34738 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 136 / Friday, July 17, 2009 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2816–041] 

North Hartland, LLC; Notice of 

Application Accepted for Filing, 

Soliciting Motions To Intervene and 

Protests, and Soliciting Comments, 

Recommendations, Terms and 

Conditions 

July 10, 2009. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection: 

a. Application Type: Amendment of 

license to install a bypass flow turbine 

generator unit. 

b. Project No.: 2816–041. 

c. Date Filed: January 6, 2009. 

d. Applicant: North Hartland, LLC 

(North Hartland) 

e. Name of Project: North Hartland. 

f. Location: The North Hartland 

Project is located at the U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) North 

Hartland Dam on the Ottauquechee 

River in Windsor County, Vermont. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791a–825r. 

h. Applicant Contact: Richard 

Norman, Essex Hydro Associates, L.L.C., 

55 Union Street, Boston, MA 02108. Tel: 

(617) 367–0032. 

i. FERC Contact: Vedula Sarma, 

telephone (202) 502–6190, and e-mail 

address vedula.sarma@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing motions to 

intervene and protests, comments, 

recommendations, preliminary terms 

and conditions is 60 days from the 

issuance of this notice; reply comments 

are due 105 days from the issuance date 

of this notice. 

Comments, protests, and 

interventions may be filed electronically 

via the Internet in lieu of paper. 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. The Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filings. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) filed by paper should be sent to: 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. Please include 

the project number (P–2816–041) on any 

comments or motions filed. 

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 whose name appears 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. A copy of any 

motion to intervene must also be served 

upon each representative of the 

Applicant specified in the particular 

application. 

k. Description of Request: North 

Hartland proposes to install a bypass 

flow turbine with a maximum capacity 

of 137.5 kW to utilize a portion of the 

minimum flow discharge requirement of 

40 cfs that is not currently used for 

generating purposes. The project’s 

hydraulic capacity would increase from 

810 cfs to 835 cfs, and the annual energy 

production would increase by 

approximately 600,000 kWh. 

l. Locations of the Application: A 

copy of the application is available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 

located at 888 First Street, NE., Room 

2A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling 

(202) 502–8371. This filing may also 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. 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, call 1–866–208–3676 or 

e-mail FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, 

for TTY, call (202) 502–8659. A copy is 

also available for inspection and 

reproduction at the address in item (h) 

above. 

m. Individuals desiring to be included 

on the Commission’s mailing list should 

so indicate by writing to the Secretary 

of the Commission. 

n. Comments, Protests, or Motions to 

Intervene: Anyone may submit 

comments, a protest, or a motion to 

intervene in accordance with the 

requirements of Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .214. 

In determining the appropriate action to 

take, the Commission will consider all 

protests or other comments filed, but 

only those who file a motion to 

intervene in accordance with the 

Commission’s Rules may become a 

party to the proceeding. Any comments, 

protests, or motions to intervene must 

be received on or before the specified 

comment date for the particular 

application. 

o. Any filings must bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS’’, 

‘‘PROTEST’’, or ‘‘MOTION TO 

INTERVENE’’, as applicable, and the 

Project Number of the particular 

application to which the filing refers. 

p. Agency Comments: Federal, State, 

and local agencies are invited to file 

comments on the described application. 

A copy of the application may be 

obtained by agencies directly from the 

Applicant. If an agency does not file 

comments within the time specified for 

filing comments, it will be presumed to 

have no comments. One copy of an 

agency’s comments must also be sent to 

the Applicant’s representatives. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–16992 Filed 7–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 6597–012] 

Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc; Notice of 

Intent To File License Application, 

Filing of Pre-Application Document, 

Commencement of Licensing 

Proceeding, Scoping Meetings, 

Solicitation of Comments on the PAD 

and Scoping Document, and 

Identification of Issues and Associated 

Study Requests 

July 10, 2009. 

a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to 

File License Application for a New 

License and Commencing Licensing 

Proceeding. 

b. Project No.: 6597–012. 

c. Date Filed: May 11, 2009. 

d. Submitted by: Monadnock Paper 

Mills, Inc. 

e. Name of Project: Monadnock 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: Contoocook River in the 

communities of Peterborough, 

Greenfield, Hancock, and Bennington in 

Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. 

