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Docket Number: (09-AFC-9)

Solar Millennium Ridgecrest Power Project Licensing Case
Notices And Announcements

Note: Items are listed by the date of the meeting or event, where applicable.

• Notice of Postponed Commission Hearing on February 13, 2012 - Postponed - Hearing to Receive Oral Argument on, and Possible Consideration of the Hearing Adviser's Proposed Decision. Dated and posted February 2, 2012.
• February 13, 2012 Postponed - Notice of Rescheduled Commission Hearing to Receive Oral Argument on and Possible Consideration of the Hearing Adviser's Proposed Decision.
  Dated and posted December 23, 2011.
  • Revised Notice of Availability of the Hearing Adviser's Proposed Decision, and Notice of Full Commission Hearing. Dated and posted December 14, 2011. (Superseded by notice above)
  • Notice of Availability of the Hearing Adviser's Proposed Decision, and Notice of Full Commission Hearing. Dated and posted December 5, 2011. (Superseded by notice above)
  • December 14, 2011 Postponed to February 13, 2012. - The full Commission will consider the Hearing Adviser's proposed decision
• Appendix to Order No. 11-0824-8. Dated and posted August 26, 2011.
• Commission Order Withdrawing Applicant's Motion Regarding Jurisdictional Waiver and Scheduling Order. Order No. 11-0824-8. Dated and posted August 24, 2011.
• Email re: Committee Order After Hearing on Applicant's Motion for Order Affirming Application of Jurisdictional Waiver - The Order will appear on the agenda for the August 24, 2011 Energy Commission business meeting.
  Email from Hearing Adviser Kourtney Vaccaro. Dated August 2, 2011, posted August 17, 2011.
  
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• Committee Order After Hearing on Applicant's Motion for Order Affirming Application of Jurisdictional Waiver - Dated and posted July 28, 2011.
• July 25, 2011 - Committee Hearing of Oral Arguments on Solar Trust of America's Motion for Order Affirming Application of Jurisdictional Waiver. Posted July 13, 2011.
• June 21, 2011 - Mandatory Status Conference. Posted June 10, 2011.
• November 18, 2010 - Public Notice of Staff Workshop. Posted November 4, 2010.
• Revised Scheduling Order and Order Granting Applicant's Request to Conduct a Two-Year Biological Study. Posted August 30, 2010.
• September 9, 2010 - Public Notice of Staff Workshop. (PDF file, 6 pages, 406 kb)
  • Draft Agenda for the September 9, 2010, Workshop
• July 14, 2010 - Proposed Decision of the Siting Committee, and REVISED Notice of Hearing. Revised notice posted July 13, 2010.
• July 8, 2010 - Mandatory Status Conference. Posted June 10, 2010.
• Order Granting, in Part, Kerncrest Audubon Society's Request to Hold Evidentiary Hearings in Ridgecrest, California. Posted June 10, 2010.
• Revised Committee Schedule. Posted June 9, 2010.
• Order Granting Kerncrest Audubon Society's Request to Extend the Deadline for Data Requests. Posted June 1, 2010.
• June 9, 2010 - Notice and Orders for Consolidated Hearing on Issues Concerning US Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resources Data. Posted May 24, 2010.
• Order Granting Petition to Intervene to Center for Bio Diversity. Posted April 30, 2010.
• Notice of change of May 17, 2010, Prehearing Conference to a Status Conference and Postponement of Evidentiary Hearings set for June. (PDF file, 2 pages, 16 kb)
  
• Committee Order Vacating the Current Committee Schedule - Establishing Revised Critical Path Milestones, and Extending Deadlines to Comment on the Staff Assessment and to File Petitions to Intervene. Posted April, 2010. (PDF, 3 pgs, 36 kb)
• Notice of Opportunity to File Statements of Concern Regarding Eileen Allen Serving as a Commissioner Advisor on this Case. Posted April, 2010. (PDF, 8 pgs, 57 kb)
• April 22 & 23, 2010 and May 3 & 4, 2010 - Staff Workshops. Posted April 14, 2010.
  
  • Agenda for April 22 & 23
  • Draft Agenda for May 3 & 4
• Order Granting Petition to Intervene of Kerncrest Audubon Society. Posted April 12, 2010.
• May 17, 2010 - Notice of Prehearing Conference and Evidentiary Hearing.
  Status Conference - May 17, 2010
  Evidentiary Hearing - POSTPONED June 1, 2010, June 3, 2010 and June 4, 2010
  Posted April 8, 2010.
• April 27, 2010 - Notice of Mandatory Status Conference. Posted April 8, 2010.
• Committee Scheduling Order. Posted April 8, 2010 (PDF file, 6 pages, 64 kb).
• Notice of Availibility of the Staff Assessment/Draft Plan Amendment/Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Posted March 29, 2010 (PDF file, 7 pages, 171 kb).
• Committee Order Adopting Filing and Electronic Documents Directives. Posted March 16, 2010 (PDF file, 4 pages, 64 kb).
• Committee Orders Granting Petition to Intervene - to Basin and Range Watch and Western Watersheds Project. (Posted February 23, 2010 (PDF file, 6 pages, 56 kb).
• February 24, 2010 - Notice of Mandatory Status Conference. Posted February 11, 2010 (PDF, 5 pgs, 40 kb).
• Committee Scheduling Order. Dated: January 22, 2010. Posted January 25, 2010 (PDF, 7 pgs, 59 kb).
• January 5 & 6, 2010 - Supplemental Notice of Public Workshops - To Be Held Two Days.
• Committee Order Granting Petition to Intervene to California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE). (PDF, 2 pgs, 44 kb).
• January 5, 2010 - Notice of Energy Commission Informational Hearing, Environmental Scoping Meeting and Public Site Visit and Bureau of Land Management Scoping Meeting.
• December 15, 2009 - Notice of Public Workshop.
• Order Appointing Committee. Posted November 25, 2009.