[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 182 (Tuesday, September 20, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64457-64458]
[FR Doc No: 2016-22602]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2386-004]

City of Holyoke Gas and Electric Department; 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: New License.
    b. Project No.: 2386-004.
    c. Date filed: August 31, 2016.
    d. Applicant: City of Holyoke Gas and Electric Department.
    e. Name of Project: Holyoke Number 1 Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: Between the first and second level canals on the
Holyoke Canal System adjacent to the Connecticut River, in the city of
Holyoke in Hampden County, Massachusetts. The project does not occupy
federal land.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Paul Ducheney, Superintendent, City of
Holyoke Gas and Electric Department, 99 Suffolk Street, Holyoke, MA
01040,<PHONE_NUMBER> or<EMAIL_ADDRESS>    i. FERC Contact: Kyle Olcott,<PHONE_NUMBER> or
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>    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: October 31, 2016.
    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_ADDRESS>(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-2386-004.
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
    n. The existing Holyoke Number 1 project consists of: (1) An intake
at the wall of the First Level Canal fed by the Holyoke Canal System
(licensed under FERC Project No. 2004) with two 14-foot-8-inch-tall by
24-foot-7.5-inch wide trash rack screens with 3.5-inch clear spacing;
(2) two parallel 10-foot-diameter, 36.5-foot-long penstocks; (3) a 50-
foot-long by 38-foot-wide brick powerhouse with two 240-kilowatt and
two 288-kilowatt turbine generator units; (4) two parallel 20-foot-
wide, 328.5-foot-long brick arched tailrace conduits discharging into
the Second Level Canal; and, (5) appurtenant facilities. There is no
transmission line associated with the project as it is located adjacent
to the substation of interconnection. The project is estimated to
generate 2,710,000 kilowatt-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.

Issue Acceptance or Deficiency Letter--October 2016
Request Additional Information--October 2016
Issue Acceptance Letter--January 2017
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--February 2017
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--April 2017
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)--May 2017
Notice that application is ready for environmental analysis--May 2017
Notice of the availability of the draft EA--November 2017
Notice of the availability of the final EA--February 2018

    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: September 14, 2016.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-22602 Filed 9-19-16; 8:45 am]
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