[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 127 (Friday, June 30, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40628-40629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16570]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 11690-001, Alaska]


Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, Inc.; Notice of Availability 
of Final Environmental Assessment

June 26, 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 an original license 
for the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, Inc.'s (AVEC) proposed Old 
Harbor Hydroelectric Project, and has prepared a Final Environmental 
Assessment (FEA). The project would be located near the city of Old 
Harbor, Alaska on Kodiak Island, predominantly on the Kodiak National 
Wildlife Refuge.
    On January 19, 2000, the Commission staff issued a draft 
environmental assessment (DEA) for the project and requested that 
comments be filed with the Commission within 45 days. Comments on the 
DEA were filed by the National Marine Fisheries Service,

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Alaska Department of Fish and Game and polarconsult alaska, inc and are 
addressed in the FEA.
    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 Commission's 
Public Reference Room, Room 2A, at 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, 
D.C. 20426, and may also be viewed on the web at http:///
www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (please call (202) 208-2222 for 
assistance).

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-16570 Filed 6-29-00; 8:45 am]
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