[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 147 (Tuesday, July 31, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 39509]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-19001]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

 [Project No. 2030-035-Oregon]


Portland General Electric Company; Notice of Availability of 
Environmental Assessment

July 25, 2001.
    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 F.R. 47910), the Office 
of Energy Projects has reviewed the Portland General Electric Company's 
(Portland General) application for license amendment to install an 
additional 70-kW turbine/generator unit at the Pelton Round Butte 
Hydroelectric Project, located on the Deschutes River in Jefferson, 
Marion, and Wasco Counties, Oregon, and has prepared an Environmental 
Assessment (EA). The project occupies lands of the Deschutes National 
Forest; Mt Hood National Forest; Willamette National Forest; Crooked 
River National Grassland; Bureau of Land Management; and tribal lands 
of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.
    The EA contains the Commission staff's analysis of the potential 
environmental impacts of the proposed amendment and concludes that 
approval of the proposed amendment with Portland General's proposed 
environmental measures would not constitute a major federal action that 
would significantly affect the quality of the human environment.
    The EA is attached to a Commission order issued on July 20, 2001 
for the above application. Copies of the EA are available for review at 
the Commission's Public Reference Room, located at 888 First Street, 
NE., Washington, DC 20426, or by calling (202) 208-1371. The EA may be 
viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call (202) 
208-2222 for assistance).
    For further information, contact Nan Allen at (202) 219-2938.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
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