HomeMy WebLinkAbout01.23.20 Email from FERC - Order Granting Ext of Time to File a Historic Properties Mgmt Plan Pursuant to Articles 401 and 405 RE PGE under P-2107
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Project No. 2107-016
ORDER GRANTING EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE A HISTORIC PROPERTIES
MANAGEMENT PLAN PURSUANT TO ARTICLES 401 AND 405
(Issued January 23, 2020)
1. On December 12, 2019, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, licensee for the Poe
Hydroelectric Project No. 2107, filed a request for an extension of time to file a Historic
Properties Management Plan (HPMP) pursuant to Articles 401 and 405 of the project
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license, section 4(e) Condition No. 31.
The project is located on the North Fork Feather River in Butte County, California. The
project occupies, in part, federal lands administered by the Forest Service.
Background
2. Article 401 of the license requires the licensee to file, within one year of license
issuance, a HPMP for Commission approval pursuant to Forest Service section 4(e)
Condition No. 31. In addition, Article 405 requires the HPMP to specify how historic
properties would be managed (APE).
3. Article 405 also requires the licensee to file the HPMP after consultation with the
California State Historic Preservation Officer (California SHPO), the Plumas National
Forest, Greenville Rancheria, Berry Creek Rancheria, Enterprise Rancheria, Mooretown
Rancheria, the Mechoopda Indian Tribe, and the Concow Band of Maidu. The licensee
must include in its filing, documentation of all consultation, copies of comments and
recommendations on the HPMP after it has been prepared and provided to the consulting
parties, and specific descriptions of how the consulting parties comments are
accommodated.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 165 FERC ¶ 62,172 (2018).
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Extension of Time Request
4. On December 12, 2019, the licensee filed a request for an extension of time to file
a HPMP for Commission approval until December 31, 2020. In its request, the licensee
states it needs additional time to consult with the California SHPO and other consulting
APE. The licensee says it has completed the environmental study and is waiting for
comments from the California SHPO. In addition, the licensee says it still needs to
complete an archaeological study and an updated ethnographic study, both of which
would be incorporated into the HPMP. The licensee anticipates sending a final HPMP
for Forest Service review and approval by October 31, 2020.
5. To accommodate those studies and timelines, the licensee requests an extension
until December 31, 2020, to file the HPMP with the Commission for approval. The
request includes the Forest Service
filing.
Review
6. Granting tHistoric Properties
Management Plan would allow additional time for the licensee to complete studies and
consult with the California SHPO and Forest Service in order to obtain their approval of
the HPMP prior to filing it with the Commission by December 31,
request is reasonable and the due date to file the plan should be extended to December
31, 2020.
The Director orders:
(A) , filed on December 12, 2019,
to extend the due date to file a Historic Properties Management Plan for the Poe
Hydroelectric Project No. 2107, is approved. The due date to file the plan is extended to
December 31, 2020.
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(B) This order constitutes final agency action. Any party may file a request for
rehearing of this order within 30 days from the date of its issuance, as provided in section
313(a) of the Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. § 825l (2018
regulations at 18 C.F.R. § 385.713 (2019). The filing of a request for rehearing does not
operate as a stay of the effective date of this order, or of any other date specified in this
this order.
Andrea Claros, Acting Chief
Environmental and Project Review Branch
Division of Hydropower Administration
and Compliance