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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 22 / Thursday, February 4, 2021 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Project No. 9690115

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Eagle Creek Hydro Power, LLC; Eagle Creek Water Resources, LLC; Eagle Creek Land Resources, LLC; Notice of Application Accepted for Filing, Soliciting Motions To Intervene and Protests, Ready for Environmental Analysis, and Soliciting Comments, Recommendations, Preliminary Terms and Conditions, and Preliminary Fishway Prescriptions 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.: 9690115.
c. Date Filed: March 31, 2020.
d. Applicants: Eagle Creek Hydro Power, LLC, Eagle Creek Water Resources, LLC, and Eagle Creek Land Resources, LLC collectively referred to as Eagle Creek.
e. Name of Project: Rio Hydroelectric Project Rio Project.
f. Location: The existing project is located on the Mongaup River in Sullivan and Orange Counties, New York. The project does not occupy federal lands.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791 a825r.
h. Applicant Contact: Jody J. Smet, Vice President Regulatory Affairs, 116 N
State Street, P.O. Box 167, Neshkoro, WI
54960; Telephone 804 7390654.
i. FERC Contact: Nicholas Ettema, 312 5964447 or nicholas.ettema@
ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests, comments, recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and preliminary prescriptions: 60 days from the issuance date of this notice; reply comments are due 105 days from the issuance date of this notice.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file using the Commissions eFiling system at https
ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx.
Commenters can submit brief comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the eComment system at https ferconline.ferc.gov/
QuickComment.aspx. You must include your name and contact information at the end of your comments. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@
ferc.gov, 866 2083676 toll free, or 202 5028659 TTY. In lieu of
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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. The first page of any filing should include docket number P9690
115.
The Commissions Rules of Practice require all intervenors filing documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each person on the official service list for the project.
Further, if an intervenor files comments or documents with the Commission relating to the merits of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a particular resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document on that resource agency.
k. This application has been accepted for filing and is now ready for environmental analysis.
The Council on Environmental Quality CEQ issued a final rule on July 15, 2020, revising the regulations under 40 CFR parts 15001518 that federal agencies use to implement NEPA see Update to the Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act, 85
FR 43304. The Final Rule became effective on and applies to any NEPA
process begun after September 14, 2020.
An agency may also apply the regulations to ongoing activities and environmental documents begun before September 14, 2020, which includes the proposed Rio Project. Commission staff intends to conduct its NEPA review in accordance with CEQs new regulations.
l. The Rio Project consists of: 1 A
reservoir with a gross storage capacity of 14,536 acre-feet and a surface area of 444 acres; 2 a 264-foot-long, gravitytype concrete spillway with a maximum height of 101 feet at a crest elevation of 810 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29; 3 a 22-footlong, concrete gravity intake structure;
4 a 99-foot-long, concrete gravity nonoverflow section; 5 a 540-foot-long, earth-fill embankment; 6 a 102-footlong, concrete gravity non-overflow section; 7 a 460-foot-long, earth-fill embankment with a 20-foot-wide crest at an elevation of 825 feet NGVD29; 8
a 1.5-mile-long bypassed reach; 9 a 22foot-square reinforced-concrete gatehouse with a 14-foot-high, 11-footwide steel intake gate; 10 a 15-footwide by 46-foot-high trashrack with 2.9inch bar clear spacing at the entrance to
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the intake; 11 a 22-foot-long, 12.5-foothigh, and 9.5-foot-wide reinforced concrete intake structure; 12 a 90-footlong, 11-foot-diameter, steel-elbow penstock that leads from the intake to a 7,000-foot-long, 11-foot-diameter steel penstock connected to a 40-footdiameter by 65-foot-high steel surge tank; 13 a 10-foot-diameter, 290-footlong underground steel penstock from the surge tank branching into two 7foot-diameter, 90-foot-long steel penstocks leading to the main powerhouse; 14 an 82-foot-long by 30feet-wide by 33-foot-high brick and steel main powerhouse containing two 5
megawatt MW vertical-axis turbines;
15 a 100-foot-long, 4-foot-diameter, high density polyethylene penstock that branches off the main penstock about 300 feet downstream of the dam and leads to a 30-foot-long by 27-foot-wide by 24-foot-high reinforced concrete minimum flow powerhouse containing one 0.8 MW horizontal-axis turbine; 16
a 45-foot-wide by 225-foot-long tailrace with a 65-foot-long concrete weir from the main powerhouse; 17 a 10-footwide by 38-foot-long tailrace from the minimum flow powerhouse; 18 a 150foot-long, 4-kilovolt kV underground transmission line from the main powerhouse to an adjacent substation;
and 19 a 7,600-foot-long, 4-kV
aboveground transmission line from the minimum flow powerhouse to the substation. The project generates an average of 24,859 megawatt-hours annually. The megawatt-hours represents Units 1 through 3 from 2014
2019, including an extended outage of Unit 3 in 2015. Eagle Creek proposes to continue to operate the project in a peaking mode.
m. A copy of the application can be viewed on the Commissions website at https 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.
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.
n. Anyone may submit comments, a protest, or a motion to intervene in accordance with the requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR
385.210, .211, and .214. In determining the appropriate action to take, the Commission will consider all protests or other comments filed, but only those who file a motion to intervene in accordance with the Commissions
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