[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 161 (Friday, August 20, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45532-45533]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-21602]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 597-003-Utah]


PacifiCorp Power Company; Notice of Availability of Draft 
Environmental Assessment

August 16, 1999.
    In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) 
regulations, 18 CFR Part 380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 47897), the Office 
of Hydropower Licensing has reviewed the application for a new license 
for the Stairs Hydroelectric Project, and has prepared a Draft 
Environmental Assessment (DEA). The project is located on the Big 
Cottonwood Creek in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, near the 
town of Sandy, about 15 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. The 
project occupies about 8.7 acres of land within the Wasatch-Cache 
National Forest, administered by the U.S. Forest Service. The DEA 
contains the staff's analysis of the potential environmental impacts of 
the project and concludes that licensing the project, with appropriate 
environmental protective measures, would not constitute a major federal 
action that would significantly affect the quality of the human 
environment.
    Copies of the DEA are available for review in the Public Reference 
Room, Room 2A, of the Commission's offices at

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888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426.
    Any comments should be filed on or before August 31, 1999, and 
should be addressed to David P. Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426. For 
further information, contact Gaylord Hoisington, Project Coordinator, 
at (202) 219-2756.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-21602 Filed 8-19-99; 8:45 am]
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