[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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