[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 184 (Friday, September 22, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 49274]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-23509]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Project No. 11243 Alaska]
Whitewater Engineering Corporation; Notice of Scoping Pursuant to
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
September 18, 1995.
The Energy Policy Act of 1992, allows applicants to prepare their
own draft environmental assessment (EA) for hydropower projects and
file it with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission)
along with their license application as part of the ``applicant-
prepared EA'' process. Whitewater Engineering Corporation (Whitewater)
intends to prepare an EA to file with the Commission for the Power
Creek Hydroelectric Project No. 11243. Whitewater will hold two public
scoping meetings, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, to identify the scope of environmental issues that should be
analyzed in the EA.
Scoping Meetings
The times and locations of the two scoping meetings are:
Public Meeting
Date: Tuesday, October 10, 1995.
Place: Cordova High School's Library, 100 Fisherman's Way,
Cordova, Alaska.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Agency Meeting
Date: Thursday, October 12, 1995.
Place: New Federal Building, 222 W. 7th Avenue, Room 133,
Anchorage, Alaska.
Time: 1:30 pm.
At the scoping meetings, Whitewater will (1) summarize the
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the EA;
(2) solicit from the meeting participants all available information,
especially qualified data, on the resources at issue; and (3)
encourage statements from experts and the public on issues that
should be analyzed in the EA.
All interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are
invited and encouraged to attend either or both meetings to assist
in identifying and clarifying the scope of environmental issues that
should be analyzed in the EA.
To help focus discussions at the meetings, Whitewater prepared
and distributed Scoping Document 1 for this project. Copies of this
scoping document can be obtained by calling Mike Prewittt of
Whitewater at (206) 957-1874, or can be obtained directly at either
meeting.
Site Visit
Whitewater will also conduct a site visit for this project on
Wednesday, October 11, 1995. Those attending the site visit must
meet in the lobby of the Old Courthouse (Old Post Office), at 612
2nd Street, in Cordova by 9:00 am. Those planning to attend the site
visit must notify Whitewater at least three days prior to that date.
Meeting Procedures
The meetings will be conducted according to the procedures used
at Commission scoping meetings. Because this meeting will be a NEPA
scoping meeting, the Commission will not conduct another NEPA
scoping meeting when the application and draft EA are filed with the
Commission.
Both meetings will be recorded by a stenographer, and thus will
become a part of the formal record of the proceedings for this
project.
Those who choose not to speak may instead submit written
comments on the project. These comments should be mailed to Mike
Prewitt at Whitewater's Seattle office, 1415 140th Street, #9,
Bellevue, Washington 90885. All correspondence should clearly show
the following caption on the first page: Scoping Comments, Power
Creek Project, FERC No. 11243, Alaska.
For further information, please contact Mike Prewitt at (206)
957-1874, or Mike Strzelecki of the Commission at (202) 219-2827.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-23509 Filed 9-21-95; 8:45 am]
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