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For more information, contact Patrick 

Clarey, Office of Energy Markets 

Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission at (317) 249–5937 or 

patrick.clarey@ferc.gov, or Christopher 

Miller, Office of Energy Markets 

Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission at (317) 249–5936 or 

christopher.miller@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–705 Filed 1–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No.: 503–048] 

Idaho Power Company; Notice of Intent 

To Prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement and Notice of Scoping 

Meetings and Soliciting Scoping 

Comments 

January 9, 2009. 

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 No.: 503–048. 

c. Date filed: June 26, 2008. 

d. Applicant: Idaho Power Company. 

e. Name of Project: Swan Falls 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The Swan Falls 

Hydroelectric Project is located on the 

Snake River at river mile (RM) 457.7 in 

Ada and Owyhee counties of 

southwestern Idaho, about 35 miles 

southwest of Boise. The project 

occupies 528.8 acres of lands of the 

United States within the Snake River 

Birds of Prey National Conservation 

Area. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Tom 

Saldin, Senior Vice President and 

General Counsel, Idaho Power 

Company, P.O. Box 70, Boise, Idaho 

83707, (208) 388–2550. 

i. FERC Contact: James Puglisi, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426; telephone (202) 502–6241 or by 

e-mail at james.puglisi@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing scoping 

comments: March 13, 2009. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

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 ‘‘eFiling’’ link. 

k. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. The existing Swan Falls Project 

consists of: (1) A 1,218-foot-long 

concrete gravity and rock-fill dam 

composed of an abutment embankment, 

a spillway section, a center island, the 

old powerhouse section, the 

intermediate dam, and the new 

powerhouse; (2) a 12-mile-long 1,525- 

acre reservoir with a normal maximum 

water surface elevation of 2,314 feet 

mean sea level (msl); (3) twelve equalwidth, concrete spillways with a 

capacity of 105,112 cubic feet per 

second (cfs) at reservoir elevation 2,318 

msl, divided into two sections (western 

and eastern)—the western section, 

contiguous with the abutment 

embankment, is a gated, concrete ogee 

section with eight radial gates, and the 

eastern section, which is adjacent to the 

island, contains four radial gates; (4) 

two concrete flow channels (instead of 

penstocks); (5) two pit-bulb turbine 

generators with a nameplate rating of 25 

megawatts; (6) a powerhouse completed 

in 1994; (7) a 1,400-foot-long, 120-footwide excavated tailrace channel; (8) a 

33,600-kilovolt ampere main power 

transformer; (9) a 1-mile-long, 138- 

kilovolt transmission line; and (10) 

appurtenant equipment. 

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 tollfree 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-filings/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via email 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 Impact Statement 

(EIS) on the project in accordance with 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA). The EIS will consider both sitespecific and cumulative environmental 

impacts and reasonable alternatives to 

the proposed action. Our intent is for 

the planned scoping meetings to satisfy 

the NEPA scoping requirements. 

Scoping Meetings 

Commission staff will conduct two 

scoping meetings. 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 EIS. The times and 

locations of these meetings are as 

follows: 

Daytime Scoping Meeting 

When: February 11, 2009, 9–11 a.m. 

(MST). 

Where: Doubletree Hotel—Boise 

Riverside, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Boise, 

Idaho. 

Evening Scoping Meeting 

When: February 10, 2009, 7–9 p.m. 

(MST). 

Where: Doubletree Hotel—Boise 

Riverside, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Boise, 

Idaho. 

Scoping Document 1 (SD1), which 

outlines the subject areas to be 

addressed in the environmental 

document, was distributed to the parties 

on the Commission’s mailing list. 

Copies of SD1 will be available at the 

scoping meetings, or may be viewed on 

the Web at http://www.ferc.gov using 

the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link (see item m above). 

Based on all oral and written comments, 

a Scoping Document 2 (SD2) will be 

issued. SD2 will include a list of issues 

identified through the scoping process. 

Site Visit 

The Applicant and FERC staff will 

conduct a project site visit beginning at 

9 a.m. on February 10, 2008. 

Participants will meet at the overlook 

above Swan Falls dam at 9 a.m. To 

reach the meeting site, take I–84 from 

Boise, turn south at Exit 44 onto S. 

Meridian Road (ID–69) toward Kuna, 

follow ID–69 as it becomes E. Avalon 

Road in Kuna, turn south onto S. Swan 


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Falls Road, and follow Swan Falls Road 

about 19 miles to the overlook above the 

dam. Allow 60 to 75 minutes for the 

drive from Boise. All participants are 

responsible for their own transportation. 

The site visit will take 3 to 4 hours. 

Objectives 

At the scoping meetings, the staff will: 

(1) Summarize the environmental issues 

tentatively identified for analysis in the 

EIS; (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 

EIS, including viewpoints in opposition 

to, or in support of, the staff’s 

preliminary views; (4) determine the 

resource issues to be addressed in the 

EIS; and (5) identify those issues that 

require a detailed analysis, as well as 

those issues that do not require a 

detailed analysis. 

Meeting 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 meetings and to assist the staff in 

defining and clarifying the issues to be 

addressed in the EIS. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–752 Filed 1–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL07–52–000 et al.] 

Louisiana Public Service Commission 

v. Entergy Services, Inc., et al.; Notice 

of FERC Staff Attendance at Southwest 

Power Pool Independent Coordinator 

of Transmission (ICT) Stakeholder 

Policy Committee Meeting 

January 8, 2009. 

The Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission hereby gives notice that 

members of its staff may attend the 

meeting noted below. Their attendance 

is part of the Commission’s ongoing 

outreach efforts. 

ICT Stakeholder Policy Committee 

Meeting 

January 28, 2009 (9 a.m.–3 p.m.) , DFW 

Hyatt Regency, DFW Airport, 

Grapevine, TX 75261. 

The discussions may address matters 

at issue in the following proceedings: 

Docket No. EL07–52 ................................................................ Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. OA07–32 ............................................................... Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER05–1065 ........................................................... Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. EL00–66 ................................................................ Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Entergy. 

Docket No. EL05–15 ................................................................ Arkansas Electric Cooperative, Corp. v. Entergy Arkansas, Inc. 

Docket No. ER08–844 ............................................................. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. EL01–88 ................................................................ Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Entergy. 

Docket No. EL08–59 ................................................................ ConocoPhillips v. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. EL08–60 ................................................................ Union Electric v. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. OA08–92 ............................................................... Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. OA08–75 ............................................................... Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER07–1252 ........................................................... Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER08–774 ............................................................. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER08–1006 ........................................................... Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER08–1056 ........................................................... Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER08–1057 ........................................................... Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER07–682 ............................................................. Entergy Services. Inc. 

Docket No. EL08–72 ................................................................ NRG Energy, Inc. v. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. EL08–84 ................................................................ AEEC v. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER08–513 ............................................................. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. OA08–149 ............................................................. Entergy Operating Companies. 

Docket No. ER08–767 ............................................................. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. OA08–59 ............................................................... Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER07–956 ............................................................. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. EL08–91 ................................................................ AEEC v. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER09–372 ............................................................. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER09–435 ............................................................. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER09–448 ............................................................. Entergy Services, Inc. 

Docket No. ER09–449 ............................................................. Entergy Services, Inc. 


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