Document ID: FERC-2021-0741-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Waiver Period for Water Quality Certification Application: Brookfield White Pine Hydro LLC
Posted Date: 2021-06-24T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 119 (Thursday, June 24, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 33261]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-13299]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2530-057]

Brookfield White Pine Hydro LLC; Notice of Waiver Period for 
Water Quality Certification Application

    On March 12, 2021, Brookfield White Pine Hydro LLC submitted to the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) a copy of its 
application for a Clean Water Act section 401(a)(1) water quality 
certification filed with the Maine Department of Environmental 
Protection, in conjunction with the above captioned project. Pursuant 
to 40 CFR 121.6, we hereby notify the Maine Department of Environmental 
Protection of the following:
    Date of Receipt of the Certification Request: March 12, 2021.
    Reasonable Period of Time to Act on the Certification Request: One 
year.
    Date Waiver Occurs for Failure to Act: March 14, 2022.\1\
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    \1\ The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure provide 
that, if a filing deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or 
other day when the Commission is not open for business, the filing 
deadline does not end until the close of business on the next 
business day. 18 CFR 385.2007(a)(2) (2020). Because the end of the 
one-year time period falls on a Saturday (March 12, 2022), the 
period is extended until the close of business on Monday, March 14, 
2022.
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    If the Maine Department of Environmental Protection fails or 
refuses to act on the water quality certification request by the above 
waiver date, then the agency certifying authority is deemed waived 
pursuant to section 401(a)(1) of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 
1341(a)(1).

    Dated: June 17, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-13299 Filed 6-23-21; 8:45 am]
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