Document ID: FERC-2014-0606-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Meetings: Braddock Locks and Dam Hydroelectric Project
Posted Date: 2014-05-14T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 14, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27596-27597]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-11100]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 13739-002]

Braddock Locks and Dam Hydroelectric Project; Notice of 
Teleconference

    a. Date and Time of Teleconference: Friday, May 30, 2014, starting 
at 9:00 a.m. and ending at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Daylight Time).
    b. FERC Contact: Andy Bernick, (202) 502-8660 or 
andrew.bernick@ferc.gov.
    c. Purpose of Teleconference: Commission staff will discuss the 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps') comments on the draft 
environmental assessment for the proposed Braddock Locks and Dam 
Hydroelectric Project (Braddock Project), which would be located on the 
Monongahela River in the Borough of West Mifflin and the City of 
Duquesne, Pennsylvania.
    d. Proposed Agenda: The Corps proposed the following discussion 
topics: (1) Purpose and current operation of the existing water quality 
(or ``environmental'') gate; (2) maintaining compliance with the Corps' 
nondegradation water quality criteria; (3) flow availability for the 
proposed Braddock Project; (4) the need for continuous water quality 
and quantity monitoring; (5) cumulative impacts of stacked hydropower 
development within the Corps' Lower Monongahela River navigation 
system; and (6) the applicability of findings from FERC's

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1988 ``Hydroelectric Development in the Upper Ohio River Basin'' final 
environmental impact statement.
    e. All local, state, and federal agencies, Indian tribes, and other 
interested parties are invited to participate by phone. If interested 
in participating, please contact Andy Bernick at the above email 
address by May 27, 2014, for information on the telephone number and 
access code for the conference call.

    Dated: May 8, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-11100 Filed 5-13-14; 8:45 am]
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