Project Decommissioning at Relicensing; Use of Reserved Authority in Hydropower Licenses To Ameliorate Cumulative Impacts; Order Dismissing Requests for Rehearing and Denying Requests for Reconsideration

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is issuing an order that dismisses requests for rehearing, and denies requests for reconsideration, of the two policy statements that were issued on December 14, 1994. The Commission, in Docket No. RM93-25-000, adopted a policy statement with respect to the use of reserved authority in licenses for hydropower projects to ameliorate cumulative impacts of such projects in the same river basin. In Docket No. RM93-23-000, the Commission adopted a policy statement that addressed issues related to relicensing and decommissioning of hydropower projects. The Commission found that, because there is no aggrievement, rehearing does not lie and that no particular circumstances requiring reconsideration of the policy statements have been shown.