene, 

notices of intent, and competing 

applications may be filed electronically 

via the Internet. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site under the 

‘‘e-Filing’’ link. If unable to be filed 

electronically, documents may be paperfiled. To paper-file, an original and eight 

copies should be mailed to: Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. For 

more information on how to submit 

these types of filings please go to the 

Commission’s Web site located at 

http://www.ferc.gov/filingcomments.asp. More information about 

this project, including a copy of the 

application, can be viewed or printed on 

the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link of Commission’s 

Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number 

(P–13554) in the docket number field to 

access the document. For assistance, 

call toll-free 1–866–208–3372. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–20233 Filed 8–21–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13553–000] 

Free Flow Power Ohio River 16, LLC; 

Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

August 14, 2009. 

On July 14, 2009, Free Flow Power 

Ohio River 16, LLC filed an application 

for a preliminary permit, pursuant to 

section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, 

proposing to study the feasibility of the 

Tiger Island Hydrokinetic Energy 

Project, located on the Atchafalaya 

River, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. 

The sole purpose of a preliminary 

permit, if issued, is to grant the permit 

holder priority to file a license 

application during the permit term. A 

preliminary permit does not authorize 

the permit holder to perform any land 

disturbing activities or otherwise enter 

upon lands or waters owned by others 

without the owners’ express permission. 

The proposed project would consist 

of: (1) 440 turbine-generator units 

configured in a series of turbine arrays 

which in turn will be grouped to form 

turbine fields; (2) a combination of 

freestanding pilings, a floating bargelike platform, or existing shore 

infrastructure such as dock pilings onto 

which the turbine arrays will be 

moored; (3) submersible electric cables 

interconnecting the arrays within each 

turbine field and transmit the turbine 

field’s generation to a shore station; (4) 

several shore stations each consisting of 

less than 100 square meters which will 

transition the submersible cabling to the 

overhead transmission; (5) a 1.2 mile, 69 

kV line interconnecting the shore 

stations and delivering power to the 

project substation; and (6) appurtenant 

facilities. The proposed project would 

generate about 39 gigawatt-hours 

annually. 

Applicant contact: Ramya 

Swaminathan, Free Flow Power 

Corporation, 33 Commercial Street, 

Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930, 

phone: (978) 226–1531. 

FERC Contact: Sergiu Serban, 202– 

502–6211. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Comments, motions to intervene, 

notices of intent, and competing 

applications may be filed electronically 

via the Internet. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site under the 

‘‘e-Filing’’ link. If unable to be filed 

electronically, documents may be paperfiled. To paper-file, an original and eight 

copies should be mailed to: Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. For 

more information on how to submit 

these types of filings please go to the 

Commission’s Web site located at 

http://www.ferc.gov/filingcomments.asp. More information about 

this project, including a copy of the 

application, can be viewed or printed on 

the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link of Commission’s 

Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number 

(P–13553) in the docket number field to 

access the document. For assistance, 

call toll-free 1–866–208–3372. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–20232 Filed 8–21–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13552–000] 

Free Flow Power Ohio River 15, LLC; 

Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

August 14, 2009. 

On July 14, 2009, Free Flow Power 

Ohio River 15, LLC filed an application 

for a preliminary permit, pursuant to 

section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, 

proposing to study the feasibility of the 

South Myette Point Hydrokinetic Energy 

Project, located on the Atchafalaya 

River, Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana. The 

sole purpose of a preliminary permit, if 

issued, is to grant the permit holder 

priority to file a license application 

during the permit term. A preliminary 

permit does not authorize the permit 

holder to perform any land disturbing 

activities or otherwise enter upon lands 

or waters owned by others without the 

owners’’ express permission. 

The proposed project would consist 

of: (1) 680 turbine-generator units 

configured in a series of turbine arrays 

which in turn will be grouped to form 

turbine fields; (2) a combination of 

freestanding pilings, a floating bargelike platform, or existing shore 

infrastructure such as dock pilings onto 

which the turbine arrays will be 

moored; (3) submersible electric cables 

interconnecting the arrays within each 

turbine field and transmit the turbine 

field’s generation to a shore station; (4) 

several shore stations each consisting of 

less than 100 square meters which will 

transition the submersible cabling to the 

overhead transmission; (5) a 2.4 mile, 69 

kV line interconnecting the shore 

stations and delivering power to the 

project substation; and (6) appurtenant 

facilities. The proposed project would 

generate about 59 gigawatt-hours 

annually. 

Applicant contact: Ramya 

Swaminathan, Free Flow Power 

Corporation, 33 Commercial Street, 

Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930, 

phone: (978) 226–1531. 


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