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The Federal Power Act requires hydropower licensees to recompense the United States for the use, occupancy, and enjoyment of its lands. The Commission assesses annual charges for the use of Federal lands through Part 11 of its regulations. The Commission is proposing to revise the methodology used to compute these annual charges. Under the proposed rule, the Commission would create a fee schedule based on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) methodology for calculating rental rates for linear rights of way. This methodology includes a land value per acre, an encumbrance factor, a rate of return, and an annual adjustment factor. The fee schedule would include all adjustments described in the BLM rule adopting this methodology, except the allocation of county land values into zones....
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The need for a California State University (CSU) in the South Bay is undeniable. There are two CSU campuses in San Diego, the San Marcos campus 45 miles north of Chula Vista, and San Diego State University which is an impacted college with 68.8% of the 50,000 first-time freshmen who applied for the fall 2008 semester turned away.
The process to bring a CSU campus to the South Bay is a long and laborious. Yet, one of the key elements has been completed, that being the allocation of land. The City of Chula Vista has set aside 400 acres of land in East Chula Vista for the construction of a campus.
The Governor may decide that in this economic climate that to start the ball rolling on such a project could be detrimental to future State budgets. When it is determined that a CSU campus is nee...
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The New Orleans Redevelopment has no choice but to become a more dynamic entity by the end of the year. That's because time is running out for the Louisiana Land Trust, the state- chartered nonprofit corporation that currently holds titles to 3,909 flood- and hurricane-damaged properties across New Orleans.
The land trust acts as a holding corporation and is responsible for maintaining and securing Road Home Option 1 properties, which homeowners deeded to the state after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. NORA will assume responsibility for the conditions of those properties once the land trust's $221 million allocation of federal grant money dries up, which is expected by year's end.
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The state Department of Environmental Protection has asked federal officials to hold off a review of a natural gas pipeline that will stretch from West Milford under the Monksville Reservoir through Ringwood and into Mahwah because the developer has not submitted enough information.
The $400 million "Northeast Upgrade" by Tennessee Gas Pipeline is the largest project going through the DEP's permit review process and requires evaluation from at least seven of the agency's offices, including Land Use Regulation, Fish and Wildlife and the Bureau of Water Allocation.
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Although no action has been taken on a proposal to re-subdivide a parcel of land in St. Albans to allow for the construction of six new homes, residents still voiced their concerns to the City Council.
Is it fair allocation to take park land from many families' kids, for the profit of one?" said resident Ann Persinger Monday night.
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The Louisiana Recovery Authority board of directors approved a range of funding plans Thursday for a new hospital, private schools and colleges, fisheries, infrastructure, parish recovery projects and small businesses. Should Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, the Louisiana Legislature and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development approve these plans, almost all of the state's $10.4 billion in community development block grants for housing, infrastructure and economic development will have been allocated.
The board approved an action plan recommending the allocation of $74 million in CDBG funds allowing the state's Division of Administration to acquire land and commission architecture and engineering design work for the new Medical Center of Louisiana - New Orleans.