Augusta Canal Authority; 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, 4182-4183 [E9-1357]
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Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 9988–015–Georgia; King Mill
Hydroelectric Project]
Augusta Canal Authority; 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
January 14, 2009.
Rule 2010 of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission’s (Commission)
Rules of Practice and Procedure
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.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.
The Commission staff is consulting
with the Georgia State Historic
Preservation Officer (Georgia SHPO)
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. 470f), to
prepare and execute a programmatic
agreement for managing properties
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included in, or eligible for inclusion in,
the National Register of Historic Places
at the King Mill Project No. 9988–015
(Georgia SHPO Reference Number HP–
060707–003). The Commission staff will
also provide the Advisory Council on
Historic Preservation an opportunity to
comment.
The programmatic agreement, when
executed by the Commission and the
Georgia 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 King Mill 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.
The Augusta Canal Authority, as
licensee for Project No. 9988–015 is
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:
Dayton Sherrouse, Executive Director,
Augusta Canal Authority, 1450 Green
Street, Suite 400, Augusta, GA 30901.
Don Klima or Representative,
Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation, The Old Post Office
Building, Suite 803, 1100 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20004.
Elizabeth Shirk or Representative,
Historic Preservation Division,
Department of Natural Resources, 34
Peachtree Street, NW., Suite 1600,
Atlanta, GA 30303.
Alan Stuart, Kleinschmidt Associates,
204 Caughman Farm Lane, Suite 301,
Lexington, SC 29072.
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 NONPUBLIC 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
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20426) and must be served on each
person whose name appears on the
official service list. Please put the
project name ‘‘King Mill Project’’ and
number ‘‘P–9988–015’’ on the front
cover of any motion. 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.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Southwestern Power Administration
White River Minimum Flows—Final
Determination of Federal and NonFederal Hydropower Impacts
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AGENCY: Southwestern Power
Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of final determination.
SUMMARY: Section 132 of Public Law
109–103 (2005) authorized and directed
the Secretary of the Army to implement
alternatives BS–3 and NF–7, as
described in the White River Minimum
Flows Reallocation Study Report,
Arkansas and Missouri, dated July 2004.
The law states that the Administrator,
Southwestern Power Administration
(Southwestern), in consultation with the
project licensee and the relevant state
public utility commissions, shall
determine any impacts on electric
energy and capacity generated at
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) Project No. 2221 caused by the
storage reallocation at Bull Shoals Lake.
Further, the licensee of Project No. 2221
shall be fully compensated by the Corps
of Engineers for those impacts on the
basis of the present value of the
estimated future lifetime replacement
costs of the electrical energy and
capacity at the time of implementation
of the White River Minimum Flows
project.
The law also states that losses to the
Federal hydropower purpose of the Bull
Shoals and Norfork Projects shall be
offset by a reduction in the costs
allocated to the Federal hydropower
purpose.
Further, such reduction shall be
determined by the Administrator of
Southwestern on the basis of the present
value of the estimated future lifetime
replacement cost of the electrical energy
and capacity at the time of
implementation of the White River
Minimum Flows project.
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Southwestern’s draft determination
was published by Federal Register
Notice (73 FR 6717) dated February 5,
2008. Written comments were invited
through March 6, 2008. All public
comments received were considered,
and Southwestern’s draft determination
was revised as necessary to incorporate
the public comments. Since there were
significant changes to Southwestern’s
draft determination, Southwestern
published a proposed determination for
additional public review and comment
prior to its final determination.
Southwestern’s proposed
determination was published by Federal
Register Notice (73 FR 38198) on July 3,
2008. Written comments were invited
through August 4, 2008. After receiving
several requests for additional time to
provide public comments, Southwestern
reopened the public comment period
through September 18, 2008. All public
comments received were considered in
revising the proposed determination,
and Southwestern is publishing
notification of its final determination.
Southwestern’s final determination is
fully documented in its Final
Determination Report dated January
2009, which was prepared in
consultation with the licensee and the
relevant public service commissions.
Southwestern’s Final Determination
Report documents the procedure to be
used to calculate the present value of
the future lifetime replacement cost of
the electrical energy and capacity lost
due to the White River Minimum Flows
project at the non-Federal FERC Project
No. 2221 and the Federal Bull Shoals
and Norfork projects. The actual
hydropower compensation values are to
be calculated using the method
presented in the final determination and
current values for the specified
parameters based on the official
implementation date.
