Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 41 / Thursday, February 29, 2024 / Notices 14819 

1 Venture Global Calcasieu Pass, LLC, 166 FERC 

¶ 61,144 (2019) (Authorization Order) (requiring the 

facilities to be constructed by February 21, 2024). 

2Contested proceedings are those where an 

intervenor disputes any material issue of the filing. 

18 CFR 385.2201(c)(1) (2023). 

3Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC 

¶ 61,144, at P 40 (2020). 

4 Id. 

5 Id. 

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. 

Dated: February 22, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04182 Filed 2–28–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. CP15–550–002; CP15–550– 

000] 

Notice of Request for Extension of 

Time; Venture Global Calcasieu Pass, 

LLC 

Take notice that on February 15, 2024, 

Venture Global Calcasieu Pass, LLC 

(Venture Global) requested that the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission) grant an extension of time 

(2023 Extension of Time Request), until 

February 21, 2025, to construct and 

make available for service a new 

liquefied natural gas (LNG) export 

terminal and associated facilities along 

the Calcasieu Ship Channel in Cameron 

Parish, Louisiana, authorized by the 

Commission in Docket No. CP15–550– 

000.1

This notice establishes a 15-calendar 

day intervention and comment period 

deadline. Any person wishing to 

comment on Venture Global’s request 

for an extension of time may do so. No 

reply comments or answers will be 

considered. If you wish to obtain the 

rights afforded parties to the above 

captioned proceedings, you should, on 

or before the comment date stated 

below, file a motion to intervene in 

accordance with the requirements of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the Natural 

Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10). 

As a matter of practice, the 

Commission itself generally acts on 

requests for extensions of time to 

complete construction for Natural Gas 

Act facilities when such requests are 

contested.2 For those extension requests 

that are contested, the Commission will 

aim to issue an order acting on the 

request within 45 days.3 The 

Commission will address all arguments 

relating to whether the applicant has 

demonstrated there is good cause to 

grant the extension.4 The Commission 

will not consider arguments that seek to 

re-litigate the issuance of the 

Authorization Order, including whether 

the Commission properly found the 

project to be not inconsistent with the 

public interest and whether the 

Commission’s environmental analysis 

for the authorization complied with the 

National Environmental Policy Act.5

The Director of the Office of Energy 

Projects, or his or her designee, will act 

on all of those extension requests that 

are uncontested. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, The Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document 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. For assistance, contact 

FERC at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov 

or call toll-free, (866) 208–3676 or TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests, 

and interventions in lieu of paper using 

the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://

www.ferc.gov. In lieu of electronic filing, 

you may submit a paper copy which 

must reference the Project docket 

number. 

To file via USPS: Debbie-Anne A. 

Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

To file via any other courier: DebbieAnne A. Reese, Acting Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. 

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. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on, March 8, 2024. 

Dated: February 22, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04183 Filed 2–28–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1892–030] 

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.: 1892–030. 

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: Wilder 

Hydroelectric Project (project). 

f. Location: The project is located on 

the Connecticut River in Orange and 

Windsor Counties, Vermont, and 

Grafton County, 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. 


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14820 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 41 / Thursday, February 29, 2024 / Notices 

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: 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–1892–030. 

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 Wilder 

Project consists of: (1) a 1,546-foot-long, 

59-foot-high, concrete dam that 

includes: (a) a 400-foot-long nonoverflow, earthen embankment (north 

embankment); (b) a 232-foot-long nonoverflow, concrete bulkhead; (c) a 208- 

foot-long concrete forebay; (d) a 526- 

foot-long concrete, gravity spillway that 

includes: (i) six 30-foot-high, 36-footlong tainter gates; (ii) four 17-foot-high, 

50-foot-wide stanchion flashboards; (iii) 

a 15-foot-high, 20-foot-long skimmer 

gate (north gate); and (iv) a 10-foot-high, 

10-foot-long skimmer gate (south gate); 

and (e) a 180-foot-long non-overflow, 

earthen embankment (south 

embankment); (2) a 45-mile-long, 3,100- 

acre impoundment with a useable 

storage volume of 13,350 acre-feet 

between elevations 380 and 385 feet 

National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 

1929 (NGVD 29); (3) four approximately 

25-foot-high, 20-foot-wide trashracks 

with 5-inch clear bar spacing and one 

approximately 28-foot-high, 20-footwide trashrack with 1.625-inch clear bar 

spacing; (4) a 181-foot-long, 50-footwide, 50-foot-high steel frame, brick 

powerhouse containing two 16.2- 

megawatt (MW) adjustable-blade Kaplan 

turbine-generator units and one 3.2–MW 

vertical Francis turbine-generator unit 

for a total project capacity of 35.6 MW; 

(5) three concrete draft tubes ranging 

from 9.5 to 20.5 feet in diameter; (6) 

13.8-kilovolt generator leads that 

connect the turbine-generator units to 

two substation transformers; (7) an 

approximately 580-foot-long, 6-footwide fishway; and (8) appurtenant 

facilities. 

Great River Hydro operates the project 

in a peaking mode in coordination with 

its downstream Bellows Falls Project 

No. 1855 and Vernon Project No. 1904. 

Average annual generation is 

approximately 156,303 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. 


