[Federal Register: December 31, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 249)]
[Notices]
[Page 74281-74282]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2197-073--North Carolina; Yadkin Hydroelectric Project]
Alcoa Power Generating, Inc.; 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
December 20, 2007.
Rule 2010 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's
(Commission) Rules of Practice and Procedure provides that, to
eliminate unnecessary expense or improve administrative
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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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\1\ 18 CFR section 385.210.
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The Commission staff is consulting with the North Carolina State
Historic Preservation Officer (hereinafter, SHPO) and the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation (hereinafter, Council) 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. 470 f), 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 Yadkin Hydroelectric Project No. 2197-073 (SHPO
Reference Number ER03-1246).
The programmatic agreement, when executed by the Commission and the
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 Yadkin
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.
Alcoa Power Generating, Inc., as licensee for Yadkin Hydroelectric
Project No. 2197, the United States Forest Service, the Catawba Indian
Nation, Badin Historic Museum, Inc., and the Trading Ford Historic
District Preservation Association have expressed an interest in this
proceeding and are 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:
Don Klima or Representative, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation,
The Old Post Office Building, Suite 803, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20004
Gene Ellis or Representative, ALCOA Power Generating Inc., PO Box 576,
Badin, NC 28009-0576
Ann Brownlee, President, Trading Ford Historic District, Preservation
Association, 400 Lantz Ave, Salisbury, NC 28144
Renee Gledhill-Earley, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
4617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4617
Dr. Wenonah G. Haire or Representative, CIN THPO, 1536 Tom Stevens Rd,
Rock Hill, SC 29730
Badin Historic Museum, Inc., C/O: Bridget Huckabee, P. O. Box 1553,
Badin NC 28009
Rodney Snedeker or Representative, United States Forest Service, 160A
Zillicoa Street, Ashville, NC 28801
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 20426) and must be served on each person whose name
appears on the official service list. Please put the project name
``Yadkin Hydroelectric Project'' and number ``P-2197-073'' on the front
cover of any motion. Motions 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 (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-
Filing'' link.
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.
[FR Doc. E7-25322 Filed 12-28-07; 8:45 am]
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