Assuming a January 1, 2011, date of
implementation for the White River
Minimum Flows project and November
2008 values for the specified
parameters, Southwestern’s
determination results in a present value
for the estimated future lifetime
replacement costs of the electrical
energy and capacity at FERC Project No.
2221 of $41,319,400. Southwestern’s
determination results in a present value
for the estimated future lifetime
replacement costs of the electrical
energy and capacity for Federal
hydropower of $109,920,200.
An electronic copy of Southwestern’s
Final Determination Report is available
on Southwestern’s Web site at https://
www.swpa.gov/pdfs/WRMF_SWPA_
FinalDeterminationReport.pdf.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
George Robbins, Director, Division of
Resources and Rates, Southwestern
Power Administration, U.S. Department
of Energy, One West Third Street, Tulsa,
Oklahoma 74103, (918) 595–6680,
george.robbins@swpa.gov.
Originally
established by Secretarial Order No.
1865 dated August 31, 1943, as an
agency of the U.S. Department of the
Interior, Southwestern is now an agency
within the U.S. Department of Energy
which was created by an Act of the U.S.
Congress, entitled the Department of
Energy Organization Act, Public Law
95–91 (1977). Southwestern markets
power from 24 multi-purpose reservoir
projects with hydroelectric power
facilities constructed and operated by
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
These projects are located in the states
of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and
Texas. Southwestern’s marketing area
includes these states plus Kansas and
Louisiana.
Southwestern developed a procedure
for calculating projected energy and
capacity losses for FERC Project No.
2221 and the Bull Shoals and Norfork
projects, including additional losses
related to the reallocation for minimum
flows as appropriate. Based on
November 2008 values for the specified
parameters, the calculated
compensation due to the licensee of
FERC Project.
No. 2221 is $41,319,400, and the
calculated credit due to Federal
hydropower is $109,920,200. The values
were calculated on the basis of the
present value of the estimated future
lifetime replacement cost of the
electrical energy and capacity assuming
an implementation date of January 1,
2011, for the White River Minimum
Flows project.
The final calculation will depend on
the official date of implementation as
specified by the Corps of Engineers and
the value of the specified parameters in
effect at that time.
FERC Project No. 2221, the nonFederal Ozark Beach hydroelectric
project, will be directly affected by the
minimum flow plan. The
implementation of the authorized plan
will result in a reduction of the amount
of gross head (headwater elevation
minus the tailwater elevation) available
for generation at the non-Federal project
at Ozark Beach. The reduction in gross
head will result in an annual energy loss
of 6,029 megawatt-hours (MWh) of onpeak energy and 2,969 MWh of off-peak
energy, or an annual total energy loss of
8,998 MWh. Also associated with the
loss of gross head, there will be a
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 9988-015-Georgia; King Mill Hydroelectric Project]
Augusta Canal Authority; 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
January 14, 2009.
Rule 2010 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's
(Commission) Rules of Practice and Procedure 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.\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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The Commission staff is consulting with the Georgia State Historic
Preservation Officer (Georgia SHPO) 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. 470f), 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 King Mill Project No. 9988-015 (Georgia SHPO Reference Number
HP-060707-003). The Commission staff will also provide the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation an opportunity to comment.
The programmatic agreement, when executed by the Commission and the
Georgia 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 King Mill 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.
The Augusta Canal Authority, as licensee for Project No. 9988-015
is 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:
Dayton Sherrouse, Executive Director, Augusta Canal Authority, 1450
Green Street, Suite 400, Augusta, GA 30901.
Don Klima or Representative, Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation, The Old Post Office Building, Suite 803, 1100
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20004.
Elizabeth Shirk or Representative, Historic Preservation Division,
Department of Natural Resources, 34 Peachtree Street, NW., Suite 1600,
Atlanta, GA 30303.
Alan Stuart, Kleinschmidt Associates, 204 Caughman Farm Lane, Suite
301, Lexington, SC 29072.
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
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20426) and must be served on each person whose name appears on the
official service list. Please put the project name ``King Mill
Project'' and number ``P-9988-015'' on the front cover of any motion.
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.
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