[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 6 (Monday, January 10, 1994)]
[Notices]
[Page 1391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-455]
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[Federal Register: January 10, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Duke Power Co.; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental
Assessment
[Project No. 2607-001]
January 4, 1994.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has received an
application for relicensing of the existing Spencer Mountain
Hydroelectric Project, Project No. 2607-001. The project is located on
the South Fork Catawba River in Gaston County, North Carolina.
The FERC staff intends to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA)
on the hydroelectric project in accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act.
The EA will objectively consider both site-specific and cumulative
environmental impacts of the project and reasonable alternatives, and
will include economic and engineering analyses.
A draft EA will be issued and circulated for review by all
interested parties. All comments filed on the draft EA will be analyzed
by the staff and considered in the final EA. The staff's conclusions
and recommendations will then be presented for the consideration of the
Commission in reaching its final licensing decision.
The purpose of this notice and the attached scoping document is to
solicit comments from interested individuals, organizations, and
agencies with environmental expertise and concerns that will assist the
staff in identifying the scope of environmental issues that should be
analyzed in the EA.
The scoping document will: (1) Identify preliminary environmental
issues related to the proposed projects, (2) identify preliminary
resource issues that are not important and do not require detailed
analysis, (3) identify reasonable alternatives to be addressed in the
EA, and (4) solicit all available information, especially quantified
data, on the resource issues, including points of view in opposition
to, or in support of, the staff's preliminary views.
Written comments must be filed no later than March 1, 1994 with:
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 825 North Capitol
Street, NE., room 3100, Washington, DC 20426.
All written correspondence should clearly show the following
caption on the first page: Spencer Mountain Hydroelectric Project,
(FERC No. 2607-001).
Intervenors--those on the Commission's service list for this
proceeding (parties)--are reminded of the Commission's Rules of
Practice and Procedure, requiring parties filing documents with the
Commission, to serve a copy of the document on each person whose name
appears on the official service list. Further, if a party or interceder
files comments or documents with the Commission relating to the merits
of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a particular
resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document on that
resource agency.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-455 Filed 1-7-94; 8:45 am]
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