[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 87 (Tuesday, May 6, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23985-23986]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-11123]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2069-007]


Notice of Incorporation of Documents Into the Record of the 
Proceeding for Project No. 2069-007

April 30, 2003.
    Take notice that the following documents are incorporated into the 
record of the proceeding for Project No. 2069-007.
    (1) Unequivocal statement of intent to file an application for new 
license by Arizona Public Service Company, FERC Project No. 2069, 
volumes 1-7, Arizona Public Service Company (APS), December 1989, filed 
on December 27, 1989.
    (2) Application for new license for major project--existing dam 
Childs & Irving Hydroelectric Project, FERC Project No. 2069, volumes 
I-IV, Arizona Public Service Company, December 1992 (volumes I-III) and 
July 1993 (vol. IV), filed on December 18, 1992, and July 9, 1993, 
respectively.
    (3) New fish habitat curves for Fossil Creek, re: relicensing of 
Childs-Irving Project (P-2069), filed on January 21, 1994.
    (4) Scoping document 2, Childs Irving Hydroelectric Project 
environmental assessment, FERC Project No. 2069-003, Office of 
Hydropower Licensing, FERC, and Coconino National Forest, U.S. Forest 
Service (USFS), issued on August 17, 1994.
    (5) Coconino National Forest land and resource management plan, 
dated August 1987, filed by the USFS on October 24, 1994.
    (6) Velocity-discharge data for Fossil Creek, filed by CH2M Hill on 
June 29, 1995.
    (7) Draft environmental assessment for hydropower license, Childs 
Irving Project, FERC Project No. 2069-003, Arizona. Division of 
Licensing and Compliance, Office of Hydropower Licensing, FERC and 
Beaver Creek Ranger District, Coconino National Forest, U.S. Department 
of Agriculture, issued August 14, 1997.
    (8) Comments of John Malusa on draft environmental assessment, 
filed on September 15, 1997.
    (9) Comments of the USFS on draft environmental assessment, filed 
by the Southwestern Region of USFS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, filed on 
September 26, 1997.
    (10) Natural geochemical evolution of a travertine depositing 
spring: Fossil Springs, Arizona, December 1997, John Malusa, Northern 
Arizona University, filed by the USFS on November 12, 1997.
    (11) Childs & Irving biological report, September 1998, EnviroNet, 
Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, filed by APS on September 11, 1998.
    (12) Fossil Creek hydrology & travertine geomorphology, June 25, 
1998, W.L. Bouchard & Associates, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, filed by APS 
on September 11, 1998.
    (13) Peregrine falcon potential nesting habitat APS Childs & Irving 
Hydroelectric Plants, Fossil Creek, Arizona, August 1998, EnviroNet, 
Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, filed by APS on September 11, 1998.
    (14) Childs & Irving biological report--razorback sucker, October 
1998, EnviroNet, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, filed by APS on November 2, 
1998.
    (15) Review of Childs and Irving biological report--razorback 
sucker, October 1998, February 1999, Jerome A. Stefferud, filed by the 
USFS on February 5, 1999.
    (16) APS and Tonto National Forest submittals of ``Fossil Creek 
Flood Peaks, Current, Natural and Degraded Watershed Conditions,'' by 
Grant Loomis, dated October 1994, filed on July 23, 1999, and September 
24, 1999, respectively.
    (17) Additional comments on travertine deposition estimates--Fossil 
Creek, Arizona, September 1999, Steven T. Overby and Daniel Neary, 
Rocky Mountain Research Station, USFS, Flagstaff, Arizona, filed by 
USFS on September 13, 1999.
    (18) Tonto National Forest land and resource management plan, dated 
October 1985, filed by the USFS on September 24, 1999.
    (19) Submission of additional information from Professor W.L. 
Minckley, Department of Biology, Arizona State University, 
characterizing the existing native fish assemblage and the 
unprecedented opportunity to restore full flows for native fish 
restoration of Fossil Creek; Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project, FERC 
Project No. 2069-003, Arizona, filed by the Southwest Regional Office 
of American Rivers, Phoenix, Arizona, on November 9, 1999.
    (20) Submission of additional information from John Malusa, 
hydrologist, identifying inaccuracies of the APS report titled ``Fossil 
Creek Hydrology & Travertine Geomorphology,'' and further 
characterizing the travertine deposition and erosion rates along Fossil 
Creek, Childs Irving Hydroelectric Project, Southwest Regional Office, 
American Rivers, Phoenix, Arizona, filed by American Rivers on December 
21, 1999.
    (21) USFS update on its involvement with the settlement 
discussions, filed on June 12, 2000.
    (22) USFS comments on settlement agreement, filed on September 27, 
2000.
    (23) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service comments on settlement 
agreement, filed on October 23, 2000.
    (24) USFS follow-up comments on settlement agreement, including 
minutes of meeting of fisheries biologists re: Fossil Creek (Childs/
Irving), dated May 24, 2000; and a preliminary analysis of effects of 
Fossil Springs dam removal alternatives on

[[Page 23986]]

riparian habitat and special status species, dated October 23, 2000, by 
C. Overby and J. Agyagos, filed on October 24, 2000.
    (25) Summary of January 10, 2001, technical conference, issued on 
February 8, 2001.
    (26) Declaratory Order, issued on December 20, 2001.
    For further information, please contact Dianne Rodman at (202) 502-
6077.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-11123 Filed 5-5-03; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P