No federal lands are involved. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR Part 5 of 

the Commission’s Regulations. 

h. Applicant Contact: Michelle 

Hamm, Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc., 

117 Antrim Road, Bennington, NH 

03442. mhamm@mpm.com or (603) 

588–3311 ext 255. 

i. FERC Contact: Kenneth Hogan, 

Kenneth.Hogan@ferc.gov, (202) 502– 

8434. 

j. 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 

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should follow the instructions for filing 

comments described in paragraph o 

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. With this notice, we are initiating 

informal consultation with: (a) The U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service and/or NOAA 

Fisheries under section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act and the joint 

agency regulations thereunder at 50 CFR 

Part 402; and (b) the State Historic 

Preservation Officer, as required by 

Section 106, National Historical 

Preservation Act, and the implementing 

regulations of the Advisory Council on 

Historic Preservation at 36 CFR 800.2. 

l. With this notice, we are designating 

Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc. as the 

Commission’s non-federal 

representative for carrying out informal 

consultation, pursuant to Section 7 of 

the Endangered Species Act and Section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act. 

m. Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc. filed 

a Pre-Application Document (PAD; 

including a proposed process plan and 

schedule) with the Commission, 

pursuant to 18 CFR 5.6 of the 

Commission’s regulations. The 

Commission issued a Scoping 

Document on July 10, 2009. 

n. A copy of the PAD and the scoping 

document are available for review at the 

Commission in the Public Reference 

Room or may be viewed on the 

Commission’s Web site (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 toll 

free at 1–866–208–3676, of for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. A copy is also available 

for inspection and reproduction at the 

address in paragraph h. 

Register online at http://ferc.gov/ 

esubscribenow.htm to be notified via email of new filing and issuances related 

to this or other pending projects. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

o. With this notice, we are soliciting 

comments on the PAD and the scoping 

document, as well as study requests. All 

comments on the PAD and the scoping 

document, and study requests should be 

sent to the address above in paragraph 

h. In addition, all comments on the PAD 

and the scoping document, study 

requests, requests for cooperating 

agency status, and all communications 

to and from Commission staff related to 

the merits of the potential application 

(original and eight copies) must be filed 

with the Commission at the following 

address: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. All filings with the Commission 

must include on the first page, 

Monadnock Hydroelectric Project and 

number (P–6597–012), and bear the 

heading ‘‘Comments on Pre-Application 

Document,’’ ‘‘Study Requests,’’ 

‘‘Comments on Scoping Document 1,’’ 

‘‘Request for Cooperating Agency 

Status,’’ or ‘‘Communications to and 

from Commission Staff.’’ Any 

individual or entity interested in 

submitting study requests, commenting 

on the PAD or the scoping document, 

and any agency requesting cooperating 

status must do so by September 8, 2009. 

Comments on the PAD and the 

scoping document, study requests, 

requests for cooperating agency status, 

and other permissible forms of 

communications with the Commission 

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 ‘‘e-filing’’ link. 

p. Our current intent is to prepare a 

single environmental assessment (EA). 

These meetings will satisfy the NEPA 

scoping requirements, irrespective of 

whether an EA or an Environmental 

Impact Statement is issued by the 

Commission. 

Scoping Meetings 

Commission staff will hold two 

scoping meetings in the vicinity of the 

project at the time and place noted 

below. The evening meeting is primarily 

for receiving input from the public and 

the daytime meeting will focus on 

resource agency, Indian tribes, and nongovernmental organization concerns. 

We invite all interested individuals, 

organizations, and agencies to attend 

one or both of the meetings, and to 

assist staff in identifying particular 

study needs, as well as the scope of 

environmental issues to be addressed in 

the environmental document. The times 

and locations of these meetings are as 

follows: 

Evening Scoping Meeting 

Date: Tuesday August 4, 2009. 

Time: 7 p.m. (EST). 

Location: Veterans for Foreign Wars 

Hall, 9 Hancock Street, Bennington, NH 

03442. 

Contact person: Michelle Hamm at 

(603) 588–3311 ext. 255. 

Daytime Scoping Meeting 

Date: Wednesday August 5, 2009. 

Time: 9 a.m. (EST). 

Location: Veterans for Foreign Wars 

Hall, 9 Hancock Street, Bennington, NH 

03442. 

