[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 77 (Friday, April 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20898-20899]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-1909]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 11945-001]


Symbiotics, LLC; Notice of Scoping Meetings, Site Visit, and 
Soliciting Scoping Comments

April 18, 2005.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and are available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: Major License.
    b. Project No.: 11945-001.
    c. Date filed: June 30, 2004.
    d. Applicant: Symbiotics, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Dorena Lake Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Row River, near the Town of Cottage Grove, Lane 
County, Oregon. The project would occupy less than 1 acre of federal 
lands administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Brent L. Smith, Symbiotics, LLC, PO Box 535, 
Rigby, Idaho 83442; telephone (208) 745-0834 or by e-mail at 
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Dianne Rodman, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426; telephone 
(202) 502-6077 or by e-mail at [email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: May 16, 2005.
    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 
intervenors 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 intervenor 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. The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings. 
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. The proposed project would utilize the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers' existing Dorena Lake dam and reservoir, and would consist of 
the following facilities: (1) A 9-foot-diameter steel pipe, about 350 
feet long, extending from the reservoir through the north dam abutment; 
(2) a new powerhouse, near the existing spillway stilling basin 250 
feet downstream from the concrete section of the dam, having a total 
installed capacity of 8,300 kilowatts; (3) a new concrete-lined channel 
discharging flows into the river channel immediately below the existing 
stilling basin; (4) a new valve house near the existing stilling basin; 
(5) a new 15-kilovolt underground transmission line, about 500 feet 
long; and (6) appurtenant facilities. The average annual generation is 
estimated to be 17.5 gigawatthours.
    m. A copy of the application is available for review at the 
Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the 
Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' 
link. Enter the docket number excluding the last three digits in the 
docket number field to access the document. For assistance, contact 
FERC Online Support at [email protected] or toll-free at 1-
866-208-3676, or for TTY, (202) 502-8659. A copy is also available for 
inspection and reproduction at the address in item h above.
    You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via e-mail of new filings and 
issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, 
contact FERC Online Support.
    n. Scoping Process: The Commission staff 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

    Commission staff will conduct one daytime scoping meeting and one 
evening meeting. The daytime scoping meeting will focus on resource 
agency and non-governmental organization (NGO) concerns, while the 
evening scoping meeting is primarily for public input. All interested 
individuals, NGOs, agencies, and tribes 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:

Daytime Scoping Meeting

    Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005.
    Time: 2 PM (PDT).
    Place: Lane Community College.
    Address: Building 17, Room 308, 4000 East 30th Avenue, Eugene, 
Oregon.

Evening Scoping Meeting

    Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005.
    Time: 7 PM (PDT).
    Place: Lane Community College.
    Address: Building 17, Room 308, 4000 East 30th Avenue, Eugene, 
Oregon.

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 
meetings or may be viewed on the Web at http://

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www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' link (see item m above).

Site Visit

    The Applicant and Commission staff will conduct a project site 
visit beginning at 9 a.m. on May 5, 2005. All interested individuals, 
NGOs, agencies, and tribes are invited to attend. All participants 
should meet at Schwarz Park, below the Dorena Lake dam. All 
participants are responsible for their own transportation to the site. 
Anyone with questions about the site visit should contact Dianne 
Rodman, Commission staff, at (202) 502-6077 or Brent Smith of 
Symbiotics at (208) 742-0834.

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

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E5-1909 Filed 4-21-05; 8:45 am]
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