82 FR 47498 - Town of West Stockbridge; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 196 (October 12, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 196 (Thursday, October 12, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 47498]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22010]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 13371-002]


Town of West Stockbridge; Notice of Application Tendered for 
Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Exemption from Licensing.
    b. Project No.: 13371-002.
    c. Date Filed: September 21, 2017.
    d. Applicant: Town of West Stockbridge (West Stockbridge).
    e. Name of Project: Shaker Mill Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Williams River, in the Town of West 
Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. No federal or tribal 
lands would be occupied by project works or located within the project 
boundary.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708 (2012), amended by the Hydropower Regulatory 
Efficiency Act of 2013, Public Law 113-23, 127 Stat. 493 (2013).
    h. Applicant Contact: Town of West Stockbridge, c/o Earl B. 
Moffatt, Chairman, Board of Selectmen, 21 State Line Rd., P.O. Box 525, 
West Stockbridge, MA 01266; (413) 232-0300, extension 319.
    i. FERC Contact: Michael Watts, (202) 502-6123 or 
[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 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: November 20, 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-13371-002.
    m. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The proposed Shaker Mill Dam Hydroelectric Project would 
consists of: (1) An existing 43-foot-long, 16.3-foot-high concrete 
gravity dam that includes a 10-foot-wide non-overflow section and a 33-
foot-long ogee spillway section with two discharge pipes, and a crest 
elevation of 895.3 feet mean sea level (msl); (2) existing east and 
west concrete abutments; (3) existing east and west masonry training 
walls that extend downstream of the dam; (4) an existing 32.3-acre 
impoundment with a normal water surface elevation of 895.3 feet msl; 
(5) an intake structure that includes an existing 12-inch-diameter gate 
opening and a proposed 24-inch-diameter gate opening; (6) a proposed 
powerhouse with a 3-kilowatt (kW) Kaplan turbine-generator unit and a 
6-kW Kaplan turbine-generator unit, for a total installed capacity of 9 
kW; (7) two proposed draft tubes to discharge water from the 
powerhouse; and (8) appurtenant facilities.
    West Stockbridge proposes to operate the project in a run-of-river 
mode with an estimated annual energy production of approximately 67.5 
megawatt-hours.
    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 schedule. Revisions 
to the schedule will be made as appropriate (e.g., if there are no 
deficiencies and/or scoping is waived, the schedule would be 
shortened).
    Issue Deficiency Letter--November 2017.
    Issue Notice of Acceptance--March 2018.
    Issue Scoping Document--April 2018.
    Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--June 2018.
    Issue Notice of the Availability of the EA--October 2018.

    Dated: October 5, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-22010 Filed 10-11-17; 8:45 am]
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