[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 117 (Thursday, June 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33368-33369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16189]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Amendment of Application Filed With the Commission
June 12, 1998.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: Major License.
b. Project No.: P-11607-000.
c. Date Filed: January 30, 1998.
d. Applicant: Holyoke Gas & Electric Department, Ashburnham
Municipal Light Plant, and Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric
Company.
e. Name of Project: Holyoke Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Connecticut River in Hampden, Hampshire, and
Franklin Counties, Massachusetts.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. Secs. 791(a)-
825(r).
h. Applicant Contact:
George E. Leary, Manager, Holyoke Gas & Electric Department, 99 Suffolk
Street, Holyoke, MA 01040-4457, (413) 536-9311.
Roger W. Bacon, Director, Power Services Division, Massachusetts
Wholesale Electric Company, Randall Road, P.O. Box 426, Ludlow, MA
01056, (413) 589-1041
John LeMieur, Acting General Manager, Ashburnham Municipal Light Plant,
78 Central Street, P.O. Box 823, Ashburnham, MA 01430-0823, (508) 827-
4424
i. FERC Contact: Allan Creamer (202) 219-0365.
j. Comment Date: July 20, 1998.
k. Description of Amendment: On January 30, 1998, the Holyoke Gas &
Electric Department (HG&E), the Ashburnham Municipal Light Plant
(Ashburnham), and the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric
Company (MMWEC) jointly filed an application to amend the license
application filed by
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Ashburnham and MMWEC on August 29, 1997, for the Holyoke Hydroelectric
Project (FERC Project No. 11607), which is pending before the
Commission. The Commission staff will be acting on this license
application in the future.
The amendment: (1) adds HG&E as a co-applicant to the application
originally filed by Ashburnham and MMWEC; (2) specifies that HG&E,
rather than MMWEC, will finance the project and sell a portion of the
project power to Ashburnham; and (3) adds several new environmental
measures, including (a) sponsoring the annual shad derby, (b) providing
canoe portage around the Holyoke dam, and (c) installing an exclusion
structure at the mouth of the No. 2 Overflow spillway. The amendment
also (1) changes the location where copies of the amended application
are available to HG&E's offices, (2) names the applicant contact for
HG&E, and (3) makes changes to the applicant contacts for Ashburnham
and R.W. Beck, the applicant's consultant.
l. Federal, state, and local agencies, as well as other interested
parties, are invited to file comments on the described amendment of
application. A copy of the amended application may be obtained by
agencies directly from the applicant. If any agency or other party does
not file comments within the time specified for filing comments, as
shown in paragraph (j), it will be presumed to have no comments. One
copy of an agency's comments must also be sent to the applicant's
representative(s).
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-16189 Filed 6-17-98; 8:45 am]
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