[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 199 (Friday, October 11, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 53368]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26124]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Project No. 2035-005, Colorado]


City and County of Denver; Notice of Scoping Pursuant to the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969

October 7, 1996.
    The Energy Policy Act of 1992, allows applicants to prepare their 
own environmental assessment (EA) for hydropower projects and file it 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) along with 
their license applications as part of the ``applicant-prepared EA'' 
process. The City and County of Denver, Colorado, acting by and through 
its Board of Water Commissioners (Denver Water), intends to prepare an 
EA to file with the Commission for the relicensing of the Gross 
Reservoir Project No. 2035. Denver Water will hold two public scoping 
meetings, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
(NEPA), 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:

Agency Meeting

Date: November 7, 1996
Place: Jeffco Airport Terminal Meeting Room, Broomfield, Colorado
Time: 1:00 p.m.

Public Meeting

Date: November 7, 1996
Place: Jeffco Airport Terminal Meeting Room, Broomfield, Colorado
Time: 6:00 p.m.

    The Jeffco Airport is located off Colorado Highway 128 west of the 
Broomfield exit on U.S. 36. Turn south on West 120th Avenue to the 
airport.
    At the scoping meetings, Denver Water will (1) summarize the 
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the EA; (2) 
solicit from the meeting participants all available information; and 
(3) encourage statements from experts and the public on information 
that should be gathered and issues that should be analyzed in the EA.
    Although Denver Water's intent is to prepare an EA, there is the 
possibility that an environmental impact statement (EIS) may be 
required. Nevertheless, these meetings will satisfy the NEPA scoping 
requirements, irrespective of whether an EA or EIS is issued by the 
Commission.
    All interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited 
and encouraged to attend either or both meetings to assist Denver Water 
in identifying and clarifying the scope of environmental issues that 
should be analyzed in the EA.
    To help focus discussion at the meetings, Denver Water prepared and 
distributed Scoping Document 1 for this project. Copies of this scoping 
document can be obtained by calling Denver Water at (303) 628-6501, or 
can be obtained directly at either meeting.

Site Visit

    Denver Water will also conduct a site visit to Gross reservoir for 
Commission staff on Wednesday, November 6, 1996. All interested 
individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited and encouraged to 
attend the site visit. Those attending the site visit should notify 
Denver Water at (303) 628-6336 or 628-6553. The site visit will start 
at Denver Water's office at 1600 West 12th Avenue, Denver, Colorado. 
Participants can arrange to meet at Gross reservoir or the South 
Boulder Creek diversion dam, however.

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 won't conduct another NEPA scoping 
meeting after Denver Water files its application and EA.
    A stenographer will record both meetings, and the meeting 
transcripts will become parts of the formal record of the relicensing 
proceeding.
    Those who choose not to speak may instead submit written comments 
on the relicensing and any studies Denver Water needs to conduct to 
evaluate the effects of relicensing. These comments should be mailed to 
Dave Little at Denver Water, 1600 West 12th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 
80254, for receipt no later than December 9, 1996. All correspondence 
should clearly show the following caption on the first page: Scoping 
comments, Gross Reservoir Project, FERC No. 2035, Colorado.

    For further information, please contact Dave Little at (303) 
628-6533, or Dianne Rodman of the Commission at (202) 219-2830.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-26124 Filed 10-10-96; 8:45 am]
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