[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 64 (Monday, April 5, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16442-16443]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8270]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site Visit and Soliciting Scoping
Comments
March 31, 1999.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: New Major License.
b. Project No.: 2110-003.
c. Date Filed: June 26, 1998.
d. Applicant: Consolidated Water Power Company.
e. Name of Project: Stevens Point Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Wisconsin River, at river mile 236, in the town
of Stevens Point, Portage County, Wisconsin. There are three parcels of
federal lands, partially inundated islands totaling about 15.6 acres,
within the project boundary.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact:
Mr. Mark Anderson, Consolidated Water Power Company, P.O. Box 8050,
Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-8050, (715) 422-3927.
i. FERC Contact: Any questions on this notice should be addressed
to Michael Spencer, E-mail address, [email protected], or
telephone (202) 219-2846.
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: May 13, 1999.
All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with:
David P. Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all
intervenors filing documents with the Commission to serve a copy of
that document on each person whose name appears on the official service
list for the project. Further, if an intervenor files comments or
documents with the Commission relating to the merits of an issue that
may affect the responsibilities of a particular resource agency, they
must also serve a copy of the document on that resource agency.
k. Status of environmental analysis: This application is not ready
for environmental analysis at this time.
l. Description of the Project: The project consists of the
following existing facilities: (1) a 28-foot-high main dam comprised of
1,889 feet of concrete gravity walls in four sections, a spillway
section containing 15 Taintor gates, and a total of 4,090 feet of earth
dikes, on both the east and west banks of the river; (2) an auxiliary
2,000-foot-long concrete uncontrolled overflow spillway (Rocky Run) and
associated 5,000 feet of earth dikes, located about 1.25 miles upstream
of the main dam; (3) a 12-mile-long, 3,915-acre impoundment at the
normal maximum water surface elevation of 1,087.4 feet msl, and a
maximum storage capacity of 27,000 acre-feet; (4) a powerhouse integral
with the dam containing six vertical Francis turbine units for a total
installed capacity of 3,840 kW and an annual energy generation of 28.4
GWh; (5) switchgear consisting of a single power transformer for the
six units; and (6) appurtenant facilities.
m. Locations of the application: A copy of the application is
available for inspection and reproduction at the Commission's Public
Reference Room, located at 888 First Street, NE., Room 2A, Washington,
DC 20426, or by calling (202) 208-1371. This filing may be viewed on
the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call (202) 208-2222
for assistance). A copy is also available for inspection and
reproduction at the address shown in item h.
n. Scoping Process: The Commission intends to prepare a multiple
project Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed relicensing of
the Stevens Point Project, Biron Project (FERC No. 2192), and
Rhinelander Project (FERC No. 2161), in accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act. The EA will consider both site-specific and
cumulative environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the
proposed actions.
Scoping Meetings
The Commission will hold joint scoping meetings for the Stevens
Point and Biron Projects, one in the daytime and one in the evening, to
help us identify the scope of issues to be addressed in the EA.
The daytime scoping meeting will focus on resource agency concerns,
while the evening scoping meeting is primarily for public input. All
interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to
attend one or both of the meetings, and to assist the staff in
identifying the scope of the environmental issues that should be
analyzed in the EA. The times and locations of these meetings are as
follows:
Daytime Meeting
Wednesday, April 14, 1999, 1 p.m., Board Room, Plover Municipal
Building, 2400 Post Road, Business Highway 51, Plover, Wisconsin.
Evening Meeting
Wednesday, April 14, 1999, 7 p.m., Stevens Point Holiday Inn, 1501
Northpoint Drive, Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
To help focus discussions, we will distribute a Scoping Document
(SD1) outlining the subject areas to be addressed in the EA to parties
on the Commission's mailing list. Copies of the SD1 also will be
available at the scoping meetings.
Site Visit
The applicant and Commission staff will conduct a project site
visit on Wednesday, April 14, 1999. We will meet at the parking lot
near the boat launch in Bukolt Park, off Bukolt Avenue, Stevens Point,
at 9 a.m. If you would like to attend, please call Mark Anderson,
Consolidated Water Power Company, at (715) 422-3927, no later than
April 9, 1999.
Objectives
At the scoping meetings, the staff will: (1) Summarize the
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the EA; (2)
solicit from the meeting participants all available information,
especially quantifiable data, on the
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resources at issue; (3) encourage statements from experts and the
public on issues that should be analyzed in the EA, including
viewpoints in opposition to, or in support of, the staff's preliminary
views; (4) determine the resource issues to be addressed in the EA; and
(5) identify those issues that require a detailed analysis, as well as
those issues that do not require a detailed analysis.
The meetings will be recorded by a stenographer and will become
part of the formal record of the Commission's proceeding on the
project. Individuals presenting statements at the meetings will be
asked to sign in before the meeting starts and to identify themselves
clearly for the record.
Individuals, organizations and agencies with environmental
expertise and concerns are encouraged to attend the meetings and to
assist the staff in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed
in the EA.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-8270 Filed 4-2-99; 8:45 am]
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