[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 149 (Thursday, August 3, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 39714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-19071]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Project No. 11374-001, IA]


Butler County Conservation Board; Notice of Scoping Pursuant to 
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, Notice Requesting 
Interventions and Protests, and Notice Not Ready for Environmental 
Analysis

July 28, 1995.
    On July 24, 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(Commission) issued a letter accepting the Butler County Conservation 
Board's application for the Greene Milldam Project, located on the 
Shell Rock River in the Town of Greene, Butler County, Iowa. The 
application is not ready for environmental analysis at this time. A 
public notice will be issued in the future indicating its readiness for 
environmental analysis and soliciting comments, recommendations, terms 
and conditions, or prescriptions on the application and the applicant's 
reply comments.
    The purpose of this notice is to (1) invite interventions and 
protests; (2) advise all parties as to the proposed scope of the 
staff's environmental analysis, including cumulative effects, and to 
seek additional information pertinent to this analysis; and (3) advise 
all parties of their opportunity for comment.

Interventions and Protests

    All filings must: (1) bear in all capital letters the title 
``PROTEST,'' ``MOTION TO INTERVENE,'' ``NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE 
COMPETING APPLICATION,'' OR ``COMPETING APPLICATION;'' (2) set forth in 
the heading the name of the applicant and the project number of the 
application to which the filing responds; (3) furnish the name, 
address, and telephone number of the person protesting or intervening; 
and (4) otherwise comply with the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 
through 385.2005. Agencies may obtain copies of the application 
directly from the applicant. Any of these documents must be filed by 
providing the original and the number of copies required by the 
Commission's regulations to: Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 825 North Capitol Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426.
    An additional copy must be sent to: Director, Division of Project 
Review, Office of Hydropower Licensing, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, Room 1027, at the above address. A copy of any protest or 
motion to intervene must be served upon each representative of the 
applicant specified in the particular application.
    All filings must be received 60 days from this issuance date of 
this notice.

Scoping Process

    The Commission's scoping objectives are to:
     Identify significant environmental issues;
     Determine the depth of analysis appropriate to each issue;
     Identify the resource issues not requiring detailed 
analysis; and
     Identify reasonable project alternatives.
    The purpose of the scoping process is to identify significant 
issues related to the proposed actions and the continued operation of 
the hydropower projects in the basin and to determine what issues 
should be covered in the environmental document pursuant to the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). The document entitled 
``Scoping Document I'' (SDI) will be circulated shortly to enable 
appropriate federal, state, and local resource agencies, developers, 
Indian tribes, non-governmental organizations, and other interested 
parties to effectively participate in and contribute to the scoping 
process. SDI provides a brief description of the proposed action, 
project alternatives, the geographic and temporal scope of a cumulative 
effects analysis, and a list of preliminary issues identified by staff.
    All filings should contain an original and 8 copies. Failure to 
file an original and 8 copies may result in appropriate staff not 
receiving the benefit of your comments in a timely manner. See 18 CFR 
4.34(h). In addition, commenters may submit a copy of their comments on 
a 3\1/2\-inch diskette formatted for MS-DOS based computers. In light 
of our ability to translate MS-DOS based materials, the test need only 
be submitted in the format and version that it was generated (i.e., MS 
Word, WordPerfect 5.\1/5\.2, ASCII, etc). It is not necessary to 
reformat word processor generated text to ASCII. For Macintosh users, 
it would be helpful to save the documents in Macintosh word processor 
format and then write them to files on a diskette formatted for MS-DOS 
machines. All comments should be submitted to the Office of the 
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 825 North Capitol 
Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426, and should clearly show the 
following captions on the first page: Greene Milldam Project, FERC No. 
11374.
    Further, interested persons are reminded of the Commission's Rules 
of Practice and Procedures, requiring parties or interceders (as 
defined in 18 CFR 385.2010) to file documents on each person whose name 
is on the official service list for this proceeding. See 18 CFR 
4.34(b).
    The Commission staff will consider all written comments and may 
issue a Scoping Document II (SDII). SDII will include a revised list of 
issues, based on the scoping sessions.
    For further information regarding the scoping process, please 
contact Mary Golato, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Office of 
Hydropower Licensing, 825 North Capitol Street NE., Washington, D.C. 
20426 at (202) 219-2804.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-19071 Filed 8-2-95; 8:45 am]
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