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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 22 / Thursday, February 4, 2021 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Project No. 10482122

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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.: 10482122.
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: Swinging Bridge Hydroelectric Project Swinging Bridge Project.
f. Location: The existing project is located on the Mongaup River and Black Lake Creek in Sullivan County, 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
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202 5028659 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. The first page of any filing should include docket number P
10482122.
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 Swinging Bridge Project.
Commission staff intends to conduct its NEPA review in accordance with CEQs new regulations.
l. The Swinging Bridge Project includes the Toronto Development, the Cliff Lake Development, and the Swinging Bridge Development. Water stored in Toronto Reservoir is released into Cliff Lake Reservoir, which is connected to Swinging Bridge Reservoir via a tunnel.
The Toronto Development consists of:
1 A reservoir with a gross storage capacity of 27,064 acre-feet and a surface area of 843 acres; 2 a 1,620foot-long by 103-foot-high earth-fill dam with a 25-foot-wide crest at elevation 1,230 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29; 3 a 700-footlong by 50-foot-wide concrete and rock side-channel spillway equipped with 5foot-high by 50-foot-wide pin-type flashboards; 4 a 17.5-foot-wide by
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11.5-foot-long gated concrete tower; 5
an upper 4-foot-wide by 5-foot-high gate and a lower 3-foot-wide by 5-foot-high gate; and 6 a 565-foot-long by 8-footwide by 8-foot-high horseshoe-shaped concrete conduit.
The Cliff Lake Development consists of: 1 A reservoir with a gross storage capacity of 3,200 acre-feet and a surface area of 183 acres; 2 a 95-foot-long by 20-foot-wide by 36-foot-high east earthen embankment; 3 a 150-foot-long by 44-foot-wide by 36-foot-high concrete non-overflow section; 4 a 100-foot-long by 5-foot-wide by 26-foot-high concrete overflow spillway section with 13-inchhigh flashboards; 5 a 270-foot-long by 20-foot-wide by 50-foot-high west earthen embankment; 6 a 5.3-footwide, 6.7-foot-high, 2,100-foot-long horseshoeshaped tunnel; 7 a 4-foot by 4-foot sluice gate; and 8 a 5-foot-wide by 5foot-high lift gate.
The Swinging Bridge Development consists of: 1 A reservoir with a gross storage capacity of 35,925 acre-feet and a surface area of 980 acres; 2 a 965foot-long by 135-foot-high earth-fill dam with a 25-foot-wide crest at elevation 1,080 feet NGVD29; 3 a 750-foot-long by 250-foot-wide concrete side channel spillway; 4 a 5-foot-high by 122.5-footwide gate section and five motor driven 22.5-foot-wide by 5-foot-high verticallift timber gates; 5 a 692-foot-long, 10foot-diameter steel lined concrete penstock that supplied water to the Unit 1 powerhouse which has been retired in place; 6 a 22-foot-wide, 32-foothigh reinforced concrete intake covered by an inclined, 22-foot-wide, 32.3-foothigh trashrack with bar clear spacing of 2.6 inches; 7 784-foot-long, 9.75-footdiameter concrete-lined tunnel connected to a 188-foot-long, 10-footdiameter all-steel penstock that supplies water to the Unit 2 powerhouse; 8 a 30-foot-diameter steel surge tank; 9 a 10-foot-long, 4-foot-diameter penstock branching off the Unit 2 penstock that supplies water to the Unit 3
powerhouse; 10 a 48-foot-wide by 33foot-long by 35-foot, 8-inch-high brick and steel Unit 2 powerhouse containing one 6.75 megawatt MW generating unit; 11 a 30-foot-long by 30-foot-wide by 20-foot-high concrete and steel Unit 3 powerhouse containing one 1.1 MW
generating unit; 12 one 25-foot-wide by 75-foot-long tailrace and one 6-footwide by 20-foot-long tailrace; and 13 a 150-foot-long, 2.3-kilovolt kV
transmission line that connects the Unit 2 powerhouse to an adjacent substation and a 250-foot-long, 4-kV transmission line that connects the Unit 3
powerhouse to the same substation. The project generates an average of 11,639
megawatt-hours annually Unit 2 only.

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