FERC Meeting

The following is from a FERC letter.

The Commission intends to prepare an environmental document under the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the Taum Sauk upper reservoir rebuilding
project. The NEPA document will be used by the Commission to identify environmental
impacts and to identify measures that would help mitigate the impacts caused by
construction activities. To support and assist our environmental review, we are beginning
a public scoping process to ensure that all pertinent issues are identified and analyzed,
and that the environmental document is thorough and balanced.

Public Scoping Meeting
Date: March 12, 2007
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (CST)
Location: Lesterville High School
State Highway 21
Lesterville, Missouri 63654

At the scoping meetings, Commission staff will: (1) summarize the environmental
issues tentatively identified for analysis in the environmental document; (2) solicit from
the meeting participants all available information, especially quantifiable data, on the
resources at issue; (3) encourage statements from experts and the public on issues that
should be analyzed in the Commission’s NEPA document, including viewpoints in
opposition to, or in support of, staff's preliminary views expressed in the SD; (4)
determine the resource issues to be addressed in the NEPA document; and (5) identify
those issues that require a detailed analysis, as well as those issues that do not require a
detailed analysis. Staff will also be soliciting input on potential measures that could be
implemented to minimize construction-related impacts. The meetings will be recorded by
a stenographer and become part of the formal record for this project.

Anybody reading this ever been "scopped" before?