Document ID: FERC-2013-1155-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Meetings: South Carolina Public Service Authority; Santee-Cooper Biological Opinion
Posted Date: 2013-08-28T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 167 (Wednesday, August 28, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 53138]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-20923]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 199-205]

South Carolina Public Service Authority; Notice of Meeting to 
Discuss Santee-Cooper Biological Opinion

    On July 15, 2010, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) 
filed its Biological Opinion (BO) on the relicensing of the Santee-
Cooper Hydroelectric Project No. 199. The document included NMFS' terms 
and conditions for protection of the endangered shortnose and Atlantic 
sturgeon. Commission staff, the South Carolina Public Service Authority 
(SCPSA), the South Carolina Department of National Resources, and U.S. 
Army Corps of Engineers filed comments on the draft BO in September 
2010. Several meetings and workshops were held in 2011 and 2012 to 
discuss what is needed to complete formal consultation for the two 
sturgeon species.
    At the request of NMFS, Commission staff will meet with 
representatives of NMFS and SCPSA, the Commission's non-federal 
representative for the Santee-Cooper Project, to continue the on-going 
discussions of what is needed to complete formal consultation for the 
shortnose and Atlantic sturgeon. The meeting will be held on Thursday, 
September 19, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at NMFS' office at 263 
13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida. All local, state, and 
federal agencies, and interested parties, are hereby invited to attend 
and observe this meeting. Questions concerning the meeting should be 
directed to Robert Hoffman of NMFS at (727) 824-5312.

    Dated: August 20, 2013.
 Kimberly D. Bose,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-20923 Filed 8-27-13; 8:45 am]
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