Brooks Energy, LLC filed an application on August 5, 2025 to surrender its exemption from licensing for the Lockville Dam Project (No. 6276) on the Deep River at the Chatham-Lee county border in North Carolina. The generating equipment has not operated since 2020 and the dam was breached in 2023. No ground-disturbing activities are proposed by the exemptee. Following the surrender, American Rivers and Resource Environmental Solutions will remove the dam under American Rivers' Watershed Restoration of the Upper Cape Fear and Lower Deep Rivers project, supported by NOAA and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. FERC intends to complete an Environmental Assessment by April 14, 2026.12