FERC will now undertake the substantive review of a non-deficient license application. This stage includes three critical steps: the Notice of Acceptance and Readiness for Environmental Analysis (REA), after which agencies and other participants must timely submit mandatory and other environmental conditions; the environmental document; and the inter-agency process to resolve any disputes regarding FPA section 10(j) conditions.

• 4.5.1 Notice of Acceptance and Readiness for Environmental Analysis
• 4.5.2 Environmental Document
• 4.5.3 FPA section 10(j) Process
• 4.5.4 ESA Formal Consultation Process
• 4.5.5 Water Quality Certification Process
• 4.5.6 Coastal Zone Consistency Process

C. Notice of Deficiency

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