[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 95 (Friday, May 16, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26603-26604]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-12335]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Scoping Meetings, Site Visit, Scoping Document 1 and 
Soliciting Scoping Comments

May 9, 2003.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: Surrender application.
    b. Project No.: 696-013.
    c. Date filed: December 31, 2003.
    d. Applicant: PacifiCorp.
    e. Name of Project: American Fork Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On American Fork Creek, near the City of American 
Fork, Utah County, Utah, about 3 miles east of Highland, Utah. The 
project affects about 28.8 acres of federal lands within the Uinta 
National Forest and 2,000 feet of the project flowline passes through 
the Timpanogos Cave National Monument, administered by the U.S. 
Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS).
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact Monte Garrett, Licensing Manager, PacifiCorp, 
825 NE. Multnomah, suite 1500, Portland, Oregon, 97232 (503) 813-6629.
    i. FERC Contact: Kenneth Hogan (202) 502-8434, e-mail at 
[email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: 60 days from the date of 
this notice.
    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 existing project consists of: 
(1) A 29-foot 9-inch wide and 4.5-foot-high reinforced concrete 
diversion dam; (2) a 6-foot-wide 6-foot-long intake; (3) a 6-foot-long 
6-foot-wide manually operated sluice gate; (4) a 2-foot-long 2-foot-
wide manually operated upstream sluice gate; (5) a 28-inch-diameter 
welded steel pipe flowline approximately 11,666-foot-long which 
transitions into a 33-inch-diameter riveted steel penstock 253-foot-
long that transitions into a 20-inch-diameter riveted steel penstock 
61-foot-long; (6) an approximately 2,700-square-foot brick powerhouse; 
(7) one turbine generator unit with a rated capacity of 1,050 
kilowatts; and (8) other appurtenances.
    m. A copy of the application is on file with the Commission and is 
available for public inspection. This filing is available for review at 
the Commission or may be viewed on the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov, using the ``FERRIS'' link. Enter the docket number 
excluding the last three digits in the docket number filed to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected] or toll-free at (866) 208-3676, or for TTY, 
contact (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available for inspection and 
reproduction at the address in item h above.
    n. Scoping Process: The Commission intends to prepare an 
environmental assessment (EA) for the surrender of the license for the 
project in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act. The 
EA may consider reasonable alternatives to the proposed action.

Scoping Meetings and Site Visit

    FERC staff will conduct a site visit, an agency scoping meeting and 
a public scoping meeting. The site visit will consist of a tour of 
project facilities and lands and any pertinent surrounding features. 
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,

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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 
the site visit and meetings are as follows:

Site Visit:
    June 3, 2003.
    Time: 10 a.m.
    Timpanogos Cave National Monument's Visitors Center, Rural Route 3, 
Box 200, American Fork, Utah.
Public Scoping Meeting:
    June 3, 2003.
    Time: 7 p.m.
    American Fork High School, 510 North 600 East, American Fork, Utah 
84003. (801) 756-8547.
Agency Scoping Meeting:
    June 4, 2003.
    Time: 10 a.m.
    American Fork High School, 510 North 600 East, American Fork, Utah 
84003. (801) 756-8547.

    Copies of SD1 outlining the subject areas to be addressed in the EA 
were distributed to the parties on the Commission's mailing list. 
Copies of SD1 are available for review at the Commission or may be 
viewed on the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov, using the 
``FERRIS'' link. Enter the docket number excluding the last three 
digits in the docket number filed to access the document. For 
assistance, contact FERC Online Support at [email protected] 
or toll-free at (866) 208-3676, or for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659.
    As part of scoping the staff will: (1) Summarize the environmental 
issues tentatively identified for analysis in the EA; (2) solicit from 
comments all available information, especially quantifiable data, on 
the resources at issue; (3) encourage comments 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. Consequently, 
interested entities are requested to file with the Commission any data 
and information concerning environmental resources and land uses in the 
project area and the subject project's impacts to the aforementioned.
    o. The tentative schedule for preparing the American Fork Surrender 
Application EA is:

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            Major milestone                        Target date
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Ready for Environmental Analysis Notice  October, 2003.
Draft EA Issued........................  January, 2004.
Final EA Issued........................  April, 2004.
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Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-12335 Filed 5-15-03; 8:45 am]
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