[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 118 (Wednesday, June 19, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 41715]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-15402]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 362-004]


Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site Visit and Solicitation of 
Scoping Comments

June 13, 2002.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with Commission and are available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 362-004.
    c. Date filed: June 1, 2001.
    d. Applicant: Ford Motor Company.
    e. Name of Project: Ford Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Mississippi River, in the city of St. Paul, 
Ramsey County, Minnesota, at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Lock and 
Dam No.1. The project is partially located on federal lands 
administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. Sec. 791 (a)-
825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: George Waldow, HDR Engineering, Inc., 6190 
Golden Hills Drive, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55416, or telephone (763) 
591-5485.
    i. FERC Contact: Sergiu Serban, E-mail address 
[email protected], or telephone (202) 501-6935.
    j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: July 29, 2002.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all 
interveners 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 issue that may affect the 
responsibilities of a particular resource agency, they must also serve 
a copy of the document on that resource agency.
    Scoping comments 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 (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-Filing'' 
link.
    k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    l. Description of the Project: The proposed project would utilize 
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Lock and Dam No. 1 and would consist 
of the following facilities: (1) An existing powerhouse integral with 
the dam having a total installed capacity of 18,000 kilowatts; and (2) 
appurtenant facilities. The average annual generation is estimated to 
be 97 gigawatt hours.
    m. A copy of the application is on file with the Commission and is 
available for public inspection. This filing may also be viewed on the 
web at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``RIMS'' link--select ``Docket #'' 
and follow the instructions (call 202-208-2222 for assistance). A copy 
is also available for inspection and reproduction at the address in 
item g above.
    n. Scoping Process
    The Commission intends to prepare an Environmental assessment (EA) 
on the project in accordance with the National Environmental Policy 
Act. The EA will consider both site-specific and cumulative 
environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the proposed 
action.

Scoping Meetings

    FERC staff will conduct one agency scoping meeting and one public 
meeting. The agency scoping meeting will focus on resource agency and 
non-governmental organization (NGO) concerns, while the public scoping 
meeting is primarily for public input. All interested individuals, 
organizations, and agencies are invited to attend one or both of the 
meetings, and to assist the staff in identifying the scope of the 
environmental issues that should be analyzed in the EA. The times and 
locations of these meetings are as follows:

Agency Scoping Meeting

Date: Friday, June 28, 2002
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Place: Ford Motor Company's Twin Cities Assembly Plant UAW-MNSCU 
Training Center
Address: 966 Mississippi River Boulevard South St. Paul, Minnesota

Public Scoping Meeting

Date: Thursday, June 27, 2002
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Place: Same location as for the Agency Meeting
Address: Same address as for the Agency Meeting

    Copies of the Scoping Document (SD1) outlining the subject areas to 
be addressed in the EA were distributed to the parties on the 
Commission's mailing list. Copies of the SD1 will be available at the 
scoping meeting or may be viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.gov 
using the ``RIMS'' link, select ``Docket #'' and follow the 
instructions (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).

Site Visit

    The Applicant and FERC staff will conduct a site visit of the 
project on June 27, 2002, between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. All interested 
individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to attend. All 
participants should meet inside of the Training Center for a short 
overview of the hydro operations and safety instructions. Participants 
in the site visit will need to provide their own transportation and 
bring their own lunch. All participants are responsible for their own 
transportation to the site.

Objectives

    At the scoping meetings, the staff will: (1) Summarize the 
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the EA; (2) 
solicit from the meeting participants all available information, 
especially quantifiable data, on the resources at issue; (3) encourage 
statements from experts and the public on issues that should be 
analyzed in the EA, including viewpoints in opposition to, or in 
support of, the staff's preliminary views; (4) determine the resource 
issues to be addressed in the EA; and (5) identify those issues that 
require a detailed analysis, as well as those issues that do not 
require a detailed analysis.

Procedures

    The meetings are recorded by a stenographer and become part of the 
formal record of the Commission proceeding on the project.
    Individuals, organizations, and agencies with environmental 
expertise and concerns are encouraged to attend the meeting and to 
assist the staff in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed 
in the EA.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-15402 Filed 6-18-02; 8:45 am]
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