# 2025-20702: FERC Accepts Pine Valley Hydro Relicensing Application for Review

2025-20702, Pine Valley Hydroelectric Power Company, 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 2025-11-24, effective Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status: on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on November 28, 2025. (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20702
- Title: Pine Valley Hydroelectric Power Company, 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 52947
- Published: 2025-11-24
- Effective: Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status: on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on November 28, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

FERC Accepts Pine Valley Hydro Relicensing Application for Review

## Summary

Pine Valley Hydroelectric Power Company is asking to renew its license to keep running its small hydroelectric project on the Souhegan River in New Hampshire. The government wants the public and agencies to suggest any extra studies by November 28, 2025, to make sure everything’s safe and sound. This process sets the stage for future power generation and environmental care, with no immediate cost changes announced yet.

## Effects PRIA read

- Deadline to Request Additional Studies: cost, low. If you are a resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person who believes an additional scientific study is needed for the Pine Valley Hydroelectric Project, you must file a study request with the Commission and serve a copy on the applicant by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on November 28, 2025. Cooperating agen…
- Proposal to Raise Minimum Streamflow: mixed, medium. Pine Valley Hydro proposes to continue operating the Pine Valley Hydroelectric Project in run-of-river mode and to increase the minimum flow released to the bypassed reach from 24 cubic feet per second (cfs) or inflow, whichever is less, to 50 cfs or inflow, whichever is less. The applicant also pr…

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## Sources
- [2025-20702 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/24/2025-20702/pine-valley-hydroelectric-power-company-llc-notice-of-application-tendered-for-filing-with-the)
- [2025-20702 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-24/pdf/2025-20702.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20702 (as of 2026-06-08).