Notice2024-10671
EONY Generation Limited; 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
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May 16, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 96 (Thursday, May 16, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42869-42870]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10671]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 4349-033]
EONY Generation Limited; 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 Major License.
b. Project No.: 4349-033.
c. Date Filed: April 26, 2024.
d. Applicant: EONY Generation Limited.
e. Name of Project: Moose River Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Moose River in Lewis County, New York.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Gregory Clarke, Chief Electricity Generation
Officer, EONY Generation Limited, 7659 Lyonsdale Road, Lyonsdale, NY
13368; email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3e794c5b59514c477d525f4c555b7e4e514c4a5f595b4e51495b4c105d5153"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="41063324262e3338022d20332a2401312e3335202624312e3624336f222e2c">[email protected]</span></a>.
i. FERC Contact: Kelly Wolcott, Project Coordinator, Great Lakes
Branch, Division of Hydropower Licensing; telephone at (202) 502-6480;
email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9bf0fef7f7e2b5ecf4f7f8f4efefdbfdfee9f8b5fcf4ed"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="204b454c4c590e574f4c434f545460464552430e474f56">[email protected]</span></a>.
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: June 25, 2024.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status
using the Commission's eFiling system at <a href="https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx">https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx</a>. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6c2a293e2f2302000502093f191c1c031e182c0a091e0f420b031a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cf898a9d8c80a1a3a6a1aa9cbabfbfa0bdbb8fa9aabdace1a8a0b9">[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:
Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.
Submissions sent via any other carrier must be addressed to: Debbie-
Anne A. Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852. All filings must clearly
identify the project name and docket number on the first page: Moose
River Hydroelectric Project (P-4349-033).
m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. Project Description: The Moose River Project includes a dam that
is comprised of: (1) a southern section that includes: (a) an earthen
dike; (b) a concrete retaining wall; (c) a 39-foot-long concrete intake
structure with: (i) a 3-foot-wide debris sluice gate; and (ii) a 15-
foot-wide sluice gate equipped with an approximately 27-foot-wide
trashrack with 2-inch clear bar spacing; and (d) a concrete section
with a 10-foot-wide stoplog gate; and (2) a northern section that
includes: (a) a south abutment; (b) a 240-foot-long spillway that has a
crest elevation of 1,024.6 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of
1929 (NGVD 29) with a 58-foot-long, 0.5-foot-high notch; and (c) a
north abutment.
The dam creates an impoundment that has a surface area of 21 acres
at the spillway crest elevation of 1,024.6 feet NGVD, which is the
normal maximum surface elevation of the impoundment.
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From the impoundment, water flows through the intake structure into:
(1) an approximately 5,000-foot-long tunnel with a surge chamber; and
(2) an approximately 90-foot-long penstock. From the impoundment, water
also flows through the debris sluice gate and stoplog gate to an
excavated rock channel that discharges into the Moose River
approximately 100 feet downstream of the spillway. The penstock conveys
water to an underground powerhouse that contains a 12.6-MW Kaplan
turbine-generator unit. Water is discharged from the turbine to an
approximately 82.5-foot-long tailrace. The project creates an
approximately 6,200-foot-long bypassed reach of the Moose River.
The project generator is connected to the regional electric grid by
13.8-kilovolt (kV) underground generator lead lines and a switchyard
approximately 400 feet east of the powerhouse that includes a 13.8/115-
kV step-up transformer.
Project recreation facilities include: (1) Agers Falls Recreation
Area that includes two picnic areas and a 900-foot-long interpretative
trail through the historic Agers Mill Complex; (2) Moose River Trail
that includes a one-mile-long trail on the shoreline of the bypassed
reach; (3) a 230-foot-long boat portage trail from a hand-carry boat
access site on the north side of the dam to a hand-carry boat access
site approximately 300 feet downstream of the dam; and (4) a car-top
boat launch located on the south shore of the impoundment,
approximately 850 feet upstream of the dam.
The minimum and maximum hydraulic capacities of the powerhouse are
200 and 1,300 cubic feet per second (cfs), respectively. The average
annual energy production of the project from 2016 through 2022, was
51,350 megawatt-hours.
