How to Get Involved
The Commission provides a number of important opportunities for
landowners and citizens to participate in decision making on proposed
natural gas and hydroelectric projects.
These include:
- Attending and participating in public scoping meetings
and site visits. Participants can tell Commission Staff about:
- environmental and socioeconomic resources
that are important and should be examined FERC
- other alternatives to the proposed project
that should be evaluated
- Commenting on the Commission's draft Environmental Assessment
(EA) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
- All timely comments are answered in the Final
EA or EIS.
- Commenters should support any recommendations
for any mitigative measures that they want the FERC to
include in any approvals issued (hydropower licensees
and natural gas certificates of public convenience).
- Asking the Commission's Alternative
Dispute Resolution for assistance in resolving disputes
with the energy company that is proposing a project.
- The Commission encourages applicants and citizens
to resolve disputes
- The Commission also encourages applicants
and affected organizations to enter into Settlement Agreements
to resolve large, controversial hydropower projects and
natural gas projects.
- Anyone can ask the Commission to reconsider its hydropower
licensing and natural gas certification decisions. This is
called a petition
for rehearing.
Project Correspondence
Keeping up with and managing project-related correspondence is
no small task. Prior to eFiling and eSubscription, this was a
paper-intensive process. We encourage all participants who have
computers and an email address (Yahoo and Microsoft Hotmail offer
free email addresses) to:
- Use eFiling to
submit documents and comments to FERC;
- Use eSubscription
to subscribe to the project number of any hydroelectric or
natural gas project in which they are interested;
- Use the Calendar
of Events, especially Scoping Meetings and Site Visits;
and
- Become acquainted with the features of eLibrary.
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Contact
Information
Office of External Affairs
Telephone: 202-502-8004
Toll-free: 1-866-208-3372
Email: customer@ferc.gov
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