Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 116 / Thursday, June 16, 2022 / Notices 36317 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2600–088] 

Bangor-Pacific Hydro Associates; 

Notice of Application Tendered for 

Filing With the Commission and 

Establishing Procedural Schedule for 

Licensing and 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.: 2600–088. 

c. Date Filed: May 27, 2022. 

d. Applicant: Bangor-Pacific Hydro 

Associates (Bangor Hydro). 

e. Name of Project: West Enfield 

Hydroelectric Project (project). 

f. Location: On the Penobscot River in 

Penobscot County, Maine. The project 

does not occupy any federal land. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Randy Dorman, 

Relicensing Manager, Brookfield 

Renewable, 150 Maine Street, Lewiston, 

ME 04240; phone at (207) 755–5605, or 

email at Randy.Dorman@

brookfieldrenewable.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Bill Connelly at (202) 

502–8587, or william.connelly@ferc.gov. 

j. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

k. Project Description: The existing 

West Enfield Hydroelectric Project 

consists of: (1) a 664-foot-long, 39-foothigh concrete dam that includes: (a) a 

363-foot-long overflow spillway with 7- 

foot-high flashboards and a crest 

elevation of 156.1 feet National Geodetic 

Vertical Datum 1929 (NGVD 29) at the 

top of the flashboards; (b) a 107-footlong gated spillway with three 26-footwide, 25-foot-high radial spillway gates 

at an elevation of 149.1 feet NGVD 29; 

and (c) a 194-foot-long, 39-foot-high 

non-overflow section; (2) an 1,148-acre 

impoundment at the spillway crest 

elevation of 156.1 feet NGVD 29; (3) a 

106-foot-long, 46.75-foot-high intake 

structure at the non-overflow section of 

the dam with four 47-foot-high, 21.25- 

foot-wide intake gates that are equipped 

with four trashracks having 1.25-inch 

clear bar spacing; (4) a concrete dam 

(Runaround Dam) located on the west 

bank of Merrill Brook, a tributary to the 

impoundment, with three 6.33-footwide, 7.67-foot-high metal gates; (5) a 

130-foot-long, 110-foot-wide concrete 

powerhouse that is integral with the 

dam and contains two 6.5-megawatt 

(MW) horizontal Kaplan turbinegenerator units, for a total installed 

capacity of 13.0 MW; (6) a 1,100-footlong tailrace; (7) a downstream fish 

passage facility located on top of the 

intake structure; (8) a concrete vertical 

slot fish ladder located on the east end 

of the dam; (9) an upstream eel passage 

facility located on the east end of the 

gated spillway; (10) a 13.2/44-kilovolt 

(kV) step-up transformer, and a 1,400- 

foot long, 44-kV overhead transmission 

line connecting the project generators to 

the regional grid; and (11) appurtenant 

facilities. 

The current license requires BangorPacific Hydro to operate the project in 

a run-of-river mode, such that project 

outflow approximates inflow. Bangor 

Hydro maintains the impoundment at 

the flashboard crest elevation of 156.1 

feet NGVD 29. The current license also 

requires a minimum bypassed reach 

flow of 500 cubic feet per second or the 

inflow to the impoundment, whichever 

is less. The current license requires the 

following measures: (1) an Atlantic 

salmon smolt stockout pond; (2) funding 

anadromous fisheries management 

activities in the Penobscot River Basin; 

and (4) a Species Protection Plan for 

Atlantic salmon. Upstream and 

downstream passage for diadromous 

fish are provided from April 1 to 

December 31. Upstream passage for 

American eel is provided from April 1 

to November 30. 

The minimum and maximum 

hydraulic capacities of the powerhouse 

are 1,200 and 6,730 cfs, respectively. 

The average annual generation of the 

project was approximately 86,748 

megawatt-hours from 2017 through 

2021. 

Bangor Hydro proposes to: (1) 

continue to operate the project in runof-river mode; (2) develop an operation 

and compliance monitoring plan; (3) 

develop a debris management plan; (4) 

develop a historic properties 

management plan; and (5) construct a 

formal canoe take-out, portage, and putin around West Enfield Dam. 

l. In addition to publishing the full 

text of this notice in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

notice, as well as other documents in 

the proceeding (e.g., license application) 

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 (P–2600). 

For assistance, contact FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (866) 208–3676 or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY). 

m. 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. 

n. Procedural Schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following preliminary schedule. 

Revisions to the schedule will be made 

as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Issue Deficiency Letter ................................................................................................................................................................ June 2022. 

Request Additional Information (if necessary) ............................................................................................................................ July 2022. 

Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis ........................................................................................... February 2023. 

Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and fishway prescriptions ........................................................ April 2023. 

o. 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: June 10, 2022. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–12995 Filed 6–15–22; 8:45 am] 

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