Notice2024-22851
Brookfield White Pine Hydro, LLC, Merimil Limited Partnership, Hydro-Kennebec, LLC; Notice of Revised Procedural Schedule for Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Project Relicense, Interim Species Protection Plan, and Final Species Protection Plan
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October 3, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 192 (Thursday, October 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 80553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22851]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project Nos. 2322-069; 2322-071; 2325-100; Project No. 2574-092;
Project No. 2611-091]
Brookfield White Pine Hydro, LLC, Merimil Limited Partnership,
Hydro-Kennebec, LLC; Notice of Revised Procedural Schedule for
Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Project Relicense,
Interim Species Protection Plan, and Final Species Protection Plan
On January 31, 2020, Brookfield White Pine Hydro, LLC filed an
application for a new license to continue to operate and maintain the
8.65-megawatt (MW) Shawmut Hydroelectric Project No. 2322 (Shawmut
Project). On June 1, 2021, in a separate compliance proceeding for the
Shawmut Project, Brookfield White Pine Hydro, LLC filed an Interim
Species Protection Plan (Interim Plan) for Atlantic salmon and
requested Commission approval to amend the current Shawmut license to
incorporate the Interim Plan. The Interim Plan includes measures to
protect endangered Atlantic salmon until the Commission issues a
decision on the relicense application for the Shawmut Project.
Also on June 1, 2021, Brookfield Power US Asset Management, LLC
(Brookfield), on behalf of the affiliated licensees for the 6.915-MW
Lockwood Hydroelectric Project No. 2574, 15.433-MW Hydro-Kennebec
Hydroelectric Project No. 2611, and 15.98-MW Weston Hydroelectric
Project No. 2325, filed a Final Species Protection Plan (Final Plan)
for Atlantic salmon, Atlantic sturgeon, and shortnose sturgeon and
requested Commission approval to amend the three project licenses to
incorporate the Final Plan. All four projects are located on the
Kennebec River, in Kennebec and Somerset Counties, Maine.
On November 23, 2021, Commission staff issued a notice of intent to
prepare a draft and final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to
evaluate the effects of relicensing the Shawmut Project and amending
the licenses of all four projects to incorporate the measures in the
Interim and Final Plans. The notice of intent included a schedule for
preparing a draft and final EIS. The schedule was updated on September
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\1\ The final EIS was scheduled to be issued by September 2024.
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The draft EIS was issued on March 28, 2024. Extensive verbal and
written comments on the draft EIS were filed by state and federal
resource agencies, non-governmental organizations, Indian Tribes, and
the public. The comments need to be considered in the final EIS.
Therefore, by this notice, Commission staff is updating the procedural
schedule for completing the final EIS.
The revised schedule is shown below. Further revisions to the
schedule may be made as appropriate.
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Milestone Target date
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Issue Final EIS........................... February 28, 2025
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Any questions regarding this notice may be directed to Marybeth Gay
at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#86cbe7f4ffe4e3f2eea8e1e7ffc6e0e3f4e5a8e1e9f0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="266b47545f4443524e0841475f664043544508414950">[email protected]</span></a> or Matt Cutlip at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f3be928787ddb086879f9a83b395968190dd949c85"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5b163a2f2f75182e2f37322b1b3d3e2938753c342d">[email protected]</span></a>.
Dated: September 24, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-22851 Filed 10-2-24; 8:45 am]
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