Before the FERC Application for New License for the Annex Creek ...

ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER CO.
134 N. FRANKL.IN STREET t
JUNEAU.
(807) 588·2222
AL.ASKA 1111801
April 25, 1985
Mr. Robert W. McVey, Director
Alaska Region
National Marine Fisheries Serv~ce
Post Office Box 1668
Juneau, Alaska 99H02
Dear Mr. McVey:
Un April 5, 1985 members of my staff and I met with Richard
D. Reed, Regional Habitat Protection Supervisor, ADFG, to review
our proposed minimum instream flow recommendation for our Salmon
Creek Hydroelectric Project (FERC No. 2307). Negotiations aimed
at establishing a minimum flow are in the final stages as part of
our application to the Department of Natural Resources for an
amended water right. We have been coordinating these
negotiations with members of your Division of Environmental
Assessment because the Salmon Creek Project is due for
relicensing under the Federal Power Act and the National Marine
Fisheries Service will be one of the reviewers of the relicensing
application.
Subsequent to our April 5 meeting with ADFG, Dr. David
Hoopes, our fisheries consultant, met informally with Waine Oien,
Fish and Wildlife Services and Tamra Faris of your staff to
describe the status of the instream flow negotiations between
AELP and ADFG. At that time both Mr. Oien and Ms. Faris
requested that they receive copies of synthetic flow data
describing the hydraulic regime of Salmon Creek. Prints of this
data accompany this letter along with a set of meeting notes
describing our April 5 discussions with ADFG. Following our
meeting with NMFS and FWS, we have been advised that ADFG has
agreed to our minimum flow proposal.
If either you or your staff have any questions regarding the
meeting notes, agreement or data accompanying this letter, please
give Dr. Hoopes a call at (206) 622-5000.
Very truly yours,
William A. Corbus
Manager
Copy to: Richard Reed, ADFG
Enclosures