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1A pipeline loop is constructed parallel to an 

existing pipeline to increase capacity. 

2A ‘‘pig’’ is a tool that is inserted into and moves 

through the pipeline, and is used for cleaning the 

pipeline, internal inspections, or other purposes. 

the last three digits in the docket 

number field to access the document. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. A copy is also available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

address in item h above. 

You may also register online at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

m. Individuals desiring to be included 

on the Commission’s mailing list should 

so indicate by writing to the Secretary 

of the Commission. 

Anyone may submit comments, a 

protest, or a motion to intervene in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 

385.210, .211, .214. In determining the 

appropriate action to take, the 

Commission will consider all protests or 

other comments filed, but only those 

who file a motion to intervene in 

accordance with the Commission’s 

Rules may become a party to the 

proceeding. Any comments, protests, or 

motions to intervene must be received 

on or before the specified comment date 

for the particular application. 

Any filings must bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS,’’ 

‘‘PROTEST,’’ or ‘‘MOTION TO 

INTERVENE,’’ as applicable, and the 

Project Number of the particular 

application to which the filing refers. A 

copy of any motion to intervene must 

also be served upon each representative 

of the Applicant specified in the 

particular application. 

Federal, State, and local agencies are 

invited to file comments on the 

described application. A copy of the 

application may be obtained by agencies 

directly from the applicant. If an agency 

does not file comments within the time 

specified for filing comments, it will be 

presumed to have no comments. One 

copy of an agency’s comments must also 

be sent to the Applicant’s 

representatives. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Proposed Northeast Supply 

Diversification Project and Ellisburg to 

Craigs Project, and Request for 

Comments on Environmental Issues 

December 30, 2010. 

Tennessee Gas Pipeline 

Company.

Docket No. 

CP11–30– 

000 

Dominion Transmission, Inc. Docket No. 

CP11–41– 

000 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

two related projects proposed by 

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (TGP) 

and Dominion Transmission, Inc. (DTI). 

TGP’s Northeast Supply Diversification 

Project would involve construction and 

operation of facilities in Tioga and 

Bradford Counties, Pennsylvania and in 

Niagara, Erie, and Livingston Counties, 

New York. DTI’s Ellisburg to Craigs 

Project would involve construction and 

operation of facilities in Livingston and 

Wyoming Counties, New York and 

Potter County, Pennsylvania. This EA 

will be used by the Commission in its 

decision-making process to determine 

whether the projects are in the public 

convenience and necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies on the project. 

Your input will help the Commission 

staff determine what issues need to be 

evaluated in the EA. Please note that the 

scoping period will close on January 31, 

2011. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for these projects. State and 

local government representatives are 

asked to notify their constituents of 

these planned projects and encourage 

them to comment on their areas of 

concern. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, you may be contacted by a 

pipeline company representative about 

the acquisition of an easement to 

construct, operate, and maintain the 

proposed facilities. The company would 

seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable 

agreement. However, if the projects are 

approved by the Commission, that 

approval conveys with it the right of 

eminent domain. Therefore, if easement 

negotiations fail to produce an 

agreement, the pipeline company could 

initiate condemnation proceedings 

where compensation would be 

determined in accordance with state 

law. 

A fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need 

To Know?’’ was attached to the project 

notice TGP and DTI provided to 

landowners. This fact sheet addresses a 

number of typically-asked questions, 

including the use of eminent domain 

and how to participate in the 

Commission’s proceedings. It is also 

available for viewing on the FERC Web 

site (http://www.ferc.gov). 

Summary of the Proposed Projects 

TGP proposes to construct and 

operate 6.8 miles of natural gas pipeline 

loop,1 modifications at an existing meter 

station and compressor station, and 

other appurtenant facilities. The 

Northeast Supply Diversification Project 

would provide TGP with up to 150,000 

dekatherms (Dth/d) per day of leased 

capacity from DTI. According to TGP 

and DTI, their projects would increase 

natural gas delivery capacity in the 

northeast region of the U.S. 

The Northeast Supply Diversification 

Project would consist of the following 

facilities: 

• 6.8 miles of 30-inch-diameter 

natural gas pipeline in Tioga and 

Bradford Counties, Pennsylvania; 

• Piping/valve modifications at 

existing Compressor Station 230C in 

Niagara County, New York; 

• A new pig 2 receiver at existing 

Compressor Station 317 in Bradford 

County, Pennsylvania; 

• Modifications at five existing meter 

stations in Erie and Niagara Counties, 

New York; and 

• Tap replacement at an existing 

interconnection between TGP’s 200 Line 

and DTI’s pipeline system in Livingston 

County, New York. 

