80 FR 39098 - Goose River Hydro, Inc.; Notice of Intent To File License Application, Filing of Pre-Application Document, and Approving Use of the Traditional Licensing Process
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 130 (July 8, 2015)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 130 (July 8, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-16683 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 130 (Wednesday, July 8, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 39098-39099] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-16683] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 2804-033] Goose River Hydro, Inc.; Notice of Intent To File License Application, Filing of Pre-Application Document, and Approving Use of the Traditional Licensing Process a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to File License Application and Request to Use the Traditional Licensing Process. b. Project No.: 2804-033. c. Date Filed: May 29, 2015. d. Submitted By: Goose River Hydro, Inc. e. Name of Project: Goose River Hydroelectric Project. f. Location: On the Goose River, in Waldo County, Maine. No federal lands are occupied by the project works or located within the project boundary. g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 5.3 of the Commission's regulations. h. Potential Applicant Contact: Nicholas Cabral, Goose River Hydro, Inc., 41 Sedgewood Drive, Kennebunk, ME 04043; (207) 604-4394; email: [email protected]. i. FERC Contact: Julia Kolberg at (202) 502-8261; or email at [email protected]. j. Goose River Hydro, Inc. filed its request to use the Traditional Licensing Process on May 29, 2015. Goose River Hydro, Inc. provided public notice of its request on May 29, 2015. In a letter dated June 30, 2015, the Director of the Division of Hydropower Licensing approved Goose River Hydro, Inc.'s request to use the Traditional Licensing Process. k. With this notice, we are initiating informal consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and/or NOAA Fisheries under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act and the joint agency regulations thereunder at 50 CFR part 402; and NOAA Fisheries under section 305(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and implementing regulations at 50 CFR 600.920. We are also initiating consultation with the Maine State Historic Preservation Officer, as required by section 106, National Historic Preservation Act, and the implementing regulations of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation at 36 CFR 800.2. l. With this notice, we are designating Goose River Hydro, Inc. 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. m. Goose River Hydro, Inc. filed a Pre-Application Document (PAD; including a proposed process plan and schedule) with the Commission, pursuant to 18 CFR 5.6 of the Commission's regulations. n. A copy of the PAD is available for review at the Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the Commission's Web site (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 at [email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502- 8659 (TTY). A copy is also available for inspection and reproduction at the address in paragraph h. o. The licensee states its unequivocal intent to submit an application for a new license for Project No. 2804. Pursuant to 18 CFR 16.8, 16.9, and 16.10 each application for a new license and any competing license applications must be filed with the Commission at least 24 months prior to the expiration of the existing license. All applications for license for this project must be filed by March 20, 2018. p. Register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filing and issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support. [[Page 39099]] Dated: June 30, 2015. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2015-16683 Filed 7-7-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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the Commission’s regulations) who are allows you to keep track of all formal and Wildlife Service and/or NOAA
potential right-of-way grantors, whose issuances and submittals in specific Fisheries under section 7 of the
property may be used temporarily for dockets. This can reduce the amount of Endangered Species Act and the joint
Project purposes, or who own homes time you spend researching proceedings agency regulations thereunder at 50 CFR
within certain distances of aboveground by automatically providing you with part 402; and NOAA Fisheries under
facilities, and anyone who provides a notification of these filings, document section 305(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens
mailing address when they submit summaries, and direct links to the Fishery Conservation and Management
comments on the Project. We will documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docs- Act and implementing regulations at 50
update the environmental mailing list as filing/esubscription.asp. CFR 600.920. We are also initiating
the analysis proceeds to ensure that we Finally, public meetings or site visits consultation with the Maine State
send the information related to this will be posted on the Commission’s Historic Preservation Officer, as
environmental review to all individuals, calendar located at www.ferc.gov/ required by section 106, National
organizations, and government entities EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along Historic Preservation Act, and the
interested in and/or potentially affected with other related information. implementing regulations of the
by the planned Project. Dated: June 30, 2015.
