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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket Nos. CP07–62–000; CP07–63–000]
AES Sparrows Point LNG, LLC; MidAtlantic Express, LLC; Notice of
Availability of the Revised Draft Final
General Conformity Determination for
Pennsylvania for the Proposed
Sparrows Point LNG Terminal and
Pipeline Project
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March 1, 2010.
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared this revised
draft Final General Conformity
Determination (GCD) for Pennsylvania
to assess the potential air quality
impacts associated with the
construction and operation of a
liquefied natural gas (LNG) import
terminal and natural gas pipeline
proposed by AES Sparrows Point LNG,
LLC and Mid-Atlantic Express, LLC,
collectively referred to as AES, in the
above-referenced dockets. A separate
Final General Conformity Determination
was issued for Maryland on December
29, 2009.
This revised draft Final GCD was
prepared to satisfy the requirements of
the Clean Air Act. The FERC staff
concludes that the Project will achieve
conformity in Pennsylvania. If
significant new comments are received
by the end of the 30-day public
comment period, FERC staff will issue
a Final GCD to address any changes
necessary and respond to comments. If
no new significant comments are
received, FERC staff will issue a public
notice identifying this draft Final GCD
as final.
Copies of this revised draft Final GCD
have been mailed to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region III, the Maryland Department of
Natural Resources, the Maryland
Department of Environment, the
Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection, and the
Virginia Department of Environmental
Quality.
The revised draft Final GCD for
Pennsylvania addresses the potential air
quality impacts from the construction
and operation of the following LNG
terminal and natural gas pipeline
facilities:
• A ship unloading facility, with two
berths, capable of receiving LNG ships
with capacities up to 217,000 m3;
• Three 160,000 m3 (net capacity)
full-containment LNG storage tanks;
• A closed-loop shell and tube heat
exchanger vaporization system;
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• Various ancillary facilities
including administrative offices,
warehouse, main control room, security
building, and a platform control room;
• Meter and regulation station within
the LNG Terminal site;
• Dredging an approximate 118 acre
area in the Patapsco River to 45 feet
below mean lower low water to
accommodate the LNG vessels and
transport of the processed dredge
material to its disposal location; and
• Approximately 88 miles of 30-inchdiameter natural gas pipeline
(approximately 48 miles in Maryland
and 40 miles in Pennsylvania), a pig
launcher and receiver facility at the
beginning and ending of the pipeline, 10
mainline valves, and three meter and
regulation stations, one at each of three
interconnection sites at the end of the
pipeline.
The revised draft Final GCD has been
placed in the public files of the FERC
and is available for public viewing on
the FERC’s Web site at https://
www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary link. A
limited number of copies of the revised
draft Final GCD are available for
distribution and public inspection at:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Public Reference Room, 888 First Street,
NE., Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426,
(202) 502–8371.
Any person wishing to comment on
the revised draft Final GCD may do so.
To ensure that your comments are
properly recorded and considered prior
to issuance of the Final GCD, it is
important that we receive your
comments in Washington, DC on or
before March 31, 2010.
For your convenience, there are three
methods you can use to submit your
comments to the Commission. In all
instances please reference the project
docket numbers (CP07–62–000 and
CP07–63–000) with your submission.
The Commission encourages electronic
filing of comments and has dedicated
eFiling expert staff available to assist
you at 202–502–8258 or
efiling@ferc.gov.
(1) You may file your comments
electronically by using the Quick
Comment feature, which is located on
the Commission’s Web site at https://
www.ferc.gov under the link to
Documents and Filings. A Quick
Comment is an easy method for
interested persons to submit text-only
comments on a project;
(2) You may file your comments
electronically by using the eFiling
feature, which is located on the
Commission’s Web site at https://
www.ferc.gov under the link to
Documents and Filings. eFiling involves
preparing your submission in the same
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manner as you would if filing on paper,
and then saving the file on your
computer’s hard drive. You will attach
that file as your submission. New
eFiling users must first create an
account by clicking on ‘‘Sign up’’ or
‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be asked to select
the type of filing you are making. A
comment on a particular project is
considered a ‘‘Comment on a Filing’’; or
(3) You may file a paper copy of your
comments at the following address:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Room 1A, Washington,
DC 20426.
Additional information about the
project is available from the
Commission’s Office of External Affairs
at (866) 208–FERC. The administrative
public record for this proceeding to date
is on the FERC Web site https://
www.ferc.gov. Go to Documents &
Filings and choose the eLibrary link.
