[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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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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