Environment

Hackett Mills Hydro Associates, LLC; Notice of Application Ready for Environmental Analysis and Soliciting Comments, Recommendations, Terms and Conditions, and Prescriptions

🇺🇸United States··Notice·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has announced that the license application for the Hackett Mills Hydroelectric Project (Project No. 6398-026) is ready for environmental analysis. Hackett Mills Hydro Associates, LLC is seeking a subsequent minor license to continue operating the existing 485 kW run-of-river hydroelectric facility on the Little Androscoggin River in Poland and Minot, Maine. The project consists of a 186-foot-long dam, 60-acre impoundment, power canal, and a single turbine generator that produces about 1,602 MWh annually. No new construction is proposed. Comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and prescriptions must be filed by 5:00 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026, with reply comments due July 6, 2026. The applicant must also submit water quality certification documents by the same May 22 deadline.

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Key Changes

  • Application for Subsequent Minor License (Project No. 6398-026) is now ready for environmental analysis
  • Deadline for filing comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and prescriptions: May 22, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. ET
  • Reply comments due: July 6, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. ET

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Obligations

What this law requires

high

All intervenors must serve a copy of filed documents on each person on the official service list for the project

All intervenors filing documents
operational
high

File water quality certification, request for certification with proof of receipt date, or evidence of waiver by 5:00 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026

Hackett Mills Hydro Associates, LLC
reporting
high

File comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and prescriptions by 5:00 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026

Public commenters and interested parties
disclosure
medium

File reply comments by 5:00 p.m. ET on July 6, 2026

Public commenters and interested parties
reporting
high

File final amendments to the application by 5:00 p.m. ET on April 22, 2026

Hackett Mills Hydro Associates, LLC
reporting

Affected Parties

Hydroelectric project operatorsHackett Mills Hydro Associates, LLC+5 more…

Tags

hydropower,FERC license,hydroelectric project