[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33536-33537]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-13010]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 420-009, Alaska]


City of Ketchikan and Ketchikan Public Utilities; Notice of 
Availability of Final Environmental Assessment

May 18, 2000.
    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 Energy Projects has reviewed the application for a new license for 
the Ketchikan Lakes Hydroelectric Project, and has prepared a Final 
Environmental

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Assessment (FEA). The project is located on Ketchikan Creek and Granite 
Basin Creek, near the City of Ketchikan, in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, 
Alaska. The project uses lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service 
in the Tongass National Forest. The Forest Service is a cooperating 
agency on this environmental assessment. The FEA 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 FEA are available for review in the Public Reference 
Room, Room 2A, of the Commission's offices at 888 First Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20426. This FEA may also be viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (please call (202) 208-2222 for 
assistance). For further information, contact Charles Hall at (202) 
219-2853.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-13010 Filed 5-23-00; 8:45 am]
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