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meetings and to present comments on 

the environmental issues that they 

believe should be addressed in the EA. 

A transcript of the scoping meeting will 

be generated so that your comments can 

be accurately recorded. 

Date: Tuesday, January 27, Scoping 

Meeting, 6 to 8 p.m. 

Location: Best Western, Forest Motor 

Inn & Restaurant, 1909 Main St., 

Franklin, LA 70538. 

Environmental Mailing List 

An effort is being made to send this 

notice to all individuals, organizations, 

and government entities interested in 

and/or potentially affected by the 

proposed project. This includes all 

landowners whose property may be 

used temporarily for project purposes, 

who have existing easements from the 

pipeline, or who own homes within 

distances defined in the Commission’s 

regulations of certain aboveground 

facilities. 

If you do not want to send comments 

at this time but still want to remain on 

our mailing list, please return the 

Information Request (Appendix 2). If 

you do not return the Information 

Request, you will be taken off the 

mailing list. 

Becoming an Intervenor 

Once HGS formally files its 

applications with the Commission, you 

may want to become an ‘‘intervenor,’’ 

which is an official party to the 

proceeding. Intervenors play a more 

formal role in the process and are able 

to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be 

heard by the courts if they choose to 

appeal the Commission’s final ruling. 

An intervenor formally participates in a 

Commission proceeding by filing a 

request to intervene. Instructions for 

becoming an intervenor are included in 

the User’s Guide under the ‘‘e-filing’’ 

link on the Commission’s Web site. 

Please note that you may not request 

intervenor status at this time. You must 

wait until formal applications are filed 

with the Commission. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at 1–866–208–FERC or on the FERC 

Internet Web site (http://www.ferc.gov) 

using the eLibrary link. Click on the 

eLibrary link, click on ‘‘General Search’’ 

and enter the docket number excluding 

the last three digits in the Docket 

Number field. Be sure you have selected 

an appropriate date range. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov 

or toll free at 1–866–208–3676, or for 

TTY, contact (202)502–8659. The 

eLibrary link also provides access to the 

texts of formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission now 

offers a free service called eSubscription 

which allows you to keep track of all 

formal issuances and submittals in 

specific dockets. This can reduce the 

amount of time you spend researching 

proceedings by automatically providing 

you with notification of these filings, 

document summaries and direct links to 

the documents. Go to http:// 

www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm. 

Finally, public meetings or site visits 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

calendar located at http://www.ferc.gov/ 

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–1348 Filed 1–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 9988–015–Georgia; King Mill 

Hydroelectric Project] 

Augusta Canal Authority; Notice of 

Proposed Restricted Service List for a 

Programmatic Agreement for 

Managing Properties Included In or 

Eligible for Inclusion In the National 

Register of Historic Places 

January 14, 2009. 

Rule 2010 of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s (Commission) 

Rules of Practice and Procedure 

provides that, to eliminate unnecessary 

expense or improve administrative 

efficiency, the Secretary may establish a 

restricted service list for a particular 

phase or issue in a proceeding.1 The 

restricted service list should contain the 

names of persons on the service list 

who, in the judgment of the decisional 

authority establishing the list, are active 

participants with respect to the phase or 

issue in the proceeding for which the 

list is established. 

The Commission staff is consulting 

with the Georgia State Historic 

Preservation Officer (Georgia SHPO) 

pursuant to the Council’s regulations, 36 

CFR Part 800, implementing section 106 

of the National Historic Preservation 

Act, as amended, (16 U.S.C. 470f), to 

prepare and execute a programmatic 

agreement for managing properties 

included in, or eligible for inclusion in, 

the National Register of Historic Places 

at the King Mill Project No. 9988–015 

(Georgia SHPO Reference Number HP– 

060707–003). The Commission staff will 

also provide the Advisory Council on 

Historic Preservation an opportunity to 

comment. 

