Document ID: FERC-2022-0238-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Settlement Agreement: Topsham Hydro Partners, LP
Posted Date: 2022-03-04T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 43 (Friday, March 4, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12442-12443]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-04556]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 4784-106]

Topsham Hydro Partners Limited Partnership (L.P.); Notice of 
Settlement Agreement and Soliciting Comments

    Take notice that the following settlement agreement has been filed 
with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Settlement Agreement.
    b. Project No.: 4784-106.
    c. Date filed: February 18, 2022.
    d. Applicant: Topsham Hydro Partners Limited Partnership (L.P.).
    e. Name of Project: Pejepscot Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Androscoggin River in Sagadahoc, Cumberland, 
and Androscoggin Counties in the village of Pejepscot and the town of 
Topsham, Maine. The project does not affect federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Rule 602 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.602.

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    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Tom Uncher, Vice President, Topsham Hydro 
Partners Limited Partnership, 339B Big Bay Rd., Queensbury, NY 12804, 
Telephone: 1-518-743-2018, [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Ryan Hansen, telephone (202) 502-8074, and email 
[email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing comments: March 16, 2022. Reply comments due 
March 26, 2022.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
comments using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief comments up to 
6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the eComment system 
at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You must include your 
name and contact information at the end of your comments. For 
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected], (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. The first page of any filing should include docket 
number P-4784-106.
    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.
    k. Topsham Hydro Partners Limited Partnership (L.P.) (Topsham 
Hydro) filed a Settlement Agreement for Modified Prescription for 
Fishways executed by and between the licensee and the U.S. Department 
of Commerce's National Marine Fisheries Service. The purpose of the 
agreement is to resolve the parties' disagreements over the appropriate 
terms of a prescription for fishways for anadromous fish at the project 
under the new license. Topsham Hydro requests that the Commission 
consider the Settlement Agreement in its environmental analysis of the 
project relicensing, acknowledge the Offer of Settlement, and 
incorporate the terms of the agreement which will be reflected in the 
modified fishway prescription in the new license for the project. The 
Settlement Agreement provides for both interim and permanent downstream 
fish passage measures, based on the outcome of studies to be conducted 
by Topsham Hydro. The Settlement Agreement also includes several 
measures for upstream passage of anadromous fish; initial modifications 
to operations of the existing fish lift; effectiveness monitoring of 
the initial modifications for the target species; potential additional 
modifications to the existing fish lift in the event that defined 
performance standards cannot be met; and effectiveness monitoring of 
the modifications.
    l. In addition to publishing the full text of this document in the 
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an 
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this document via the 
internet through 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 (i.e., P-
4784). At this time, the Commission has suspended access to the 
Commission's Public Reference Room, due to the proclamation declaring a 
National Emergency concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), 
issued by the President on March 13, 2020. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.
    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.

    Dated: February 24, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-04556 Filed 3-3-22; 8:45 am]
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