Document ID: FERC-2021-1290-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Application: KEI (Maine) Power Management (II) LLC
Posted Date: 2021-10-15T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 197 (Friday, October 15, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57420-57421]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-22515]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 4202-025]

KEI (Maine) Power Management (II) LLC; 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.: 4202-025.
    c. Date Filed: September 28, 2021.
    d. Applicant: KEI (Maine) Power Management (II), LLC (KEI Power).
    e. Name of Project: Lowell Tannery Project (project).
    f. Location: On the Passadumkeag River in Penobscot County, Maine. 
The project does not occupy any federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Lewis C. Loon, KEI (Maine) Power 
Management (II), LLC c/o KEI (USA) Power Management Inc., 423 Brunswick 
Avenue, Gardiner, ME 04345; Phone at (207) 203-3025, or email at 
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Arash Barsari at (202) 502-6207, or 
[email protected].
    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: November 27, 2021.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
using the Commission's eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, you may submit a paper copy. 
Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via 
any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, 
MD 20852. All filings must clearly identify the project name and docket 
number on the first page: Lowell Tannery Project (P-4202-025).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Project Description: The existing Lowell Tannery Project 
consists of: (1) A 230-foot-long, 21.5-foot-high concrete gravity dam 
that includes the following sections: (a) A left abutment section; (b) 
a 30-foot-long primary spillway with 42-inch-high flashboards and a 
crest elevation of 187.5 feet mean sea level (msl) at the top of the 
flashboards; (c) a 30.2-foot-long section with a seven-foot-wide log 
sluice and a ten-foot-wide tainter gate; (d) an 89-foot-long auxiliary 
spillway with 42-inch-high flashboards and a crest elevation of 187.5 
feet msl at the top of the flashboards; (e) a 22.2-foot-long intake 
structure with two 15.5-foot-wide, 15.8-foot-high, angled trashracks 
with 1.5-inch clear bar spacing; and (f) a right abutment section; (2) 
an impoundment with a surface area of approximately 341 acres at an 
elevation of 187.5 feet msl; (3) a 69.4-foot-long, 26.7-foot-wide 
concrete powerhouse containing a 1,000-kilowatt vertical Kaplan 
turbine-generator unit; (4) a tailrace channel that discharges into the 
Passadumkeag River; (5) a 2.3/12.5-kilovolt (kV) step-up transformer 
and a 200-foot-long, 12.5-kV transmission line that connects the 
generator to the local utility distribution system; and (6) appurtenant 
facilities.
    Article 19 of the current license requires the project to be 
operated in run-of-river mode. The average annual generation of the 
project was approximately 4,144 megawatt-hours from 2016 through 2020. 
The project creates an approximately 70-foot-long bypassed reach of the 
Passadumkeag River.
    Downstream fish passage is provided by a bypass facility located 
adjacent to the left side of the intake structure and powerhouse, and 
consists of a 3.7-foot-wide log sluice, a 5.1-foot-wide, 5.8-foot-long 
concrete fish collection box, and a 69.7-foot-long, 18-inch-diameter 
fiberglass fish passage pipe that discharges into a plunge pool next to 
the tailrace. Upstream fish passage is provided by a 3-foot-wide Denil 
fishway located adjacent to the right side of the intake structure and 
powerhouse.
    KEI Power proposes to: (1) Continue to operate the project in a 
run-of-river mode; (2) install upstream and downstream eel passage 
facilities; (3) install seasonal trashrack overlays with 0.875 inch 
diameter holes; (4) modify the discharge location of the existing 
downstream fish passage pipe to discharge adjacent to the existing 
upstream fish passage entrance; and (5) develop a fishway operation and 
management plan.
    o. In addition to publishing the full text of this notice in the 
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an 
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this notice, as well 
as other documents in the proceeding (e.g., license application) via 
the internet through the Commission's Home Page (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 (P-
4202). For assistance, contact FERC at [email protected] or 
call toll-free, (866) 208-3676 or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
    You may also register online at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx 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: The application will be processed according 
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will 
be made as appropriate.

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Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)--November 2021
Request Additional Information--November 2021
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--February 2022
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--March 2022
Issue Acceptance Letter--March 2022
Issue Scoping Document 2--April 2022
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--April 2022
    q. 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: October 8, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-22515 Filed 10-14-21; 8:45 am]
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