Document ID: FERC-2009-0848-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing with the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing, and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments
Posted Date: 2009-06-10T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 110 (Wednesday, June 10, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27524-27525]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-13536]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 12717-002]

Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered 
for Filing with the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, 
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing, and Deadline for 
Submission of Final Amendments

June 3, 2009.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Original License.
    b. Project No.: P-12717-002.
    c. Date Filed: May 27, 2009.
    d. Applicant: Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Brandon Road Hydropower Project.
    f. Location: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Brandon Road Lock and Dam 
on the Illinois River, in the City of Joliet, Will County, Illinois. 
The project will occupy approximately 1.6 acres of federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Damon Zdunich, Northern Illinois Hydropower, 
LLC, 801 Oakland Avenue, Joliet, IL 60435, (312) 320-1610.
    i. FERC Contact: Dr. Nicholas Palso, (202) 502-8854.
    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 after the application is filed, and serve a copy of the request on 
the applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: July 27, 2009.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
    Additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency 
status may be filed electronically via the internet in lieu of paper. 
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings. See 18 CFR 
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site 
at (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``eFiling'' link. For a simpler 
method of submitting text only comments, click on ``Quick Comment.''
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. Description of Project: The Brandon Road Project would utilize 
the Corps of Engineer's existing Brandon Road Dam

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and reservoir and would consist of: (1) A new 90-foot by 118-foot 
concrete powerhouse located between headgate sections 1 through 4 
immediately below the existing dam containing two S-Type turbine 
generator units with a combined installed capacity of 10.2 MW; (2) a 
new 50-foot by 50-foot switchyard adjacent to the west of the 
powerhouse; and (3) a new 34.5-kilovolt, 1-mile-long transmission line; 
and (4) appurtenant facilities. The project would have an average 
annual generation of about 59,000 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 Web site at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' 
link. Enter the docket number excluding the three digits in the docket 
number field to access the document. For assistance, please contact 
FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at (866) 
208-3676, or for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. 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 e-mail of new filings and 
issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, 
contact FERC Online Support.
    p. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the 
Illinois State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by 
section 106, National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of 
the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4.
    q. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following Hydro Licensing Schedule. 
Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate. The Commission 
staff proposes to issue one environmental assessment rather than issue 
a draft and final EA. Comments, terms and conditions, recommendations, 
prescriptions, and reply comments, if any, will be addressed in an EA. 
Staff intents to give at least 30 days for entities to comment on the 
EA, and will take into consideration all comments received on the EA 
before final action is taken on the license application.
Issue Acceptance or Deficiency Letter-June 2009
Issue Scoping Document for comments-November 2009
Notice of application ready for environmental analysis-April 2010
Notice of the availability of the EA September-2010
    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.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-13536 Filed 6-9-09; 8:45 am]
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