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Notice of Intent to Prepare Environmental Assessment, Availability of Scoping Document, and Soliciting Scoping Comments
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[Federal Register: January 28, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 18)]
[Notices]
[Page 4199-4200]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Intent to Prepare Environmental Assessment,
Availability of Scoping Document, and Soliciting Scoping Comments
January 22, 2003.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with Commission and are available for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: New Minor License.
b. Project No.: 7725-005.
c. Date filed: September 27, 2002.
d. Applicant: Barton Village Inc.
e. Name of Project: Barton Village Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Clyde River in the Town of Charleston, Vermont.
No federal lands are affected.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)--825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Denis H. Poirier, Village Supervisor, Barton
Village, Inc. 17 Village Square, P.O. Box 519, Barton, Vermont 05822.
(802)525-4747.
i. FERC Contact: Frank Winchell at (202)502-6104 or
frank.winchell@ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: 30 days from the date of
this notice.
All documents (original and eight copies) should be filed with:
Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. Comments, protests and
interventions 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 under the ``e-Filing'' link. The Commission
strongly encourages electronic filings.
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.
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 ( http://www.ferc.gov) 
under the ``FERRIS'' link.
k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
l. The existing Barton Village Hydroelectric Project consists of:
(1) a 77-foot-long, 24-foot-high masonry and concrete gravity dam; (2)
1.5-foot-high flashboards extending 57 feet across a concrete spillway;
(3) a 187-acre impoundment at elevation 1,140.9 feet mean sea level
(msl); (4) a 665-foot-long, 7-foot-diameter steel penstock; (5) two
105-foot-long, 5.8-foot-diameter steel penstocks leading to: (6) a
powerhouse with two units having a total installed capacity of 1.4 MW;
(7) two tailraces; and (8) other appurtenant facilities.
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 http://www.ferc.gov using the
``FERRIS'' 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 g above.
n. Scoping Process Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy
Act and procedures of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC), the Commission staff intends to prepare an
Environmental Assessment (EA) that evaluates the environmental impacts
of issuing a new license for the continued operation of the Barton
Village Hydroelectric Project, located on the Clyde River in Orleans
County, Vermont. The project does not affect Federal lands.
The EA will consider both site-specific and cumulative
environmental effects, if any, of the proposed action and reasonable
alternatives, and will include an economic, financial, and engineering
analysis. Preparation of staff's EA will be supported by a scoping
process to ensure identification and analysis of all pertinent issues.
We prepared the enclosed Scoping Document (SD) to provide you with
information on:
? the Barton Village Hydroelectric Project;
? the environmental analysis process we will follow to
prepare the EA; and
? our preliminary identification of issues that we will
address in the EA.
We invite the participation of governmental agencies, non-
governmental organizations, and the general public in the scoping
process, and have prepared this SD to provide information on the
proposed project and to solicit written comments and
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suggestions on our preliminary list of issues and alternatives to be
addressed in the EA. The SD has been distributed to parties on the
Service List for this proceeding and is available from our Public
Reference Room at (202)502-8371. It can also be accessed online at
http://www.ferc.gov under the ``FERRIS'' link.
Given the fact that no comments have been filed related to the
relicensing and that Barton Village, Inc. has not proposed any new
construction, we do not anticipate at this time that there is adequate
justification: (1) to arrange for Commission staff and interested
members of the public to visit the project site; or (2) to hold a
public meeting near the project site.
Please review this document and, if you wish to provide written
input, follow the instructions contained in section 2.2. Please direct
any questions about the scoping process to Frank Winchell at (202) 502-
6104.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-1938 Filed 1-27-03; 8:45 am]
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