Proposed Restricted Service List: Alaska Power & Telephone Co.

Federal Register: July 9, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 130)

Notices

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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Project No. 12615-001--Alaska Soule River Hydroelectric Project

Alaska Power & Telephone Company; 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

June 30, 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.

\1\ 18 CFR 385.2010.

The Commission staff is consulting with the Alaska State Historic

Preservation Officer (hereinafter, SHPO) and the Advisory Council on

Historic Preservation (hereinafter, Council) 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 Soule River Hydroelectric Project No. 12615-001.

The programmatic agreement, when executed by the Commission and the

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 Soule

River Hydroelectric 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.

Alaska Power & Telephone Company, as applicant for the Soule River

Hydroelectric Project No. 12615-001, is invited to participate in consultations to develop the programmatic agreement.

For the purpose of commenting on the programmatic agreement, we propose to restrict the service list for the aforementioned project as follows:

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Don Klima or Representative,

Judith Bittner, SHPO or

Advisory Council on Historic

Representative, Office of History

Preservation, The Old Post Office

& Archaeology, 550 W 7th Avenue,

Building, 1100 Pennsylvania

Suite 1310, Anchorage, AK 99501.

Avenue, NW., Suite 803,

Washington, DC 20004..

Glen Martin or Representative,

Martin Stanford or Representative,

Alaska Power & Telephone Company,

U.S. Forest Service, 3031 Tongass 193 Otto Street, P.O. Box 3222,

Avenue, Ketchikan, AK 99901.

Port Townsend, WA 98368..

T. Weber Greiser, Historical

John Autrey or Representative, U.S.

Research Associates, Inc., 125

Forest Service, 648 Mission

Bank Street, Suite 500, Missoula,

Street, Ketchikan, AK 99901.

MT 59802..

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 properties of traditional religious and cultural importance to an Indian tribe. If historic properties would be identified within the motion, please use a separate page, and label it non-public Information.

The original and 8 copies of any such motion must be filed with

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,

Washington, DC 20426, and must be served on each person whose name appears on the official service list. Please put the following on the first page: Soule River Hydroelectric Project No. 12615-001. Motions may be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. The

Commission strongly encourages electronic filings. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site

(http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-Filing'' link.

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.

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