[Federal Register: February 1, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 22)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Scoping Meeting, Site Visit, and Soliciting Scoping
Comments for an Applicant Prepared Environmental Assessment Using the
Alternative Licensing Process
January 26, 2001.
a. Type of Application: Alternative Licensing Process.
b. Project No.: FERC No. 459.
c. Applicant: Union Electric Company (d/b/a Ameren/UE).
d. Name of Project: Osage Project.
e. Location: On the Osage River, in Benton, Camden, Miller and
Morgan Counties, central Missouri. The project occupies federal lands.
f. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
g. Applicant Contact: Jerry Hogg, Ameren/UE, 617 River Road, Eldon,
MO 65026, (573) 365-9315; jhogg@ameren.com.
h. FERC Contact: Any questions on this notice should be addressed
to Allan Creamer at (202) 219-0365, or at allan.creamer.@ferc.fed.us.
i. Deadline for Comments: March 23, 2001.
All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with:
David P. Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
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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 whose name appears 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.
Protests, comments on filings, comments on environmental
assessments and environmental impact statements, and reply comments may
be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. See 18 CFR
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's web site
at http:
//www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.
j. Description of the Project: The peaking project consists of an
2,583-foot-long, 148-foot-high concrete dam; a 92-mile-long, 55,000-
acre impoundment at a full pool elevation of 660 feet mean sea level; a
powerhouse containing eight main and two in-house generating units,
having a total installed capacity of 176,200 kilowatts; and appurtenant
facilities. The project generates approximately 675,000 megawatt-hours
of electricity annually.
k. Scoping Process: Ameren/UE intends to utilize the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission's (Commission) alternative licensing process
(ALP). Under the ALP, Ameren/UE will prepare an Applicant Prepared
Environmental Assessment (APEA) and license application for the Osage
Hydroelectric Project. Ameren/UE expects to file with the Commission,
the APEA and the license application for the Osage Hydroelectric
Project by February 28, 2004.
The purpose of this notice is to inform you of the opportunity to
participate in the upcoming scoping meetings identified below, and to
solicit your scoping comments.
Scoping Meetings
Ameren/UE and the Commission staff will hold two scoping meetings,
one in the daytime and one in the evening, to help us identify the
scope of issues to be addressed in the APEA.
The daytime scoping meeting will focus on resource agency 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 environmental issues that should be analyzed in the
APEA. The times and locations of these meetings are as follows:
Daytime Meeting
Wednesday, February 21, 2001, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., Marriott's Tan-Tar-A
Resort, Suite G, Building D, State Road KK, Osage Beach, MO 65065
Evening Meeting
Wednesday, February 21, 2001, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Marriott's Tan-Tar-A
Resort, Suite G, Building D, State Road KK, Osage Beach, MO 65065
To help focus discussions, Scoping Document 1 (SD1), which outlines
the subject areas to be addressed in the APEA, was mailed to the
parties on the mailing list on January 12, 2001. Copies of the SD1 also
will be available at the scoping meeting. Based will include a revised
list of issues, based on the scoping sessions.
Site Visit
The Applicant (Ameren/UE) and FERC will conduct a project site
visit beginning at 10 a.m. on February 22, 2001. All interested
individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to attend. All
participants should meet at the Osage Power Plant in the town of
Lakeside, Missouri. All participants are responsible for their own
transportation to the site. Anyone with questions about the site visit
should contact Mr. Jerry Hogg of Ameren/UE at 573-365-9315.
Objectives
At the scoping meetings, the staff will: (1) summarize the
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the APEA;
(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 APEA, including viewpoints in opposition to, or in
support of, the staff's preliminary views; (4) determine the resource
issues to be addressed in the APEA; 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 will 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 scoping meetings
and site visit, and to assist Ameren/UE in defining and clarifying the
issues to be addressed in the APES
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
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