Considering partnering with an engineering firm to complete a FERC relicensing project. Having not done this before, does anyone have any advice on the process from the Surveyor's perspective?
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Well the answer as always is, it depends. I've only done one FERC relicensing survey but it was a doozy. This was for a pool on the upper Columbia and the utility district actually owned the uplands, generally from the project boundary to the line of navigation. So essentially we did a boundary survey of 100+ miles of shoreline and the corresponding section info. As I understand it most FERC submittals don't go into this much detail. We set a lot of boundary monuments and broke down all the sections so we had about 70 records of survey to file in 3 counties as well as the FERC mapping. The main issue in dealing with FERC was following their protocols for digital submittal. Not all that difficult but the regs filled a 3" 3-ring binder. It's a long process and I'd want to have a relationship with whoever runs the pool and not just the engineer.
Doug
