[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 142 (Monday, July 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45595-45596]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-18589]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission, 
Soliciting Additional Study Requests, and Establishing Procedures for 
Relicensing, and a Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments

July 18, 2000.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: Subsequent License.
    b. Project No.: P-2103-002.
    c. Date Filed: June 29, 2000.
    d. Applicant: Cominco American Incorporated.
    e. Name of Project: Cedar Creek Project.
    f. Location: On Cedar Creek, a minor tributary stream to the Pend 
Oreille River, near the city of Northport, within Stevens County, 
Washington.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Bruce DiLuzio, Cominco American Incorporated, 
15918 E. Euclid Avenue, Spokane, WA 98216, (509) 747-6111 and/or Nan A. 
Nalder--Relicensing Manager, Acres International for Cominco American 
Incorporated, 150 Nickerson--Suite 310, Seattle, WA 98109, (206) 352-
5730, (206) 352-5734 fax, [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Brandi Bradford, (202) 219-2789, 
[email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing additional study requests: August 30, 2000.
    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 
intervener filing documents with the Commission to serve a copy of that 
document on each person on the official service list for the project. 
Further, if an intervener files comments or documents with the 
Commission relating to the merits of an

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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. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    l. Description of Project: The existing Cedar Creek Project 
consists of 2.4 acres of land periodically inundated by operation of 
the Waneta Project located in British Columbia, Canada. The Cedar Creek 
Project area is located in the United States. All Waneta Project 
facilities, including the dam and power generation facilities, are 
located in Canada and are outside FERC jurisdiction. Cedar Creek 
Project lands are owned by the Bureau of Land Management (2.058 acres), 
the International Boundary Reserve (0.298 acres), and private owners 
(0.044 acres). Within the confines of the Cedar Creek Project, the 
maximum pool is EL 1517.8 (Canadian Geodetic Survey of Canada Datum) 
and minimum pool is EL 1502. Cominco American Incorporated currently 
has flowage rights to lands in the Cedar Creek Project boundary up to 
EL 1521.
    m. 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 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 in item h 
above.
    n. With this notice, we are inviting consultation with the 
WASHINGTON STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER (SHPO), as required by 
Sec. 106, National Historic Preservation Act, and the regulations of 
the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4.
    o. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following milestones, some of which may 
be combined to expedite processing:

Notice that application has been accepted for filing.
Notice of NEPA Scoping.
Notice that application is ready for environmental analysis.*
Notice of the availability of the draft NEPA document.
Notice of the availability of the final NEPA document.
Order issuing the Commission's decision on the application.

    *Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the 
notice of ready for environmental analysis.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-18589 Filed 7-21-00; 8:45 am]
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