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1 40 CFR 1501.10 (2020). 

2The Commission’s deadline applies to the 

decisions of other federal agencies, and state 

agencies acting under federally delegated authority, 

that are responsible for federal authorizations, 

permits, and other approvals necessary for 

proposed projects under the Natural Gas Act. Per 

18 CFR 157.22(a), the Commission’s deadline for 

other agency’s decisions applies unless a schedule 

is otherwise established by federal law. 

environmental assessment (EA) for the 

Project and the planned schedule for the 

completion of the environmental 

review.1

Schedule for Environmental Review 

Issuance of EA—September 29, 2022 

90-day Federal—Authorization Decision 

Deadline 2—December 28, 2022 

If a schedule change becomes 

necessary, additional notice will be 

provided so that the relevant agencies 

are kept informed of the Project’s 

progress. 

Project Description 

ANR proposes to abandon the 

Winfield Storage Field by conducting 

the following activities: Permanently 

plugging 72 natural gas injection/ 

withdrawal wells; abandoning 15 miles 

of associated 4-inch, 6-inch, and 10-inch 

diameter well lines in the storage field; 

abandoning 4.43 miles of the 16-inchdiameter Winfield Interconnect storage 

lateral (Lateral 249); abandoning by 

removal of the Winfield Compressor 

Station, including all belowground and 

aboveground structures; and 

abandoning by removal of all belowground and aboveground appurtenances 

in the storage field. 

Background 

On April 12, 2022, the Commission 

issued a Notice of Scoping Period 

Requesting Comments on 

Environmental Issues for the Proposed 

Winfield Storage Field Abandonment 

Project (Notice of Scoping). The Notice 

of Scoping was sent to affected 

landowners; federal, state, and local 

government agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American tribes; other 

interested parties; and local libraries 

and newspapers. In response to the 

Notice of Scoping, the Commission 

received comments regarding potential 

impacts on private water supply wells, 

soil erosion and sedimentation control 

permits, and installation and 

maintenance of erosion control 

measures. All substantive comments 

will be addressed in the EA. 

Additional Information 

In order to receive notification of the 

issuance of the EA and to keep track of 

formal issuances and submittals in 

specific dockets, the Commission offers 

a free service called eSubscription. This 

service provides automatic notification 

of filings made to subscribed dockets, 

document summaries, and direct links 

to the documents. Go to https://

www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/overview to 

register for eSubscription. 

Additional information about the 

Project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs 

at (866) 208–FERC or on the FERC 

website (www.ferc.gov). Using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link, select ‘‘General Search’’ 

from the eLibrary menu, enter the 

selected date range and ‘‘Docket 

Number’’ excluding the last three digits 

(i.e., CP22–63), and follow the 

instructions. For assistance with access 

to eLibrary, the helpline can be reached 

at (866) 208–3676, TTY (202) 502–8659, 

or at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. The 

eLibrary link on the FERC website also 

provides access to the texts of formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and rule 

makings. 

Dated: May 12, 2022. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–10682 Filed 5–17–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 7153–018] 

Consolidated Hydro New York, LLC; 

Notice of Application Tendered for 

Filing With the Commission and 

Soliciting Additional Study Requests 

and Establishing Procedural Schedule 

for Relicensing and a Deadline for 

Submission of Final Amendments 

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.: 7153–018. 

c. Date Filed: April 29, 2022. 

d. Applicant: Consolidated Hydro 

New York, LLC (Consolidated Hydro). 

e. Name of Project: Victory Mills 

Hydroelectric Project (Victory Mills 

Project). 

f. Location: The project is located on 

Fish Creek in the village of Victory in 

Saratoga County, New York. The project 

does not occupy any federal lands. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contacts: Mr. Kevin M. 

Webb, Licensing Manager, Consolidated 

Hydro New York, LLC, 670 N 

Commercial Street, Suite 204, 

Manchester, NH 03101; Phone at (978) 

935–6039 or email at kwebb@

centralriverspower.com; and Mr. Curtis 

Mooney, Manager, Regulatory 

Compliance, Consolidated Hydro New 

York, LLC, 670 N Commercial Street, 

Suite 204, Manchester, NH 03101; 

Phone at (603) 774–0846 or email at 

cmooney@centralriverspower.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Laurie Bauer at (202) 

502–6519, or laurie.bauer@ferc.gov. 

j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, 

local, and tribal agencies with 

jurisdiction and/or special expertise 

with respect to environmental issues 

that wish to cooperate in the 

preparation of the environmental 

document 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: June 28, 2022. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file additional 

study requests and requests for 

cooperating agency status using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 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: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. Submissions sent via any 

other carrier must be addressed to: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. All filings must clearly identify 

the project name and docket number on 


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the first page: Victory Mills Project (P– 

7153–018). 

m. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. The Victory Mills Project includes: 

(1) A dam that consists of: (a) An 

approximately 150-foot-long concrete 

spillway varying in height from 4 to 6 

feet with a crest elevation of 187.5 feet 

National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 

1929 (NGVD29), and (b) a sluice gate 

section approximately 19 feet high and 

40 feet long with four gated spillway 

bays, each with a sill elevation of 181 

feet NGVD29 and containing a 7-foothigh by 8-foot-wide wooden timber gate; 

(2) a 4.3-acre reservoir with a gross 

storage capacity of approximately 18 

acre-feet at the normal surface elevation 

of 187.5 feet NGVD29; (3) an intake 

channel feeding a 51-foot-long, 25-foothigh concrete intake structure; (4) an 8- 

foot-diameter, 300-foot-long steel 

penstock; (5) a 27-foot by 46-foot 

concrete powerhouse containing a 

single Kaplan turbine with an installed 

capacity of 1,656 kilowatts; (6) an 

approximately 30-foot-wide by 530-footlong tailrace channel; (7) a 480-footlong, 4.8-kilovolt transmission line; and 

(8) appurtenant facilities. 

