Document ID: FERC-2020-0265-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Application: Great Falls Hydroelectric Co.; City of Paterson, NJ
Posted Date: 2020-03-02T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 41 (Monday, March 2, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12282-12283]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-04218]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2814-025]

Great Falls Hydroelectric Company, City of Paterson, New Jersey; 
Notice of Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Motions To 
Intervene and Protests

    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.: 2814-025.
    c. Date Filed: February 28, 2019.

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    d. Applicant: Great Falls Hydroelectric Company and the City of 
Paterson, New Jersey, as co-licensees.
    e. Name of Project: Great Falls Hydroelectric Project (Great Falls 
Project or project).
    f. Location: On the Passaic River, near the City of Paterson, 
Passaic County, New Jersey. The project does not occupy federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Robert Gates, Senior Vice President of 
Operations, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, 65 Madison Avenue, Suite 500, 
Morristown, NJ 07960; (973) 998-8400; [email protected] 
and/or Ben-David Seligman, 2nd Assistant Corp. Counsel, City of 
Paterson, 155 Market Street, Paterson, NJ; (973) 321-1366; email_
[email protected]
    i. FERC Contact: Christopher Millard at (202) 502-8256; or email at 
christopher.millard@ferc.gov.
    j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests: 60 days 
from the issuance date of this notice.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
motions to intervene and protests 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, please send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. The 
first page of any filing should include docket number P-2814-025.
    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. This application has been accepted for filing but is not ready 
for environmental analysis at this time.
    l. The existing project works consist of: (1) The Society for the 
Establishment of Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.) dam, an overflow granite 
stone gravity structure about 315 feet long, with a maximum height of 
15 feet and having a crest elevation of 114.6 feet mean sea level 
(msl); (2) a reservoir with a surface area of 202 acres and a storage 
capacity of 1,415 acre-feet at elevation 114.6 feet msl; (3) a forebay 
inlet structure; (4) a headgate control structure containing three 
trashracks and three steel gates; (5) three penstocks, each 8.5 feet in 
diameter and approximately 55 feet long; (6) a powerhouse containing 
three turbine-generator units with a total rated capacity of 10.95 
megawatts; (7) a 37-foot-long, 4.16-kilovolt (kV) underground 
transmission line connecting the powerhouse to a 4.16/26.4-kV step-up 
transformer which in turn is connected to a 26.4-kV transmission grid 
via an approximately 30-foot-long 26.4-kV underground transmission 
line; (8) and appurtenant facilities.
    The Great Falls Project is operated in a run-of-river mode. For the 
period 2010 through 2018, the average annual generation at the Great 
Falls Project was 17,484 megawatt-hours.
    m. A copy of the application is available for review at the 
Commission in the Public Reference Room or may 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. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support. A copy is also available for inspection and 
reproduction at the addresses in item h above.
    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.
    n. Anyone may submit a protest or a motion to intervene in 
accordance with the requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 
CFR 385.210, .211, and .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 
protests or motions to intervene must be received on or before the 
specified comment date for the particular application.
    All filings must: (1) Bear in all capital letters the title PROTEST 
or MOTION TO INTERVENE; (2) set forth in the heading the name of the 
applicant and the project number of the application to which the filing 
responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone number of the 
person protesting or intervening; and (4) otherwise comply with the 
requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. Agencies may obtain 
copies of the application directly from the applicant. A copy of any 
protest or motion to intervene must be served upon each representative 
of the applicant specified in the particular application.
    o. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions 
to the schedule will be made as appropriate.
    Filing of motions to intervene and protests: April 2020.
    Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis: May 2020.
    Deadline for filing of recommendations, terms and conditions, and 
prescriptions:July 2020.
    Reply comments due: September 2020.
    Commission issues EA: November 2020.
    Comments on EA: December 2020.
    p. 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: February 25, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-04218 Filed 2-28-20; 8:45 am]
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