80 FR 23525 - McMahan Hydroelectric L.L.C.; 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

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 81 (April 28, 2015)

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 81 (Tuesday, April 28, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23525-23526]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-09839]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 4093-035]


McMahan Hydroelectric L.L.C.; 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: Subsequent license.
    b. Project No.: P-4093-035.
    c. Date filed: March 30, 2015.
    d. Applicant: McMahan Hydroelectric L.L.C.
    e. Name of Project: Bynum Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Haw River, in Chatham County, North Carolina. 
No federal lands are occupied by the project works or located within 
the project boundary.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Andrew J. McMahan, President, McMahan 
Hydroelectric L.L.C., 105 Durham Eubanks Road, Pittsboro, NC 27312l; 
(336) 509-2148; [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Sean Murphy at (202) 502-6145; or email at 
[email protected].

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    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: June 14, 2015.
    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 [email protected], (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-4093-035.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The 600-kilowatt (kW) Bynum project is located on the Haw River, 
in Chatham County, North Carolina. No federal lands are affected. The 
principal project works consist of: (1) A 750-foot-long, 10-foot-high 
stone masonry dam with an uncontrolled spillway and a 150-foot-long 
non-overflow section; (2) a 2000-foot-long canal, between 25 and 40 
feet wide; (3) a powerhouse separate from the dam containing a 600-kW 
generating unit; (4) a reservoir with a surface area of 20 acres at 
normal pool elevation of 315 feet mean sea level and a gross storage 
capacity of 100 acre-feet; and (5) appurtenant facilities. The project 
operates run-of-river and generates and estimated average of 2,461,000 
kW hours a year.
    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 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. With this notice, we are designating McMahan Hydroelectric 
L.L.C. as the Commission's non-federal representative for carrying out 
informal consultation pursuant to section 7 of the Endangered Species 
Act and section 305(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act; and consultation pursuant to section 106 of the 
National Historic Preservation Act.
    q. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following preliminary Hydro Licensing 
Schedule. Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

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Issue Notice of Acceptance................  June 2015.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments.....  July 2015.
Comments on Scoping Document 1 due........  September 2015.
Issue Scoping Document 2..................  September 2015.
Issue notice of ready for environmental     September 2015.
 analysis.
Commission issues EA......................  March 2016.
Comments on EA due........................  April 2016.
Commission issues final EA................  June 2016.
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    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: April 14, 2015.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-09839 Filed 4-27-15; 8:45 am]
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