Document ID: FERC-2021-0116-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Settlement Agreement: Village of Gouverneur, NY
Posted Date: 2021-02-02T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7863-7864]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-02153]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14635-001]

Village of Gouverneur, New York; Notice of Settlement Agreement

    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.: 14635-001.
    c. Date Filed: January 13, 2021.
    d. Applicant: Village of Gouverneur, New York (Village of 
Gouverneur).
    e. Name of Project: Gouverneur Hydroelectric Project (Project).
    f. Location: On the Oswegatchie River, in the Village of 
Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York. The project does not occupy 
any federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Rule 602 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.602.
    h. Applicant Contact: Ronald P. McDougall, Mayor, Village of

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Gouverneur, 33 Clinton Street, Gouverneur, NY 13642; (315) 287-1720; 
ronaldpmcdougall@gmail.com.
    i. FERC Contact: Jody Callihan, (202) 502-8278 or 
jody.callihan@ferc.gov.
    j. Deadline for filing comments: Comments on the Settlement 
Agreement are due on Tuesday, February 16, 2021. Reply comments are due 
on Friday, February 26, 2021.
    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 
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY).
    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. Village of Gouverneur filed an Offer of Settlement (Settlement 
Agreement) on behalf of itself, the New York State Department of 
Environmental Conservation, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The 
Settlement Agreement includes protection, mitigation, and enhancement 
measures addressing project operation, minimum flows, downstream fish 
passage and protection, recreation enhancements, and by reference, 
management plans for invasive species (Appendix A) and northern long-
eared bat and bald eagles (Appendix B), as well as an impoundment 
drawdown and cofferdam plan (Appendix C). Village of Gouverneur 
requests that the measures in the Settlement Agreement be incorporated 
as license conditions, without modification, in any original license 
issued for the project. The signatories to the Settlement Agreement 
also request a 40-year license term for the project.
    l. A copy of the Settlement Agreement is available for review 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.
    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: January 27, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-02153 Filed 2-1-21; 8:45 am]
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