DTI proposes to construct 

compression, metering, pipeline, and 

pressure regulation facilities to provide 

the proposed leased capacity to TGP. 

The Ellisburg to Craigs Project would 

consist of the following facilities: 

• A new 10,800 horsepower 

compressor station in Wyoming County, 

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3The appendices referenced in this notice are not 

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of 

appendices were sent to all those receiving this 

notice in the mail and are available at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the link called ‘‘eLibrary’’ or 

from the Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call 

(202) 502–8371. For instructions on connecting to 

eLibrary, refer to the last page of this notice. 

4 ‘‘We’’, ‘‘us’’, and ‘‘our’’ refer to the environmental 

staff of the Commission’s Office of Energy Projects. 

5The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s 

regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 800. Historic properties are 

defined in those regulations as any prehistoric or 

historic district, site, building, structure, or object 

included in or eligible for inclusion in the National 

Register for Historic Places. 

• Replacement of 2,875 feet of 8-inchdiameter pipeline with 16-inchdiameter pipeline and a new meter 

station in Livingston County, New York; 

and 

• Construction of new pressure 

regulation facilities at existing meter 

stations in Livingston County, New 

York and Potter County, Pennsylvania. 

The general locations of the projects’ 

facilities are shown in appendix 1.3

Land Requirements for Construction 

TGP’s project would disturb 

approximately 111 acres of land for the 

aboveground facilities and the pipeline. 

Following construction, about 51 acres 

would be maintained for permanent 

operation of the project’s facilities; the 

remaining acreage would be restored 

and allowed to revert to former uses. 

The entire proposed pipeline route 

parallels TGP’s existing pipeline rightof-way. 

DTI’s project would disturb 

approximately 38 acres of land for the 

aboveground facilities and the pipeline. 

Following construction, about 11 acres 

would be maintained for permanent 

operation of the project’s facilities; the 

remaining acreage would be restored 

and allowed to revert to former uses. 

The aboveground facilities would be 

constructed adjacent to existing 

aboveground facilities owned by DTI. 

The pipeline replacement would 

involve replacing the existing pipeline 

with a larger diameter pipeline in the 

same right-of-way. 

The EA Process 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) requires the Commission to 

take into account the environmental 

impacts that could result from an action 

whenever it considers the issuance of a 

Certificate of Public Convenience and 

Necessity. NEPA also requires us 4 to 

discover and address concerns the 

public may have about proposals. This 

process is referred to as ‘‘scoping’’. The 

main goal of the scoping process is to 

focus the analysis in the EA on the 

important environmental issues. By this 

notice, the Commission requests public 

comments on the scope of the issues to 

address in the EA. All comments 

received will be considered during the 

preparation of the EA. 

In the EA we will discuss impacts that 

could occur as a result of the 

construction and operation of the 

proposed projects under these general 

headings: 

• Geology and soils; 

• Land use; 

• Water resources, fisheries, and 

wetlands; 

• Cultural resources; 

• Vegetation and wildlife; 

• Air quality and noise; 

• Endangered and threatened species; 

and 

• Public safety. 

We will also evaluate reasonable 

alternatives to the proposed projects or 

portions of the projects, and make 

recommendations on how to lessen or 

avoid impacts on the various resource 

areas. 

Our independent analysis of the 

issues will be presented in the EA. The 

EA will be placed in the public record 

and, depending on the comments 

received during the scoping process, 

may be published and distributed to the 

public. A comment period will be 

allotted if the EA is published for 

review. We will consider all comments 

on the EA before we make our 

recommendations to the Commission. 

To ensure your comments are 

considered, please carefully follow the 

instructions in the Public Participation 

section below. 

With this notice, we are asking 

agencies with jurisdiction and/or 

special expertise with respect to 

environmental issues to formally 

cooperate with us in the preparation of 

the EA. These agencies may choose to 

participate once they have evaluated the 

proposals relative to their 

responsibilities. Agencies that would 

like to request cooperating agency status 

should follow the instructions for filing 

comments provided under the Public 

Participation section of this notice. 

