[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 18, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 18CFR5.19]

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           TITLE 18--CONSERVATION OF POWER AND WATER RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 5_INTEGRATED LICENSE APPLICATION PROCESS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 5.19  Tendering notice and schedule.

    (a) Notice. Within 14 days of the filing date of any application for 
a license developed pursuant to this part, the Commission will issue 
public notice of the tendering for filing of the application. The 
tendering notice will include a preliminary schedule for expeditious 
processing of the application, including dates for:
    (1) Issuance of the acceptance for filing and ready for 
environmental analysis notice provided for in Sec. 5.22.
    (2) Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and 
fishway prescriptions;
    (3) Issuance of a draft environmental assessment or environmental 
impact statement, or an environmental assessment not preceded by a 
draft.
    (4) Filing of comments on the draft environmental assessment or 
environmental impact statement, as applicable;
    (5) Filing of modified recommendations, mandatory terms and 
conditions, and fishway prescriptions in response to a draft NEPA 
document or Environmental Analysis, if no draft NEPA document is issued;
    (6) Issuance of a final NEPA document, if any;

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    (7) In the case of a new or subsequent license application, a 
deadline for submission of final amendments, if any, to the application; 
and
    (8) Readiness of the application for Commission decision.
    (b) Modifications to process plan and schedule. The tendering notice 
shall also include any known modifications to the schedules developed 
pursuant to Sec. 5.8 for completion of consultation under section 7 of 
the Endangered Species Act and water quality certification under section 
401 of the Clean Water Act.
    (c) Method of notice. The public notice provided for in paragraphs 
(a) and (b) of this Section will be given by:
    (1) Publishing notice in the Federal Register; and
    (2) Notifying appropriate Federal, state, and interstate resource 
agencies, state water quality and coastal zone management plan 
consistency certification agencies, Indian tribes, and non-governmental 
organizations by mail.
    (d) Resolution of pending information requests. Within 30 days of 
the filing date of any application for a license developed pursuant to 
this part, the Director of the Office of Energy Projects will issue an 
order resolving any requests for additional information-gathering or 
studies made in comments on the preliminary licensing proposal or draft 
license application.

[Order 2002, 68 FR 51121, Aug. 25, 2003; 68 FR 61742, Oct. 30, 2003; 68 
FR 69957, Dec. 16, 2003]