[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 93 (Thursday, May 14, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26793-26794]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12781]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 11591 Alaska]


City of Wrangell (Sunrise Lake Water Supply and Hydroelectric 
Project); Notice of Intent to Conduct Environmental Scoping Meetings 
and a Site Visit

May 8, 1998.
    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 application as part of the applicant-prepared EA (APEA) 
process. The City of Wrangell (City) intends to prepare an EA to file 
with the Commission for the proposed Sunrise Lake Water Supply and 
Hydroelectric Project (Sunrise Lake Project), No. 11591. The City will 
hold two scoping meetings, pursuant to the National Environmental 
Policy Act (NEPA) 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:

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                             Agency meeting           Public meeting    
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Date:.................  Wednesday, May 27, 1998  Wednesday, May 27, 1998
Place:................  City Hall, Wrangell,     City Hall, Wrangell,   
                         Alaska.                  Alaska                
Time:.................  2:00 P.M...............  7:00 P.M.              
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    At the scoping meetings, the City will: (1) summarize the 
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the EA; (2) 
outline any resources they believe would not require a detailed 
analysis; (3) identify reasonable alternatives to be addressed in the 
EA; (4) solicit from the meeting participants all available 
information, especially quantitative data, on the resources at issue; 
and (5) 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, the City prepared and 
distributed an Initial Stage Consultation Document (ISCD) in January 
1998, and a Scoping Document on May 7, 1998. Copies of the ISCD and the 
Scoping Document can be obtained by calling Mr. Stephen M. Hart of R.W. 
Beck, Inc., the City's agent, at (206) 695-4720. Copies of both 
documents will also be available at both scoping meetings.

Site Visit

    For those who intend to participate in scoping, the City will also 
conduct a site visit to the proposed Sunrise Lake Project on Thursday, 
May 28, 1998. Those attending the site visit should meet at Wrangell 
airport at 10:00 A.M. We will promptly leave for the project site, via 
helicopter. Those being shuttled by helicopter to the project site may 
need to sign a waiver of liability regarding helicopter use. Because of 
the remoteness and difficulty of ground access at the project site, 
those attending the site visit should be physically fit and must wear 
appropriate clothing and

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footgear. Participants must provide their own sack lunches.
    To plan on helicopter use in advance of the visit, the City must 
identify the number of individuals interested in the site visit. 
Therefore, if you intend on visiting the proposed project site, you 
must register with Ms. Christy Jamieson at (907) 874-2381, no later 
than May 20, 1998. If inclement weather prevents a site visit on May 
28, the alternative date will be May 29 at the same time and location.

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 under the APEA process, the Commission will not conduct 
a NEPA scoping meeting after the application and draft EA are filed 
with the Commission.
    Both scoping meetings will be recorded by a stenographer or tape 
recorder, and will become part of the formal record of the proceedings 
for this project.
    Those who choose not to speak during the scoping meetings may 
instead submit written comments on the project. Written comments must 
be submitted by June 26, 1998, and should be mailed to: Mr. Stephen M. 
Hart, P.E., R.W. Beck, Inc., 1001 Fourth Avenue, Suite 2500, Seattle, 
Washington 98154-1004. All correspondence should show the following 
caption on the first page:

Scoping Comments, Sunrise Lake Water Supply and Hydroelectric Project, 
Project No. 11591, Alaska.

    For further information please contact Stephen M. Hart at (206) 
695-4720, or Nick Jayjack of the Commission at (202) 219-2825.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-12781 Filed 5-13-98; 8:45 am]
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