Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Hydroelectric applications,

[Federal Register: June 18, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 117)]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Notice of Amendment of Application FiledWith the Commission

June 12, 1998.

Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been filedwith the Commission and is available for public inspection:

1. Type of Application: Major License.

2. Project No.: P-11607-000.

3. Date Filed: January 30, 1998.

4. Applicant: Holyoke Gas & Electric Department, Ashburnham Municipal Light Plant, and Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company.

5. Name of Project: Holyoke Hydroelectric Project.

6. Location: On the Connecticut River in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin Counties, Massachusetts.

7. FiledPursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. Secs. 791(a)- 825(r).

8. 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

9. FERC Contact: Allan Creamer (202) 219-0365.

10. Comment Date: July 20, 1998.

11. 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 filedan application to amend the license application filedby

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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 filedby 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.

12. 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. 98-16189Filed6-17-98; 8:45 am]

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