[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 3, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 35239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16641]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Settlement Agreement and Soliciting Comments

June 27, 2001.
    a. Type of Application: Settlement Agreement on New License 
Application.
    b. Project No.: 1927-008.
    c. Date filed: June 21, 2001.
    d. Applicant: PacifiCorp.
    e. Name of Project: North Umpqua Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the North Umpqua River, in Douglas County, Oregon. 
The project occupies about 2, 725 acres of land within the Umpqua 
National Forest, and about 117 acres of land administered by the Bureau 
of Land Management.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Rule 602 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.602.
    h. Applicant Contact: Timothy C. O'Connor, Director, Hydro 
Operations, PacifiCorp 825 Multnomah, Suite 1500, Portland, OR 97232, 
(503) 813-6660, and James M. Lynch, Stoel Rives LLP, 600 University 
Street, Suite 3600, Seattle, WA 98101-3197, (206) 624-0900.
    i. FERC Contact: John Smith, 202-219-2460, [email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing comments: July 27, 2001. Reply comments due 
August 11, 2001.
    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. Comments, protests and 
interventions may be filed electronically via the internet in lieu of 
paper. See, 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the 
Commission's web site at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice require all intervenors 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 
intervenor files comments or documents with the Commission relating to 
the merits of an 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. Description of Filing: PacifiCorp filed the Settlement Agreement 
on behalf of itself and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest 
Service, U.S. Department of Commerce's National Maritime Fisheries 
Service, U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service 
and Bureau of Land Management, Oregon Department of Environmental 
Quality, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Oregon Water 
Resources Department. The purpose of the Settlement Agreement is to 
resolve among the signatories all issues regarding relicensing of the 
North Umpqua Hydroelectric Project (FERC Project No. 1927). The 
signatories request that the Commission accept and incorporate, without 
material modification, as license articles in the new license all of 
the Governmental Parties' Final Terms and Conditions filed with the 
Commission in connection with this agreement. Comments and reply 
comments on the Settlement Agreement are due on the dates listed above.
    l. Copies of the Settlement Agreement are available for inspection 
and reproduction at the Commission's Public Reference Room, located at 
888 First Street, NE, Room 2-A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling 
(202) 208-1371. This filing may be viewed on http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call (202) 208-2222 for assistance). Copies are also 
available for inspection and reproduction at the address in item h 
above.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-16641 Filed 7-2-01; 8:45 am]
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