Eugene West and Electric Board; Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project; Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site Visit and Soliciting Scoping Comments, 46458-46459 [E7-16249]

Download as PDF 46458 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 160 / Monday, August 20, 2007 / Notices they will be. Please carefully follow these instructions to ensure that your comments are received in time and properly recorded: • Send an original and two copies of your letter to: Kimberley D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First St., NE.; Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. • Label one copy of the comments for the attention of Gas Branch 1. • Reference Docket No. CP07–411– 000. • Mail your comments so that they will be received in Washington, DC on or before September 14, 2007. The Commission encourages electronic filing of comments. See 18 Code of Federal Regulations 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission’s Internet Web site at https://www.ferc.gov under the ‘‘eFiling’’ link and the link to the User’s Guide. Prepare your submission in the same manner as you would if filing on paper and save it to a file on your hard drive. Before you can file comments you will need to create an account by clicking on ‘‘Login to File’’ and then ‘‘New User Account.’’ You will be asked to select the type of filing you are making. This filing is considered a ‘‘Comment on Filing.’’ We may mail the EA for comment. If you are interested in receiving it, please return the Information Request (Appendix 3). If you do not return the Information Request, you will be taken off the mailing list. pwalker on PROD1PC71 with NOTICES Becoming an Intervenor In addition to involvement in the EA scoping process, you may want to become an official party to the proceeding known as an ‘‘intervenor.’’ Intervenors play a more formal role in the process. Among other things, intervenors have the right to receive copies of case-related Commission documents and filings by other intervenors. Likewise, each intervenor must send one electronic copy (using the Commission’s eFiling system) or 14 paper copies of its filings to the Secretary of the Commission and must send a copy of its filings to all other parties on the Commission’s service list for this proceeding. If you want to become an intervenor you must file a motion to intervene according to Rule 214 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214) (see Appendix 2).3 Only intervenors have the right to seek rehearing of the Commission’s decision. Affected landowners and parties with environmental concerns may be granted intervenor status upon showing good cause by stating that they have a clear and direct interest in this proceeding which would not be adequately represented by any other parties. You do not need intervenor status to have your environmental comments considered. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Additional Information Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been filed with Commission and is available for public inspection: a. Type of Application: New Major License. b. Project No.: 2242–078. c. Date filed: November 24, 2006. d. Applicant: Eugene Water and Electric Board. e. Name of Project: Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project. f. Location: On the McKenzie River in Lane and Linn Counties, near McKenzie Bridge, Oregon. The project occupies approximately 560 acres of the Willamette National Forest. g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)—825(r). h. Applicant Contact: Randy L. Berggren, General Manager, Eugene Water and Electric Board, 500 East 4th Avenue, P.O. Box 10148, Eugene, OR 97440, (541) 484–2411. i. FERC Contact: Bob Easton, (202) 502–6045 or robert.easton@ferc.gov. j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: October 12, 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 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 Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project consists of two developments, Additional information about the project is available from the Commission’s Office of External Affairs, at 1–866–208–FERC or on the FERC Internet Web site (https://www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Click on the eLibrary link, click on ‘‘General Search’’ and enter the docket number excluding the last three digits in the Docket Number field. Be sure you have selected an appropriate date range. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also provides access to the texts of formal documents issued by the Commission, such as orders, notices, and rulemakings. In addition, the Commission now offers a free service called eSubscription which allows you to keep track of all formal issuances and submittals in specific dockets. This can reduce the amount of time you spend researching proceedings by automatically providing you with notification of these filings, document summaries and direct links to the documents. Go to https:// www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm. Finally, public meetings or site visits will be posted on the Commission’s calendar located at https://www.ferc.gov/ EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along with other related information. You can also request additional information by calling Texas Eastern at 713–627–5415. