Opinion ID: 675684
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Regulation Implementing the Electric Consumers Protection Act

Text: 30 The petitioners also contend that because the Commission failed to require Eagle Mountain to identify the source of water for the proposed project, it frustrated the purposes of the Electric Consumers Protection Act of 1986 (ECPA), namely, to protect, mitigate damages to, and enhance, fish and wildlife ... affected by the development, operation, and management of the project. 16 U.S.C. Sec. 803(j)(1). To these ends the ECPA requires that the FERC include in any license issued under the Federal Power Act appropriate conditions based upon recommendations received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other agencies, both state and federal. The Commission has promulgated an implementing regulation that requires anyone who files an application for a license to consult beforehand with the relevant resource agencies, and details an exhaustive consultative process through which the applicant must go before the license can be approved. 31 Both the ECPA and the Commission's implementing regulations apply only to an applicant for a license, not to an applicant for a preliminary permit. The petitioners' challenge is therefore out of place in this proceeding.