[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 55 (Wednesday, March 22, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 15132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6981]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project Nos. 2113, 2239, 2476, and 1999, 2212, 2590, and 2256, 2255,
2291, and 2292--WI]
Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company, Tomahawk Power and Pulp
Company, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, Weyerhaeuser Paper
Company, Consolidated Water Power Company, Nekoosa Papers, Inc.; Notice
of Intent To Hold Public Meetings in Rhinelander and Rib Mountain,
Wisconsin, To Discuss the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)
for the Proposed Relicensing of the Existing Wisconsin River
Headquarters, Kings Dam, Jersey, Wausau, Rothschild, Wisconsin River
Division, Wisconsin Rapids, Centralia, Port Edwards and Nekoosa
Projects
March 16, 1995.
On February 23, 1995, the Commission staff mailed the Wisconsin
River Basin DEIS to the Environmental Protection Agency, resource and
land management agencies, and interested organizations and individuals.
This document evaluates the environmental consequences of the proposed
relicensing of the Wisconsin River Headquarters project (no power;
regulates flows to the Wisconsin River); 2.7 megawatt (MW) Kings Dam;
0.512 MW Jersey; 5.4 MW Wausau; 4.66 MW Rothschild; 6.4 MW Wisconsin
River Division; 9.02 MW Wisconsin Rapids; 3.2 MW Centralia; 3.592 MW
Port Edwards; and 3.78 MW Nekoosa projects. The projects are located in
Vilas, Forest, Oneida, Lincoln, Marathon, Portage, and Wood counties,
Wisconsin, and in Gogebic County, Michigan.
The public meetings will be recorded by a court reporter and are
scheduled as follows: (1) A meeting on the Wisconsin Headwaters Project
No. 2113, will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4, 1995, at the
Claridge Motor Inn (Best Western), 70 N. Stevens Street, Rhinelander,
Wisconsin; and (2) a meeting on the 9 hydropower projects will be held
at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5, 1995, at Wausau Inn and Conference
Center, 2001 N. Mountain Road, Rib Mountain, Wisconsin.
At the meetings, Commission staff will summarize major DEIS
findings and recommendations. Resource agency personnel and other
interested persons will be provided an opportunity to submit oral and
written comments regarding the DEIS for the Commission's public record.
Written comments on the DEIS may also be sent to: The Secretary,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 825 N. Capitol Street NE.,
Washington, D.C. 20426.
Comments must be received by April 17, 1995. All correspondence
should include the appropriate project name(s) and number(s) on the
first page of the correspondence.
The DEIS considers over 400 resource recommendations received from
license applicants, citizens, resource agencies, and organizations.
Resource enhancements relating to hydrologic flow regulation,
recreation, land use, fish, wildlife, water quality, reservoir
shoreline erosion, vegetation resources and other resource issues are
proposed.
All of the projects are proposed to continue operation in a run-of-
river mode with no expansion of hydroelectric generating capacity. In
major findings, staff recommends adoption of the licensee's
hydrological flow regime for the 21 headwater reservoirs together with
staff recommended enhancements which would protect water quality in the
Wisconsin River, enhance recreation in certain headwater man-made
lakes, and generally maintain existing fishing and flood control
benefits throughout the Wisconsin River. For entrainment issues at the
nine hydroelectric reservoirs, the DEIS finds that avoidance and
protection measures are not feasible, that entrainment is biologically
insignificant, and that limited payments for enhancement of fishery
resources may be appropriate.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-6981 Filed 3-21-95; 8:45 am]
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