The current license requires EONY to operate the project in an
instantaneous run-of-river mode, such that project outflow approximates
the ``instantaneous sum of the inflow'' to the impoundment. EONY
maintains the normal maximum surface elevation of the impoundment at
the spillway crest elevation of 1,024.6 feet NGVD 29 during non-winter
months. During winter months, EONY maintains the surface elevation of
the impoundment at 1,024.1 feet NGVD 29, which corresponds to the crest
elevation of the notch in the spillway, to manage ice.
The current license requires EONY to release a year-round minimum
flow of 60 cfs or inflow, whichever is less, to the bypassed reach.
EONY releases the minimum flow through the spillway notch, expect
during the winter, when EONY releases the minimum flow through the
stoplog gate. Under the current license, EONY is required to provide
annual whitewater flow releases downstream of the dam on ten scheduled
days and ten unscheduled days, from 12:00 to 7:00 p.m., or one-half
hour prior to sunset, whichever is earlier. EONY is required to stop
generating electricity during whitewater releases, except when project
inflow exceeds 1,500 cfs. At flows above 1,500 cfs, EONY is required to
release 1,000 cfs to the bypassed reach for whitewater recreation and
can use the remainder of flow for electric generation. EONY is required
to ramp down generation upon sign-in of the first boater, and increase
flows to the bypassed reach gradually and in equal increments over a
period of two hours to provide whitewater flows. Following a whitewater
release, EONY ramps up generation upon sign-out of the last boater, and
decreases flows to the bypassed reach gradually and in equal increments
over a period of one hour.
EONY proposes the following changes to the project boundary: (1)
remove approximately 5.4 acres of land adjacent to the impoundment
shoreline; (2) remove approximately 6.8 acres of land along the
northern shoreline of the bypassed reach; (3) remove approximately 4.5
acres of land associated with Lyonsdale Road; and (4) add approximately
0.8 acre of land and water north of the hand-carry boat put-in site.
EONY proposes to continue operating the project in a run-of-river
mode and maintaining a normal maximum surface elevation of 1,024.6 feet
NGVD 29 during non-winter months and 1,024.1 feet NGVD 29 during winter
months. EONY also proposes to: (1) release a year-round minimum flow of
80 cfs or inflow, whichever is less, to the bypassed reach; (2)
implement an impoundment drawdown and cofferdam plan, an invasive
species management plan, and a bat and eagle management plan; (3)
maintain an existing interpretative display and fencing for the
protection of historic properties; (4) continue to operate and maintain
existing project recreation facilities; (5) install signage at a hand-
carry boat take-out site along the Moose River Trail; (6) continue to
provide up to 20 whitewater flow releases per year; and (7) continue
ramping during whitewater release days as outlined in the current
license.
o. In addition to publishing the full text of this notice in the
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this notice, as well
as other documents in the proceeding (e.g., license application) via
the internet through the Commission's Home Page (<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 (P-
4349). For assistance, contact FERC at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ce888b9c8d81a0a2a7a0ab9dbbbebea1bcba8ea8abbcade0a9a1b8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cd8b889f8e82a3a1a4a3a89eb8bdbda2bfb98daba8bfaee3aaa2bb">[email protected]</span></a>,
(866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY).
You may also register online at <a href="https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx">https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx</a> to be notified via email of new filings and issuances
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
p. The Commission's Office of Public Participation (OPP) supports
meaningful public engagement and participation in Commission
proceedings. OPP can help members of the public, including landowners,
environmental justice communities, Tribal members and others, access
publicly available information and navigate Commission processes. For
public inquiries and assistance with making filings such as
interventions, comments, or requests for rehearing, the public is
encouraged to contact OPP at (202)502-6595 or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#48071818082e2d3a2b662f273e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="450a151505232037266b222a33">[email protected]</span></a>.
q. Procedural Schedule: The application will be processed according
to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions to the schedule will
be made as appropriate.
Issue Deficiency Letter and Request Additional Information--June 2024
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--September 2024
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--October 2024
Issue Acceptance Letter--October 2024
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)--November 2024
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--November 2024
r. 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: May 9, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-10671 Filed 5-15-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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