White Pine Waterpower, LLC FERC Project No. 14851-003 April 28, 2023 Addi�onal Informa�on Request Responses FERC-A1-1
General Comments
The consultation record is incomplete. For instance, the record is missing some agency comments and correspondence that were provided to the applicant or to the project record, but do not appear to have been filed to eLibrary or included in Appendix A, Consultation Record of the FLA (e.g., BLM email dated December 15, 2020, noting a need for an EA due to the roads; meeting notes from the November 15, 2022 meeting of the Natural Resource Advisory Committee of White Pine County attended by Greg Copeland of rPlus Hydro, LLLP; BLM email dated November 18, 2022, indicating BLM cannot currently support a sitespecific amendment to the Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendments for the Great Basin Region, Including the Greater Sage-Grouse Sub-Regions of Idaho and Southwestern Montana, Nevada and Northeastern California, Oregon, and Utah. Washington, D.C. September 2015 and that other options should be evaluated; Park Service and Nevada Northern Railway (NNR) January 20, 2023 correspondence indicated “For the Record”; etc.). A copy of all correspondence provided by agencies to the applicant should be included in the consultation record. Please revise Appendix A accordingly so that staff has an accurate context for the agency’s concerns summarized in the table in Appendix A. Additionally, if agency comments were provided to the applicant and referenced in Appendix L, Response to Comments on the Draft License Application, but were not filed to eLibrary or were not included in Appendix A, Consultation Record, please revise Appendix A accordingly so that staff has an accurate context for the agency’s concerns summarized in the comment/response table in Appendix L. Response As part of the response to FERC’s deficiency issued on April 28, 2023, the applicant revised the consulta�on record to include missing copies of correspondence documented in the consulta�on log. This consulta�on record was filed with FERC on June 12, 2023, and is available on FERC’s e-library. For FERC’s ease of reviewing, the applicant is refiling a full version of the consulta�on record. This is included as Atachments 1-1,1-2,1-3, and 1-4. Regarding the examples of missing correspondence listed above, the applicant notes the following: • •
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The applicant added the BLM email dated December 15, 2020, to the consulta�on record. Mee�ng notes from the November 15, 2022, mee�ng of the Natural Resource Advisory Commitee of White Pine County have been added to consulta�on log. In addi�on, the applicant has included the mee�ng agenda in the consulta�on record. The applicant added the BLM leter dated November 18, 2022, to the consulta�on record. Note that the applicant revised the consulta�on log to reflect this correspondence as a leter rather than an email. The applicant included the NPS and NNR email dated January 20, 2023, in the consulta�on record.
Comments provided to the applicant and referenced in Appendix L, Response to Comments on the Draft License Application, are included in Appendix A (Consulta�on Record) of the Final License Applica�on.
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