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Slide 1: Interagency Hydropower Licensing Workshop: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Role in Hydropower Licensing
Interagency Interagency Hydropower Hydropower Licensing Licensing Workshop Workshop U.S. U.S. Fish Fish and and Wildlife Wildlife Service Service Role Role in in Hydropower Hydropower Licensing Licensing
Slide 2: Mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
“The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is, working with others, to conserve, protect, and enhance fish wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.”
Slide 3: Statutory Authorities
Hydropower Hydropower Licensing Licensing U.S. U.S. Fish Fish and and Wildlife Wildlife Service Service Statutory Statutory Authorities Authorities •• Fish Fish and and Wildlife Wildlife Coordination Coordination Act Act •• Endangered Endangered Species Species Act Act •• National National Environme
Slide 4: Statutory Authorities: Sections
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Statutory Authorities • Federal Power Act • Section 4(e) • Section 10(a) • Section 10(j) • Section 18 • Section 30(c)
Slide 5: Section 4(e)
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Statutory Authorities Federal Power Act - Section 4(e) • Mandatory Conditions for Federal Lands • National Wildlife Refuges • Waterfowl Production Areas • National Fish Hatcheries
Slide 6: Section 10(a)
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Statutory Authorities Federal Power Act - Section 10(a) • FERC must consider fish and wildlife recommendations of resource agencies and Indian Tribes to ensure projects are “best adapted” to the comprehensive development of the waterway
Slide 7: Section 10(j)
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Statutory Authorities Federal Power Act - Section 10(j) • Fish and wildlife recommendations must be included in license unless inconsistent with other Federal law • Recommendations must provide for protection, mitigation, or enhancement • Dispute R
Slide 8: Section 18
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Statutory Authorities Federal Power Act - Section 18 • Mandatory Prescription of Fishways • “The Commission shall require the construction, maintenance, and operation by a licensee at its own expense of such fishways as may be prescribed by the Sec
Slide 9: Section 30(c)
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Statutory Authorities Federal Power Act - Section 30(c) • Mandatory fish and wildlife conditions for projects exempted from licensing • Prevent loss of or damage to fish and wildlife • FWS, NMFS, State
Slide 10: Mitigation Policy
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mitigation Policy • Mitigate losses of fish and wildlife • Seek mitigation based on the value and abundance of the habitat affected • Adopts CEQ’s definition of mitigation • Goal: No net loss of in-kind habitat value
Slide 11: Field Office Responsibilities
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Field Office Responsibilities • Primary Contact for Public, Applicants, and Other Agencies • Work Directly with Applicant/Consultant • Inter- and Intra-agency Coordination
Slide 12: Field Office Responsibilities
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Field Office Responsibilities • Environmental Review and Impact Assessment • Develop Comments, Recommendations, Terms and Conditions, Prescriptions • Prepare Correspondence to Applicant and FERC
Slide 13: Resource Issues
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Issues • Fish Passage • Instream Flows • Entrainment and Impingement • Turbine Mortality • Water Quality
Slide 14: Resource Issues
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Issues • Reservoir and Downstream Water Level fluctuations • Threatened and Endangered Species • Wildlife Habitat • Fish and Wildlife Recreation
Slide 15: The Bottom Line
Hydropower Licensing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Bottom Line • Serve the Public Interest • Conserve, Protect, and Enhance Fish and Wildlife • Solve Problems • Shared Vision for the Future
Slide 16: Vision for the Future
Vision Vision for for the the Future Future “The “The Nation Nation behaves behaves well well ifif itit treats treats its its natural natural resources resources as as assets assets which which itit must must turn turn over over to to the the next next generation generation increased, increased, and
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