[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 136 (Monday, July 17, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40502-40503]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-11263]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 946-007]


Hyrum City; Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site Visit and 
Soliciting Scoping Comments

July 11, 2006.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: A Subsequent License. (Minor Project).
    b. Project No.: 946-007.
    c. Date filed: April 28, 2006.
    d. Applicant: Hyrum City.
    e. Name of Project: Hyrum City Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Blacksmith Fork River in Hyrum City, Cache 
County, Utah. The project affects about 17.03 acres of federal lands 
within the Wasatch Cache National Forest.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Dean Howard, Mayor Hyrum City, 83 West Main 
Street, Hyrum, Utah 84319; (435) 245-6033, or Ken Tuttle or Mike 
Wilcox, Sunrise Engineering, Inc., 25 East 500 North, Fillmore, UT 
84631; (435) 743-6151.
    i. FERC Contact: Gaylord Hoisington, (202) 502-6032 or 
[email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: August 30, 2006.
    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 
interveners 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 intervener 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 existing Hyrum City's Hydropower Project includes the 
following constructed facilities: (1) A 15-foot-high, 70-foot-long 
earth-fill concrete core embankment to the north, a 14-foot-high, 65-
foot-long concrete spillway section, a 15-foot-high, 125-foot-long 
earth-fill concrete core embankment to the north which makes the total 
length of the dam approximately 260-foot-long; (2) a 16-foot-high, 8-
foot-wide concrete intake structure with a 20-foot-high, 8-foot-wide 
trash rack and fish ladder; (3) a 60-inch-diameter concrete penstock 
inlet with head gate; (4) a 3,470-foot-long, 48-inch-diameter concrete 
penstock going into a 130-foot-long, 42-inch-diameter steel penstock; 
(5) a 37-acre-foot de-silting pond; (6) a 26-foot-wide, 39-foot-long, 
20-foot-high brick powerhouse; (7) a 400-kilowatt Leffel horizontal 
shaft scroll case turbine; (8) a 100-foot, 2.4-kV underground 
transmission line; and (9) appurtenant facilities.
    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 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

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

Agency Scoping Meeting.
Date: Monday, July 31, 2006.
Time: 1:30 p.m. (MST).
Place: City of Hyrum Town Council Meeting Hall.
Address: 83 West Main Street, Hyrum, UT 84319.

Public Scoping Meeting.
Date: Monday, July 31, 2006.
Time: 7 p.m. (MST).
Place: City of Hyrum Town Council Meeting Hall.

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Address: 83 West Main Street, Hyrum, UT 84319.

    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 meeting or may be viewed on the Web at http://www.ferc.gov 
using the ``eLibrary'' link (see item m above).

Site Visit

    The Applicant and FERC staff will conduct a project site visit 
beginning at 9 a.m. on Monday July 31, 2006. All interested 
individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to attend. All 
participants should RSVP to Guy McBride at 435-245-3652. All 
participants are responsible for their own transportation to the site.

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

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-11263 Filed 7-14-06; 8:45 am]
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