82 FR 10572 - KEI (Maine) Power Management (III) LLC; 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 82, Issue 29 (February 14, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 29 (Tuesday, February 14, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10572-10573]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-02950]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2808-017]


KEI (Maine) Power Management (III) LLC; 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 Minor License.
    b. Project No.: P-2808-017.
    c. Date filed: January 31, 2017.
    d. Applicant: KEI (Maine) Power Management (III) LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Lower Barker Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Little Androscoggin River, in the City of 
Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine. The project does not occupy lands 
of the United States.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Lewis Loon, Operations and Maintenance 
Manager, 37 Alfred Plourde Parkway, Suite 2, Lewiston, Maine 04240; 
(207) 786-8834.
    i. FERC Contact: Karen Sughrue at (202) 502-8556 or email at 
[email protected].
    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

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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: March 31, 2017.
    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-2808-017.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Lower Barker Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) A 232-foot-long, 30-foot-high concrete dam with a 125-
foot-long spillway with flashboards, a 46-foot-long non-overflow 
section with two waste gates along the left buttress, and a 61-foot-
long non-overflow section with seven stop-logs adjacent to the intake 
canal; (2) a 16.5-acre reservoir with a storage capacity of 150-acre-
feet; (3) a 60-foot-long, 20-foot-wide, 9.6-foot-deep intake canal on 
the right bank with seven stop-logs; (4) a 35-foot-long, 20-foot-wide 
gatehouse containing a single gate and fitted with trash racks; (5) a 
buried 650-foot-long, 10-foot-wide, 8-foot-high concrete penstock; (6) 
a 50-foot-long, 25-foot-wide concrete powerhouse containing a single 
semi-Kaplan-type turbine and generating unit with a rated capacity of 
1.5 megawatts; (7) a tailrace; (8) a 250-foot-long, 4.2 kilovolt 
underground power line; (9) a substation; and (10) appurtenant 
facilities. The project produces an average of 5,087 megawatt-hours 
annually.
    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. 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 Acceptance or Deficiency/Additional    April 2017.
 Information Letter.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comment.......  June 2017.
Hold Scoping Meeting.......................  July 2017.
Request Additional Information (if           July 2017.
 necessary).
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)....  August 2017.
Issue notice of ready for environmental      September 2017.
 analysis.
Notice of the availability of the draft      March 2018.
 NEPA document.
Initiate the 10(j) process.................  April 2018.
Notice of the availability of the final      July 2018.
 NEPA document.
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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: February 3, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-02950 Filed 2-13-17; 8:45 am]
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