The programmatic agreement, when 

executed by the Commission and the 

Georgia SHPO, would satisfy the 

Commission’s section 106 

responsibilities for all individual 

undertakings carried out in accordance 

with the license until the license expires 

or is terminated (36 CFR 800.13[e]). The 

Commission’s responsibilities pursuant 

to section 106 for the King Mill Project 

would be fulfilled through the 

programmatic agreement, which the 

Commission proposes to draft in 

consultation with certain parties listed 

below. The executed programmatic 

agreement would be incorporated into 

any Order issuing a license. 

The Augusta Canal Authority, as 

licensee for Project No. 9988–015 is 

invited to participate in consultations to 

develop the programmatic agreement. 

For purposes of commenting on the 

programmatic agreement, we propose to 

restrict the service list for the 

aforementioned project as follows: 

Dayton Sherrouse, Executive Director, 

Augusta Canal Authority, 1450 Green 

Street, Suite 400, Augusta, GA 30901. 

Don Klima or Representative, 

Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation, The Old Post Office 

Building, Suite 803, 1100 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20004. 

Elizabeth Shirk or Representative, 

Historic Preservation Division, 

Department of Natural Resources, 34 

Peachtree Street, NW., Suite 1600, 

Atlanta, GA 30303. 

Alan Stuart, Kleinschmidt Associates, 

204 Caughman Farm Lane, Suite 301, 

Lexington, SC 29072. 

Any person on the official service list 

for the above-captioned proceeding may 

request inclusion on the restricted 

service list, or may request that a 

restricted service list not be established, 

by filing a motion to that effect within 

15 days of this notice date. In a request 

for inclusion, please identify the 

reason(s) why there is an interest to be 

included. Also please identify any 

concerns about historic properties, 

including Traditional Cultural 

Properties. If historic properties are to 

be identified within the motion, please 

use a separate page, and label it NONPUBLIC Information. 

An original and 8 copies of any such 

motion must be filed with Kimberly D. 

Bose, the Secretary of the Commission 

(888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

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20426) and must be served on each 

person whose name appears on the 

official service list. Please put the 

project name ‘‘King Mill Project’’ and 

number ‘‘P–9988–015’’ on the front 

cover of any motion. If no such motions 

are filed, the restricted service list will 

be effective at the end of the 15-day 

period. Otherwise, a further notice will 

be issued ruling on any motion or 

motions filed within the 15-day period. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–1357 Filed 1–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Southwestern Power Administration 

White River Minimum Flows—Final 

Determination of Federal and NonFederal Hydropower Impacts 

AGENCY: Southwestern Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of final determination. 

SUMMARY: Section 132 of Public Law 

109–103 (2005) authorized and directed 

the Secretary of the Army to implement 

alternatives BS–3 and NF–7, as 

described in the White River Minimum 

Flows Reallocation Study Report, 

Arkansas and Missouri, dated July 2004. 

The law states that the Administrator, 

Southwestern Power Administration 

(Southwestern), in consultation with the 

project licensee and the relevant state 

public utility commissions, shall 

determine any impacts on electric 

energy and capacity generated at 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(FERC) Project No. 2221 caused by the 

storage reallocation at Bull Shoals Lake. 

Further, the licensee of Project No. 2221 

shall be fully compensated by the Corps 

of Engineers for those impacts on the 

basis of the present value of the 

estimated future lifetime replacement 

costs of the electrical energy and 

capacity at the time of implementation 

of the White River Minimum Flows 

project. 

The law also states that losses to the 

Federal hydropower purpose of the Bull 

Shoals and Norfork Projects shall be 

offset by a reduction in the costs 

allocated to the Federal hydropower 

purpose. 

Further, such reduction shall be 

determined by the Administrator of 

Southwestern on the basis of the present 

value of the estimated future lifetime 

replacement cost of the electrical energy 

and capacity at the time of 

implementation of the White River 

Minimum Flows project. 

Southwestern’s draft determination 

was published by Federal Register 

Notice (73 FR 6717) dated February 5, 

2008. Written comments were invited 

through March 6, 2008. All public 

comments received were considered, 

and Southwestern’s draft determination 

was revised as necessary to incorporate 

the public comments. Since there were 

significant changes to Southwestern’s 

draft determination, Southwestern 

published a proposed determination for 

additional public review and comment 

prior to its final determination. 

