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or prescriptions must set forth their

evidentiary basis and otherwise comply

with the requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b).

Agencies may obtain copies of the

application directly from the applicant.

Any of these documents must be filed

by providing the original and the

number of copies required by the

Commission’s regulations to: The

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, NE,

Washington, DC 20426. An additional

copy must be sent to Director, Division

of Environmental and Engineering

Review, Office of Energy Projects,

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

at the above address. Each filing must be

accompanied by proof of service on all

persons listed on the service list

prepared by the Commission in this

proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR

4.34(b) and 385.2010.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–10098 Filed 4–21–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Intent To File Application for

a New License

April 18, 2000.

Take notice that the following notice

of intent has been filed with the

Commission and is available for public

inspection:

a. Type of filing: Notice of Intent to

File an Application for New License.

b. Project No.: 2130.

c. Date filed: July 28, 1999.

d. Submitted By: Pacific Gas and

Electric company, current licensee.

e. Name of Project: Spring GapStanislaus.

f. Location: On the South and Middle

Forks of the Stanislaus River in

Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties,

California.

g. Filed Pursuant to: Section 15 of the

Federal Power Act, 18 CFR 16.6.

h. Pursuant to Section 16.19 of the

Commission’s regulations, the licensee

is required to make available the

information described in Section 16.7 of

the regulations. Such information is

available from the licensee at 245

Market Street, San Francisco, California

94105. Interested parties can contact

Richard Doble on (415) 973–4480.

i. FERC Contact: He ́ctor M. Pe ́rez,

(202) 219–2843,

Hector.perez@ferc.fed.us.

j. Expiration Date of Current License:

December 31, 2004.

k. The project consists of the Spring

Gap Powerhouse with an installed

capacity of 7,500 kVA and the

Stanislaus Powerhouse with an installed

capacity of 91,000 kVA.

l. The licensee states its unequivocal

intent to submit an application for a

new license for Project No. 2130.

Pursuant to 18 CFR 16.9(b)(1) each

application for a new license and any

competing license applications must be

filed with the Commission at least 24

months prior to the expiration of the

existing license. All applications for

license for this project must be filed by

December 31, 2002.

m. A copy of the notice of intent is

available for inspection and

reproduction at the Commission’s

Public Reference Room, located at 888

First Street, NE, Room 2A, Washington,

D.C. 20426, or by calling (202) 208–

1371. The notice may be viewed on

http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm

(call (202) 208–222 for assistance). A

copy is also available for inspection and

reproduction at the address in item h

above.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–10099 Filed 4–21–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Application Accepted for

Filing and Soliciting Motions To

Intervene and Protests

April 18, 2000.

Take notice that the following

hydroelectric application has been filed

with the Commission and is available

for public inspection:

a. Type of Application: New Major

License.

b. Project Nos.: 2576–022 and 2597–

019.

c. Date filed: August 31, 1999.

d. Applicant: Connecticut Light and

Power Company.

e. Names of Projects: Falls Village

Project and Housatonic Project.

f. Location: Falls Village, Bulls Bridge,

Rocky River (Pumped Storage),

Shepaug, and Stevenson developments

are located on the Housatonic River,

76.2 miles, 52.9 miles, 44.1 miles, 30.0

miles and 19.3 miles, respectively, from

its mouth at Milford Point,

Massachusetts. The project is in the

western portion of Connecticut in the

counties of Fairfield, New Haven and

Litchfield. Approximately 74 acres of

federal land are within project

boundaries.

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).

h. Applicant Contact: William J.

Nadeau, Vice President, The

Connecticut Light and Power Company,

Post Office Box 270, Hartford,

Connecticut 0641–0270, (860) 665–

5315.

i. FERC Contact: James T. Griffin, by

email at james.griffin@ferc.fed.us or by

telephone at (202) 219–2799.

j. Deadline for filing motions to

intervene and protest: 60 days from the

issuance of this notice.

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.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure require all intervenors

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 intervenor 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.

k. Status of environmental analysis:

This application is not ready for

environmental analysis at this time.

l. Description of the project:

1. The Falls Village Development

consists of the following existing

facilities: (1) A 300-foot-long, 14-foothigh concrete gravity dam with two

spillways having a combined overflow

length of approximately 280 feet, and a

crest at elevation 631.5 feet National

Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD); (2) an

impoundment 3.8 miles long containing

1,135 acre-feet when at elevation 633.2

feet NGVD; (3) a dam-integral

powerhouse with a total installed

capacity of 9.0 megawatts (MW)

producing approximately 39,894

megawatt hours (MwH) annually; and

(4) a switch yard connected to the

project via a 69 kilovolt (kV)

interconnected transmission line.

2. The Bulls Bridge Development

consists of the following existing

facilities: (1) A 203-foot-long, 24-foothigh stone and concrete gravity dam

with a dam crest of 354 feet NGVD; (2)

a two-mile-long power canal; (3) a 156-

foot-long, 17-foot-high rock fill gravity

weir dam; (4) a 2.25 mile-long reservoir

with an 1,800 acre-feet storage capacity,

a surface area, which, at a normal

elevation of 354 feet NGVD, occupies

approximately 120 acres; (5) a

powerhouse with a capacity of 7.2 MW,