Copies of the draft EIS will be sent to Advisory Council on Historic
the environmental mailing list for Kimberly D. Bose, Preservation at 36 CFR 800.2.
public review and comment. If you Secretary. l. With this notice, we are designating
would prefer to receive a paper copy of [FR Doc. 2015–16686 Filed 7–7–15; 8:45 am] Goose River Hydro, Inc. as the
the document instead of the CD version BILLING CODE 6717–01–P Commission’s non-federal
or would like to remove your name from representative for carrying out informal
the mailing list, please return the consultation pursuant to section 7 of the
attached Information Request (appendix DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Endangered Species Act and section
3). 305(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Federal Energy Regulatory
Becoming an Intervenor Commission Conservation and Management Act; and
consultation pursuant to section 106 of
Once Tennessee Gas files its [Project No. 2804–033] the National Historic Preservation Act.
application with the Commission, you
may want to become an ‘‘intervenor’’ Goose River Hydro, Inc.; Notice of m. Goose River Hydro, Inc. filed a Pre-
which is an official party to the Intent To File License Application, Application Document (PAD; including
Commission’s proceeding. Intervenors Filing of Pre-Application Document, a proposed process plan and schedule)
play a more formal role in the process and Approving Use of the Traditional with the Commission, pursuant to 18
and are able to file briefs, appear at Licensing Process CFR 5.6 of the Commission’s
hearings, and be heard by the courts if regulations.
they choose to appeal the Commission’s a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to
File License Application and Request to n. A copy of the PAD is available for
final ruling. An intervenor formally review at the Commission in the Public
participates in the proceeding by filing Use the Traditional Licensing Process.
b. Project No.: 2804–033. Reference Room or may be viewed on
a request to intervene. Instructions for the Commission’s Web site (http://
becoming an intervenor are in the User’s c. Date Filed: May 29, 2015.
d. Submitted By: Goose River Hydro, www.ferc.gov), using the ‘‘eLibrary’’
Guide under the ‘‘e-filing’’ link on the
Inc. link. Enter the docket number,
Commission’s Web site. Please note that
e. Name of Project: Goose River excluding the last three digits in the
the Commission will not accept requests
for intervenor status at this time. You Hydroelectric Project. docket number field to access the
must wait until the Commission f. Location: On the Goose River, in document. For assistance, contact FERC
receives a formal application for the Waldo County, Maine. No federal lands Online Support at
Project. are occupied by the project works or FERCONlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866)
located within the project boundary. 208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659
Additional Information g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 5.3 of the (TTY). A copy is also available for
Additional information about the Commission’s regulations. inspection and reproduction at the
Project is available from the h. Potential Applicant Contact: address in paragraph h.
Commission’s Office of External Affairs, Nicholas Cabral, Goose River Hydro, o. The licensee states its unequivocal
at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web Inc., 41 Sedgewood Drive, Kennebunk, intent to submit an application for a
site (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary ME 04043; (207) 604–4394; email: new license for Project No. 2804.
link. Click on the eLibrary link, click on ncabral00@gmail.com. Pursuant to 18 CFR 16.8, 16.9, and 16.10
‘‘General Search’’ and enter the docket i. FERC Contact: Julia Kolberg at (202) each application for a new license and
number, excluding the last three digits 502–8261; or email at julia.kolberg@ any competing license applications
in the Docket Number field (i.e., PF14– ferc.gov.
must be filed with the Commission at
22–000). Be sure you have selected an j. Goose River Hydro, Inc. filed its
least 24 months prior to the expiration
appropriate date range. For assistance, request to use the Traditional Licensing
of the existing license. All applications
please contact FERC Online Support at Process on May 29, 2015. Goose River
for license for this project must be filed
FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free Hydro, Inc. provided public notice of its
by March 20, 2018.
at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact request on May 29, 2015. In a letter
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(202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also dated June 30, 2015, the Director of the p. Register online at http://
provides access to the texts of formal Division of Hydropower Licensing www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
documents issued by the Commission, approved Goose River Hydro, Inc.’s esubscription.asp to be notified via
such as orders, notices, and request to use the Traditional Licensing email of new filing and issuances
rulemakings. Process. related to this or other pending projects.
In addition, the Commission offers a k. With this notice, we are initiating For assistance, contact FERC Online
free service called eSubscription which informal consultation with the U.S. Fish Support.