Under eLibrary, click on ‘‘General
Search,’’ and enter the docket number
excluding the last three digits in the
Docket Number field (e.g., CP07–62). Be
sure you have selected an appropriate
date range. For assistance, please
contact FERC Online Support at:
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll
free at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY call
(202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link on
the FERC Web site also provides access
to the texts of formal documents issued
by the Commission, such as orders,
notices, and rulemakings.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 12713–002]
Reedsport OPT Wave Park Project;
Reedsport OPT Wave Park; LLC Notice
of Scoping Meetings and
Environmental Site Review and
Soliciting Scoping Comments
March 1, 2010.
Take notice that the following
hydroelectric application has been filed
with the Commission and is available
for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: Original
Minor License.
b. Project No.: 12713–002.
c. Date filed: February 1, 2010.
d. Submitted by: Reedsport OPT Wave
Park, LLC.
e. Name of Project: Reedsport OPT
Wave Park Project.
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f. Location: Pacific Ocean in state
waters about 2.5 miles off the coast near
Reedsport, in Douglas County, Oregon.
The project would occupy about 5 acres
of federal lands in the Siuslaw National
Forest (Oregon Dunes National
Recreation Area).
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Philip
Pellegrino, Reedsport OPT Wave Park,
LLC, 1590 Reed Road, Pennington, New
Jersey 08534; (609) 730–0400.
i. FERC Contact: Jim Hastreiter at
(503) 552–2760 or
james.hastreiter@ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing scoping
comments: May 10, 2010.
All documents may be filed
electronically via the Internet. See 18
CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the
instructions on the Commission’s Web
site (https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
ferconline.asp) under the ‘‘eFiling’’ link.
For a simpler method of submitting text
only comments, click on ‘‘Quick
Comment.’’ For assistance, please
contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov; call tollfree at (866) 208–3676; or, for TTY,
contact (202) 502–8659. Although the
Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing, documents may also be
paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an
original and eight copies to: 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 interveners
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 intervener
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.
k. This application is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
l. The Project facilities would include
10 OPT PowerBuoy wave-powered
generating units attached to seabed
anchors, tendon lines, subsurface floats,
and catenary mooring lines. The
PowerBuoy units would be deployed in
an array of three to four rows oriented
parallel to the shore and would occupy
about 0.25 square mile of the Pacific
Ocean. Each PowerBuoy would have a
maximum diameter of 36 feet, extend
29.5 feet above the water surface, and
have a draft of 115 feet.
A power/fiber optic cable would exit
the bottom of each PowerBuoy,
descending to the seabed in a lazy ‘‘S’’
shape with subsurface floats attached to
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the cable and a clump weight at the
seabed. The 10 PowerBuoy units would
be connected to a single Underwater
Substation Pod (USP) via power/fiberoptic lines. The USP would be about 6
feet in diameter and 15 feet in length,
and would rest on the seabed below the
PowerBuoys, held in place with precured concrete ballast blocks. A
submarine transmission cable, buried in
the seabed to a depth of 3 to 6 feet,
would extend from the USP to an
existing wastewater discharge pipe. The
submarine cable would extend through
the wastewater pipe to an underground
vault, which would be constructed at
the existing turn-around at the end of
Sparrow Park Road, immediately inland
of the sand dunes. At the vault, the
subsea transmission cable would exit
the effluent pipe, transition to an
underground cable, and reenter the
effluent pipe.
The underground transmission cable
would continue within the effluent pipe
eastward for approximately 3 miles,
where it would connect to the Douglas
Electric Cooperative transmission line at
a proposed shore station. The shore
station would consist of a 100- to 200square foot building.
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
EA will consider both site-specific and
cumulative environmental impacts and
reasonable alternatives to the proposed
action.
Scoping Meetings
FERC staff will conduct one daytime
scoping meeting and one evening
scoping meeting. The daytime scoping
meeting will focus on resource agency
and non-governmental organization
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concerns, while the evening 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:
Evening Scoping Meeting:
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 7,
2010, at 7 p.m. (PST),
Location: Reedsport High School,
2260 Longwood Drive, Reedsport,
Oregon 97467.
Daytime Scoping Meeting:
Date and Time: Thursday, April 8,
2010, at 2 p.m. (PST),
Location: Salem Conference Center,
Croisan Room, 200 Commercial
Street SE., Salem, Oregon 97301.
