Download the overall UARP Relicensing Schedule (197k PDF)

To ensure that the statutory and regulatory deadlines for relicensing the UARP are met, and to ensure that the relicensing process is efficient and cost-effective for all Participants, SMUD has developed a schedule for the alternative licensing process. SMUD recognizes that all Participants face constraints on the amount of time, money, and personnel that they can commit to the alternative licensing process, and that those constraints can make it difficult to meet certain deadlines. SMUD has therefore tried to provide as much time as reasonably possible for each of the steps of the alternative process, while also recognizing that delays by any one Participant can impose a serious burden on all the other Participants.

For the alternative licensing process to work, Participants must commit to the schedule and make best efforts to ensure that the process progresses efficiently and effectively. Without clear deadlines, the Participants risk becoming bogged down in a costly and unproductive process. However, Participants should also keep in mind that the goal of the alternative licensing is to produce a comprehensive and accurate preliminary draft EA and a mutually acceptable final license application—not merely to satisfy a series of deadlines—and SMUD therefore encourages the Participants to be as flexible as reasonably possible in enforcing the schedule.

SMUD, FERC, resource agencies, Native American tribes, citizens’ groups, businesses, other organizations, and members of the public will meet the schedule set forth. If a dispute arises as to whether any Participant should be required to meet a particular deadline in the schedule or whether a particular deadline should be extended, the Plenary Group will attempt to resolve the dispute. If the dispute cannot be resolved by consensus, any Participant may refer the dispute to FERC, whose decision will be final.

Download a PDF of the UARP Relicensing Timeline (154k PDF)

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