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Dated: June 30, 2015. communication, if written, or a proceeding in accordance with Rule
Kimberly D. Bose, summary of the substance of any oral 2010, 18 CFR 385.2010.
Secretary. communication. Exempt off-the-record
[FR Doc. 2015–16683 Filed 7–7–15; 8:45 am] Prohibited communications are communications are included in the
included in a public, non-decisional file
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P decisional record of the proceeding,
associated with, but not a part of, the
unless the communication was with a
decisional record of the proceeding.
cooperating agency as described by 40
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Unless the Commission determines that
CFR 1501.6, made under 18 CFR
the prohibited communication and any
385.2201(e)(1)(v).
Federal Energy Regulatory responses thereto should become a part
Commission of the decisional record, the prohibited The following is a list of off-the-
off-the-record communication will not record communications recently
[Docket No. RM98–1–000] received by the Secretary of the
be considered by the Commission in
reaching its decision. Parties to a Commission. The communications
Records Governing Off-the-Record
proceeding may seek the opportunity to listed are grouped by docket numbers in
Communications; Public Notice
respond to any facts or contentions ascending order. These filings are
This constitutes notice, in accordance made in a prohibited off-the-record available for electronic review at the
with 18 CFR 385.2201(b), of the receipt communication, and may request that Commission in the Public Reference
of prohibited and exempt off-the-record the Commission place the prohibited Room or may be viewed on the
communications. communication and responses thereto Commission’s Web site at http://
Order No. 607 (64 FR 51222, in the decisional record. The www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary link.
September 22, 1999) requires Commission will grant such a request Enter the docket number, excluding the
Commission decisional employees, who only when it determines that fairness so last three digits, in the docket number
make or receive a prohibited or exempt requires. Any person identified below as field to access the document. For
off-the-record communication relevant having made a prohibited off-the-record assistance, please contact FERC Online
to the merits of a contested proceeding, communication shall serve the Support at FERCOnlineSupport@
to deliver to the Secretary of the document on all parties listed on the ferc.gov or toll free at (866)208–3676, or
Commission, a copy of the official service list for the applicable for TTY, contact (202)502–8659.
Docket No. File Date Presenter or Requester
Prohibited:
1. CP15–115–000 ............................................................. 6/17/15 Paula Hargreaves.
2. CP15–137–000 ............................................................. 6/18/15 Mark Hofflines.
Exempt:
1. CP15–115–000 ............................................................. 6/10/15 New York State Senator
Robert G. Ortt.
2. CP15–138–000 ............................................................. 6/15/15 FERC Staff.1
3. CP15–138–000 ............................................................. 6/15/15 FERC Staff.2
4. CP13–483–000 ............................................................. 6/15/15 FERC Staff.3
CP13–492–000 ................................................................. Lynch.
5. CP14–96–000 ............................................................... 6/15/15 U.S. Representative Stephen F.
Lynch.
6. P–1494–000 ................................................................. 6/15/15 U.S. Senator James M. Inhofe.
7. CP14–517–000 ............................................................. 6/19/15 U.S. Senator John Cornyn.
CP14–518–000 .................................................................
8. CP14–517–000 ............................................................. 6/19/15 Texas Congressman Randy K.
CP14–518–000 ................................................................. Weber.
9. P–1494–000 ................................................................. 6/19/15 U.S. Representative Markwayne
Mullin.
10. CP14–96–000 ............................................................. 6/19/15 U.S. Representative Stephen F.
Lynch.
11. CP14–96–000 ............................................................. 6/25/15 U.S. Representative Stephen L.
Lynch, et al.4
12. CP13–483–000 ........................................................... 6/25/15 FERC Staff.5
CP13–492–000 .................................................................
1 Record of June 12, 2015 telephone call with Transco Representative.
2 Record of June 11, 2015 telephone call from landowner, Robyn Kochan.
3 Notesfrom June 10, 2015 telephone conference call with federal cooperating agencies.
4 Massachusetts State Senator Michael F. Rush, Massachusetts State Representative Edward F. Coppinger, and Boston City Councilor Matt
O’Malley.
5 Notes from June 24, 2015 telephone conference call with federal cooperating agencies.
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