78860 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 187 / Thursday, September 26, 2024 / Notices 

through the Commission’s online 

‘‘eLibrary’’ at http://

www.elibrary.ferc.gov/ by entering 

‘‘RM24–9’’ in the docket number field. 

For assistance, contact FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

Dated: September 19, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21997 Filed 9–25–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2411–030] 

Eagle Creek Schoolfield, LLC, City of 

Danville; 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.: 2411–030. 

c. Date filed: July 29, 2022. 

d. Applicant: Eagle Creek Schoolfield, 

LLC and City of Danville. 

e. Name of Project: Schoolfield 

Hydroelectric Project (Schoolfield 

Project or project). 

f. Location: The project is located on 

the Dan River at approximately river 

mile 60.1 in the county of Pittsylvania, 

near the City of Danville, Virginia. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Jody Smet, Vice 

President, Engineering and Regulatory 

Affairs, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, 

LLC, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 

1100W, Bethesda, Maryland 20814; 

phone at (804) 382–1764 or email at 

jody.smet@eaglecreekre.com; Joyce 

Foster, Director, Licensing and 

Compliance, Eagle Creek Renewable 

Energy, LLC, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, 

Suite 1100W, Bethesda, Maryland 

20814; phone at (804) 338–5110 or 

email at Joyce.Foster@eaglecreekre.com; 

and Mr. W. Clarke Whitfield, Junior, 

City Attorney, City of Danville, 427 

Patton Street, Room 421, Danville, 

Virginia 24541; phone at (434) 799–5122 

or email at whitfcc@danvilleva.gov. 

i. FERC Contact: Claire Rozdilski at 

(202) 502–8259; or email at 

claire.rozdilski@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, please send a paper 

copy via U.S. Postal Service to: DebbieAnne 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. All 

filings must clearly identify the project 

name and docket number on the first 

page: Schoolfield Hydroelectric Project 

(P–2411–030). 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all interveners 

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 intervener 

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. The project facilities consist of: (1) 

a 910-foot-long, 26.5-foot-high curved 

ogee-type concrete spillway dam with a 

crest elevation of 434.7 feet National 

Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 

(NGVD29) and topped with 3-foot-high 

wooden flashboards; (2) an 

impoundment having a surface area of 

287 acres and a gross storage capacity of 

approximately 1,952 acre-feet at the 

project’s normal maximum water 

surface elevation of 437.7 feet NGVD29; 

(3) a 224-foot-long by 35-foot-wide brick 

and concrete powerhouse that contains 

three identical 1.5-megawatt (MW) 

generating units (each generating unit is 

connected to two identical propellertype turbine units with a rated capacity 

of 1,006 horsepower each) for a total 

installed capacity of 4.5 MW; (4) a 72- 

foot-long headwall between the dam 

and the powerhouse with six low-level 

sluice gates and a non-operating fish 

ladder; (5) a tailrace that is 

approximately 160 feet long and 220 

feet wide and separated from main river 

flows by a concrete wall; (6) a 

substation; (7) generator leads and a 

step-up transformer; and (8) 

appurtenant facilities. 

The Schoolfield Project is operated in 

run-of-river mode, whereby outflow 

from the project approximates inflow, 

which may be suspended during 

reservoir drawdown and refilling for 

inspection of the City of Danville’s 

water supply intakes, which occurs on 

an as needed basis. During normal 

operation, a continuous minimum flow 

of 300 cubic feet per second, or inflow 

if less, is released downstream. The 

average annual generation at the project 

was 15,220 MW-hours from 2017 

through 2020. 

m. This filing 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. 

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 applicants 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 applicants. 

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. 

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 


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1 In accordance with the Council on 

Environmental Quality’s regulations, the unique 

identification number for documents relating to this 

environmental review is EAXX–019–20–000– 

1725537975. 40 CFR 1501.5(c)(4) (2024). 

1 In accordance with the Council on 

Environmental Quality’s regulations, the unique 

identification number for documents relating to this 

environmental review is EAXX–019–20–000– 

1725361895. 40 CFR 1501.5(c)(4) (2024). 

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 at 

OPP@ferc.gov. 

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 from the issuance date of 

this notice: (1) 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 a 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. 

Milestones Target date 

Deadline for filing comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and prescriptions ......................................... November 18, 2024. 

Deadline for filing reply comments ................................................................................................................................ January 2, 2025. 

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: September 19, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21994 Filed 9–25–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 96–048] 

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment 

On November 24, 2020, Pacific Gas 

and Electric Company (PG&E) filed a 

relicense application for the 162.72- 

megawatt Kerckhoff Hydroelectric 

Project No. 96 (project). The project is 

located on the San Juaquin River in 

Fresno and Madera Counties, California, 

about 25 miles northeast of the city of 

Fresno. The project currently occupies 

180.5 acres of Federal land administered 

by the U.S. Forest Service (Forest 

Service), 92.9 acres of Federal land 

managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM), and 54.7 acres of 

land managed by the U.S. Bureau of 

Reclamation (BOR). As proposed, the 

project would occupy 67.2 less acres of 

Federal land administered by the Forest 

Service, an additional 3.1 acres of land 

managed by the BLM, and an additional 

1.8 acre of land managed by the BOR. 

As part of its relicensing proposal, PG&E 

proposes to retire the project K1 

Powerhouse (one of two project 

powerhouses), thereby decreasing the 

generating capacity of the project from 

162.72 to 140 megawatts. 

In accordance with the Commission’s 

regulations, on June 27, 2024, 

Commission staff issued a notice that 

the project was ready for environmental 

analysis (REA Notice). Based on the 

information in the record, including 

comments filed on the REA Notice, staff 

does not anticipate that licensing the 

project would constitute a major Federal 

action significantly affecting the quality 

of the human environment. Therefore, 

staff intends to prepare an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) on the 

application to relicense the project.1

The EA will be issued and circulated 

for review by all interested parties. All 

comments filed on the EA will be 

analyzed by staff and considered in the 

Commission’s final licensing decision. 

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. 

The application will be processed 

according to the following schedule. 

The EA will be issued for a 30-day 

comment period. Revisions to the 

schedule may be made as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Commission issues 

EA.

September 19, 2025. 

Any questions regarding this notice 

may be directed to Evan Williams at 

(202) 502–8462 or evan.williams@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: September 20, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22082 Filed 9–25–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 10615–058] 

Tower Kleber Limited Partnership; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment 

On April 28, 2022, Tower Kleber 

Limited Partnership filed a relicense 

application for the 1.76-megawatt Tower 

and Kleber Hydroelectric Project No. 

10615. The project is located on the 

Black River in Cheboygan County, 

Michigan. 

In accordance with the Commission’s 

regulations, on May 10, 2024, 

Commission staff issued a notice that 

the project was ready for environmental 

analysis (REA Notice). Based on the 

information in the record, including 

comments filed on the REA Notice, staff 

does not anticipate that licensing the 

project would constitute a major federal 

action significantly affecting the quality 

of the human environment. Therefore, 

staff intends to prepare an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) on the 

application to relicense the project.1

The EA will be issued and circulated 

for review by all interested parties. All 

comments filed on the EA will be 

analyzed by staff and considered in the 

Commission’s final licensing decision. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 


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