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. E7–16236 Filed 8–17–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 3 Interventions may also be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. See the previous discussion on filing comments electronically. VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:53 Aug 17, 2007 Jkt 211001 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [P–2242–078] Eugene West and Electric Board; Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project; Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site Visit and Soliciting Scoping Comments August 10, 2007. E:\FR\FM\20AUN1.SGM 20AUN1 pwalker on PROD1PC71 with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 160 / Monday, August 20, 2007 / Notices the Carmen development and the Trail Bridge development. The Carmen development includes: (1) A 25-foot-high, 2,100-foot-long, and 10-foot-wide earthen Carmen diversion dam with a concrete weir spillway, (2) a 11,380-foot-long by 9.5foot-diameter concrete Carmen diversion tunnel located on the right abutment of the spillway, (3) a 235-foothigh, 1,100-foot-long, and 15-foot-wide earthen Smith diversion dam with a gated Ogee spillway, (4) a 7,275-footlong by 13.5 foot-diameter concretelined Smith power tunnel, (5) a 1,160foot-long by 13-foot-diameter steel underground Carmen penstock, (6) a 86foot-long by 79-foot-wide Carmen powerhouse, (7) two Francis turbines each with a generating capacity of 52.25 megawatts (MW) for a total capacity of 104.50 MW, (8) a 19-mile, 115-kilovolt (kV) transmission line that connects the Carmen powerhouse to the Bonneville Power Administration’s Cougar-Eugene transmission line; and (9) appurtenant facilities. The Trail Bridge development includes: (1) A 100-foot-high, 700-footlong, and 24-foot-wide earthen Trail Bridge dam section with a gated Ogee spillway, (2) a 1,000-foot-long and 20foot-wide emergency spillway section, (3) a 300-foot-long by 12-foot-diameter concrete penstock at the intake that narrows to a diameter of 7 feet, (4) a 66foot-long by 61-foot-wide Trail Bridge powerhouse, (5) one Kaplan turbine with a generating capacity of 9.975 MW; and (6) a one-mile, 11.5-kV distribution line that connects the Trail Bridge powerhouse to the Carmen powerhouse. 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 intends to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the project in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act. The VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:53 Aug 17, 2007 Jkt 211001 EA will consider both site-specific and cumulative environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives to the proposed action. Scoping Meetings Commission staff will conduct one agency scoping meeting and one public scoping 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: September 13, 2007, Time : 9 a.m. to noon (PST), Place: Midgleys Building Meeting Room, Address: 500 East 4th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon (The Midgleys Building Meeting Room is located at the corner of East 4th Avenue and High Street, adjacent to the EWEB office located at 409 High Street). Public Scoping Meeting Date: September 13, 2007, Time: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. (PST), Place: Midgleys Building Meeting Room, Address: 500 East 4th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon (see above). 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 internet at https:// www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link (see item m above). EWEB and Commission staff will visit the Carmen-Smith Project on September 12, 2007. All participants interested in seeing the project should meet at EWEB’s Offices at 500 East 4th Street, Eugene, Oregon at 8 a.m. or meet at the informal parking area across Highway 126 from the Trail Bridge Dam at 9:30 a.m. Anyone with questions about the site visit (or needing directions) should contact Karen Lee at (541) 341–8514 or karen.lee@eweb.eugene.or.us. Those individuals planning to participate in the site visit should notify Ms. Lee of their intent, no later than September 6, 2007. Frm 00023 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 meetings and to assist the staff in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed in the EA. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. E7–16249 Filed 8–17–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No.: 7528–009] Public Service Company of New Hampshire; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Licensing and Deadline for Submission of Final Amendments August 10, 2007. Site Visit PO 00000 46459 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection. a. Type of Application: Subsequent License. b. Project No.: 7528–009. c. Date Filed: July 30, 2007. d. Applicant: Public Service Company of New Hampshire. e. Name of Project: Canaan Hydroelectric Project. f. Location: The project is located on the northern Connecticut River in Coos County, New Hampshire and Essex County, Vermont. The project does not occupy United States land. E:\FR\FM\20AUN1.SGM 20AUN1

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[P-2242-078]


