Document ID: FERC-2021-1266-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Application: Ampersand Christine Falls Hydro, LLC
Posted Date: 2021-10-13T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 195 (Wednesday, October 13, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56927-56928]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-22227]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 4639-033]

Ampersand Christine Falls Hydro, 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.

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    a. Type of Application: Subsequent Minor License.
    b. Project No.: 4639-033.
    c. Date Filed: September 29, 2021.
    d. Applicant: Ampersand Christine Falls Hydro, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Christine Falls Hydroelectric Project 
(Christine Falls Project).
    f. Location: On the Sacandaga River near the Village of Speculator, 
Hamilton County, New York. The project does not occupy federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contacts: Mr. Sayad Moudachirou, Licensing Manager, 
Ampersand Christine Falls Hydro LLC, 717 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 1A, 
Boston, MA 02111, Phone: 617-933-7206, Email: 
[email protected]; and Mr. Jason Huang, Asset Manager, 
Ampersand Christine Falls Hydro LLC, 717 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 1A, 
Boston, MA 02111, Phone: 773-919-0923, Email: 
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Andy Bernick at (202) 502-8660; or email at 
[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 28, 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 http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 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, Maryland 20852. All filings must clearly identify the 
project name and docket number on the first page: Christine Falls 
Project (P-4639-033).
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Christine Falls Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) A 15-foot-high, 165-foot-long concrete gravity dam, 
with 3-foot-high wooden flashboards installed along the crest of the 
135-foot-long spillway; (2) a 1.1-acre reservoir with a normal water 
surface elevation of 1,699.7 feet at mean sea level; (3) an intake 
structure; (4) a 650-foot-long steel penstock with a diameter of 72 
inches; (5) a brick powerhouse containing two turbine-generator units 
(i.e., one 275-kilowatt (kW) unit and one 575-kW unit) with a total 
capacity of 850 kW; (6) a tailrace with a minimum depth of 21 feet; (7) 
a 610-foot-long bypassed reach; (8) an approximately 1.6-mile-long, 
4.16/13.2-kilovolt underground transmission line connecting the 
powerhouse to a point of interconnection; and (9) appurtenant 
facilities.
    The Christine Falls Project is operated in a run-of-river mode with 
an average annual generation of 2,478 megawatt-hours.
    o. A copy of the application 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. At this time, the Commission has 
suspended access to the Commission's Public Reference Room, due to the 
proclamation declaring a National Emergency concerning the Novel 
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), issued by the President on March 13, 
2020. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
    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)--November 2021
Request Additional Information--November 2021
Issue Acceptance Letter--February 2022
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--March 2022
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--May 2022
Issue Scoping Document 2--June 2022
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--June 2022

    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 6, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-22227 Filed 10-12-21; 8:45 am]
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