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Dated: February 22, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04177 Filed 2–28–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1889–085] 

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; FirstLight MA 

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.: 1889–085. 

c. Date Filed: April 29, 2016; material 

amendment filed December 4, 2020. 

d. Applicant: FirstLight MA Hydro 

LLC (FirstLight). 

e. Name of Project: Turners Falls 

Hydroelectric Project (project). 

f. Location: The project is located on 

the Connecticut River in Windham 

County, Vermont, Cheshire County, 

New Hampshire, and Franklin County, 

Massachusetts. The current project 

boundary includes the approximately 

20-acre Silvio Conte Anadromous Fish 

Laboratory, which is administered by 

the U.S. Geological Survey. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Alan 

Douglass, Regulatory Compliance 

Manager, 99 Millers Falls Road, 

Northfield, MA 01360; (413) 659–4416 

or alan.douglass@firstlightpower.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 

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–1889–085. 

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 Turners 

Falls Project consists of: (1) a 630-footlong, 35-foot-high dam (Montague dam) 

that includes: (a) four 120-foot-wide, 

13.25-foot-high bascule gates; and (b) a 

170-foot-long fixed section with a crest 

elevation of 185.5 feet National Geodetic 

Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29); (2) 

a 493-foot-long, 55-foot-high dam (Gill 

dam) that includes: (a) three 40-footwide, 39-foot-high tainter gates; and (b) 

97.3- and 207.5-foot-long fixed sections 

with crest elevations of 185.5 feet NGVD 

29; (3) a 2,110-acre impoundment with 

a useable storage volume of 16,150 acrefeet between elevations 176.0 feet and 

185.0 feet NGVD 29; (4) a 214-foot-long, 

33-foot-high gatehouse that includes six 

9-foot-wide, 10.66-foot-high gates and 

nine 9.5-foot-wide, 12.6-foot-high gates; 

(5) a 2.1-mile-long, 120- to 920-footwide, 17- to 30-foot-deep power canal; 

(6) a 700-foot-long, 100-foot-wide, 16- to 

23-foot-deep branch canal; (7) the 

Station No.1 generating facility that 

includes: (a) eight 15-foot-wide bays 

with trashracks with 2.625-inch clearbar spacing; (b) four 100-foot-long, 13.1- 

to 14-foot-diameter penstocks; (c) a 134- 

foot-long, 64-foot-wide powerhouse that 

contains five turbine-generator units 

with a total installed capacity of 5.693 

megawatts (MW); (d) four 21-foot-long, 

6.5-foot-diameter draft tubes; (e) five 40- 

to 70-foot-long, 2.4-kilovolt (kV) 

generator leads that connect the turbinegenerator units to a generator bus; (f) a 

110-foot-long, 2.4-kV generator lead that 

connects the generator bus to a 

substation; and (g) a 20-foot-long, 2.4-kV 

generator lead that connects the 

substation to three transformers; (8) the 

Cabot Station generating facility that 

includes: (a) an intake structure with 

217-foot-wide, 31-foot-high trashracks 

with 0.94-inch and 3.56-inch clear-bar 

spacing; (b) six 70-foot-long penstocks; 

(c) a 235-foot-long, 79.5-foot-wide 

powerhouse that contains six turbinegenerator units with a total installed 

capacity of 62.016 MW; (d) six 41-footlong, 12.5- to 14.5-foot-diameter draft 

tubes; (e) six 80- to 250-foot-long, 13.8- 

kV generator leads that connect the 

turbine-generator units to a generator 

bus; (f) a 60-foot-long, 13.8-kV generator 

lead that connects the generator bus to 

the powerhouse roof; and (g) a 200-footlong, 13.8-kV generator lead that 

connects to a transformer; (9) eight 13.6- 

foot-wide, 16.7-foot-high power canal 

spillway gates that are adjacent to Cabot 

Station; (10) a 16.2-foot-wide, 13.1-foothigh log sluice gate in the Cabot Station 

forebay with an 8-foot-wide weir for 

downstream fish passage; (11) a 200- 

foot-long, 7-foot-diameter drainage 

tunnel (Keith Drainage Tunnel) and 

headgate; (12) a 955-foot-long, 5-footdiameter lower drainage tunnel; (13) an 

850-foot-long, 16-foot-wide, 10-foot-high 

fishway (Cabot fishway); (14) a 500-footlong, 10-foot-wide, 10-foot-high fishway 

(Spillway fishway); (15) a 225-foot-long, 

16-foot-wide, 17.5-foot-high fishway 

(Gatehouse fishway); and (16) 

appurtenant facilities. 

The Turners Falls Project operates in 

peaking and run-of-river modes, 

depending on inflows. Average annual 

generation from 2011–2019 was 

approximately 332,351 MW-hours. 

FirstLight proposes three changes to 

the current project boundary: (1) remove 

0.2 acre of land associated with 

residential property; (2) add 0.8 acre of 

land for recreational purposes; and (3) 

remove 20.1 acres of land associated 

with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Silvio 

Conte Anadromous Fish Laboratory. 

FirstLight proposes to construct new 

fish passage facilities and recreational 

access trails. FirstLight also proposes 

changes to project operation that would 

generally reduce impoundment 

fluctuations and increase flow releases 

to the portion of the Connecticut River 

that is bypassed by the project. The 

specific proposed changes are described 


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