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Hyrum City; Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site Visit and Soliciting Scoping Comments
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[Federal Register: July 17, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 136)]
[Notices]
[Page 40502-40503]
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. 946-007]
Hyrum City; Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site Visit and
Soliciting Scoping Comments
July 11, 2006.
Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: A Subsequent License. (Minor Project).
b. Project No.: 946-007.
c. Date filed: April 28, 2006.
d. Applicant: Hyrum City.
e. Name of Project: Hyrum City Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Blacksmith Fork River in Hyrum City, Cache
County, Utah. The project affects about 17.03 acres of federal lands
within the Wasatch Cache National Forest.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Dean Howard, Mayor Hyrum City, 83 West Main
Street, Hyrum, Utah 84319; (435) 245-6033, or Ken Tuttle or Mike
Wilcox, Sunrise Engineering, Inc., 25 East 500 North, Fillmore, UT
84631; (435) 743-6151.
i. FERC Contact: Gaylord Hoisington, (202) 502-6032 or
gaylord.hoisington@FERC.gov.
j. Deadline for filing scoping comments: August 30, 2006.
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.
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 ``e-Filing'' link.
k. This application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
l. The existing Hyrum City's Hydropower Project includes the
following constructed facilities: (1) A 15-foot-high, 70-foot-long
earth-fill concrete core embankment to the north, a 14-foot-high, 65-
foot-long concrete spillway section, a 15-foot-high, 125-foot-long
earth-fill concrete core embankment to the north which makes the total
length of the dam approximately 260-foot-long; (2) a 16-foot-high, 8-
foot-wide concrete intake structure with a 20-foot-high, 8-foot-wide
trash rack and fish ladder; (3) a 60-inch-diameter concrete penstock
inlet with head gate; (4) a 3,470-foot-long, 48-inch-diameter concrete
penstock going into a 130-foot-long, 42-inch-diameter steel penstock;
(5) a 37-acre-foot de-silting pond; (6) a 26-foot-wide, 39-foot-long,
20-foot-high brick powerhouse; (7) a 400-kilowatt Leffel horizontal
shaft scroll case turbine; (8) a 100-foot, 2.4-kV underground
transmission line; and (9) 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 ``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 http://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 agency scoping meeting and one public
meeting. The agency scoping meeting will focus on resource agency and
non-governmental organization (NGO) concerns, while the public 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:
Agency Scoping Meeting.
Date: Monday, July 31, 2006.
Time: 1:30 p.m. (MST).
Place: City of Hyrum Town Council Meeting Hall.
Address: 83 West Main Street, Hyrum, UT 84319.
Public Scoping Meeting.
Date: Monday, July 31, 2006.
Time: 7 p.m. (MST).
Place: City of Hyrum Town Council Meeting Hall.
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Address: 83 West Main Street, Hyrum, UT 84319.
Copies of the Scoping Document (SD1) outlining the subject areas to
be addressed in the EA were distributed to the parties on the
Commission's mailing list. Copies of the SD1 will be available at the
scoping meeting or may be viewed on the Web at http://www.ferc.gov
using the ``eLibrary'' link (see item m above).
Site Visit
The Applicant and FERC staff will conduct a project site visit
beginning at 9 a.m. on Monday July 31, 2006. All interested
individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to attend. All
participants should RSVP to Guy McBride at 435-245-3652. All
participants are responsible for their own transportation to the site.
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.
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.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-11263 Filed 7-14-06; 8:45 am]
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