Document ID: FERC-2021-1156-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Application: Lakeport Hydroelectric One, LLC
Posted Date: 2021-09-17T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 178 (Friday, September 17, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51883-51884]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20135]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 6440-010]

Lakeport Hydroelectric One, 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: Subsequent Minor License.
    b. Project No.: 6440-010.
    c. Date filed: August 30, 2021.
    d. Applicant: Lakeport Hydroelectric One, LLC (Lakeport).
    e. Name of Project: Lakeport Hydroelectric Project (project).
    f. Location: On the Winnipesaukee River in Belknap County, New 
Hampshire. 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: Ms. Jody Smet, Lakeport Hydroelectric One, 
LLC c/o Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 
1100W, Bethesda, MD 20814; Phone at (240) 482-2700, or email at 
jody.smet@eaglecreekre.com.
    i. FERC Contact: Erin Kimsey at (202) 502-8621, or 
erin.kimsey@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: October 29, 2021.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
using the Commission's eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 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, 
MD 20852. All filings must clearly identify the project name and docket 
number on the first page: Lakeport Hydroelectric Project (P-6440-010).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Project Description: The existing Lakeport Project consists of: 
(1) A 220-foot-long, 10-foot-high concrete gravity dam that includes 
three 10-foot-high, 18-foot-wide gates, a spillway, and a stoplog gate; 
(2) an impoundment with a surface area of approximately 70 square miles 
at an elevation of 504 feet NGVD 29; (3) a 40-foot-wide, 12-foot-long 
concrete and granite intake structure that is equipped with three 
headgates and a trashrack with 2-inch clear bar spacing with a 0.75-
inch overlay; (4) a concrete and lumber powerhouse containing three 
200-kilowatt (kW) vertical submersible Flygt turbine-generator units 
located on concrete pilings outside for a total installed capacity of 
600 kW; (5) a 200-foot-long, 50-foot-wide tailrace that discharges into 
the Winnipesaukee River; (6) three 0.48-kilovolt (kV) generator leads, 
three 0.48/12.4-kV step-up transformers, and a 250-foot-long, 12.4 kV 
transmission line that connect the project to the local utility 
distribution system; and (7) appurtenant facilities.
    The project is operated as a run of-river facility. The average 
annual generation of the project is approximately 2,250 megawatt-hours.
    o. 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-
6440). 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 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.
    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)--October 2021
Request Additional Information--October 2021
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--January 2022
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--February 2022
Issue Acceptance Letter--February 2022
Issue Scoping Document 2--March 2022
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--March 2022

    q. Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission no later than 30 days from

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the issuance date of the notice of ready for environmental analysis.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-20135 Filed 9-16-21; 8:45 am]
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