[Federal Register: January 3, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 1)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[ Project No. 12629-000]
F & B Wood Corp.; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With
the Commission, Soliciting Additional Study Requests, Waiving Three
Stage Consultation, and Establishing an Expedited Schedule for
Relicensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments
December 27, 2005.
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.: P-12629-000.
c. Date filed: December 7, 2005.
d. Applicant: F & B Wood Corp.
e. Name of Project: Corriveau Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Swift River, near the town of Mexico, Oxford
County, Maine. This project does not occupy Federal lands.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of
1978, 16 U.S.C. 2705, 2708.
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. James D. Sysko, Small Hydro East, 524
Jim's Drive, Newry, Maine 04261. (207) 824-3244.
i. FERC Contact: Michael Spencer, michael.spencer@ferc.gov (202)
502-6093.
j. Cooperating Agencies: We are asking Federal, state, and local
agencies
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and Indian tribes with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with
respect to environmental issues to cooperate with us in the preparation
of the environmental document. Agencies who would like to request
cooperating status should follow the instructions for filing comments
described in item k below.
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 a factual basis for complete analysis of the application on its
merits, the resource agency, Indian tribe, or person must file a
request for the study with the Commission no later than 60 days from
the application filing date, and serve a copy of the request on the
applicant.
l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for
cooperating agency status: February 6, 2006.
All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with:
Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426
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.
Additional study requests may be filed electronically via the
Internet in lieu of paper. The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions
on the Commission's Web site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the
``eFiling'' link. After logging into the eFiling system, select
``Comment on Filing'' from the Filing Type Selection screen and
continue with the filing process.''
m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. Project Description: The Corriveau Hydroelectric Project
consists of the following existing facilities: (1) The 150-foot-long by
9-foot-high dam; (2) a 2.0 acre reservoir, (3) a 125-foot-long intake
canal; (4) a powerhouse containing three generating units with total
installed generating capacity of 338 kilowatts (kW); and (5)
appurtenant facilities. The restored project would have an average
annual generation of 1,306,900 kilowatt-hours. The dam and existing
project facilities are owned by the applicant.
o. A copy of the application is on file with the Commission and is
available for public inspection. This filing may also be viewed on the
Web at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the
docket number, excluding the last three digits in the docket number
filed to access the documents. For assistance, please contact FERC
Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at (866) 208-
3676 or for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available for
inspection and reproduction at the address in item h above.
p. You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp
to be notified via e-mail of new filings and
issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance,
contact FERC Online Support.
q. With this notice, we are initiating consultation with the Maine
State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as required by section 106,
National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4.
r. Procedural schedule and final amendments: We intend to waive the
standard 3-stage consultation process (18 CFR 4.38). We also intend to
substitute the pre-filing consultation that has occurred on this
project for our standard National Environmental Policy Act scoping
process. Commission staff proposes to issue a single environmental
assessment rather than issue a draft and final EA. Staff intends to
give at least 30 days for entities to comment on the EA, and will
consider all comments received on the EA before final action is taken
on the exemption application.
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.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E5-8177 Filed 12-30-05; 8:45 am]
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