[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 29, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 78014]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-3851]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2114-003, 064]


Public Utility District No. 2 of Grant County; Notice of 
Availability of Final Environmental Assessment

December 21, 2004.
    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 FR 47897), the Office 
of Energy Projects has reviewed the application for implementation of 
an Interim Protection Plan (IPP) for steelhead and chinook salmon and 
an application for approving an Offer of Settlement and Memorandum of 
Agreement (MOA) on providing downstream passage for juvenile salmonids 
for the Priest Rapids Hydroelectric Project. Following a review of the 
IPP and MOA the Commission has prepared a Final Environmental 
Assessment (FEA) for the project. On December 16, 2004, the Director of 
the Commission's Office of Energy Projects issued an Order Amending 
License and Terminating Proceedings; FEA was attached to the Order. The 
project is located on the Columbia River in Grant, Yakima, Kittitas, 
Douglas, Benton, and Chelan Counties.
    The FEA contains staff's analysis of the potential environmental 
impacts associated with the implementation of the IPP and MOA. The FEA 
recommends that the Public Utility District No. 2 of Grant County 
(licensee for the project) implement the National Oceanographic and 
Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA Fisheries) Reasonable and Prudent 
Alternative (RPA), as prepared in NOAA Fisheries Biological Opinion on 
the proposed action, as well as the summer spill as proposed in the 
MOA. The FEA concludes that the RPA would not constitute a major 
federal action that would significantly affect the quality of the human 
environment.
    The FEA is on file with the Commission and available for public 
inspection. Copies of the EA are available for review in the Public 
Reference Room at the Commission's offices at 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC. The FEA may also be viewed on the Commission's Web site 
at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' link. For assistance, 
contact FERC On Line Support at [email protected] or call toll 
free at (866) 208-3676, or for TTY contact (202) 502-8659.
    For further information, please contact Andrea Shriver at (202) 
502-8171.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E4-3851 Filed 12-28-04; 8:45 am]
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