14976 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 62 / Thursday, April 2, 2009 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2660–024] 

Domtar Maine Corporation; Notice of 

Application Tendered for Filing With 

the Commission, Soliciting Additional 

Study Requests, and Establishing 

Procedual Schedule for Licensing and 

Deadline for Submission of Final 

Amendments 

March 26, 2009. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New License. 

b. Project No.: 2660–024. 

c. Date Filed: March 19, 2009. 

d. Applicant: Domtar Maine 

Corporation. 

e. Name of Project: Forest City Project. 

f. Location: On Forest City Stream, a 

portion of the St. Croix River in 

Washington and Aroostock Counties, 

Maine and Canada. The project does not 

affect federal lands. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Scott Beal, 

Domtar Maine Corporation, 144 Main 

Street, Baileyville, Maine 04694 (207) 

427–4004. 

i. FERC Contact: John Costello, (202) 

502–6119 or john.costello@ferc.gov. 

j. Cooperating agencies: We are asking 

Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies 

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 such requests 

described in item l below. Cooperating 

agencies should note the Commission’s 

policy that agencies that cooperate in 

the preparation of the environmental 

document cannot also intervene. See, 94 

FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001). 

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 an adequate factual basis 

for a complete analysis of the 

application on its merit, the resource 

agency, Indian Tribe, or person must file 

a request for a study with the 

Commission not later than 60 days from 

the date of filing of the application, and 

serve a copy of the request on the 

applicant. 

l. Deadline for filing additional study 

requests and requests for cooperating 

agency status: May 18, 2009. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

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) under the ‘‘eFiling’’ link. 

m. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. The existing Forest City Project 

comprise an earth embankment dam 

containing a gated timber spillway and 

two impoundments (East Grand and 

North lakes). There are no generating 

facilities located at the project. 

Approximately one-quarter of the 544- 

foot-long dam (i.e., approximately 147 

feet) is within the United States. The 

United States (western) section of the 

dam is an earth embankment measuring 

approximately 110 feet long with a 

maximum height of 12 feet. 

The center section of the dam (i.e., 

that portion located in the river 

channel) contains a 55-foot-wide gated 

timber crib spillway structure with three 

wooden gates (gates 1 and 2 are located 

within the United States). The spillway 

is approximately 33 feet wide with an 

elevation of 426.61 feet. A 5-foot-wide 

vertical slot design fishway is located in 

Canada. The eastern (Canadian) 

embankment is an earth structure 

approximately 397 feet long, 30 feet 

long with a crest elevation of 437.27 feet 

msl. 

No new construction is planned. 

o. 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 Web site 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 at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(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 Maine 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 at section 

800.4. 

q. Procedural schedule and final 

amendments: The application will be 

processed according to the following 

Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to 

the schedule will be made as 

appropriate. The Commission staff 

proposes to issue one environmental 

assessment rather than issue a draft and 

final EA. The assessment for Domtar’s 

application for new license for the West 

Branch Project, P–2618–020, may be 

included with the Forest City EA. 

Comments, terms and conditions, 

recommendations, prescriptions, and 

reply comments, if any, will be 

addressed in an EA. Staff intends to give 

at least 30 days for entities to comment 

on the EA, and will take into 

consideration all comments received on 

the EA before final action is taken on 

the license application. 

Issue Acceptance letter/Additional Information Requests.May 2009. 

Issue Scoping Document ..... June 2009. 

Additional Information Response due.September 

2009. 

Notice of application is 

ready for environmental 

analysis.

October 2009. 

Comments, recommendations, prescriptions due.December 

2009. 

Notice of availability of the 

EA.

June 2010. 

Final amendments to the application 

must be filed with the Commission no 

later than 30 days from the issuance 

date of the notice of ready for 

environmental analysis. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–7346 Filed 4–1–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. P–2677–019] 

City of Kaukauna, Wisconsin; Notice of 

Application Ready for Environmental 

Analysis and Soliciting Comments, 

Recommendations, Terms and 

Conditions, and Prescriptions 

March 26, 2009. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

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with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 2677–019. 

c. Date filed: August 29, 2007. 

d. Applicant: City of Kaukauna, 

Wisconsin. 

e. Name of Project: Badger-Rapide 

Croche Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the Fox River in the 

City of Kaukauna, in Outagamie County, 

Wisconsin. The project does not affect 

federal lands. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)—825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mike Pedersen, 

Kaukauna Utilities, 777 Island Street, 

P.O. Box 1777, Kaukauna, WI 54130– 

7077, (920) 462–0220, or Arie DeWaal, 

Mead & Hunt, Inc., 6501 Watts Road, 

Madison, WI 53719, (608) 273–6380. 

i. FERC Contact: John Smith (202) 

502–8972 or john.smith@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and prescriptions is 60 days 

from the issuance date of this notice; 

reply comments are due 105 days from 

the issuance date of this notice. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

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. 

Comments, recommendations, terms 

and conditions, and prescriptions 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.’’ 

k. This application has been accepted, 

and is ready for environmental analysis 

at this time. 

l. The existing project consists of the 

Badger and Rapide Croche 

developments. 

As licensed, the existing Badger 

Development utilizes the head created 

by the 22-foot-high Army Corps of 

Engineers (Corps) Kaukauna dam and 

consists of: (1) A 2,100-foot-long, 100- 

foot-wide power canal that bifurcates 

into a 260-foot-long, 200-foot-wide canal 

and a 250-foot-long, 80-foot-wide canal 

leading to; (2) the Old Badger 

powerhouse containing two 1,000- 

kilowatt (kW) generating units for a total 

installed capacity of 2,000 kW; and (3) 

the New Badger powerhouse containing 

two 1,800-kW generating units for a 

total installed capacity of 3,600 kW; and 

(4) appurtenant facilities. 

As licensed, the existing Rapide 

Croche Development utilizes the head 

created by the 20-foot-high Corps 

Rapide Croche dam, located 

approximately 4.5 miles downstream 

from the Badger Development and 

consists of: (1) A powerhouse, located 

on the south end of the dam, containing 

four 600-kW generating units for a total 

installed capacity of 2,400 kW; (2) the 

5-mile-long, 12-kilovolt (kV) 

transmission line (serving both 

developments); and (3) appurtenant 

facilities. 

The license application also indicates 

that flashboards are used at the 

Kaukauna and Rapide Croche dams to 

provide additional head for project 

generation. The flashboards used at the 

Kaukauna dam are 6 inches high. The 

flashboards used at the Rapide Croche 

dam are 30 inches high. 

The proposed project would include 

decommissioning the Old Badger and 

New Badger developments and 

constructing a new 7-megawatt (MW) 

powerhouse about 150 feet upstream 

from the existing New Badger plant site. 

Proposed project works would consist 

of: (1) A modified power canal leading 

to; (2) a new powerhouse with integral 

intake; and (3) two identical 3.5- to 3.6– 

MW horizontal Kaplan ‘‘S’’ type 

turbines. The Old Badger development 

would be converted to an alternative 

use. The New Badger development 

would be decommissioned, demolished, 

and removed. The existing service road 

would be demolished and removed. The 

tailrace area associated with the existing 

Old Badger development would be 

filled with soil. A new service road 

would be constructed over the filled 

area. No significant changes are 

proposed for the Rapide Croche 

development. 

The existing Badger and Rapide 

Croche developments currently operate 

in a run-of-river mode. As proposed, the 

new project would continue to operate 

in a run-of-river mode. 

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 Web site 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 at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. 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. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–7347 Filed 4–1–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

March 26, 2009. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

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