[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 41 (Monday, March 2, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12282-12283]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-04218]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2814-025]
Great Falls Hydroelectric Company, City of Paterson, New Jersey;
Notice of Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Motions To
Intervene and Protests
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: New Major License.
b. Project No.: 2814-025.
c. Date Filed: February 28, 2019.
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d. Applicant: Great Falls Hydroelectric Company and the City of
Paterson, New Jersey, as co-licensees.
e. Name of Project: Great Falls Hydroelectric Project (Great Falls
Project or project).
f. Location: On the Passaic River, near the City of Paterson,
Passaic County, New Jersey. 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: Mr. Robert Gates, Senior Vice President of
Operations, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, 65 Madison Avenue, Suite 500,
Morristown, NJ 07960; (973) 998-8400; [email protected]
and/or Ben-David Seligman, 2nd Assistant Corp. Counsel, City of
Paterson, 155 Market Street, Paterson, NJ; (973) 321-1366; email_
[email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Christopher Millard at (202) 502-8256; or email at
[email protected].
j. Deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests: 60 days
from the issuance date of this notice.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
motions to intervene and protests 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-2814-025.
The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors filing
documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each
person on the official service list for the project. Further, if an
intervenor files comments or documents with the Commission relating to
the merits of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a
particular resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document
on that resource agency.
k. This application has been accepted for filing but is not ready
for environmental analysis at this time.
l. The existing project works consist of: (1) The Society for the
Establishment of Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.) dam, an overflow granite
stone gravity structure about 315 feet long, with a maximum height of
15 feet and having a crest elevation of 114.6 feet mean sea level
(msl); (2) a reservoir with a surface area of 202 acres and a storage
capacity of 1,415 acre-feet at elevation 114.6 feet msl; (3) a forebay
inlet structure; (4) a headgate control structure containing three
trashracks and three steel gates; (5) three penstocks, each 8.5 feet in
diameter and approximately 55 feet long; (6) a powerhouse containing
three turbine-generator units with a total rated capacity of 10.95
megawatts; (7) a 37-foot-long, 4.16-kilovolt (kV) underground
transmission line connecting the powerhouse to a 4.16/26.4-kV step-up
transformer which in turn is connected to a 26.4-kV transmission grid
via an approximately 30-foot-long 26.4-kV underground transmission
line; (8) and appurtenant facilities.
The Great Falls Project is operated in a run-of-river mode. For the
period 2010 through 2018, the average annual generation at the Great
Falls Project was 17,484 megawatt-hours.
m. 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 website 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 addresses 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.
n. Anyone may submit a protest or a motion to intervene in
accordance with the requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18
CFR 385.210, .211, and .214. In determining the appropriate action to
take, the Commission will consider all protests or other comments
filed, but only those who file a motion to intervene in accordance with
the Commission's Rules may become a party to the proceeding. Any
protests or motions to intervene must be received on or before the
specified comment date for the particular application.
All filings must: (1) Bear in all capital letters the title PROTEST
or MOTION TO INTERVENE; (2) set forth in the heading the name of the
applicant and the project number of the application to which the filing
responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone number of the
person protesting or intervening; and (4) otherwise comply with the
requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. Agencies may obtain
copies of the application directly from the applicant. A copy of any
protest or motion to intervene must be served upon each representative
of the applicant specified in the particular application.
o. 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.
Filing of motions to intervene and protests: April 2020.
Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis: May 2020.
Deadline for filing of recommendations, terms and conditions, and
prescriptions:July 2020.
Reply comments due: September 2020.
Commission issues EA: November 2020.
Comments on EA: December 2020.
p. 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 25, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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