[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: 18CFR5.4]

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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. 5.4  Acceleration of a license expiration date.

    (a) Request for acceleration. (1) No later than five and one-half 
years prior

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to expiration of an existing license, a licensee may file with the 
Commission, in accordance with the formal filing requirements in subpart 
T of part 385 of this chapter, a written request for acceleration of the 
expiration date of its existing license, containing the statements and 
information specified in Sec. 16.6(b) of this chapter and a detailed 
explanation of the basis for the acceleration request.
    (2) If the Commission grants the request for acceleration pursuant 
to paragraph (c) of this section, the Commission will deem the request 
for acceleration to be a notice of intent under Sec. 16.6 of this 
chapter and, unless the Commission directs otherwise, the licensee must 
make available the Pre-Application Document provided for in Sec. 5.6 no 
later than 90 days from the date that the Commission grants the request 
for acceleration.
    (b) Notice of request for acceleration. (1) Upon receipt of a 
request for acceleration, the Commission will give notice of the 
licensee's request and provide a 45-day period for comments by 
interested persons by:
    (i) Publishing notice in the Federal Register;
    (ii) Publishing notice once in a daily or weekly newspaper published 
in the county or counties in which the project or any part thereof or 
the lands affected thereby are situated; and
    (iii) Notifying appropriate Federal, state, and interstate resource 
agencies and Indian tribes, and non-governmental organizations likely to 
be interested.
    (2) The notice issued pursuant to paragraphs (b)(1)(A) and (B) and 
the written notice given pursuant to paragraph (b)(1)(C) will be 
considered as fulfilling the notice provisions of Sec. 16.6(d) of this 
chapter should the Commission grant the acceleration request and will 
include an explanation of the basis for the licensee's acceleration 
request.
    (c) Commission order. If the Commission determines it is in the 
public interest, the Commission will issue an order accelerating the 
expiration date of the license to not less than five years and 90 days 
from the date of the Commission order.