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AmerenUE; Notice of Scoping Meetings and Intent To Prepare an Environmental Document

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 [Federal Register: February 26, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 37)]
[Notices]
[Page 8376-8377]
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. 2277]

AmerenUE; Notice of Scoping Meetings and Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Document

February 13, 2007.

    By letter dated February 2, 2007 to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, AmerenUE (licensee) affirmed its intention to rebuild the
upper reservoir of the Taum Sauk Pumped Storage Project (FERC No.
2277). The Taum Sauk Project is located in Reynolds County, Missouri
near the town of Lesterville.
    The upper reservoir was severely damaged during an uncontrolled
breach of the northwest corner of the reservoir on December 14, 2005.
The proposed project involves rebuilding the upper reservoir with a
concrete-faced, symmetrical, roller compacted concrete (RCC) dam. The
work would involve the complete removal of the existing rockfill dike
that forms the upper reservoir and the construction of an RCC dam using
the existing rockfill as the aggregate.
    The Commission intends to prepare an environmental document under
the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the Taum Sauk upper
reservoir rebuilding project. The NEPA document will be used by the
Commission to identify environmental impacts and to identify measures
that would help mitigate the impacts caused by construction activities.
To support and assist our environmental review, we are beginning a
public scoping process to ensure that all pertinent issues are
identified and analyzed, and that the environmental document is
thorough and balanced.
    We invite the participation of governmental agencies, non-
governmental organizations, and the general public in the scoping
process, and will be preparing Scoping Document (SD) to provide
information on the proposed project and to solicit written and verbal
comments and suggestions on our preliminary list of issues and
alternatives to be addressed in the NEPA document. The SD will be
distributed to parties on the mailing list

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for this project, as well as other individuals and organizations that
we have identified as having an interest in the Taum Sauk Project. The
SD will be available from our Public Reference Room at (202) 208-1371.
It will also be accessible online at http://www.ferc.gov using the
``eLibrary'' link--select ``General Search'', and enter ``P-2277'' in
the ``Docket Number'' box. You may also call (202)-208-2222 for assistance.
    Following distribution of the SD, Commission staff will hold two
scoping meetings on March 12, 2007, to receive input on the appropriate
scope of the environmental analysis. The first meeting will be with the
resource agencies to focus on their concerns and the second meeting
will be with the general public to receive their input. Each meeting is
open and the public and agencies may attend either or both meetings.
The times and locations of these meetings are as follows:

Agency Scoping Meeting

    Date: March 12, 2007.
    Time: 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (CST).
    Location: Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Elm Street
Conference Center, 1738 East Elm Street, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102.

Public Scoping Meeting

    Date: March 12, 2007.
    Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (CST).
    Location: Lesterville High School, State Highway 21, Lesterville,
Missouri 63654.

    At the scoping meetings, Commission staff will: (1) Summarize the
environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the
environmental document; (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 Commission's NEPA document,
including viewpoints in opposition to, or in support of, staff's
preliminary views expressed in the SD; (4) determine the resource
issues to be addressed in the NEPA document; and (5) identify those
issues that require a detailed analysis, as well as those issues that
do not require a detailed analysis. Staff will also be soliciting input
on potential measures that could be implemented to minimize
construction-related impacts. The meetings will be recorded by a
stenographer and become part of the formal record for this project.
    Individuals, organizations, and agencies with environmental
expertise and concerns are encouraged to attend the meetings and assist
Commission staff in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed
in the NEPA document. Interested parties may also file written scoping
comments. All such comments (original and eight copies) should be filed
with: Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. The deadline
for filing scoping comments is April 11, 2007.
    Scoping comments may be filed electronically via the Internet in
lieu of paper. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) or the instructions on
the Commission's Web site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-Filing''
link.
    Please direct any questions about the scoping process to Thomas J.
LoVullo at (202) 502-8900.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-3185 Filed 2-23-07; 8:45 am]
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