[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 126 (Thursday, July 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35649-35650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16723]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of PP&L, Inc. Request To Use Alternative Procedures in 
Preparing a License Application

June 25, 1999.
    Take notice that the following request to use alternative 
procedures to prepare a license application has been filed with the 
Commission:
    a. Type of Application: Request to use alternative procedures to 
prepare a license application.
    b. Project No.: 487.
    c. Date filed: May 4, 1999.
    d. Applicant: PP&L, Inc.
    e. Name of Project: Wallenpaupack.
    f. Location: On the Wallenpaupack Creek and Lackawaxen River, near 
the Borough of Hawley and the City of Seranton, in Wayne and Pike 
Counties, Pennsylvania. The project would not utilize federal lands.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 USC Secs. 791(a)-
825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Gary Petrewski, PP&L, Inc., Two North Ninth 
Street (GENN5), Allentown, PA 18101-1179, 610-774-4759.
    i. FERC Contact: Any questions on this notice should be addressed 
to Patrick Murphy, E-mail address, [email protected], or 
telephone 202-219-2659.
    j. Deadline for comments: 30 days from the date of this notice.
    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. Description of the Project: The project consists of an 870-foot-
long, 67-foot-high concrete dam with a center spillway equipped with 
two 67.5-foot-long by 14-foot-high steel roller gates; a 13-mile-long, 
5,700-acre reservoir at a full pool elevation of 1,190 feet msl; an 
18,000-foot-long 14-foot-diameter pipeline connecting the dam with the 
powerhouse; a powerhouse containing two generating units with a total

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installed capacity of 40,000 kW; and other appurtenances.
    m. PP&L has demonstrated that it has made an effort to contact all 
resource agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and others 
affected by the proposal, and that a consensus exists that the use of 
alternative procedures is appropriate in this case. PP&L has submitted 
a communications protocol that is supported by the interested entities.
    The purpose of this notice is to invite any additional comments on 
PP&L's request to use the alternative procedures, pursuant to Section 
4.34(i) of the Commission's regulations. Additional notices seeking 
comments on the specific project proposal, interventions and protests, 
and recommended terms and conditions will be issued at a later date. 
PP&L will complete and file a preliminary Environmental Assessment (EA) 
in lieu of Exhibit E of the license application. This differs from the 
traditional process in which an applicant consults with agencies, 
Indian tribes, and NGOs during preparation of the application for the 
license and before filing it, but the Commission staff performs the 
environmental review after the application is filed. The alternative 
procedures are intended to simplify and expedite the licensing process 
by combining the prefiling consultation and environmental review 
processes into a single process, to facilitate greater participation, 
and to improve communication and cooperation among the participants.
    PP&L has met with state and federal resource agencies, and NGOs 
regarding the Wallenpaupack Project. PP&L intends to file 6-month 
progress reports during the alternative procedures process that leads 
to the filing of a license application by September 30, 2002.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-16723 Filed 6-30-99; 8:45 am]
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