[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 169 (Friday, August 30, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 53754]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-21199]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 1256-031--Nebraska Loup River Hydroelectric Project]


Loup River Public Power District; 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

    Rule 2010 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 
(Commission) Rules of Practice and Procedure \1\ 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. 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 Nebraska State 
Historical Society (Nebraska SHPO) and the Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation (Advisory Council) pursuant to the Advisory Council's 
regulations, 36 CFR part 800, implementing section 106 of the National 
Historic Preservation Act, as amended, (16 U.S.C. 470f), to prepare a 
Programmatic Agreement for managing properties included in, or eligible 
for inclusion in, the National Register of Historic Places that could 
be affected by issuance of a new license for the Loup River 
Hydroelectric Project No. 1256.
    The programmatic agreement, when executed by the Commission and the 
Nebraska 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 project would be fulfilled through the Programmatic 
Agreement, which the Commission staff proposes to draft in consultation 
with certain parties listed below. The executed Programmatic Agreement 
would be incorporated into any Order issuing a license.
    Loup River Public Power District, as applicant for the Loup River 
Hydroelectric Project, the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, the Pawnee Nation 
of Oklahoma, and the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska 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 Project No. 1256 as follows:

John Eddins or Representative, Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation, The Old Post Office Building, Suite 803, 1100 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20004

L. Robert Puschendorf or Representative, State Historic Preservation 
Office, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1500 R Street, P.O. Box 
82554, Lincoln, NE 68501-2554

Neal Suess or Representative, Loup River Public Power District, P.O. 
Box 988, 2404 15th Street, Columbus, Nebraska 68602

Rodney Morris, Tribal Chairman, Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, 100 Main St., 
P.O. Box 368, Macy, NE 68039

Marshall Gover, President, Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, P.O. Box 470, 881 
Little Dee Dr., Pawnee, OK 74058

Roger Trudell, Tribal Chairman, Santee Sioux Nation, 108 Spirit Lake 
Ave. West, Niobrara, NE 68760-7219

    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.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
motions using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. For assistance, please contact FERC Online 
Support at [email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or 
(202) 502-8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please send a paper 
copy to: Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First 
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. The first page of any filing should 
include docket number P-1256-031.
    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 within the 15-day 
period.

    Dated: August 23, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-21199 Filed 8-29-13; 8:45 am]
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