[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 100 (Thursday, May 24, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29148-29149]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-10001]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project Nos. P-2281-011, P-4851-005]


Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Notice of Scoping Meetings and 
Site Visit and Soliciting Scoping Comments

May 17, 2007.
    Take notice that the following two hydroelectric applications have 
been filed with Commission and are available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: New Major Licenses.
    b. Project Nos: P-2281-011, P-4851-005.
    c. Date Filed: March 30, 2007.
    d. Applicant: Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
    e. Name of Project: Woodleaf-Kanaka Junction Transmission Line 
Project (P-2281-011) Sly Creek Transmission Line Project (P-4851-005).
    f. Location: The two projects are located in Butte County 
California, within the South Fork Feather River watershed. The projects 
are not located within any designated cities, towns, subdivisions or 
Indian Tribe reservations. The projects are located about 15 miles east 
of Oroville, California. The Woodleaf-Kanaka Junction Transmission Line 
Project affects 31.79 acres of federal lands that is administered by 
the Plumas National Forest. The Sly Creek Transmission Line Project 
affects less than 2 acres of federal lands administered by the Plumas 
National Forest.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Forrest Sullivan, Senior Project Manger, 
Pacific Gas & Electric Company, 5555 Florin-Perkins Road, Building 500, 
Sacramento, CA, 95826. Tel: (916) 386-5580.
    i. FERC Contact: John Mudre, (202) 502-8902, or 
[email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: July 16, 2007.
    All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with: 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
    The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure require all 
interveners

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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. The applications are not ready for environmental analysis at 
this time.
    l. The Woodleaf-Kanaka Junction Transmission Line Project is a 
transmission line only project that transmits electricity 6.2 miles 
from the Woodleaf Powerhouse (owned and operated by the South Feather 
Water and Power Agency under FERC Project No. 2088) to the Kanaka 
Junction. The Project also includes a 0.02-mile long tap line extending 
to Forbestown Powerhouse (also under FERC Project No. 2088). The 
Woodleaf-Kanaka Junction Transmission Line is composed of a single-
circuit, 115-kV transmission line, supported primarily on wood-pole, H-
frame towers within a 75-foot wide right-of-way. The project is linked 
to the Licensee's Sly Creek Transmission Line (FERC License No. 4851), 
via the Woodleaf Powerhouse Switchyard, a component of FERC Project No. 
2088.
    The Sly Creek Transmission Line Project is a transmission line only 
project that transmits electricity 5.4 miles from the Sly Creek 
Powerhouse (owned and operated by the South Feather Water and Power 
Agency under FERC Project No. 2088) to Pacific Gas and Electric 
Company's Woodleaf-Kanaka Junction Transmission Line Project (FERC 
Project No. 2281). The transmission line Project consists of an 
existing single-circuit, 115 kV transmission line, supported primarily 
on wood-pole, H-frame structures within a 75-foot-wide right-of-way, 
and appurtenant facilities.
    m. Copies of both applications are 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 documents. For assistance, contact 
FERC Online Support at [email protected] or toll-free at 1-
866-208-3676, or for TTY, (202) 502-8659.
    Copies are 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 these or other pending projects. For assistance, 
contact FERC Online Support.
    n. Scoping Process:
    The Commission intends to prepare a joint Environmental assessment 
(EA) for the projects in accordance with the National Environmental 
Policy Act. The multi-project EA will consider both site-specific and 
cumulative environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the 
proposed actions.

Scoping Meetings

    FERC staff will conduct one agency scoping meeting and one public 
meeting, in conjunction with scoping for the South Feather Power 
Project. 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: June 14, 2007.
    Time: 10 a.m. (PST).
    Place: VFW Post 1747.
    Address: 1901 Elgin St., Oroville, CA.

Public Scoping Meeting

    Date: June 13, 2007.
    Time: 7 p.m. (PST).
    Place: VFW Post 1747.
    Address: 1901 Elgin St., Oroville, CA.
    Copies of the Scoping Document (SD1) outlining the subject areas to 
be addressed in the EA are being distributed to the parties on the 
Commission's mailing list under separate cover. 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

    We also will conduct a two-day site visit to the project facilities 
on Tuesday, June 12, 2007, and Wednesday June 13, 2007, in conjunction 
with a site visit of the South Feather Power Project. On both days we 
will meet at the South Feather Water and Power Agency's Forbestown 
Office, 5494 Forbestown Rd, Forbestown, CA at 7:30 a.m. All 
participants are responsible for their own transportation on the site 
visits and will need to provide their own lunch.

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.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E7-10001 Filed 5-23-07; 8:45 am]
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