Symbiotics, LLC; Notice of Scoping Meetings, Site Visit, and Soliciting Scoping Comments, 20898-20899 [E5-1909]

Download as PDF 20898 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 77 / Friday, April 22, 2005 / Notices Cooperative, Inc.; 2027 East Three Notch Street, P.O. Box 550, Andalusia, AL 36420–0550 k. FERC Contact: Carolyn Holsopple at (202) 502–6407 or carolyn.holsopple@ferc.gov. l. Deadline for Filing Comments: The deadline for filing comments on the settlement agreement is 20 days from the date of this notice. The deadline for filing reply comments is 30 days from the date of this notice. 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 require all intervenors 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 intervenor 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. Comments may be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions of the Commission’s Web site (https://www.ferc.gov) under the ‘‘efiling’’ link. Register online at https:// www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm to be notified via e-mail of new filings and issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support. Magalie R. Salas, Secretary. [FR Doc. E5–1900 Filed 4–21–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 11945–001] Symbiotics, LLC; Notice of Scoping Meetings, Site Visit, and Soliciting Scoping Comments April 18, 2005. Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been filed with the Commission and are available for public inspection: a. Type of Application: Major License. b. Project No.: 11945–001. c. Date filed: June 30, 2004. d. Applicant: Symbiotics, LLC. e. Name of Project: Dorena Lake Dam Hydroelectric Project. VerDate jul<14>2003 15:27 Apr 21, 2005 Jkt 205001 f. Location: On the Row River, near the Town of Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon. The project would occupy less than 1 acre of federal lands administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). h. Applicant Contact: Brent L. Smith, Symbiotics, LLC, PO Box 535, Rigby, Idaho 83442; telephone (208) 745–0834 or by e-mail at bsmith@nwpwrservices.com. i. FERC Contact: Dianne Rodman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426; telephone (202) 502–6077 or by e-mail at dianne.rodman@ferc.gov. j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: May 16, 2005. 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 intervenors 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 intervenor 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 https://www.ferc.gov under the ‘‘eFiling’’ link. k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this time. l. The proposed project would utilize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ existing Dorena Lake dam and reservoir, and would consist of the following facilities: (1) A 9-foot-diameter steel pipe, about 350 feet long, extending from the reservoir through the north dam abutment; (2) a new powerhouse, near the existing spillway stilling basin 250 feet downstream from the concrete section of the dam, having a total installed capacity of 8,300 kilowatts; (3) a new concrete-lined channel discharging flows into the river channel immediately below the existing stilling basin; (4) a new valve house near the existing stilling basin; (5) a new 15kilovolt underground transmission line, about 500 feet long; and (6) appurtenant facilities. The average annual generation is estimated to be 17.5 gigawatthours. PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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 https://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 FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree 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 https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support. n. Scoping Process: The Commission staff 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 Commission staff will conduct one daytime scoping meeting and one evening meeting. The daytime scoping meeting will focus on resource agency and non-governmental organization (NGO) concerns, while the evening scoping meeting is primarily for public input. All interested individuals, NGOs, agencies, and tribes 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: Daytime Scoping Meeting Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005. Time: 2 PM (PDT). Place: Lane Community College. Address: Building 17, Room 308, 4000 East 30th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon. Evening Scoping Meeting Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005. Time: 7 PM (PDT). Place: Lane Community College. Address: Building 17, Room 308, 4000 East 30th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon. 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 meetings or may be viewed on the Web at https:// E:\FR\FM\22APN1.SGM 22APN1 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 77 / Friday, April 22, 2005 / Notices www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link (see item m above). Site Visit The Applicant and Commission staff will conduct a project site visit beginning at 9 a.m. on May 5, 2005. All interested individuals, NGOs, agencies, and tribes are invited to attend. All participants should meet at Schwarz Park, below the Dorena Lake dam. All participants are responsible for their own transportation to the site. Anyone with questions about the site visit should contact Dianne Rodman, Commission staff, at (202) 502–6077 or Brent Smith of Symbiotics at (208) 742– 0834. 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 will be recorded by a stenographer and become part of the formal record of the Commission proceeding on the project. Individuals, NGOs, agencies, and tribes with environmental expertise and concerns are encouraged to attend the meetings and to assist the staff in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed in the EA. Magalie R. Salas, Secretary. [FR Doc. E5–1909 Filed 4–21–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [R06–OAR–2005–TX–0018; FRL–7902–7] Notice of FERC Commissioner and FERC Staff Attendance at Meeting of Southwest Power Pool Board of Directors and Members Committee, and Meeting of Southwest Power Pool Regional State Committee April 18, 2005. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hereby gives notice that Commissioners and members of its staff may attend the meeting of the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Board of Directors and Members Committee noted below, and the meeting of the SPP Regional State Committee noted below. Their attendance is part of the Commission’s ongoing outreach efforts. SPP Regional State Committee Meeting—April 25, 2005, 1 p.m.–5 p.m. Crowne Plaza Austin Hotel, 500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701, 512–480– 8181. SPP Board of Directors and Members Committee Meeting—April 26, 2005, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. Crowne Plaza Austin Hotel, 500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701, 512–480– 8181. The discussions may address matters at issue in the following proceedings: Docket Nos. RT04–1–000 and ER04–48– 000, Southwest Power Pool, Inc. Docket No. ER05–109–000, Southwest Power Pool, Inc. Docket No. ER05–652–000, Southwest Power Pool, Inc. Docket No. ER05–562, Southwest Power Pool, Inc. Docket No. ER05–666, Southwest Power Pool, Inc. Docket No. ER05–688, Southwest Power Pool, Inc. Docket No. EL05–52–000, Entergy Services, Inc. Docket No. ER05–576–000, Southwest Power Pool, Inc. These meetings are open to the public. For more information, contact Tony Ingram, Office of Markets, Tariffs and Rates, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at (501) 614–4789 or tony.ingram@ferc.gov. Magalie R. Salas, Secretary. [FR Doc. E5–1908 Filed 4–21–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P VerDate jul<14>2003 15:27 Apr 21, 2005 Jkt 205001 20899 PO 00000 Frm 00045 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Adequacy Status of Submitted State Implementation Plans (SIP) for Transportation Conformity Purposes: MOBILE6 Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for the Houston-GalvestonBrazoria 1-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Area Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of adequacy determination. AGENCY: SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that we have found the on-road motor vehicle emissions budgets contained in the revision to the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria severe 1hour ozone nonattainment area attainment demonstration SIP adequate for transportation conformity purposes. As a result of our finding, the budgets from the submitted attainment demonstration SIP revision must be used for future conformity determinations in the HoustonGalveston-Brazoria area. DATES: These budgets are effective May 9, 2005. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The essential information in this notice will be available at EPA’s conformity Web site: https://www.epa.gov/oms/transp/ conform/adequacy.htm. You may also contact Ms. Peggy Wade, Air Planning Section (6PD–L), U.S. EPA Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202– 2733, telephone (214) 665–7247, E-mail address: Wade.Peggy@epa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ and ‘‘our’’ refers to EPA. The word ‘‘budget(s)’’ refers to the mobile source emissions budget for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and the mobile source emissions budget for nitrogen oxides (NOX). The word ‘‘SIP’’ in this document refers to the State Implementation Plan revision submitted to satisfy the commitment of the State of Texas to revise its mobile source budgets for the Houston-GalvestonBrazoria 1-hour ozone nonattainment area with MOBILE6. (MOBILE6 is the most recent emissions factor model, released by EPA on January 29, 2001.) In December 2004, we received the MOBILE6 SIP revision for the HoustonGalveston-Brazoria 8-county 1-hour ozone nonattainment area. There are two motor vehicle emissions budgets found in this plan for 2007. The emissions budget for VOCs is 89.99 tons/day; the NOX emissions budget is E:\FR\FM\22APN1.SGM 22APN1

