[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 46501]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-4319]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2984]


S.D. Warren Company; Notice of Filings

August 3, 2005.
    S.D. Warren Company is the licensee for the Eel Weir Hydroelectric 
Project No. 2984 at Sebago Lake, Maine.\1\ The licensee maintains the 
level of the dam's reservoir pursuant to a Lake Level Management Plan 
(Plan).\2\
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    \1\ 26 FERC ] 61,241 (1984).
    \2\ Order Approving Settlement and Amending License, 79 FERC ] 
61,064 (1997). The Plan was amended in Order Amending Lake Level 
Management Plan, 92 FERC ] 62,180 (2000), and was further amended in 
Order Granting Rehearing and Amending Lake Level Management Plan, 94 
FERC ] 61,034 (2001).
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    Commission staff received several telephone reports from local 
residents concerning high lake levels at the Eel Weir Project during 
April and May of 2005. Commission staff responded by sending a letter 
to the licensee on May 3, 2005. The letter directed the licensee to 
provide: (1) Information concerning project operations in late April 
and early May 2005, (2) schedules of releases from Sebago Lake for the 
same period, (3) precipitation data for the period in question, (4) a 
description of observed or reported adverse impacts and proposed 
actions to ensure future compliance; and (5) copies of any 
correspondence from Federal or State resource agencies. On May 31, 
2005, the licensee filed a timely response.
    The Commission has since received filings from several individuals 
or groups \3\ reiterating concerns over high lake levels. Commission 
staff is already in the process of investigating these matters, and the 
recent filings, which are in the public record for this project, will 
be considered in any order resulting from staff's investigation.
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    \3\ Filings have been made by Stephen M. Kasprzak; Roger 
Wheeler, President of the Friends of Sebago Lake; Charles Bragdon, 
Jr.; Diana Wheeler; and Matthew Anderson, Ph.D.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E5-4319 Filed 8-9-05; 8:45 am]
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