Copies of the Scoping Document
outlining the subject areas to be
addressed in the EA were distributed to
the parties on the Commission’s mailing
list. Copies of the Scoping Document
will be available at the scoping meeting
or may be viewed on the Web at https://
www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link
[see item (m) above].
Environmental Site Review
The Applicant and FERC staff will
conduct a project environmental site
review beginning at 1 p.m. (PST) on
April 7, 2010. All interested
individuals, organizations, and agencies
are invited to attend. All participants
should meet at the Reedsport City Hall
at 451 Winchester Avenue, Reedsport,
Oregon 97467. All participants are
responsible for their own transportation
to the site. Please notify George Wolff,
Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC at (609)
730–0400, ext. 238 or
gwolff@oceanpowertech.com by March
25, 2010, if you plan to attend the
environmental site review.
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.
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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 meeting
and to assist the staff in defining and
clarifying the issues to be addressed in
the EA.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RM07–10–002]
Transparency Provisions of Section 23
of the Natural Gas Act; Supplemental
Notice to Form No. 552 Technical
Conference
March 1, 2010.
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Notice of Filing of Several Pesticide
Petitions for Residues of Pesticide
Chemicals in or on Various
Commodities
[FR Doc. 2010–4995 Filed 3–9–10; 8:45 am]
As announced in the Notice of
Technical Conference issued on
February 22, 2010, a technical
conference will be held on March 25,
2010, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (EST) in the
Commission Meeting Room at the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426. The conference is open for the
public to attend.
In that notice we stated on page 3 that
the conference would not be webcast.
However, we are now planning to
webcast the conference. Set forth below
is the information you will need to view
the technical conference.
The webcast of the technical
conference is free and registration to
view the webcast is not required.
Webcast viewers will not be permitted
to participate during the technical
conference. Anyone with Internet access
interested in viewing this conference
can do so by navigating to Calendar of
Events on the FERC Web site. The
events will contain a link to the
applicable webcast option.
The Capitol Connection provides
technical support for the webcasts and
offers the option of listening to the
conferences via phone-bridge for a fee.
If you have any questions, visit https://
www.CapitolConnection.org or call (703)
993–3100.
For additional information, please
contact Christopher Peterson at 202–
502–8933 or
Christopher.Peterson@ferc.gov and
Thomas Russo at 202–502–8792 or
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Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0095; FRL–8810–8]
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the
Agency’s receipt of several initial filings
of pesticide petitions proposing the
establishment of regulations for residues
of pesticide chemicals in or on various
commodities.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before April 5, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number and the pesticide petition
number (PP) of interest as shown in the
body of this document, by one of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs
(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460–0001.
• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public
Docket (7502P), Environmental
Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One
Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S.
Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries
are only accepted during the Docket
Facility’s normal hours of operation
(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays).
Special arrangements should be made
for deliveries of boxed information. The
Docket Facility telephone number is
(703) 305–5805.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
the docket ID number and the pesticide
petition number of interest as shown in
the body of this document. EPA’s policy
is that all comments received will be
included in the docket without change
and may be made available on-line at
https://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided,
unless the comment includes
information claimed to be Confidential
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Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit
information that you consider to be CBI
or otherwise protected through
regulations.gov or e-mail. The
regulations.gov website is an
‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which
means EPA will not know your identity
or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an e-mail comment directly
to EPA without going through
regulations.gov, your e-mail address
will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is
placed in the docket and made available
on the Internet. If you submit an
electronic comment, EPA recommends
that you include your name and other
contact information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM
you submit. If EPA cannot read your
comment due to technical difficulties
and cannot contact you for clarification,
EPA may not be able to consider your
comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form
of encryption, and be free of any defects
or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the docket index available
at https://www.regulations.gov. Although
listed in the index, some information is
not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material,
is not placed on the Internet and will be
publicly available only in hard copy
form. Publicly available docket
materials are available either in the
electronic docket at https://
www.regulations.gov, or, if only
available in hard copy, at the OPP
Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S–
4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.),
2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The
hours of operation of this Docket
Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The Docket Facility telephone
number is (703) 305–5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A
contact person, with telephone number
and e-mail address, is listed at the end
of each pesticide petition summary. You
may also reach each contact person by
mail at Biopesticides and Pollution
Prevention Division (7511P), Office of
Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460–
0001.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 12713-002]
Reedsport OPT Wave Park Project; Reedsport OPT Wave Park; LLC
Notice of Scoping Meetings and Environmental Site Review and Soliciting
Scoping Comments
March 1, 2010.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: Original Minor License.
b. Project No.: 12713-002.
c. Date filed: February 1, 2010.
d. Submitted by: Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC.
e. Name of Project: Reedsport OPT Wave Park Project.
