Document ID: FERC-2019-0148-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Authorization for Continued Project Operation: City of Holyoke Gas and Electric Department; Holyoke No.1 Hydroelectric Project
Posted Date: 2019-02-20T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 34 (Wednesday, February 20, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5074-5075]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-02826]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2386-000]

City of Holyoke Gas and Electric Department; Notice of 
Authorization for Continued Project Operation

    On August 31, 2016, City of Holyoke Gas and Electric Department, 
licensee for the Holyoke No. 1 Hydroelectric Project, filed an 
Application for a New License pursuant to the Federal Power Act (FPA) 
and the Commission's regulations thereunder. The Holyoke No. 1 
Hydroelectric Project is located between the first and second canals 
adjacent to the Connecticut River, in the City of Holyoke in Hampton 
County, Massachusetts.
    The license for Project No. 2386 was issued for a period ending 
January 31, 2019. Section 15(a)(1) of the FPA, 16 U.S.C. 808(a)(1), 
requires the Commission, at the expiration of a

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license term, to issue from year-to-year an annual license to the then 
licensee under the terms and conditions of the prior license until a 
new license is issued, or the project is otherwise disposed of as 
provided in section 15 or any other applicable section of the FPA. If 
the project's prior license waived the applicability of section 15 of 
the FPA, then, based on section 9(b) of the Administrative Procedure 
Act, 5 U.S.C. 558(c), and as set forth at 18 CFR 16.21(a), if the 
licensee of such project has filed an application for a subsequent 
license, the licensee may continue to operate the project in accordance 
with the terms and conditions of the license after the minor or minor 
part license expires, until the Commission acts on its application. If 
the licensee of such a project has not filed an application for a 
subsequent license, then it may be required, pursuant to 18 CFR 
16.21(b), to continue project operations until the Commission issues 
someone else a license for the project or otherwise orders disposition 
of the project.
    If the project is subject to section 15 of the FPA, notice is 
hereby given that an annual license for Project No. 2386 is issued to 
the licensee for a period effective February 1, 2019 through January 
31, 2020, or until the issuance of a new license for the project or 
other disposition under the FPA, whichever comes first. If issuance of 
a new license (or other disposition) does not take place on or before 
January 31, 2020, notice is hereby given that, pursuant to 18 CFR 
16.18(c), an annual license under section 15(a)(1) of the FPA is 
renewed automatically without further order or notice by the 
Commission, unless the Commission orders otherwise.
    If the project is not subject to section 15 of the FPA, notice is 
hereby given that the licensee, City of Holyoke Gas and Electric 
Department, Inc., is authorized to continue operation of the Holyoke 
No. 1 Hydroelectric Project until such time as the Commission acts on 
its application for a subsequent license.

    Dated: February 13, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-02826 Filed 2-19-19; 8:45 am]
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