Contact person: Michelle Hamm at 

(603) 588–3311 ext. 255. 

The scoping document, which 

outlines the subject areas to be 

addressed in the environmental 

document, was mailed to the 

individuals and entities on the 

Commission’s mailing list. Copies of the 

scoping document will be available at 

the scoping meetings, or may be viewed 

on the Web at http://www.ferc.gov, 

using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Follow the 

directions for accessing information in 

paragraph n. Depending on the extent of 

comments received, Scoping Document 

2 may or may not be issued. 

Site Visit 

Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc. will 

conduct a site visit of the project at 1 

p.m. on Tuesday August 4, 2009. All 

participants should meet at the location 

of the offices for Monadnock Paper 

Mills, Inc. at 117 Antrim Road, 

Bennington, NH 03442. All participants 

are responsible for their own 

transportation. Anyone with questions 

about the site visit should contact 

Michelle Hamm at (603) 588–3311 ext. 

255. 

Scoping Meeting Objectives 

At the scoping meetings, staff will: (1) 

Initiate scoping of the issues; (2) review 

and discuss existing conditions and 

resource management objectives; (3) 

review and discuss existing information 

and identify preliminary information 

and study needs; (4) review and discuss 

the process plan and schedule for prefiling activity that incorporates the time 

frames provided for in Part 5 of the 

Commission’s regulations and, to the 

extent possible, maximizes coordination 

of federal, state, and tribal permitting 

and certification processes; and (5) 

discuss the appropriateness of any 

federal or state agency or Indian tribe 

acting as a cooperating agency for 

development of an environmental 

document. 

Meeting participants should come 

prepared to discuss their issues and/or 

concerns. Please review the PAD in 

preparation for the scoping meetings. 

Directions on how to obtain a copy of 

the PAD and the scoping document are 

included in paragraph n. 

Meeting Procedures 

The meetings will be recorded by a 

stenographer and will become part of 

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1http://www.nwcouncil.org/dropbox/YKFP_03- 

31-08%20Draft%20Master%20Plan.pdf. 

2http://www.nwppc.org/library/isrp/isrp2008- 

6.pdf. 

3Northwest Power and Conservation Council, 

Three-Step Review Process (Nov. 2006) http:// 

www.nwcouncil.org/Library/2006/2006-21.pdf. 

the formal record of the Commission 

proceeding on the project. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–16973 Filed 7–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Bonneville Power Administration 

Klickitat Hatchery Program 

AGENCY: Bonneville Power 

Administration (BPA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

and a floodplain and wetland 

assessment. 

SUMMARY: BPA intends to prepare an EIS 

in accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on 

funding proposed changes to the 

existing salmon and steelhead hatchery 

program in the Klickitat subbasin in 

Klickitat and Yakima counties, 

Washington. As mitigation under the 

Pacific Northwest Electric Power 

Planning and Conservation Act, BPA 

proposes to upgrade and improve the 

Klickitat Hatchery, a Mitchell Act 

artificial production facility built and 

funded by the National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration Fisheries 

(NOAA Fisheries), located seven miles 

east of Glenwood, Washington, at river 

mile 42 of the Klickitat River. The 

proposed changes would also involve 

construction, of a new Wahkiacus 

Hatchery and Acclimation Facility 

located at river mile 17 on the Klickitat 

River in Wahkiacus, Washington, and a 

steelhead acclimation facility at 

McCreedy Creek at river mile 70. With 

this Notice of Intent, BPA is initiating 

the public scoping process for the EIS. 

BPA is requesting comments about 

potential environmental impacts that it 

should consider as it prepares the EIS 

for the proposed changes to the 

program, as well as comments on 

alternatives that meet fish production 

objectives for the Klickitat Hatchery 

Program. Further details are provided in 

the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below. 

In accordance with DOE regulations 

for compliance with floodplain and 

wetlands environmental review 

requirements, BPA will prepare a 

floodplain and wetlands assessment to 

avoid or minimize potential harm to or 

within any affected floodplains and 

wetlands. The assessment will be 

included in the EIS. 

DATES: Written scoping comments are 

due to the address below no later than 

August 18th, 2009. Comments may also 

be made at the EIS scoping meeting to 

be held on August 4th, 2009, from 6 

p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Lyle Community 

Center. 

