[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 4 (Thursday, January 6, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 765-766]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-293]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Bonneville Power Administration


Implementation of Regional Fish and Wildlife Policy

AGENCY: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Department of Energy 
(DOE).

ACTION: Notice of scoping meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces BPA's scoping meeting for its 
Implementation of Regional Fish and Wildlife Policy Environmental 
Impact Statement (EIS) being prepared in accordance with the National 
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). BPA has established a scoping period 
during which all interested and affected persons and agencies are 
invited to comment on the scope of the proposed EIS. Scoping will help 
BPA ensure that a full range of issues related to the development and 
implementation of a regional fish and wildlife policy is addressed in 
the EIS, and also will identify significant or potentially significant 
impacts that may result from the implementation of such a policy.

DATES: Please send written comments to the address below no later than 
Tuesday, February 29, 2000. Comments may also be made at an EIS scoping 
meeting to be held at the Governor Hotel, Grand Ballroom, 611 SW 10th, 
Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, February 3, 2000, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
At the informal meeting, a brief overview of the EIS and presentation 
of background information will be followed by an open house during 
which attendees may discuss the EIS with BPA's EIS team. Written 
information will also be available, and BPA staff will answer questions 
and accept oral and written comments. The scoping meeting will be held 
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conjunction with several other meetings related to fish and wildlife 
recovery efforts in the Pacific Northwest.
    BPA invites comments and suggestions on the proposed scope of the 
Draft EIS. Send comment letters and requests to be placed on the 
project mailing list to Communications, Bonneville Power 
Administration--KC-7, PO Box 12999, Portland, Oregon, 97212. The phone 
number of the Communications office is 503-230-3478 in Portland; toll-
free 1-800-622-4519 outside of Portland. Comments may also be sent to 
the BPA Internet address: [email protected]. Please be sure to note that 
your comments are on the Implementation of Regional Fish and Wildlife 
Policy EIS.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Charles C. Alton--KEC-4, Bonneville 
Power Administration, PO Box 3621, Portland, Oregon, 97208-3621, phone 
number 503-230-5878, fax number 503-230-5699.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout the Pacific Northwest region 
there are several ongoing processes to develop plans and programs for 
the management, recovery, and mitigation of the Columbia River Basin's 
fish and wildlife resources. These plans and programs will help to 
shape a regional fish and wildlife policy direction that will guide 
BPA's mitigation and recovery efforts, including its funding, for the 
next decade or more. BPA expects to shift its fish and wildlife 
spending accordingly.
    BPA currently funds over 70 percent of the fish and wildlife 
mitigation and recovery efforts on behalf of the Federal Columbia River 
Power System. Consequently, BPA has a responsibility to understand the 
impacts of those efforts and to ensure it can fund them efficiently. 
Therefore, BPA is preparing an EIS that examines the impacts that may 
arise from implementing one of the fish and wildlife policy directions 
reflected in the alternatives being considered in the ongoing regional 
processes. A Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS was previously 
published in the Federal Register on October 20, 1999 (64 FR 56488).

    Issued in Portland, Oregon, on December 22, 1999.
J.A. Johansen,
Administrator and Chief Executive Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-293 Filed 1-5-00; 8:45 am]
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