Southwestern’s proposed 

determination was published by Federal 

Register Notice (73 FR 38198) on July 3, 

2008. Written comments were invited 

through August 4, 2008. After receiving 

several requests for additional time to 

provide public comments, Southwestern 

reopened the public comment period 

through September 18, 2008. All public 

comments received were considered in 

revising the proposed determination, 

and Southwestern is publishing 

notification of its final determination. 

Southwestern’s final determination is 

fully documented in its Final 

Determination Report dated January 

2009, which was prepared in 

consultation with the licensee and the 

relevant public service commissions. 

Southwestern’s Final Determination 

Report documents the procedure to be 

used to calculate the present value of 

the future lifetime replacement cost of 

the electrical energy and capacity lost 

due to the White River Minimum Flows 

project at the non-Federal FERC Project 

No. 2221 and the Federal Bull Shoals 

and Norfork projects. The actual 

hydropower compensation values are to 

be calculated using the method 

presented in the final determination and 

current values for the specified 

parameters based on the official 

implementation date. 

Assuming a January 1, 2011, date of 

implementation for the White River 

Minimum Flows project and November 

2008 values for the specified 

parameters, Southwestern’s 

determination results in a present value 

for the estimated future lifetime 

replacement costs of the electrical 

energy and capacity at FERC Project No. 

2221 of $41,319,400. Southwestern’s 

determination results in a present value 

for the estimated future lifetime 

replacement costs of the electrical 

energy and capacity for Federal 

hydropower of $109,920,200. 

An electronic copy of Southwestern’s 

Final Determination Report is available 

on Southwestern’s Web site at http://

www.swpa.gov/pdfs/WRMF_SWPA_

FinalDeterminationReport.pdf. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

George Robbins, Director, Division of 

Resources and Rates, Southwestern 

Power Administration, U.S. Department 

of Energy, One West Third Street, Tulsa, 

Oklahoma 74103, (918) 595–6680, 

george.robbins@swpa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Originally 

established by Secretarial Order No. 

1865 dated August 31, 1943, as an 

agency of the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Southwestern is now an agency 

within the U.S. Department of Energy 

which was created by an Act of the U.S. 

Congress, entitled the Department of 

Energy Organization Act, Public Law 

95–91 (1977). Southwestern markets 

power from 24 multi-purpose reservoir 

projects with hydroelectric power 

facilities constructed and operated by 

the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 

These projects are located in the states 

of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and 

Texas. Southwestern’s marketing area 

includes these states plus Kansas and 

Louisiana. 

Southwestern developed a procedure 

for calculating projected energy and 

capacity losses for FERC Project No. 

2221 and the Bull Shoals and Norfork 

projects, including additional losses 

related to the reallocation for minimum 

flows as appropriate. Based on 

November 2008 values for the specified 

parameters, the calculated 

compensation due to the licensee of 

FERC Project. 

No. 2221 is $41,319,400, and the 

calculated credit due to Federal 

hydropower is $109,920,200. The values 

were calculated on the basis of the 

present value of the estimated future 

lifetime replacement cost of the 

electrical energy and capacity assuming 

an implementation date of January 1, 

2011, for the White River Minimum 

Flows project. 

The final calculation will depend on 

the official date of implementation as 

specified by the Corps of Engineers and 

the value of the specified parameters in 

effect at that time. 

FERC Project No. 2221, the nonFederal Ozark Beach hydroelectric 

project, will be directly affected by the 

minimum flow plan. The 

implementation of the authorized plan 

will result in a reduction of the amount 

of gross head (headwater elevation 

minus the tailwater elevation) available 

for generation at the non-Federal project 

at Ozark Beach. The reduction in gross 

head will result in an annual energy loss 

of 6,029 megawatt-hours (MWh) of onpeak energy and 2,969 MWh of off-peak 

energy, or an annual total energy loss of 

8,998 MWh. Also associated with the 

loss of gross head, there will be a 

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