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f. Location: Pacific Ocean in state waters about 2.5 miles off the
coast near Reedsport, in Douglas County, Oregon. The project would
occupy about 5 acres of federal lands in the Siuslaw National Forest
(Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area).
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Philip Pellegrino, Reedsport OPT Wave
Park, LLC, 1590 Reed Road, Pennington, New Jersey 08534; (609) 730-
0400.
i. FERC Contact: Jim Hastreiter at (503) 552-2760 or
james.hastreiter@ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: May 10, 2010.
All documents may be filed electronically via the Internet. See 18
CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web
site (https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ferconline.asp) under the
``eFiling'' link. For a simpler method of submitting text only
comments, click on ``Quick Comment.'' For assistance, please contact
FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov; call toll-free at
(866) 208-3676; or, for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. Although the
Commission strongly encourages electronic filing, documents may also be
paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an original and eight copies to:
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
interveners 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 intervener 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.
k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
l. The Project facilities would include 10 OPT PowerBuoy wave-
powered generating units attached to seabed anchors, tendon lines,
subsurface floats, and catenary mooring lines. The PowerBuoy units
would be deployed in an array of three to four rows oriented parallel
to the shore and would occupy about 0.25 square mile of the Pacific
Ocean. Each PowerBuoy would have a maximum diameter of 36 feet, extend
29.5 feet above the water surface, and have a draft of 115 feet.
A power/fiber optic cable would exit the bottom of each PowerBuoy,
descending to the seabed in a lazy ``S'' shape with subsurface floats
attached to the cable and a clump weight at the seabed. The 10
PowerBuoy units would be connected to a single Underwater Substation
Pod (USP) via power/fiber-optic lines. The USP would be about 6 feet in
diameter and 15 feet in length, and would rest on the seabed below the
PowerBuoys, held in place with pre-cured concrete ballast blocks. A
submarine transmission cable, buried in the seabed to a depth of 3 to 6
feet, would extend from the USP to an existing wastewater discharge
pipe. The submarine cable would extend through the wastewater pipe to
an underground vault, which would be constructed at the existing turn-
around at the end of Sparrow Park Road, immediately inland of the sand
dunes. At the vault, the subsea transmission cable would exit the
effluent pipe, transition to an underground cable, and reenter the
effluent pipe.
The underground transmission cable would continue within the
effluent pipe eastward for approximately 3 miles, where it would
connect to the Douglas Electric Cooperative transmission line at a
proposed shore station. The shore station would consist of a 100- to
200-square foot building.
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
FERC staff will conduct one daytime scoping meeting and one evening
scoping meeting. The daytime scoping meeting will focus on resource
agency and non-governmental organization concerns, while the evening
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:
Evening Scoping Meeting:
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, at 7 p.m. (PST),
Location: Reedsport High School, 2260 Longwood Drive, Reedsport,
Oregon 97467.
Daytime Scoping Meeting:
Date and Time: Thursday, April 8, 2010, at 2 p.m. (PST),
Location: Salem Conference Center, Croisan Room, 200 Commercial
Street SE., Salem, Oregon 97301.
Copies of the Scoping Document outlining the subject areas to be
addressed in the EA were distributed to the parties on the Commission's
mailing list. Copies of the Scoping Document will be available at the
scoping meeting or may be viewed on the Web at https://www.ferc.gov
using the ``eLibrary'' link [see item (m) above].
Environmental Site Review
The Applicant and FERC staff will conduct a project environmental
site review beginning at 1 p.m. (PST) on April 7, 2010. All interested
individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to attend. All
participants should meet at the Reedsport City Hall at 451 Winchester
Avenue, Reedsport, Oregon 97467. All participants are responsible for
their own transportation to the site. Please notify George Wolff,
Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC at (609) 730-0400, ext. 238 or
gwolff@oceanpowertech.com by March 25, 2010, if you plan to attend the
environmental site review.
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.
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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 meeting and to assist the staff in
defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed in the EA.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-4995 Filed 3-9-10; 8:45 am]
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