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984-foot-long, 15-foot-wide upstream 

fishway; and (8) appurtenant facilities. 

Great River Hydro operates the project 

in a peaking mode in coordination with 

its upstream Wilder Project No. 1892 

and Bellows Falls Project No. 1855. 

Average annual generation is 

approximately 158,028 MW-hours. 

Great River Hydro is proposing changes 

to project operation that would reduce 

impoundment fluctuations and increase 

the stability of downstream flow 

releases relative to current project 

operation, including targeted water 

surface elevation levels and flow 

ramping rates. Great River Hydro also 

proposes several protection, mitigation, 

and enhancement measures for aquatic, 

terrestrial, cultural, recreation resources, 

and threatened and endangered species. 

The specific proposed changes are 

described in the amended application 

and the settlement agreement filed on 

August 4, 2022. 

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. 

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 

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 

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. 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 on the service list 

prepared by the Commission in this 

proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 

4.34(b) and 385.2010. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

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. 

o. 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. 

p. 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 motions to intervene, protests, comments, recommendations, preliminary terms 

and conditions, and preliminary 

fishway prescriptions.

April 2024. 

Deadline for filing reply comments ... May 2024. 

q. 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 22, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04176 Filed 2–28–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1855–050] 

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; Great River 

Hydro, LLC 

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.: 1855–050. 

c. Date Filed: May 1, 2017; material 

amendment filed December 7, 2020. 

d. Applicant: Great River Hydro, LLC 

(Great River Hydro). 

e. Name of Project: Bellows Falls 

Hydroelectric Project (project). 

f. Location: The project is located on 

the Connecticut River in Windsor and 

Windham Counties, Vermont, and 

Sullivan and Cheshire Counties, New 

Hampshire. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: John Ragonese, 

FERC License Manager, Great River 

Hydro, LLC, 40 Pleasant Street, Suite 

202, Portsmouth, NH 03801; (603) 498– 

2851 or jragonese@greatriverhydro.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Steve Kartalia, (202) 

502–6131 or stephen.kartalia@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing motions to 

intervene and protests, comments, 

recommendations, preliminary terms 

and conditions, and preliminary 

fishway 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 motions to 

intervene and protests, 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 


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paper copy. Submissions sent via the 

U.S. Postal Service must be addressed 

to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Submissions sent via any other carrier 

must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. 

Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins 

Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

The first page of any filing should 

include docket number P–1855–050. 

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. 

l. Project Description: The Bellows 

Falls Project consists of: (1) a 643-footlong, 30-foot-high concrete dam that 

includes: (a) two 18-foot-high, 115-footwide steel roller gates; (b) two 13-foothigh, 121-foot-wide stanchion 

flashboards; and (c) a 13-foot-high, 100- 

foot-wide stanchion flashboard; (2) a 26- 

mile-long, 2,804-acre impoundment 

with a useable storage volume of 7,467 

acre-feet between elevations 288.63 and 

291.63 feet National Geodetic Vertical 

Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29); (3) a 1,700- 

foot-long, 36- to 100-foot-wide, 29-footdeep stone-lined power canal; (4) a 

130.25-foot-wide concrete forebay that 

includes trashracks with 4-inch clear 

bar spacing; (5) a 186-foot-long, 106- 

foot-wide, 52-foot-high steel frame, 

brick powerhouse containing three 13.6- 

megawatt (MW) vertical Francis turbinegenerator units, for a total project 

capacity of 40.8 MW; (6) three 

approximately 20-foot-high, 31-footwide concrete draft tubes; (7) a 900-footlong tailrace; (8) a 12-foot-wide, 10-foothigh ice sluice; (9) three 80-foot-long, 

6.6-kilovolt generator leads that connect 

the turbine-generator units to two stepup transformers; (10) a 920-foot-long, 8- 

foot-wide fishway; (11) a concrete fish 

barrier dam in the bypassed reach; and 

(12) appurtenant facilities. 

Great River Hydro operates the project 

in a peaking mode in coordination with 

its upstream Wilder Project No. 1892 

and downstream Vernon Project No. 

1904. Average annual generation is 

approximately 239,070 MW-hours. 

Great River Hydro is proposing several 

protection, mitigation, and 

enhancement measures for aquatic, 

terrestrial, cultural, recreation resources, 

and threatened and endangered species, 

as well as changes to project operation 

that would reduce impoundment 

fluctuations and increase the stability of 

downstream flow releases relative to 

current project operation, including 

targeted water surface elevation levels 

and flow ramping rates. Great River 

Hydro also proposes to install a new 

turbine on the downstream side of the 

spillway that would generate power 

using the 300-cubic feet per second 

proposed minimum flow to the 

bypassed reach. The specific proposed 

changes are described in the amended 

application, the settlement agreement 

filed on August 4, 2022, and the revised 

relicensing proposal filed on June 8, 

2023. 

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. 

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 

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 

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. 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 on the service list 

prepared by the Commission in this 

proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 

4.34(b) and 385.2010. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

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. 

o. 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. 

p. 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 motions to intervene, protests, comments, recommendations, preliminary terms 

and conditions, and preliminary 

fishway prescriptions.

April 2024. 

Deadline for filing reply comments ... May 2024. 

q. 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 22, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04179 Filed 2–28–24; 8:45 am] 

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