Notice2026-09816
Marlow Hydro, LLC; Notice of Application Ready for Environmental Analysis and Soliciting Comments, Recommendations, Terms and Conditions, and Prescriptions
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May 15, 2026
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 94 (Friday, May 15, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27934-27935]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-09816]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 15331-001]
Marlow Hydro, LLC; Notice of Application Ready for Environmental
Analysis and Soliciting Comments, Recommendations, Terms and
Conditions, and Prescriptions
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Original Minor License.
b. Project No.: 15331-001.
c. Date Filed: July 31, 2024.
d. Applicant: Marlow Hydro, LLC (Marlow Hydro).
e. Name of Project: Nash Mill Dam Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Ashuelot River, in Cheshire County, New
Hampshire.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Anthony B. Rosario, Marlow Hydro, 139
Henniker St, Hillsborough, NH, 03244; telephone at (603) 494-1854;
email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ccb8e1a5a9a18cb8a8bfe2a2a9b8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d6a2fbbfb3bb96a2b2a5f8b8b3a2">[email protected]</span></a>.
i. FERC Contact: Joshua Dub, Project Coordinator, Great Lakes
Branch, Division of Hydropower Licensing; telephone at (202) 502-8138;
email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#92d8fde1fae7f3bcd6e7f0d2f4f7e0f1bcf5fde4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="165c79657e637738526374567073647538717960">[email protected]</span></a>.
j. Deadline for filing comments, recommendations, terms and
conditions, and prescriptions: on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
July 13, 2026; reply comments are due on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on August 25, 2026.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and prescriptions
using the Commission's eFiling system at <a href="https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx">https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx</a>. Commenters can submit brief comments up to 10,000
characters, without prior registration, using the eComment system at
<a href="https://ferconline.ferc.gov/QuickComment.aspx">https://ferconline.ferc.gov/QuickComment.aspx</a>. For assistance, please
contact FERC Online Support at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#276162756468494b4e494274525757485553674142554409404851"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0d4b485f4e4263616463685e787d7d627f794d6b687f6e236a627b">[email protected]</span></a>, (866) 208-
3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic
filing, please send a paper copy via the U.S. Postal Service 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. The first page of any filing should include
docket number P-15331-001.
The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure 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. This application has been accepted for filing and is now ready
for environmental analysis.
l. Project Description: Marlow Hydro currently owns and holds a
license to operate and maintain the Nash Mill Dam Hydroelectric Project
as FERC Project No. 3309. Although Marlow Hydro started a relicense
proceeding for Project No. 3309, it subsequently withdrew the
application and the relicense proceeding was closed. Marlow Hydro then
filed an original license application for the existing project under
FERC Docket Number P-15331.
The existing project consists of a dam that includes a 57-foot-long
spillway with 3-foot-high flashboards with a crest elevation of
1,133.41 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29), a 3-
foot-long sluice gate, and an intake structure that includes a 3-foot-
long sluice gate and a trashrack with 1-inch clear bar spacing. The dam
creates an impoundment that has a surface area of approximately 2 acres
at the crest of the flashboards. From the impoundment, water flows
through the intake structure to a 1,525-foot-long penstock and then a
powerhouse that contains a 75-kilowatt (kW) vertical fixed propeller
turbine-generator unit, a 100-kW horizontal cross-flow turbine-
generator unit, and a 50-kW vertical fixed propeller turbine-generator
unit. Water from the powerhouse discharges to a tailrace that empties
into the Ashuelot River.
Electricity generated at the powerhouse is transmitted to the
electric grid via an approximately 1,830-foot-long transmission line
and three 75 kilovolt-amp pole mounted transformers.
Marlow Hydro proposes to continue operating the project in a run-
of-river mode and maintaining the impoundment elevation at 1,133.41
feet NGVD 29. Marlow Hydro also proposes to continue releasing a
minimum flow of 14.5 cubic feet per second through a 40-inch-long, 15-
inch high notch in the flashboards to the bypassed reach, and avoid
tree cutting from April 1 through October 31, to protect the federally
endangered northern long-eared bat.
m. A copy of the application 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 (P-15331). For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support. A copy is also available for inspection and
reproduction at the address in item h above.
All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title
``COMMENTS,'' ``REPLY COMMENTS,'' ``RECOMMENDATIONS,'' ``TERMS AND
CONDITIONS,'' or ``PRESCRIPTIONS;'' (2) set forth in the heading the
name of the applicant and the project number of the application to
which the filing responds; (3) furnish the name of the person
submitting the filing; and (4) otherwise comply with the requirements
of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. All comments, recommendations,
terms and conditions or prescriptions must set forth their evidentiary
basis and otherwise comply with the requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b).
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Agencies may obtain copies of the application directly from the
applicant. Each filing must be accompanied by proof of service on all
persons listed on the service list prepared by the Commission in this
proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b) and 385.2010.
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.
n. 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#0f405f5f4f696a7d6c21686079"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="88c7d8d8c8eeedfaeba6efe7fe">[email protected]</span></a>.
o. Public notice of the filing of the initial development
application, which has already been given, established the due date for
filing competing applications or notices of intent. Under the
Commission's regulations, any competing development application must be
filed in response to and in compliance with public notice of the
initial development application. No competing applications or notices
of intent may be filed in response to this notice.
p. A license applicant must file on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on July 13, 2026: (1) a copy of the water quality certification;
(2) a copy of the request for certification, including proof of the
date on which the certifying agency received the request; or (3)
evidence of waiver of water quality certification.
(Authority: 18 CFR 2.1)
Dated: May 12, 2026.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2026-09816 Filed 5-14-26; 8:45 am]
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