Document ID: FERC-2015-0435-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Meetings: Wadsworth, OH; Teleconference
Posted Date: 2015-04-10T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 69 (Friday, April 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 19308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08229]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 12796-004]

City of Wadsworth, Ohio; Notice of Teleconference

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Ohio Ecological Services Field 
Office and West Virginia Field Office (FWS) requested a teleconference 
regarding Commission staff's March 11, 2015, request for formal 
consultation on the pink mucket pearly mussel (Lampsilis abrupta), 
eastern fanshell mussel (Cyprogenia stegaria), snuffbox mussel 
(Epioblasma triquetra), sheepnose mussel (Plethobasus cyphyus), and 
Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) for the proposed R.C. Byrd Hydroelectric 
Project. The FWS requested a discussion of: (1) The Commission's 
hydropower licensing process; (2) the recent action listing the 
northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) as a threatened 
species under the Endangered Species Act; (3) FWS' information needs to 
complete section 7 consultation for listed bats and mussels; and (4) 
possible solutions to gathering the information needed by FWS.
    The teleconference will be held on Monday, April 20, 2015 at 1:00 
p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). All local, state, and federal agencies, 
Indian tribes, and other interested parties are invited to participate 
by phone. Please call Andy Bernick at (202) 502-8660 by Monday, April 
13, 2015, to RSVP and to receive specific instructions on how to 
participate.

    Dated: April 3, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-08229 Filed 4-9-15; 8:45 am]
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