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[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 77 (Friday, April 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20898-20899]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-1909]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 11945-001]


Symbiotics, LLC; Notice of Scoping Meetings, Site Visit, and 
Soliciting Scoping Comments

April 18, 2005.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and are available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: Major License.
    b. Project No.: 11945-001.
    c. Date filed: June 30, 2004.
    d. Applicant: Symbiotics, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Dorena Lake Dam Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the Row River, near the Town of Cottage Grove, Lane 
County, Oregon. The project would occupy less than 1 acre of federal 
lands administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Brent L. Smith, Symbiotics, LLC, PO Box 535, 
Rigby, Idaho 83442; telephone (208) 745-0834 or by e-mail at 
bsmith@nwpwrservices.com.
    i. FERC Contact: Dianne Rodman, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426; telephone 
(202) 502-6077 or by e-mail at dianne.rodman@ferc.gov.
    j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: May 16, 2005.
    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 
intervenors 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 intervenor 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 https://www.ferc.gov under the ``e-Filing'' link.
    k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    l. The proposed project would utilize the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers' existing Dorena Lake dam and reservoir, and would consist of 
the following facilities: (1) A 9-foot-diameter steel pipe, about 350 
feet long, extending from the reservoir through the north dam abutment; 
(2) a new powerhouse, near the existing spillway stilling basin 250 
feet downstream from the concrete section of the dam, having a total 
installed capacity of 8,300 kilowatts; (3) a new concrete-lined channel 
discharging flows into the river channel immediately below the existing 
stilling basin; (4) a new valve house near the existing stilling basin; 
(5) a new 15-kilovolt underground transmission line, about 500 feet 
long; and (6) appurtenant facilities. The average annual generation is 
estimated to be 17.5 gigawatthours.
    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 https://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 FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov 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 https://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 staff 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

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

Daytime Scoping Meeting

    Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005.
    Time: 2 PM (PDT).
    Place: Lane Community College.
    Address: Building 17, Room 308, 4000 East 30th Avenue, Eugene, 
Oregon.

Evening Scoping Meeting

    Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005.
    Time: 7 PM (PDT).
    Place: Lane Community College.
    Address: Building 17, Room 308, 4000 East 30th Avenue, Eugene, 
Oregon.

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 
meetings or may be viewed on the Web at https://

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www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' link (see item m above).

Site Visit

    The Applicant and Commission staff will conduct a project site 
visit beginning at 9 a.m. on May 5, 2005. All interested individuals, 
NGOs, agencies, and tribes are invited to attend. All participants 
should meet at Schwarz Park, below the Dorena Lake dam. All 
participants are responsible for their own transportation to the site. 
Anyone with questions about the site visit should contact Dianne 
Rodman, Commission staff, at (202) 502-6077 or Brent Smith of 
Symbiotics at (208) 742-0834.

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

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E5-1909 Filed 4-21-05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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