Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 62 / Thursday, April 2, 2009 / Notices 14975 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2618–020] 

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.: 2618–020. 

c. Date Filed: March 19, 2009. 

d. Applicant: Domtar Maine 

Corporation. 

e. Name of Project: West Branch 

Project. 

f. Location: On Grand Lake Stream, a 

tributary of the St. Croix River in 

Penobscot, Washington and Hancock 

Counties, Maine. 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 West Branch Project 

includes two developments (Sysladobsis 

and West Grand) comprising two dams 

and a dike. The 23,500 acre impounded 

waters are comprised of West Grand, 

Junior, Pocumcus, Pug, Bottle, Norway, 

and Scraggly lakes. 

The Sysladobsis development 

includes the 250-foot-long by 9-foothigh Sysladobsis Dam (the furthest 

upstream), an earth embankment 

structure with a timber gate and fish 

facility. The dam impounds the 5,400- 

acres Sysladobsis Lake and discharges 

directly into the West Grand 

development. 

The approximately 487-foot-long West 

Grand Dam comprises a 105.9-foot-long 

gate structure with five gates. A vertical 

slot design upstream fish passage 

facility is located adjacent to the dam’s 

waste gate No.1. 

The approximately 535-foot-long by 

15-foot-high Farm Cove Dike is located 

approximately 3.5 miles west of the 

main outlet dam to West Grand Lake. 

The dike comprises a 10-foot-wide by 

30-foot-long fishway. The dike has no 

gates or other flow controls; the only 

flow passing capability is through the 

fishway. 

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 

e-mail 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 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 

Forest City Project, P–2660–024, may be 

included with the West Branch 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. 

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