Eugene West and Electric Board; Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric 
Project; Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site Visit and Soliciting 
Scoping Comments

August 10, 2007.
    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with Commission and is available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 2242-078.
    c. Date filed: November 24, 2006.
    d. Applicant: Eugene Water and Electric Board.
    e. Name of Project: Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: On the McKenzie River in Lane and Linn Counties, near 
McKenzie Bridge, Oregon. The project occupies approximately 560 acres 
of the Willamette National Forest.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)--825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Randy L. Berggren, General Manager, Eugene 
Water and Electric Board, 500 East 4th Avenue, P.O. Box 10148, Eugene, 
OR 97440, (541) 484-2411.
    i. FERC Contact: Bob Easton, (202) 502-6045 or 
robert.easton@ferc.gov.
    j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: October 12, 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 
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 Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project consists of two 
developments,

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the Carmen development and the Trail Bridge development. The Carmen 
development includes:
    (1) A 25-foot-high, 2,100-foot-long, and 10-foot-wide earthen 
Carmen diversion dam with a concrete weir spillway, (2) a 11,380-foot-
long by 9.5-foot-diameter concrete Carmen diversion tunnel located on 
the right abutment of the spillway, (3) a 235-foot-high, 1,100-foot-
long, and 15-foot-wide earthen Smith diversion dam with a gated Ogee 
spillway, (4) a 7,275-foot-long by 13.5 foot-diameter concrete-lined 
Smith power tunnel, (5) a 1,160-foot-long by 13-foot-diameter steel 
underground Carmen penstock, (6) a 86-foot-long by 79-foot-wide Carmen 
powerhouse, (7) two Francis turbines each with a generating capacity of 
52.25 megawatts (MW) for a total capacity of 104.50 MW, (8) a 19-mile, 
115-kilovolt (kV) transmission line that connects the Carmen powerhouse 
to the Bonneville Power Administration's Cougar-Eugene transmission 
line; and (9) appurtenant facilities.
    The Trail Bridge development includes: (1) A 100-foot-high, 700-
foot-long, and 24-foot-wide earthen Trail Bridge dam section with a 
gated Ogee spillway, (2) a 1,000-foot-long and 20-foot-wide emergency 
spillway section, (3) a 300-foot-long by 12-foot-diameter concrete 
penstock at the intake that narrows to a diameter of 7 feet, (4) a 66-
foot-long by 61-foot-wide Trail Bridge powerhouse, (5) one Kaplan 
turbine with a generating capacity of 9.975 MW; and (6) a one-mile, 
11.5-kV distribution line that connects the Trail Bridge powerhouse to 
the Carmen powerhouse.
    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 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 agency scoping meeting and one 
public scoping 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: September 13, 2007, Time : 9 a.m. to noon (PST),
    Place: Midgleys Building Meeting Room,
    Address: 500 East 4th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon (The Midgleys Building 
Meeting Room is located at the corner of East 4th Avenue and High 
Street, adjacent to the EWEB office located at 409 High Street).
Public Scoping Meeting
    Date: September 13, 2007,
    Time: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. (PST),
    Place: Midgleys Building Meeting Room,
    Address: 500 East 4th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon (see above).

    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 internet at https://
www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' link (see item m above).

Site Visit

    EWEB and Commission staff will visit the Carmen-Smith Project on 
September 12, 2007. All participants interested in seeing the project 
should meet at EWEB's Offices at 500 East 4th Street, Eugene, Oregon at 
8 a.m. or meet at the informal parking area across Highway 126 from the 
Trail Bridge Dam at 9:30 a.m. Anyone with questions about the site 
visit (or needing directions) should contact Karen Lee at (541) 341-
8514 or karen.lee@eweb.eugene.or.us. Those individuals planning to 
participate in the site visit should notify Ms. Lee of their intent, no 
later than September 6, 2007.

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 meetings and to 
assist the staff in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed 
in the EA.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-16249 Filed 8-17-07; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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