[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 166 (Wednesday, August 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 45407]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-22765]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 1218]


Georgia Power Company; Notice of Agency Meeting for Relicensing 
the Flint River Project

August 21, 1997.
    Pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 1992, Georgia Power Company is 
preparing a License Application and a Draft Environmental Assessment 
(DEA) for the Flint River Project (No. 1218). The project is located on 
the Flint River, near the City of Albany, Lee and Dougherty Counties, 
Georgia. The DEA is being prepared as part of a collaborative effort 
among Georgia Power Company and a group of representatives from various 
federal, state and local agencies, and other interested entities. The 
DEA and license application will be filed with the Commission no later 
than September 30, 1999.
    Georgia Power Company mailed copies of several environmental study 
reports to all interested participants between March 12, 1997 and July 
17, 1997, including those related to water quality, fisheries, 
vegetation and wildlife, recreation and land-use, and cultural 
resources. The Commission received copies of these study reports during 
this same period. Commission staff has reviewed the study reports, and 
will attend an agency meeting, as follows, to discuss the environmental 
issues, potential recommendations, and preliminary DEA.
    Meeting Date: September 11, 1997 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
    Location: Georgia Power Company, Operations Center, 101 Georgia 
Power Rd., Albany, Georgia 31701.
    Interested parties are welcome to attend this meeting. For further 
information please contact the following individuals:

Mike Phillips, Georgia Power Company, 333 Piedmont Avenue, NE., 
Atlanta, GA 30308-3374, (404) 526-2392
Allan Creamer, Federal Energy Reg. Comm., 888 First Street, NE., Mail 
Stop HL-11.3, Washington, DC 20426, (202) 219-0365

    In addition, Commission staff will tour the Flint River Project, 
and its facilities, on September 11, 1997, at the conclusion of the 
agency meeting. Individuals interested in attending the site visit are 
asked to notify Mike Phillips, with Georgia Power Company, by September 
5, 1997 of their intent to attend the site visit. Site visit 
participants should meet at Georgia Power Company's Operations Center 
in Albany, Georgia, no later than 4:30 pm.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-22765 Filed 8-26-97; 8:45 am]
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