FERC Licensing Proceeding Environmental Study Life Cycle

Aldrovandi, Mathew; Parish, Esther; Pracheil, Brenda

doi:10.21951/FLPESLC/1822907

Title: FERC Licensing Proceeding Environmental Study Life Cycle

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This dataset summarized the back-and-forth of study submittals and issuances from Aldrovandi et al. (2021) for seven licensed hydropower projects presented as case studies in Aldrovandi et al. (2021), leveraging information from six of the seven case study projects documented in Pracheil et al. (2019), Sci Tot Env 687: 1245-1260. This information was mined from documents containing information on environmental studies conducted for US federal hydropower licensing. Documents included were found in the FERC eLibrary and was summarized and presented in Aldrovandi et al. (2021). A description of the types of documents used in this dataset can be found in Aldrovandi et al. (2021).

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Aldrovandi, Mathew; Parish, Esther; Pracheil, Brenda

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Publication Date:: 2021-09-01

Other Number(s):: 1

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office

Subject:: 13 HYDRO ENERGY

OSTI Identifier:: 1822907

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21951/FLPESLC/1822907

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                    Aldrovandi, Mathew, Parish, Esther, and Pracheil, Brenda. FERC Licensing Proceeding Environmental Study Life Cycle.  United States: N. p., 2021. 
        Web.  doi:10.21951/FLPESLC/1822907.

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                    Aldrovandi, Mathew, Parish, Esther, & Pracheil, Brenda. FERC Licensing Proceeding Environmental Study Life Cycle.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.21951/FLPESLC/1822907

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                    Aldrovandi, Mathew, Parish, Esther, and Pracheil, Brenda. 2021.  
"FERC Licensing Proceeding Environmental Study Life Cycle".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.21951/FLPESLC/1822907.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1822907. Pub date:Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2021

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  abstractNote = {This dataset summarized the back-and-forth of study submittals and issuances from Aldrovandi et al. (2021) for seven licensed hydropower projects presented as case studies in Aldrovandi et al. (2021), leveraging information from six of the seven case study projects documented in Pracheil et al. (2019), Sci Tot Env 687: 1245-1260. This information was mined from documents containing information on environmental studies conducted for US federal hydropower licensing. Documents included were found in the FERC eLibrary and was summarized and presented in Aldrovandi et al. (2021). A description of the types of documents used in this dataset can be found in Aldrovandi et al. (2021).},

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