Document ID: FERC-2019-0308-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Applications: Great Falls Hydroelectric Co.
Posted Date: 2019-03-19T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 19, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10056-10057]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05049]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2814-025]

Great Falls Hydroelectric Company; 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: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 2814-025.
    c. Date Filed: February 28, 2019.
    d. Applicant: Great Falls Hydroelectric Company and the City of 
Paterson, New Jersey, as co-licensees.
    e. Name of Project: Great Falls Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Passaic River, near the City of Paterson, 
Passaic County, New Jersey. The project does not occupy federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825 (r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Robert Gates, Senior Vice President of 
Operations, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, 65 Madison Avenue, Suite 500, 
Morristown, NJ 07960; (973) 998-8400; email_bob.gates@eaglecreekre.com 
and/or Ben-David Seligman, 2nd Assistant Corp. Counsel, City of 
Paterson, 155 Market Street, Paterson, NJ; (973) 321-1366; email_
bseligman@patersonnj.gov.
    i. FERC Contact: Christopher Millard at (202) 502-8256; or email at 
christopher.millard@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 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: April 29, 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-2814-025.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The existing project works consist of: (1) The Society for the 
Establishment of Useful Manufactures dam, an overflow granite stone 
gravity structure about 315 feet long, with a maximum height of 15 feet 
and having a crest elevation of 114.6 feet mean sea level (msl); (2) a 
reservoir with a surface area of 202 acres and a storage capacity of 
1,415 acre-feet at elevation 114.6 feet msl; (3) a forebay inlet 
structure; (4) a headgate control structure containing three trashracks 
and three steel gates; (5) three penstocks, each 8.5 feet in diameter 
and approximately 55 feet long; (6) a powerhouse containing three 
turbine-generator units with a total rated capacity of 10.95 megawatts; 
(7) a 37-foot-long 4.16-kilovolt (kV) underground transmission line 
connecting the powerhouse to a 4.16/26.4-kV step-up transformer which 
in turn is connected to a 26.4-kV

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transmission grid via an approximately 30-foot-long 26.4-kV underground 
transmission line; (8) and appurtenant facilities.
    The Great Falls Project is operated in a run-of-river mode. For the 
period 2010 through 2018, the average annual generation at the Great 
Falls Project was 17,484 megawatt-hours.
    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)..  April 2019.
Request Additional Information..........  April 2019.
Issue Acceptance Letter.................  July 2019.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments...  August 2019.
Request Additional Information (if        October 2019.
 necessary).
Issue Scoping Document 2................  November 2019.
Issue notice of ready for environmental   November 2019.
 analysis.
Commission issues EA....................  May 2020.
Comments on EA..........................  June 2020.
 

    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: March 11, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-05049 Filed 3-18-19; 8:45 am]
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