[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 244 (Tuesday, December 21, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 71449]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-32949]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2177-037]


Georgia Power Company; Notice of Availability of Environmental 
Assessment

December 15, 1999.
    In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission's) 
regulations, the Office of Hydropower Licensing has received the 
application requesting the Commission's authorization to permit the 
Smiths Water and Sewer Authority (Authority) to increase the rate of 
water withdrawal at its existing pumping station at Lake Oliver 
reservoir to 8.0 million gallons per day and has prepared an 
Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed action.
    Existing facilities at the Authority's water pumping station are 
able to accommodate the increased water withdrawal; consequently, the 
proposed action would not require any new construction activity.
    Lake Oliver, the reservoir formed by Oliver Dam, is the second of 
three impoundments that comprise the Middle Chattahoochee Project. The 
project's three developments abut one another over a 16-mile-long 
distance of the Chattahoochee River.
    In the EA, Commission staff does not identify any significant 
impacts that would result from Commission's approval of the proposed 
additional water withdrawal from Lake Oliver reservoir. Further, staff 
finds that Commission-imposed mitigative or enhancement measures are 
not needed at the site to protect the area's environmental resources. 
Thus, staff concludes that approval of the proposed amendment of 
license would not constitute a major federal action significantly 
affecting the quality of the human environment.
    Copies of the EA can be viewed at the Commission's Public Reference 
Room, Room 2A, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426, or by 
calling (202) 208-1371. The EA also may be viewed on the Web at 
www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm. Call (202) 208-2222 for assistance.
    For further information, please contact Jim Haimes at (202) 219-
2780.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-32949 Filed 12-20-99; 8:45 am]
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