ADDRESSES: Send letters with comments 

and suggestions on the proposed scope 

of the Draft EIS, and requests to be 

placed on the project mailing list, to 

Bonneville Power Administration, 

Public Affairs Office—DKE–7, P.O. Box 

14428, Portland, OR 97293–4428, or by 

fax to 503 230–3285. You also may call 

BPA’s toll free comment line at 800 

622–4519 and leave a message (please 

include the name of this project); or 

submit comments online at http:// 

www.bpa.gov/comment. BPA will post 

all comment letters in their entirety on 

BPA’s Web site at http://www.bpa.gov/ 

comment. 

On Tuesday August 4th, 2009, an 

open-house scoping meeting will be 

held from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Lyle 

Community Center, Lyle, Washington. 

At this informal meeting, we will 

provide maps and other information 

about the project and have members of 

the project team available to answer 

questions and accept oral and written 

comments. You may stop by anytime 

during the open house. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rosy Mazaika, Environmental 

Coordinator, Bonneville Power 

Administration—KEC–4, P.O. Box 3621, 

Portland, Oregon 97208–3621; toll-free 

telephone 1–800–282–3713; direct 

telephone 503–230–5869; or e-mail 

rxmazaika@bpa.gov. You may also 

contact Patricia Smith, Project Manager, 

Bonneville Power Administration— 

KEWL–4, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, 

Oregon 97208–3621; toll-free telephone 

1–800–282–3713; direct telephone 503– 

230–7349; or e-mail prsmith@bpa.gov. 

Additional information can be found at 

BPA’s Web site: http:// 

www.efw.bpa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Fisheries 

programs in the Klickitat River subbasin 

are co-managed by the Yakama Nation 

and the Washington Department of Fish 

and Wildlife (WDFW), and include the 

Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project 

(YKFP) funded by BPA. The YKFP uses 

state-of-the-art artificial propagation 

methods designed to re-establish, 

supplement, or increase natural 

production and harvest opportunities of 

anadromous salmonids while 

maintaining the long-term fitness of 

target species and minimizing ecological 

and genetic impacts on non-target 

species. The YKFP has been developed 

to: 

• Enhance existing stocks of 

anadromous fish in the Yakima and 

Klickitat river basins, while maintaining 

genetic and ecological resources; and 

• Apply the knowledge gained 

through supplementation throughout 

the Columbia River Basin. 

The YKFP also pursues the protection 

and restoration of habitat important to 

health and restoration of anadromous 

fish stocks. 

Under the YKFP, in 2008, the Yakama 

Nation revised the Klickitat River 

Anadromous Fisheries Master Plan 1 in 

response to comments from the 

Northwest Power and Conservation 

Council (NPCC) and its Independent 

Scientific Review Panel.2 Master plans 

are submitted as step one of the NPCC’s 

three-step process 3 for the review of 

artificial propagation project proposals 

for funding by the BPA. Included in the 

plan are details and the scientific basis 

for proposed production goals, facilities, 

monitoring and evaluation, and habitat 

improvements necessary to manage 

endemic spring Chinook and steelhead 

and hatchery coho and fall Chinook in 

the Klickitat subbasin. Because 

1. The facilities and habitat work are 

proposed to benefit more than one target 

species, 

2. Artificial production work will 

require BPA and NOAA Fisheries to 

coordinate efforts at the proposed 

various facilities, and 

3. Proposed changes to production 

practices for single species could affect 

other target species, 

the Yakama Nation developed the 

Klickitat Subbasin Anadromous Fishery 

Hatchery Plan (‘‘Master Plan’’) to 

address all species, as well as Pacific 

lamprey. 

According to the master plan 

prepared by the Yakama Nation and 

WDFW, the existing Klickitat Hatchery 

facilities, completed in 1954, need 

repair to meet current building codes 

and up-to-date artificial production 

guidelines. The Tribe operates the 

Klickitat Hatchery and NOAA Fisheries 

provides annual operation and 

maintenance funding using 

appropriations to the Mitchell Act 

program. Under the 2008 Columbia 

Basin Fish Accords Memorandum of 

Agreement between the three Treaty 

Tribes and Federal Columbia River 

Power System Action Agencies (The 

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