[Federal Register: July 20, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 140)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Application Ready for Environmental Analysis and
Soliciting Comments, Recommendations, Terms and Conditions, and
Prescriptions
July 14, 2000.
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.: 2554-005.
c. Date filed: December 20, 1991.
d. Applicant: Erie Boulevard Hydropower, L.P.
e. Name of Project: Feeder Dam.
f. Location: On the Hudson River, at river mile 203 in the towns of
Moreau (Saratoga County) and Queensbury (Warren County), New York. The
project would not utilize federal lands.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. Secs. 791(a)-
825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Jerry L. Sabattis, Hydro Licensing
Coordinator, 225 Greenfield Parkway, Suite 201, Liverpool, New York
13088, (315) 413-2787.
i. FERC Contact: Lee Emery, E-mail address, Lee.Emery@ferc.fed.us,
or telephone (202) 219-2779.
j. Deadline for comments, recommendations, terms and conditions,
and prescriptions: 60 days from the issuance date of this notice.
All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with:
David P. Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426.
The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all
intervener filing documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that
document on each person whose name appears on the official service list
for the project. Further, if an intervener 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. Status of environmental analysis: This application has been
accepted for filing and is now ready for environmental analysis.
l. Description of the Project: The existing, operating project
consists of: (1) A 615-foot-long and 21-foot-high uncontrolled overflow
concrete gravity dam with 3-feet-high flashboards; (2) a reservoir with
a surface area of 717 acres, a usable storage capacity of 1,690 acre-
feet (ac-ft), and a gross storage capacity of 10,000 ac-ft, at a
surface elevation ranging between 284.1 and 281.1 feet National
Geodetic Vertical Datum; (3) a headgate structure with 4\1/2\-inch
clear spaced steel bar trashracks and eight stoplog openings; (4) five
waste gates and two Champlain Feeder Canal inlet gates at the north dam
abutment; and (5) a powerhouse at the dam with five identical vertical
fixed blade propeller turbines and generator units (1.2 megawatts
each). There is no bypassed reach. The project has a total installed
capacity of 6.0 megawatts and an average annual energy production of
25,019 megawatt-hours. The New York State Thruway Authority owns the
dam, waste gates, and Feeder Canal inlet gates at the Feeder Dam
Project, and the licensee owns the powerhouse and appurtenant
structures.
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Feeder Dam servers as a re-regulating dam to even the flows
released from peaking operations upstream at the Sherman Island
Development (Hudson River Project, FERC No. 2482). Daily pond
fluctuations range from three feet to six feet when the flashboards are
in place. Water from the powerhouse is discharged directly into the
upper reach of the Glens Falls (FERC No. 2385) and South Glens Falls
(FERC No. 5461) reservoir.
m. Locations of the application: A copy of the application is
available for inspection and reproduction at the Commission's Public
Reference Room, located at 888 First Street, NE, Room 2A, Washington,
DC 20426, or by calling (202) 208-1371. The application may be viewed
on the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222
for assistance). A copy is also available for inspection and
reproduction at the address in item h. above.
Filing and Service of Responsive Documents--The application is
ready for environmental analysis at this time, and the Commission is
requesting comments, reply comments, recommendations, terms and
conditions, and prescriptions.
The Commission directs, pursuant to Section 4.34(b) of the
Regulations (see Order No. 533 issued May 8, 1991, 56 FR 23108, May 20,
1991) that all comments, recommendations, terms and conditions and
prescriptions concerning the application be filed with the Commission
within 60 days from the issuance date of this notice. All reply
comments must be filed with the Commission within 105 days from the
date of this notice.
Anyone may obtain an extension of time for these deadlines from the
Commission only upon a showing of good cause or extraordinary
circumstances in accordance with 18 CFR 385.2008.
All flings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title
``COMMENTS'', ``REPLY COMMENTS'', ``RECOMMENDATIONS,'' ``TERMS AND
CONDITIONS,'' or ``PRESCRIPTIONS;'' (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 submitting the filing; and (4) otherwise comply
with the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. All
comments, recommendations, terms and conditions or prescriptions must
set forth their evidentiary basis and otherwise comply with the
requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). Agencies may obtain copies of the
application directly from the applicant. Any of these documents must be
filed by providing the original and the number of copies required by
the Commission's regulations to: The Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426.
An additional copy must be sent to Director, Division of Environmental
Engineering Review, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, at the above
address. Each filing must be accompanied by proof of service on all
persons listed on the service list prepared by the Commission in this
proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b), and 385.2010.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
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