# 2025-20918: Maine Hydro Project Seeks Your Environmental Hot Takes

2025-20918, KEI (Maine) Power Management (III) LLC; Notice of Scoping Period Requesting Comments on Environmental Issues for the Proposed Barker Mill Upper Hydroelectric Project, is a Federal Register notice from Energy Department, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission published 2025-11-25, effective Scoping comments must be received in Washington, DC on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 1, 2025. (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20918
- As of: 2026-06-08
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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20918
- Title: KEI (Maine) Power Management (III) LLC; Notice of Scoping Period Requesting Comments on Environmental Issues for the Proposed Barker Mill Upper Hydroelectric Project
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Energy Department; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 53294
- Published: 2025-11-25
- Effective: Scoping comments must be received in Washington, DC on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 1, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Maine Hydro Project Seeks Your Environmental Hot Takes

## Summary

KEI Power wants to renew their license to keep running the Barker Mill Upper Hydroelectric Project on Maine’s Little Androscoggin River. The government is asking the public to share their thoughts on how this project might affect the environment before deciding. If you care about clean energy or local nature, now’s the time to speak up—comments are due by December 1, 2025.

## Effects PRIA read

- Public Scoping Comments Open: benefit, low. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is asking for public comments on the environmental scope for relicensing the Barker Mill Upper Hydroelectric Project. Comments must be received in Washington, DC by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 1, 2025, and can be filed electronically through FERC's eF…
- Agreement to Fund Basin Stewardship: benefit, low. The Settlement includes an off-license agreement to fund an Androscoggin Basin Stewardship Fund administered by the Maine Department of Marine Resources to benefit spawning and rearing habitat in the basin.
- Planned Fish Passage Measures Listed: benefit, medium. The Settlement specifies coordinating time frames for providing upstream and downstream fish passage at the Upper Barker Project for species including American eel, river herring, American shad, sea lamprey, and Atlantic salmon.
- Minimum and Seasonal Flows To Be Aligned: benefit, low. The Settlement calls for aligning the minimum and seasonal flows at the Upper Barker and Lower Barker Projects, which could change how the river is operated seasonally.
- License Term Alignment and Extension: mixed, low. The Settlement would extend the Lower Barker Project license term to 50 years and requests a license term of 47 years for the Upper Barker Project to align license terms between projects.

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## Sources
- [2025-20918 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-20918/kei-maine-power-management-iii-llc-notice-of-scoping-period-requesting-comments-on-environmental)
- [2025-20918 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-25/pdf/2025-20918.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20918 (as of 2026-06-08).