Pre-Application Document (PAD)
The Pre-Application Document (PAD) is a requirement of the FERC
regulations issued July 23, 2003 (18 CFR Part 5). The PAD must be
filed with the Notice of Intent to File an Application for New
License (NOI). According to the regulations,
the documents must be filed at least five years but not more than five
and one-half years before the expiration of the existing license. For
Douglas PUD, this window of time is December 2006 – May 2007.
The purpose of the PAD is to provide detailed information about a
project at the beginning of the relicensing process to help focus
participants on key issues. The Integrated Licensing Process (ILP)
requirements are designed to allow the PAD to evolve into an Exhibit E
for the final license application, which was submitted to the FERC on May
27, 2010.
Douglas PUD’s PAD includes descriptions of Wells Project
facilities, operations, license requirements, environmental resources
and impacts, project lands, water resources, fish and aquatic
resources, terrestrial and wildlife resources, rare, threatened and
endangered species, recreation and land use, cultural resources and
socioeconomic resources. It also includes a preliminary list of
proposed studies to be conducted during the mandatory two year study
period (January 2008 – December 2009). Douglas PUD distributed its
PAD to Federal and State resource agencies, local governments, Indian
tribes, members of the public, and other interested parties.
Douglas PUD filed the PAD on December 1, 2006.
PAD Volume 1 (Sections 1-7)
PAD Volume 2 (Appendices)
PAD Volume 3 (Diagrams and Schematics of Project Works)
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