[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8524]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site Visit and Soliciting Scoping
Comments
April 1, 1999.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: Major New License.
b. Project No.: P-2661-012.
c. Date filed: September 24, 1998.
d. Applicant: Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
e. Name of Project: Hat Creek Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On Hat Creek in Shasta County, California. About 6.57
acres of the project occupy lands of the U.S. Forest Service, Shasta
National Forest.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Terry Morford, Manager, Hydro Generation,
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, P.O. Box 770000, N11C, San Francisco,
California 94177, (415) 973-4603.
i. FERC Contact: David Turner, [email protected], (202) 219-
2844.
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: June 7, 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 Procedures 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 Project: The run-of-river project consists of two
developments: Hat Creek No. 1 and Hat Creek No. 2.
Hat Creek No. 1 consists of: (1) A 12-foot-high, 231-foot-long
concrete buttress overflow diversion dam impounding a 13-acre reservoir
at a water surface elevation of 3,188 feet (referred to as Cassel
Pond); (2) a 2,270-foot-long, 9-foot-deep, 30-foot-wide canal with a
hydraulic capacity of about 600 cfs; (3) a 14-foot-high, 750-foot-long
shotcreted earthfill forebay with an overflow spillway, having a
surface area of about 2 acres; (4) a 1,600-foot-long, riveted steel
penstock that varies in inside diameter from 12 feet at the intake to 7
feet-six inches at the powerhouse; (5) a 43 foot by 56.5 foot
reinforced concrete powerhouse containing a Francis/Vertical shaft
turbine with a generating capacity of 10,000 kilowatt (kW).
Hat Creek No. 2 consists of: (1) Crystal Lake, a natural lake with
a surface area of 115 acres at a water surface elevation of 2,980 feet:
(2) a 29-foot-high, 120-foot-long concrete gravity overflow diversion
dam impounding an 89-acre reservoir at a water surface elevation of
2,975 feet (referred to as Baum Lake); (3) a 4,520 foot-long, 7-foot-
deep, 18-foot-wide reinforced concrete flume, with a hydraulic capacity
of 600 cfs; (4) a 414-foot-long riveted steel penstock with an inside
diameter varying from 14 feet at the intake to 7 feet-six inches at the
powerhouse; and (5) a 43 foot by 56.5 foot reinforced concrete
powerhouse containing a Francis/Vertical shaft turbine with a
generating capacity of 10,000 kW.
m. Locations of 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, D.C. 20426,
or by calling (202) 208-1371. This filing may be viewed on 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
in item h above.
n. Scoping Process: The Commission intends to prepare an
Environmental Assessment (EA) on the project in accordance the National
Environmental Policy Act. The EA will consider both site-specific and
cumulative environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the
proposed action.
Scoping Meetings
The Commission will hold scoping meetings, 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:
Evening Meeting
Wednesday May 5, 1999, 7:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m., Burney Senior
Center, 20635 Roff Way, Burney, California 96013
Daytime Meeting
Thursday, May 6, 1999, 9 a.m. until 12:00 p.m., Redding Senior Center,
2290 Benton Drive, Redding, California 96003-2152
To help focus discussions, we will distribute a Scoping Document
(SD1) outlining the subject areas to be addressed in the EA to the
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 Wednesday, May 5, 1999. We will meet at the Hat Creek No. 1
powerhouse parking lot at 9 a.m.
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.
Procedures
The meetings will be recorded by a stenographer and will become
part of the formal record of the Commission proceeding on the project.
Individuals presenting statements at the meetings will be asked to sign
in before the meeting starts and to clearly identify themselves 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. 99-8524 Filed 4-6-99; 8:45 am]
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