# 2025-11167: Ampersand Ogdensburg Hydro Applies for License Renewal

2025-11167, Ampersand Ogdensburg Hydro, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments, is a Federal Register notice from Energy Department, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission published 2025-06-17 (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-11167
- Title: Ampersand Ogdensburg Hydro, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Energy Department; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 25608
- Published: 2025-06-17
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Ampersand Ogdensburg Hydro Applies for License Renewal

## Summary

Ampersand Ogdensburg Hydro, LLC has applied to renew its license for the Ogdensburg Hydroelectric Project on the Oswegatchie River in New York. The public and agencies have until July 29, 2025, to ask for extra studies or join the review process. This relicensing could affect local energy production and environmental rules, so stay tuned for updates and possible changes.

## Effects PRIA read

- Application Filed; Public Can Participate: benefit, low. Ampersand Ogdensburg Hydro filed a new license application for the Ogdensburg Hydroelectric Project (P-9821-109) on May 30, 2025. The public and agencies can view the filing and participate in the relicensing process, and are specifically invited to request additional studies or cooperating-agency…
- Deadline to Request Extra Studies: benefit, low. If you want the Commission to require extra scientific studies, you must file a study request and serve the applicant by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on July 29, 2025. Use FERC's eFiling system or submit a paper filing that clearly identifies Ogdensburg Hydroelectric Project (P-9821-109).
- Operations, Flow Rules, and Environmental Measures: mixed, medium. Ampersand proposes to continue operating the project in run-of-river mode, maintain the impoundment at or above the spillway crest elevation of 258.0 feet mean sea level, and follow specific flow rules (minimum and maximum powerhouse capacities of 183 and 3,650 cfs, minimum flow releases and operat…
- Cooperating Agencies Can't Also Intervene: cost, low. Agencies that choose to cooperate in preparing the Commission's environmental document are subject to the Commission's policy that cooperating agencies cannot also intervene in the proceeding (see 94 FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001)).

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## Sources
- [2025-11167 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/17/2025-11167/ampersand-ogdensburg-hydro-llc-notice-of-application-tendered-for-filing-with-the-commission-and)
- [2025-11167 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-17/pdf/2025-11167.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11167 (as of 2026-06-08).