FERC has rejected a preliminay permit application filed by Principle Power Hydro for hydropower production from McKenzie River in Lane county, Oregon.

FERC is soliciting comments, recommendations, terms and conditions, and prescriptions on the relicense application for the Blue Lake project on Alaska's Sawmill creek. Comments are due on February 6, 2006.

Eugene Water and Electric Board has submitted its license application for the Carmen-Smith project on Oregon's McKenzie River. The deadline for additional study requests is January 23, 2007. For more details, see the FERC notice.

Southern California Edison filed a license application for its 190 MW Mammoth Pool Project in California's San Joaquin watershed in November 2005. Comments, protests, and motions to intervene are due on February 3, 2007.

AquaEnergy Group filed a license application with FERC for its proposed Makah Bay tidal hydrokinetic project (P-12751). While FERC has already issued several preliminary permits for tidal hydrokinetic projects, this will be the first licensing of a tidal project.

California' s Department of Water Resources officially filed its application for a new license for the Oroville project. From DWR' s January 26th press release:

Milestone Reached in Relicensing DWR's Oroville Facilities

SACRAMENTO, Calif.-- The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today filed an application for a new federal license to operate its Oroville Facilities -- the heart of the State Water Project.