Document ID: FERC-2019-0829-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Application: Erie Boulevard Hydropower, L.P.
Posted Date: 2019-07-16T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 136 (Tuesday, July 16, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33934-33935]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-15065]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 3452-017]

Erie Boulevard Hydropower, L.P.; 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.: 3452-017.
    c. Date Filed: June 28, 2019.
    d. Applicant: Erie Boulevard Hydropower, L.P.
    e. Name of Project: Oak Orchard Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: The project is located adjacent to the New York State 
Canal Corporation's barge canal in the Village of Medina, Orleans 
County, New York. The project does not occupy any federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825 (r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Steven P. Murphy, Director, U.S. 
Licensing, Erie Boulevard Hydropower, L.P., 33 West 1st Street South, 
Fulton, NY 13069; (315) 598-6130; email 
steven.murphy@brookfieldrenewable.com.
    i. FERC Contact: Laurie Bauer at (202) 502-6519; or email at 
laurie.bauer@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

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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: August 27, 2019.
    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-3452-017.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Oak Orchard Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) A concrete gravity dam containing a spillway with a 
crest elevation of 507.6 feet mean sea level (msl) surmounted by 2-
foot-high flashboards and two 5-foot-high, 5-foot-wide flood gates; (2) 
a forebay with a surface area of 0.25 acres and a storage capacity of 3 
acre-feet at the normal pool elevation of 509.6 feet msl; (3) an intake 
structure with trashracks; (4) a 7-foot-diameter, 85-foot-long welded 
steel penstock from the intake to the turbine; (5) a 20-foot-long, 43-
foot-wide powerhouse containing a single turbine-generator unit with a 
rated capacity of 350 kilowatts; (6) a tailrace located on the left 
(west) bank of Oak Orchard Creek; (7) a 55-foot-long underground 
generation lead; (8) three single-phase 167 kilovolt-ampere pole-
mounted power transformers; (9) a 400-foot-long access road; and (10) 
appurtenant facilities.
    The Oak Orchard Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with an 
average annual generation of 1,147 megawatt-hours between 2009 and 
2018.
    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 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 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 schedule. Revisions 
to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)--August 2019
Request Additional Information--August 2019
Issue Acceptance Letter--November 2019
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--December 2019
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--February 2020
Issue Scoping Document 2--March 2020
Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis--March 2020
Commission issues EA--September 2020
Comments on EA--October 2020

    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: July 10, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-15065 Filed 7-15-19; 8:45 am]
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