[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 64 (Monday, April 5, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16440-16441]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8264]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site Visit and Soliciting Scoping
Comments
March 30, 1999.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: New Major License.
b. Project No.: 2192-008.
c. Date Filed: June 26, 1998.
d. Applicant: Consolidated Water Power Company.
e. Name of Project: Biron Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Wisconsin River, at river mile 219, in the
townships of Biron, Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point, Plover, and
Whiting, in Wood and Portage Counties, Wisconsin. There is one parcel
of federal lands, partially occupied by Biron Dam, located within the
project boundary.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 USC 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Mark Anderson, Consolidated Water Power
Company, P.O. Box 8050, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-8050, (715) 422-
3927.
i. FERC Contact: Any questions on this notice should be addressed
to Michael Spencer, E-mail address, michael.spencer@ferc.fed.us, or
telephone (202) 219-2846.
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: May 13, 1999.
All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with:
David P. Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426.
The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all
intervenors filing documents with the Commission to serve a copy of
that document on each person whose name appears on the official service
list for the project. Further, if an intervenor 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.
k. Status of environmental analysis: This application is not ready
for environmental analysis at this time.
l. Description of the Project: The project consists of the
following existing facilities: (1) a 34-foot-high dam consisting of
3,572.3 feet of concrete gravity wall in five sections, three
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spillway sections containing 22 Taintor gates, and 15,900 feet of
earthen dikes; (2) a 2,078-acre reservoir at water surface elevation of
1,035.3 feet msl, and a storage capacity of 19,500 acre-feet; (3) a
powerhouse, integral with the dam, containing two 1,450-kW turbine
generators, and an adjacent industrial (grinder) building containing
seven turbine generators, with a total project installed capacity of
6,710 kW and an average annual generation of 38.6 GWh; (5) generator
leads; and (6) appurtenant electrical facilities necessary to
interconnect with the transmission system.
m. Locatoins of the application: A copy of the application is
available for inspection and reproduction at the Commission's Public
Reference Room, located at 888 First Street, NE, Room 2A, Washington,
DC 20426, or by calling (202) 208-1371. This filing may be viewed on
the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222
for assistance). A copy is also available for inspection and
reproduction at the address shown in item h.
n. Scoping Process: The Commission intends to prepare a multiple
project Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed relicensing of
the Biron Project, Stevens Point Project (FERC No. 2110), and
Rhinelander Project (FERC No. 2161), in accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act. The EA will consider both site-specific and
cumulative environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the
proposed actions.
Scoping Meetings
The Commission will hold joint scoping meetings for the Biron and
Stevens Point Projects, one in the daytime and one in the evening, to
help us identify the scope of issues to be addressed in the EA.
The daytime scoping meeting will focus on resource agency concerns,
while the evening scoping meeting is primarily for public input. All
interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to
attend one or both of the meetings, and to assist the staff in
identifying the scope of the environmental issues that should be
analyzed in the EA. The times and locations of these meetings are as
follows:
Daytime Meeting
Wednesday, April 14, 1999, 1 p.m., Board Room, Plover Municipal
Building, 2400 Post Road, Business Highway 51, Plover, Wisconsin.
Evening Meeting
Wednesday, April 14, 1999, 7 p.m., Stevens Point Holiday Inn, 1501
Northpoint Drive, Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
To help focus discussions, we will distribute a Scoping Document
(SD1) outlining the subject areas to be addressed in the EA to parties
on the Commission's mailing list. Copies of the SD1 also will be
available at the scoping meetings.
Site Visit
The applicant and Commission staff will conduct a project site
visit on Tuesday, April 13, 1999. We will meet at the Power Service
Building of Consolidated Papers, 610 High Street, Wisconsin Rapids,
Wisconsin, at 2 p.m. If you would like to attend, please call Mark
Anderson, Consolidated Water Power Company, at (715) 422-3927, no later
than April 9, 1999.
Objectives
At the scoping meetings, the staff will: (1) summarize the
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the EA; (2)
solicit from the meeting participants all available information,
especially quantifiable data, on the resources at issue; (3) encourage
statements from experts and the public on issues that should be
analyzed in the EA, including viewpoints in opposition to, or in
support of, the staff's preliminary views; (4) determine the resource
issues to be addressed in the EA; and (5) identify those issues that
require a detailed analysis, as well as those issues that do not
require a detailed analysis.
The meetings will be recorded by a stenographer and will become
part of the formal record of the Commission's proceeding on the
project. Individuals presenting statements at the meetings will be
asked to sign in before the meeting starts and to identify themselves
clearly for the record.
Individuals, organizations, and agencies with environmental
expertise and concerns are encouraged to attend the meetings and to
assist the staff in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed
in the EA.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-8264 Filed 4-2-99; 8:45 am]
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