Notice2025-23217
Valatie Falls Hydro Power, Inc.; 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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December 18, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 241 (Thursday, December 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59098-59099]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23217]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 9886-035]
Valatie Falls Hydro Power, Inc.; 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: Subsequent Minor License.
b. Project No.: 9886-035.
c. Date Filed: November 28, 2025.
d. Applicant: Valatie Falls Hydro Power, Inc.
e. Name of Project: Valatie Falls Hydroelectric Project (Valatie
Falls Project).
f. Location: The project is located on Kinderhook Creek, in the
village of Valatie, town of Kinderhook in Columbia County, New York.
This project does not occupy any federal land.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. John E. Doran, President, Valatie Falls
Hydro Power, Inc., 7 Cotton Mill Lane, Valatie, NY 12184; phone at
(855) 467-3751 or email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#dab0beb5a8bbb49aaab3a9b5bfacf4b9b5b7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b6dcd2d9c4d7d8f6c6dfc5d9d3c098d5d9db">[email protected]</span></a>.
i. FERC Contact: Jacob Harrell at (202) 502-7313, or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b4fed5d7dbd69afcd5c6c6d1d8d8f4d2d1c6d79ad3dbc2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="eba18a888489c5a38a99998e8787ab8d8e9988c58c849d">[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: on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
January 27, 2026.
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="http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp">http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp</a>. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support
at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b1f7f4e3f2fedfddd8dfd4e2c4c1c1dec3c5f1d7d4c3d29fd6dec7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3f797a6d7c70515356515a6c4a4f4f504d4b7f595a4d5c11585049">[email protected]</span></a>, (866) 203-3676 (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, 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, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225
Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852. All filings must clearly
identify the project name and docket number on the first page: Valatie
Falls Hydroelectric Project (P-9886-035).
m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
n. The Valatie Falls Project includes: (1) a concrete dam of an
approximate height of 6 feet and length of 310 feet consisting of two
sections separated by a small island (Seven Pine Island) and with a
crest elevation of 228.3 feet above mean sea level (msl); (2) wooden
flashboards of 2 feet on both dam sections; (3) a 5-acre reservoir with
a gross storage capacity of approximately 20 acre-feet at the normal
surface elevation of 230.3 feet msl; (4) a 34-foot-long by 14-foot-wide
concrete intake structure with a 15-foot-long by 12-foot-
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wide trashrack set at an angle of 45 degrees to the flow; (5) a 6-foot-
diameter steel penstock; (6) a 27-foot by 16-foot powerhouse containing
a single Semi-Kaplan turbine unit with an installed capacity of 365.5
kilowatts; (7) a tailrace channel; (8) a bypassed reach channel split
into an approximately 700-foot-long south channel and 800-foot-long
north channel; (9) an approximately 50-foot-long transmission line; and
(10) appurtenant facilities.
Valatie Falls Hydro Power, Inc. proposes to continue operating the
project in a run-of-river mode with a continuous minimum flow of 18
cubic feet per second (cfs) provided into the channel on the north side
of Seven Pine Island and 8 cfs provided into the channel on the south
side of Seven Pine Island. An existing downstream fish bypass system
would continue to be operated seasonally from March 15 through May 15
and from September 1 through December 15 passing an additional 15 cfs
downstream through a 1-foot-diameter pipe into the sluiceway located
adjacent to the south spillway. The Valatie Falls Project has an
average annual generation of approximately 500,000 kilowatt-hours.
o. A copy of the application is available for review on the
Commission's website at <a href="https://www.ferc.gov">https://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-9886). For assistance,
contact FERC at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1d5b584f5e5273717473784e686d6d726f695d7b786f7e337a726b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1f595a4d5c50717376717a4c6a6f6f706d6b5f797a6d7c31787069">[email protected]</span></a>, or call toll free, (886)
208-3676 or TTY (202) 502-8659.
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. For public inquiries and assistance with making filings such as
interventions, comments, or requests for rehearing, contact the Office
of Public Participation at (202) 502-6595 or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#93dcc3c3d3f5f6e1f0bdf4fce5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c38c939383a5a6b1a0eda4acb5">[email protected]</span></a>.
q. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will
be processed according to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions
to the schedule will be made as appropriate.
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Milestone Target date
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Issue Deficiency Letter and Request February 2026.
Additional Information.
Issue Acceptance Letter and Notice...... June 2026.
Issue Scoping Notice.................... June 2026.
Scoping Comments due.................... July 2026.
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental September 2026.
Analysis.
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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.
(Authority: 18 CFR 2.1)
Dated: December 12, 2025.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-23217 Filed 12-17-25; 8:45 am]
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