[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 185 (Monday, September 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 49764]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24259]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Project No. 1494-094]


Grand River Dam Authority; Notice of Availability of Draft 
Environmental Assessment

September 17, 1996.
    A draft environmental assessment (DEA) is available for public 
review. The DEA was prepared for an application filed by Grand River 
Dam Authority (GRDA) that requests authorization to grant a dredging 
permit to a private landowner (applicant) for the excavation of 
shoreline and lake bottom material from Grand Lake O' The Cherokees 
(Grand Lake) for a boat launch and channel. The applicant was granted 
approval by Order Approving Non-Project use of Project Lands, 68 FERC 
62,094, issued July 27, 1994, to dredge an area 90 feet long, 90 feet 
wide, and 10 feet deep. The applicant's new proposal is to extend the 
excavation shoreward 310 feet, making the boat launch and channel 
excavation site approximately 400 feet long, 90 feet wide, and up to a 
maximum depth of 10 feet. Approximately 4,444 cubic yards of material 
from the lake bottom and shoreline will be excavated from the site. The 
excavation would occur on project lands in the Horse Creek area (north 
shore) of Grand Lake, in Delaware County, just north of the town of 
Bernice, Oklahoma.
    The DEA finds that GRDA's proposed amendment is not a major federal 
action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. 
The DEA was written by staff in the Office of Hydropower Licensing, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Copies of the DEA can be obtained 
by calling the Commission's Public Reference Room at (202) 208-1371.
    Comments on the DEA must be filed with the Commission within 30 
days from the date of this notice. Comments should be addressed to: Ms. 
Lois D. Cashell, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426. Please include the project 
number (1494-094) on any comments filed.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-24259 Filed 9-20-96; 8:45 am]
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