[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 249 (Monday, December 31, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74281-74282]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-25322]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2197-073--North Carolina; Yadkin Hydroelectric Project]


Alcoa Power Generating, Inc.; 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

December 20, 2007.
    Rule 2010 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 
(Commission) Rules of Practice and Procedure provides that, to 
eliminate unnecessary expense or improve administrative

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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 section 385.210.
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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. 470 f), 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 Yadkin Hydroelectric Project No. 2197-073 (SHPO 
Reference Number ER03-1246).
    The programmatic agreement, when executed by the Commission and the 
SHPO 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 Yadkin 
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.
    Alcoa Power Generating, Inc., as licensee for Yadkin Hydroelectric 
Project No. 2197, the United States Forest Service, the Catawba Indian 
Nation, Badin Historic Museum, Inc., and the Trading Ford Historic 
District Preservation Association have expressed an interest in this 
proceeding 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, DC 20004
Gene Ellis or Representative, ALCOA Power Generating Inc., PO Box 576, 
Badin, NC 28009-0576
Ann Brownlee, President, Trading Ford Historic District, Preservation 
Association, 400 Lantz Ave, Salisbury, NC 28144
Renee Gledhill-Earley, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources 
4617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4617
Dr. Wenonah G. Haire or Representative, CIN THPO, 1536 Tom Stevens Rd, 
Rock Hill, SC 29730
Badin Historic Museum, Inc., C/O: Bridget Huckabee, P. O. Box 1553, 
Badin NC 28009
Rodney Snedeker or Representative, United States Forest Service, 160A 
Zillicoa Street, Ashville, NC 28801

    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 
Kimberly D. Bose, 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 
``Yadkin Hydroelectric Project'' and number ``P-2197-073'' on the front 
cover of any motion. Motions 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.
    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.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-25322 Filed 12-28-07; 8:45 am]
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