[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 8, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11615-11616]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-3203]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2692-032]


Duke Power; North Carolina Nantahala Hydroelectric Project; 
Notice of Proposed Restricted Service List for a Programmatic Agreement 
for Managing Properties Included in or Eligible For Inclusion in the 
National Register of Historic Places

February 28, 2006.
    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 North Carolina 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. section 
470f), to prepare and execute a programmatic agreement for managing 
properties included in, or eligible for inclusion in, the National 
Register of Historic Places at the Nantahala Hydroelectric Project No. 
2692-032 (SHPO Reference Number ER03-2409).
    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 Nantahala Falls Project would be fulfilled through 
the programmatic agreement, which the Commission proposes to draft in 
consultation with certain parties listed below. The executed 
programmatic agreement would be incorporated into any Order issuing a 
license.
    Duke Power, as licensee for Project No. 2692, and the Eastern Band 
of Cherokee Indians have expressed an interest in this preceding and 
are invited to participate in consultations to develop the programmatic 
agreement.
    For purposes of commenting on the programmatic agreement, we 
propose to restrict the service list for the aforementioned project as 
follows:

Don Klima or Representative, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 
The Old Post Office Building, Suite 803, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, D.C. 20004.
Jennifer Huff or Representative, Duke Power, P.O. Box 1006, Mail Code 
EC12Y, Charlotte, NC 28201-1006.
Renee Gledhill-Earley, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 
4617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4617.
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Attention: Tyler Howe, THPO, Qualla 
Boundary, P.O. Box 455, Cherokee, NC 28719.

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Rodney Snedecker, United States Forest Service, P.O. Box 2750, 
Asheville, NC 28802.

    Any person on the official service list for the above-captioned 
proceeding may request inclusion on the restricted service list, or may 
request that a restricted service list not be established, by filing a 
motion to that effect within 15 days of this notice date. In a request 
for inclusion, please identify the reason(s) why there is an interest 
to be included. Also please identify any concerns about historic 
properties, including Traditional Cultural Properties. If historic 
properties are to be identified within the motion, please use a 
separate page, and label it Non-Public Information.
    An original and 8 copies of any such motion must be filed with 
Magalie R. Salas, the Secretary of the Commission (888 First Street, 
NE, Washington, DC 20426, and must be served on each person whose name 
appears on the official service list. Please put the project name 
``Nantahala Project'' and number ``P-2692-032'' on the front cover of 
any motion. If no such motions are filed, the restricted service list 
will be effective at the end of the 15 day period. Otherwise, a further 
notice will be issued ruling on any motion or motions filed within the 
15 day period.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-3203 Filed 3-7-06; 8:45 am]
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