[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 219 (Monday, November 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61868-61869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29665]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Application Ready for Environmental Analysis and 
Soliciting Comments, Recommendations, Terms and Conditions, and 
Prescriptions

November 8, 1999.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed

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with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 2192-008.
    c. Date Filed: June 26, 1998.
    d. Applicant: Consolidated Water Power Company.
    e. Name of Project: Biron Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Wisconsin River, at river mile 219, in the 
townships of Biron, Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point, Plover, and 
Whiting, in Wood and Portage Counties, Wisconsin. There is one parcel 
of federal lands, partially occupied by Biron Dam, located within the 
project boundary.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 USC 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 comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, 
and prescriptions: 60 days from the issuance 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. Status of environmental analysis: This application has been 
accepted for filing and is ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    l. Description of the Project: The project consists of the 
following existing facilities: (1) a main dam which has two long 
embankment dikes on either side of the river extending upstream; the 
left dike is 5,700 feet long and the right dike is 10,202.5 feet long; 
the main 34-foot-high dam consists of five gravity walls, three 
spillway sections and the powerhouse/grinder building with a total 
length of 4,820.8 feet; (2) the three spillway sections contain a total 
of 22 Taintor gates; (3) the reservoir has a surface area of 2,078 
acres and gross storage of 19,500 acre-feet at elevation 1,035.3 feet 
msl.; (40 a powerhosue and adjacent grinder building containing three 
vertical francis turbine units and six horizontal duplex type turbine 
units with a combined total installed capacity of 6,710 kW and an 
average annual generation of 38.6 GWh; and (5) 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. the application 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.
    Filing and Service of Responsive Documents--The application is 
ready for environmental analysis at this time, and the Commission us 
requesting comments, reply comments, recommendations, terms and 
conditions; and prescriptions.
    The Commission directs, pursuant to Section 4.34(b) of the 
Regulations (see Order No. 533 issued May 8, 1991, 56 FR 23108, May 20, 
1991) that all comments, recommendations, terms and conditions and 
prescriptions concerning the application be filed with the Commission 
within 60 days from the issuance date of this notice. All reply 
comments must be filed with the Commission within 105 days from the 
date of this notice.
    Anyone may obtain an extension of time for these deadlines from the 
Commission only upon a showing of good cause or extraordinary 
circumstances in accordance with 18 CFR 385.2008.
    All filings must (1) bear in all capital letters the title 
``COMMENTS'', REPLY COMMENTS''. ``RECOMMENDATIONS,'' TERMS AND 
CONDITIONS,'' OR ``PRESCRIPTIONS;'' (2) set forth in the heading the 
name of the applicant and the project number of the application to 
which the filing responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone 
number of the person submitting the filing; and (4) otherwise comply 
with the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. All 
comments, recommendations, terms and conditions or prescriptions must 
set forth their evidentiary basis and otherwise comply with the 
requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). Agencies may obtain copies of the 
application directly from the applicant. Any of these documents must be 
filed by providing the original and the number of copies required by 
the Commission's regulations to: The secretary, federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426. An 
additional copy must be sent to Director, Division of Project Review, 
Office of Hydropower Licensing, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 
at the above address. Each filing must be accompanied by proof of 
service on all persons listed on the service list prepared by the 
Commission in this proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b), and 
385.2010.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
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