The Victory Mills Project operates in 

a run-of-river mode with an average 

annual generation of 6,073 megawatthours between 2011 and 2021. 

o. 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 (P–7153). For assistance, 

contact FERC at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov, or call toll-free, (866) 208–3676 

or (202) 502–8659 (TTY). 

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. Procedural schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following preliminary schedule. 

Revisions to the schedule will be made 

as appropriate. 

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)— 

July 2022 

Request Additional Information—July 

2022 

Issue Acceptance Letter and Notice— 

October 2022 

Issue Scoping Document 1 for 

comments—November 2022 

Request Additional Information (if 

necessary)—November 2022 

Issue Scoping Document 2—February 

2023 

Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental 

Analysis—February 2023 

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. 

Dated: May 11, 2022. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–10601 Filed 5–17–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 3472–000] 

Aspinook Hydro, LLC; Notice of 

Authorization for Continued Project 

Operation 

The license for the Wyre Wind 

Hydroelectric Project No. 3472 was 

issued for a period ending April 30, 

2022. 

Section 15(a)(1) of the FPA, 16 U.S.C. 

808(a)(1), requires the Commission, at 

the expiration of a license term, to issue 

from year-to-year an annual license to 

the then licensee(s) under the terms and 

conditions of the prior license until a 

new license is issued, or the project is 

otherwise disposed of as provided in 

section 15 or any other applicable 

section of the FPA. If the project’s prior 

license waived the applicability of 

section 15 of the FPA, then, based on 

section 9(b) of the Administrative 

Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 558(c), and as 

set forth at 18 CFR 16.21(a), if the 

licensee of such project has filed an 

application for a subsequent license, the 

licensee may continue to operate the 

project in accordance with the terms 

and conditions of the license after the 

minor or minor part license expires, 

until the Commission acts on its 

application. If the licensee of such a 

project has not filed an application for 

a subsequent license, then it may be 

required, pursuant to 18 CFR 16.21(b), 

to continue project operations until the 

Commission issues someone else a 

license for the project or otherwise 

orders disposition of the project. 

If the project is subject to section 15 

of the FPA, notice is hereby given that 

an annual license for Project No. 3472 

is issued to Aspinook Hydro, LLC. for a 

period effective May1, 2022 through 

April 30, 2023, or until the issuance of 

a new license for the project or other 

disposition under the FPA, whichever 

comes first. If issuance of a new license 

(or other disposition) does not take 

place on or before April 30, 2023, notice 

is hereby given that, pursuant to 18 CFR 

16.18(c), an annual license under 

section 15(a)(1) of the FPA is renewed 

automatically without further order or 

notice by the Commission, unless the 

Commission orders otherwise. 

If the project is not subject to section 

15 of the FPA, notice is hereby given 

that Aspinook Hydro, LLC. is authorized 

to continue operation of the Wyre Wynd 

Hydroelectric Project under the terms 

and conditions of the prior license until 

the issuance of a new license for the 

project or other disposition under the 

FPA, whichever comes first. 

Dated: May 11, 2022. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–10600 Filed 5–17–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 9985–035] 

Rivers Electric, LLC; Notice of Intent 

To File License Application, Filing of 

Pre-Application Document, and 

Approving Use of the Traditional 

Licensing Process 

a. Type of Application: Notice of 

Intent (NOI) to File License Application 

and Request to Use the Traditional 

Licensing Process (TLP). 

b. Project No.: 9985–035. 

c. Date filed: March 29, 2022. 

d. Submitted by: Rivers Electric, LLC 

(Rivers Electric). 

e. Name of Project: Mill Pond 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: Located on the Catskill 

Creek in Greene County, New York. The 

project does not occupy any federal 

land. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 5.3 of the 

Commission’s regulations. 

h. Potential Applicant Contact: Mr. 

Justin Bristol, Asset Development, Clear 

Energy Hydro, LLC, 18 S Wilcox St., Ste. 

100, Castle Rock, CO 80104. Phone: 

(401) 793–6041, Email: Justinb@

clearenergyhydro.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Erin Stockschlaeder, 

Phone: (202) 502–8107, Email: 

erin.stockschlaeder@ferc.gov. 

j. Rivers Electric filed its request to 

use the TLP on March 29, 2022 and 

provided public notice of its request on 

March 30, 2022. In a letter dated May 

11, 2022, the Director of the Division of 

Hydropower Licensing approved Rivers 

Electric’s request to use the TLP. 

k. With this notice, we are initiating 

informal consultation with the U.S. Fish 


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