[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 60 (Monday, March 29, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16244-16245]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-697]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2165-015-Alabama Black Warrior River Project]


Alabama Power Company; Notice of Proposed Revised Restricted 
Service List for a Programmatic Agreement for Managing Properties 
Included in or Eligible for Inclusion in The National Register of 
Historic Places

March 22, 2004.
    Rule 2010 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 
(Commission) Rules of Practice and Procedure provides that, to 
eliminate unnecessary expense or improve administrative efficiency, the 
Secretary may establish a restricted service list for a particular 
phase or issue in a proceeding.\1\ The restricted service list should 
contain the names of persons on the service list who, in the judgment 
of the decisional authority establishing the list, are active 
participants with respect to the phase or issue in the proceeding for 
which the list is established.
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    \1\ 18 CFR 385.2010.
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    The Commission staff is consulting with the Alabama State Historic 
Preservation Officer (hereinafter, SHPO) and the Advisory Council on 
Historic Preservation (hereinafter, Council) pursuant to the Council's 
regulations, 36 CFR Part 800, implementing Section 106 of the National 
Historic Preservation Act, as amended, (16 U.S.C. 470 f), to prepare 
and execute a programmatic agreement for managing properties included 
in, or eligible for inclusion in, the National Register of Historic 
Places at Project No. 2165-015.
    The programmatic agreement, when executed by the Commission, the 
SHPO, and the Council, would satisfy the Commission's Section 106 
responsibilities for all individual undertakings carried out in 
accordance with the license until the license expires or is terminated 
(36 CFR 800.13[e]). The Commission's responsibilities pursuant to 
Section 106 for the Black Warrior

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River Project would be fulfilled through the programmatic agreement, 
which the Commission proposes to draft in consultation with Alabama 
Power Company, the licensee for Project No. 2165; the Mississippi Band 
of Choctaw Indians; the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians; the Chickasaw 
Nation, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians; the U.S. Forest Service; the 
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers; and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. The 
executed programmatic agreement would be incorporated into any Order 
issuing a license.
    By the letter filed February 3, 2004, Steven Rickerson, Forest 
Supervisor, requested to be placed on the Restricted Service List for 
the Black Warrior River Project. For purposes of commenting on the 
programmatic agreement, we propose to add the following person to the 
restricted service list for the aforementioned project to represent the 
interests of the U.S. Forest Service:
    Steven Rickerson, Forest Supervisor, National Forests in Alabama, 
2946 Chestnut Street, Montgomery, AL 36107.
    The addition to the restricted service list is effective 
immediately.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E4-697 Filed 3-26-04; 8:45 am]
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