65650 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 244 / Wednesday, December 20, 1995 / Notices

Register; must bear in all capital letters

the title ‘‘COMMENTS,’’ ‘‘PROTESTS,’’

or ‘‘MOTION TO INTERVENE,’’ as

applicable, and ‘‘Project No. 2114–040.’’

Send the filings (original and 14 copies)

to: The Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20426. A

copy of any filing must also be served

upon each representative of the license

specified in its application.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

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[Project No. 11072, NY]

Trenton Falls Hydroelectric Company;

Notice Not Ready for Environmental

Analysis, Notice Requesting

Interventions and Protests, and Notice

of Scoping Pursuant to the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969

December 14, 1995.

On December 5, 1995, the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission

(Commission) issued a letter accepting

the Trenton Falls Hydroelectric

Company’s application for the Boyd

Dam Hydroelectric Project, located on

the East Branch of Fish Creek in Lewis

County, New York.

The Boyd Dam’s principal features

would consist of a 210-acre

impoundment, an existing concrete

gravity and earthfill dam with a 150-

foot-long spillway section, a modified

concrete intake structure, which would

contain a single 795-kilowatt (Kw)

generator, an upgraded 3.5-mile-long

transmission line, and appurtenant

facilities. With a total authorized

installed capacity of 795 Kw, the project

would have an average annual

generation of about 6.9 megawatthours.

The application is not ready for

environmental analysis at this time. A

public notice will be issued in the

future indicating its readiness for

environmental analysis and soliciting

comments, recommendations, terms and

conditions, or prescriptions on the

application and the applicant’s reply

comments.

The purpose of this notice is to: (1)

invite interventions and protests; (2)

advise all parties as to the proposed

scope of the staff’s environmental

analysis, including cumulative effects,

and to seek additional information

pertinent to this analysis; and (3) advise

all parties of their opportunity for

comment.

Interventions and Protests

All filings must: (1) bear in all capital

letters the title ‘‘PROTEST,’’ ‘‘MOTION

TO INTERVENE,’’ ‘‘NOTICE OF

INTENT TO FILE COMPETING

APPLICATION,’’ OR ‘‘COMPETING

APPLICATION;’’ (2) set forth in the

heading the name of the applicant and

the project number of the application to

which the filing responds; (3) furnish

the name, address, and telephone

number of the person protesting or

intervening; and (4) otherwise comply

with the requirements of 18 C.F.R.

385.2001 through 385.2005. 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: Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426.

An additional copy must be sent to:

Director, Division of Project Review,

Office of Hydropower Licensing,

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

at the above address. A copy of any

protest or motion to intervene must be

served upon each representative of the

applicant specified in the particular

application.

All filings for any protest or motion to

intervene must be received 60 days from

the issuance date of this notice.

Scoping Process

The Commission’s scoping objectives

are to:

◆ identify significant environmental

issues;

◆ determine the depth of analysis

appropriate to each issue;

◆ identify the resource issues not

requiring detailed analysis; and

◆ identify reasonable project

alternatives.

The purpose of the scoping process is

to identify significant issues related to

the proposed action and to determine

what issues should be covered in the

environmental document pursuant to

the National Environmental Policy Act

of 1969. The document entitled

‘‘Scoping Document I’’ (SDI) will be

circulated shortly to enable appropriate

federal, state, and local resource

agencies, developers, Indian tribes, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and

other interested parties to effectively

participate in and contribute to the

scoping process. SDI provides a brief

description of the proposed action,

project alternatives, the geographic and

temporal scope of a cumulative effects

analysis, and a list of preliminary issues

identified by staff.

The Commission will decide, based

on the application, and agency and

public comments to scoping, whether

licensing the Boyd Dam Hydroelectric

Project constitutes a major federal action

significantly impacting the quality of

the human environment. The

Commission staff will not hold scoping

meetings unless the Commission

decides to prepare an environmental

impact statement, or the response to SDI

warrants holding such meetings.

Individuals, organizations, and

agencies with environmental expertise

and concerns are encouraged to

comment on SDI and assist the staff in

defining and clarifying the issues to be

addressed.

All filings should contain an original

and 8 copies. Failure to file an original

and 8 copies may result in appropriate

staff not receiving the benefit of your

comments in a timely manner. See 18

CFR 4.34(h). In addition, commentors

may submit a copy of their comments

on a 31⁄2-inch diskette formatted for

MS–DOS based computers. In light of

our ability to translate MS–DOS based

materials, the text need only be

submitted in the format and version that

it was generated (i.e., MS Word,

WordPerfect 5.1⁄5.2, ASCII, etc.). It is not

necessary to reformat word processor

generated text to ASCII. For Macintosh

users, it would be helpful to save the

documents in Macintosh word

processor format then write the files on

a diskette formatted for MS–DOS

machines. All comments should be

submitted to the Office of the Secretary,

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426, and should show the following

captions on the first page: Boyd Dam

Hydroelectric Project, FERC No. 11072.

Further, interested persons are

reminded of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedures, requiring

parties or interceders (as defined in 18

CFR 385.2010) to file documents on

each person whose name is on the

official service list for this proceeding.

See CFR 4.34(b).

The Commission staff will consider

all written comments and may issue a

Scoping Document II (SDII). SDII will

include a revised list of issues, based on

the scoping process.

For further information regarding the

scoping process, please contact Mike

Dees, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, Office of Hydropower

Licensing, 888 First Street, N.E.,

Washington, D.C. 20426, or at (202)

219–2807.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

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