Document ID: FERC-2016-1281-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Applications: Holyoke Gas and Electric Department
Posted Date: 2016-09-20T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 182 (Tuesday, September 20, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64457-64458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-22602]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2386-004]

City of Holyoke Gas and Electric Department; 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: New License.
    b. Project No.: 2386-004.
    c. Date filed: August 31, 2016.
    d. Applicant: City of Holyoke Gas and Electric Department.
    e. Name of Project: Holyoke Number 1 Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: Between the first and second level canals on the 
Holyoke Canal System adjacent to the Connecticut River, in the city of 
Holyoke in Hampden County, Massachusetts. 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: Paul Ducheney, Superintendent, City of 
Holyoke Gas and Electric Department, 99 Suffolk Street, Holyoke, MA 
01040, (413) 536-9340 or ducheney@hged.com.
    i. FERC Contact: Kyle Olcott, (202) 502-8963 or 
kyle.olcott@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 31, 2016.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
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-2386-004.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing Holyoke Number 1 project consists of: (1) An intake 
at the wall of the First Level Canal fed by the Holyoke Canal System 
(licensed under FERC Project No. 2004) with two 14-foot-8-inch-tall by 
24-foot-7.5-inch wide trash rack screens with 3.5-inch clear spacing; 
(2) two parallel 10-foot-diameter, 36.5-foot-long penstocks; (3) a 50-
foot-long by 38-foot-wide brick powerhouse with two 240-kilowatt and 
two 288-kilowatt turbine generator units; (4) two parallel 20-foot-
wide, 328.5-foot-long brick arched tailrace conduits discharging into 
the Second Level Canal; and, (5) appurtenant facilities. There is no 
transmission line associated with the project as it is located adjacent 
to the substation of interconnection. The project is estimated to 
generate 2,710,000 kilowatt-hours annually.
    o. 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 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. For assistance, contact 
FERC Online Support. A copy is also available for inspection and 
reproduction at the address 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.
    p. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following preliminary Hydro Licensing 
Schedule.

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Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

Issue Acceptance or Deficiency Letter--October 2016
Request Additional Information--October 2016
Issue Acceptance Letter--January 2017
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--February 2017
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--April 2017
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)--May 2017
Notice that application is ready for environmental analysis--May 2017
Notice of the availability of the draft EA--November 2017
Notice of the availability of the final EA--February 2018

    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: September 14, 2016.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-22602 Filed 9-19-16; 8:45 am]
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