Grand River Dam Authority’s (GRDA) relicensing of the Pensacola Hydroelectric Project will follow the Integrated Licensing Process (ILP) as designated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The first step in this process is the filing of a Notice of Intent (NOI) and a Pre-Application Document (PAD). The information in the PAD allows FERC and relicensing participants to identify data gaps and help form study requests to acquire information which will be needed in developing the new license.
Filings throughout the process will be made available to the public on this project relicensing website. Certain information may be restricted from publication on the relicensing website in accordance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulations protecting Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII) or in cases where the document contains sensitive information (e.g. cultural resource sites, sensitive species locations, etc.). GRDA will address requests for access to this information on a case-by-case basis, in accordance with applicable law, as needed during the relicensing process.
Notice Of Public Information Session on November 14 and 15, 2017
Notice of Information Session for December 13, 2017
Integrated Licensing Process Steps
- GRDA files Pre-Application Document (PAD) and Notice of Intent (NOI) to relicense the Project (February 1, 2017).
- Synopsis of the known information relevant to relicensing
- Detailed description of the Project
- Explanation of the relicensing process and the schedule to be followed
- Suggested needed studies and investigations
- FERC issues Letter Order holding the Pensacola Project’s pre-filing process in abeyance (February 15,2017). Per the letter, FERC will not initiate the ILP until after it takes action on the pending rule curve amendment request.
- FERC issues Letter Order Lifting Abeyance and Providing a Revised ILP Process Plan and Schedule (August 24, 2017). The relicensing process will resume January 12, 2018.
- FERC issues Notice of Commencement of Pre-Filing Process (January 12, 2018).
- FERC issues Scoping Document 1 (January 12, 2018).
- On February 7, 8, and 9, 2018, FERC held agency and public scoping meetings in Langley, Grove, Miami, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Concurrently, GRDA hosted a site visit to the Project on February 8, 2018.
- GRDA files a Proposed Study Plan (PSP) (April 27, 2018).
- Description of proposed studies
- Responses to relicensing participant study requests
- FERC issues Scoping Document 2 (April 27, 2018).
- GRDA held a public PSP Meeting on May 30 and 31, 2018.
- GRDA held a Cultural Resources Working Group (CRWG) Meeting on May 31, 2018.
- GRDA filed Revised Study Plan (RSP) (September 24, 2018).
- FERC issues Study Plan Determination (SPD) November 8, 2018.
- GRDA held a Cultural Resources Working Group Meeting on January 3, 2019
- GRDA held a Cultural Resources Working Group Meeting on March 27, 2019
- Application for Non-Capacity Amendment(May 20, 2019)
- USGS provides quarterly report for February-April 2019
- FERC Order Granting License Extension and Modifying Relicensing Process Plan and Schedule (September 9, 2019)
- USGS provides quarterly report for April-October 2019
- USGS provides quarterly report for October-December 2019
- FERC’s Order on City of Miami’s Request for Clarification and Rehearing (January 23, 2020).
- USGS provides quarterly update for January-March 2020.
- USGS provides quarterly update for April-June 2020.
