Fish Entrainment and Relicensing: Truths and Consequences
The states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have issued guidelines that presuppose entrainment/turbine-induced mortality at most hydroelectric projects are...
Design of Extended Length Submerged Traveling Screen and Submerged Bar Screen Fish Guidance Equipment
The hydropower projects on the Snake and lower Columbia Rivers in the Pacific Northwest are unique because these rivers are also the spawning grounds for migratory salmon. The salmon swim...
Fish Protection at Water Intakes Using a New Signal Development Process and Sound System
American Electric Power Company, Inc., is exploring the feasibility of using a patented signal development process and sound system to guide aquatic animals with underwater sound. Sounds...
Atlantic Salmon Smolt Movement and Behavior at Vernon Hydroelectric Station
Behavior of emigrating Atlantic salmon smolts (Salmo salar) was studied at New England Power Company's (NEP) Vernon Hydroelectric Station located on the Connecticut River,...
Where's the Competition?: The Real Threats to Project Relicensing
The real potential competition in relicensing hydroelectric facilities is for use of the water and land resources currently dedicated to hydro power production. Relicensing applicants...
One Hydro Project?Many Regulatory Masters
A discussion of the dispersion of federal regulatory authority over the development of new hydro-power capacity is presented....
Legal Strategy in Dealing with Fish and Wildlife Resource Agencies
This paper is designed to provide a strategy for negotiating with Resource Agencies during the consultation and the 10(j) process. The strategy discussed herein can be reduced to three,...
Harrisburg Hydroelectric Project?Water Quality Issues
The Harrisburg Hydroelectric Project is a proposed 34.4 MW hydroelectric facility on the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The project will consist of a 16.5 ft high gated...
Fair Market Value vs. Net Investment
Among the 300 some hydro stations coming up for relicensing in the 1990s, some of them will certainly be taken over by the federal government or by competing license applicants. Under...
Fair Value, Net Investment and Relicensing
The Federal Power Act ('Act') requires that a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ('FERC') license receive only 'net investment'...
How the Office of Hydropower Licensing Resolved Seven Recent Relicensing Disputes
In May 1989, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) issued relicensing regulations in Order No. 513 to (1) help licensees whose hydropower licenses were about to expire...
Using Project Management Techniques in Hydro-Relicensing
To answer a pressing need for managing today's complex process and requirements of hydro relicensing, Central Maine Power Company (CMP) has applied the principles of project management,...
When FERC Investigates Your Unlicensed Project: A Five-Point Protection Plan
A FERC investigation into a project's jurisdictional status poses the potential for substantial risks and costs. This paper outlines a 'five-point protection...
Extensive Civil Penalties Apply?Lessons Learned Since Waterpower '89
Section 12 of ECPA authorized the FERC to assess civil penalties in enforcing Part I of the Federal Power Act and its implementing regulations, as well as the terms and conditions of hydropower...
Document Image Systems for Hydro License Compliance
This paper will present one company's experience in selecting and implementing a document imaging system for management of correspondence, environmental studies, dam safety...
Development of Small Hydro in Ontario
Ontario is Canada's most populous Province with approximately 10 million residents, representing 40 per cent of the country's population. The electricity needs...
Changing Legal Issues Regarding Transfer of a Plant Up for Relicensing
Part I of the Federal Power Act ('FPA') includes a little understood, but potentially powerful mechanism for encouraging the efficient development and prudent...
The Effects of Recent Legislation on Conventional, Non-Federal Hydropower
Over the past ten years, federal legislation has created competing economic incentives for the hydroelectric industry - loans and tax credit incentives to stimulate the growth of conventional,...
Streamlining Hydropower Regulation: Proposals for a New Licensing Process
Growing national concern over the environmental impacts associated with energy resources and the increasing dependence on foreign oil sources has resulted in a reawakening of interest...
Hydropower: Making Its Mark in North America
To discover what plans North American hydropower producers have for their hydroelectric resources in the 1990s, Hydro Review conducted a survey of leaders in the hydro generation industry...
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