Notice2022-19931
City of Watervliet; Notice of Settlement Agreement and Soliciting
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Published
September 15, 2022
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Energy DepartmentFederal Energy Regulatory Commission
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 178 (Thursday, September 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56644-56645]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19931]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2955-011]
City of Watervliet; Notice of Settlement Agreement and Soliciting
Comments
Take notice that the following settlement agreement has been filed
with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Settlement Agreement.
b. Project No.: 2955-011.
c. Date filed: September 2, 2022.
d. Applicant: City of Watervliet, New York.
e. Name of Project: Normanskill Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The existing project is located on the Normans Kill in
the Town of Guilderland in Albany County, New York and approximately
22.4 river miles upstream of the mouth of the
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Hudson River. The project does not affect federal land.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Rule 602 of the Commission's Rules of
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.602.
h. Applicant Contact: Michele E. Stottler, Gomez and Sullivan
Engineers, DPC, 399 Albany Shaker Road, Suite 203, Loudonville, NY
12211; (518) 407-0050; <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2a4f474b43467547595e455e5e464f586a4d45474f504b444e595f4646435c4b4404494547">[email protected]</a> or Joseph
LaCivita, General Manager, The City of Watervliet, 2 Fifteenth Street,
Watervliet, NY 12189; (518) 270-3800; <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a7c2cac6cecbf8cdcbc6c4ced1ced3c6e7d0c6d3c2d5d1cbcec2d389c4c8ca">[email protected]</a>.
i. FERC Contact: Woohee Choi, (202) 502-6336, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#760119191e131358151e191f361013041558111900"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d4a3bbbbbcb1b1fab7bcbbbd94b2b1a6b7fab3bba2">[email protected]</span></a>.
j. Deadline for Filing Comments: September 28, 2022. Reply comments
due October 11, 2022.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
comments using the Commission's eFiling system at <a href="http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp">http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp</a>. Commenters can submit brief comments up to
6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the eComment system
at <a href="http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp">http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp</a>. You must include your
name and contact information at the end of your comments. For
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#53151601101c3d3f3a3d36002623233c212713353621307d343c25"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="40060512030f2e2c292e25133530302f323400262532236e272f36">[email protected]</span></a>, (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, you may submit a paper copy.
Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via
any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville,
Maryland 20852. The first page of any filing should include docket
number P-2955-011.
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. The City of Watervliet filed the Settlement Agreement on behalf
of itself, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Town of Guilderland.
The purpose of the Settlement Agreement is to resolve, among the
signatories, issues related to operational, fisheries, wildlife, water
quality, and recreation resources associated with issuance of a
subsequent license and water quality certification for the project.
Specifically, the Settlement Agreement includes proposed protection,
mitigation, and enhancements measures to address eel passage,
streamflow and water level monitoring, water quality management, bat
and eagle protection, invasive species management, and recreation. The
City of Watervliet states that the terms of the Settlement Agreement
are an integrated and individual set of measures intended to address
and balance non-power and power values relating to the project and
requests that the Commission approve the Settlement Agreement and
incorporate the proposed measures set forth in section 3 into any
subsequent license issued.
l. A copy of the settlement agreement may be viewed on the
Commission's website at <a href="http://www.ferc.gov">http://www.ferc.gov</a> using the ``eLibrary''
link. Enter the docket number, excluding the last three digits, in the
docket number field to access the document (i.e., P-2955). At this
time, the Commission has suspended access to the Commission's Public
Reference Room, due to the proclamation declaring a National Emergency
concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), issued by the
President on March 13, 2020. For assistance, contact FERC Online
Support.
You may also register online at <a href="http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp">http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp</a> to be notified via email of new filings and issuances
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
Dated: September 8, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-19931 Filed 9-14-22; 8:45 am]
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