[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 1 (Thursday, January 2, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 95]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-33322]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Project Nos. 503, 1971, 1975, 2061, 2726, 2777, 2778--Idaho]


Idaho Power Company; Notice of Public Meeting

December 26, 1996.
    On Tuesday, February 4, 1997, in Boise, Idaho, the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission staff will host a public meeting to solicit input 
from federal and state agencies, Indian tribes, non-governmental 
organizations, and the public on how the Commission should conduct the 
cumulative effects analysis for the relicensing of eight of the Idaho 
Power Company's Snake River hydroelectric projects.
    The eight projects are: Bliss (P-1975), Lower Salmon Falls (P-
2061), Upper Salmon Falls (P-2777), Shoshone Falls (P-2778), C.J. 
Strike (P-2055), Upper and Lower Malad (P-2726), Hells Canyon (P-1971), 
and Swan Falls (P-503). These projects, located on a 360-mile-long 
reach of the mainstem Snake River in Idaho, have existing licenses that 
will expire between December 1997 and June 2010.
    The meeting will be held at: Boise Centre on the Grove, 850 W. 
Front Street, Waters Room, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The meeting will be recorded by a court reporter.
    To help focus discussions at the public meeting, the Commission 
will mail a discussion paper titled ``Approaches to Cumulative Analysis 
for the Snake River Basin Relicensing,'' to all entities on the Snake 
River Relicensing Collaborative Team mailing list and the Bliss, Lower 
Salmon Falls, and Upper Salmon Falls Projects mailing list. Copies of 
the discussion paper will also be available at the public meeting.
    For further information please contact Mr. Alan Mitchnick at (202) 
219-2826.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-33322 Filed 12-31-96; 8:45 am]
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