# 2025-09202: Michigan Hydro Project Submits License Application Filing

2025-09202, STS Hydropower, LLC, Charter Township of Van Buren, Michigan; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments, is a Federal Register notice from Energy Department, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission published 2025-05-22, effective 2025-05-13 (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-09202
- Title: STS Hydropower, LLC, Charter Township of Van Buren, Michigan; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Energy Department; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 21916
- Published: 2025-05-22
- Effective: 2025-05-13
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Michigan Hydro Project Submits License Application Filing

## Summary

STS Hydropower and Van Buren Township in Michigan have officially filed a big new license application to keep running the French Landing Hydroelectric Project on the Huron River. This means they’re moving forward with plans to manage the dam and generate clean energy, with key deadlines set for final changes and approvals. Local residents and energy users can expect updates soon, but no immediate changes or costs are happening just yet.

## Effects PRIA read

- Recreation access maintained and improved: benefit, low. The applicants propose to continue maintaining French Landing Park and project recreation facilities, which include a hand-carry boat access, a pavilion, picnic tables, a boardwalk with a fishing platform, restrooms, and two paved parking areas that together hold 19 vehicles. They also propose to e…
- Project to remain run‑of‑river operation: benefit, low. The applicants propose to continue operating the French Landing Project in a run-of-river mode so outflow approximates inflow, with minimum and maximum hydraulic capacities of 255 and 880 cubic feet per second (cfs). The notice also states the project averaged 6,919 megawatt-hours (MWh) of generati…
- Project boundary acreage changed: mixed, low. The applicants propose to decrease the project boundary from 1,327 acres to 1,279.9 acres. Specifically, they propose revising the impoundment contour from 655 to 652 feet NGVD29 (removing a net total of 48.8 acres), adding 2.4 acres for recreation facilities, adding 0.5 acre for the right embankme…

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## Sources
- [2025-09202 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/22/2025-09202/sts-hydropower-llc-charter-township-of-van-buren-michigan-notice-of-application-tendered-for-filing)
- [2025-09202 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-22/pdf/2025-09202.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-09202 (as of 2026-06-08).