Currently, the New York Department of 

Agriculture and Markets has expressed 

its intention to participate as a 

cooperating agency in the preparation of 

the EA. 

Consultations Under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

In accordance with the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation’s 

implementing regulations for section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act, we are using this 

notice to initiate consultation with 

applicable State Historic Preservation 

Offices (SHPO), and to solicit their 

views and those of other government 

agencies, interested Indian tribes, and 

the public on the projects’ potential 

effects on historic properties.5 We will 

define the project-specific Area of 

Potential Effects (APE) in consultation 

with the SHPOs as the projects are 

further developed. On natural gas 

facility projects, the APE at a minimum 

encompasses all areas subject to ground 

disturbance (examples include 

construction right-of-way, contractor/ 

pipe storage yards, compressor stations, 

and access roads). Our EA for these 

projects will document our findings on 

the impacts on historic properties and 

summarize the status of consultations 

under section 106. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the 

projects. Your comments should focus 

on the potential environmental effects, 

reasonable alternatives, and measures to 

avoid or lessen environmental impacts. 

The more specific your comments, the 

more useful they will be. To ensure that 

your comments are timely and properly 

recorded, please send your comments so 

that they will be received in 

Washington, DC on or before January 31, 

2011. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods which you can use to submit 

your comments to the Commission. In 

all instances please reference the project 

docket number (CP11–30–000 and 

CP11–41–000) with your submission. 

The Commission encourages electronic 

filing of comments and has expert 

eFiling staff available to assist you at 

(202) 502–8258 or efiling@ferc.gov. 

(1) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eComment 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov under the link to 

Documents and Filings. An eComment 

is an easy method for interested persons 

to submit brief, text-only comments on 

a project; 

(2) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eFiling 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website at http:// 

www.ferc.gov under the link to 

Documents and Filings. With eFiling 

you can provide comments in a variety 

of formats by attaching them as a file 

with your submission. New eFiling 

users must first create an account by 

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asked to select the type of filing you are 

making. A comment on a particular 

project is considered a ‘‘Comment on a 

Filing’’; or 

(3) You may file a paper copy of your 

comments at the following address: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. 

Environmental Mailing List 

The environmental mailing list 

includes federal, state, and local 

government representatives and 

agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American Tribes; other 

interested parties; and local libraries 

and newspapers. This list also includes 

all affected landowners (as defined in 

the Commission’s regulations) who are 

potential right-of-way grantors, whose 

property may be used temporarily for 

project purposes, or who own homes 

within certain distances of aboveground 

facilities, and anyone who submits 

comments on the projects. We will 

update the environmental mailing list as 

the analysis proceeds to ensure that we 

send the information related to this 

environmental review to all individuals, 

organizations, and government entities 

interested in and/or potentially affected 

by the proposed projects. 

If the EA is published for distribution, 

copies will be sent to the environmental 

mailing list for public review and 

comment. If you would prefer to receive 

a paper copy of the document instead of 

the CD version or would like to remove 

your name from the mailing list, please 

return the attached Information Request 

(appendix 2). 

Becoming an Intervenor 

In addition to involvement in the EA 

scoping process, you may want to 

become an ‘‘intervenor’’ which is an 

official party to the Commission’s 

proceeding. Intervenors play a more 

formal role in the process and are able 

to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be 

heard by the courts if they choose to 

appeal the Commission’s final ruling. 

An intervenor formally participates in 

the proceeding by filing a request to 

intervene. Instructions for becoming an 

intervenor are included in the User’s 

Guide under the ‘‘e-filing’’ link on the 

Commission’s Web site. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

projects is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web 

site at http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Click on the eLibrary 

link, click on ‘‘General Search’’ and enter 

the docket number, excluding the last 

three digits in the Docket Number field 

(i.e., CP11–30 or CP11–41). Be sure you 

have selected an appropriate date range. 

For assistance, please contact FERC 

Online Support at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free 

at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact 

(202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also 

provides access to the texts of formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission now 

offers a free service called eSubscription 

which allows you to keep track of all 

formal issuances and submittals in 

specific dockets. This can reduce the 

amount of time you spend researching 

proceedings by automatically providing 

you with notification of these filings, 

document summaries, and direct links 

to the documents. Go to http:// 

www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm. 

Finally, public meetings or site visits 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

calendar located at http://www.ferc.gov/ 

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–46 Filed 1–6–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 12576–004] 

CRD Hydroelectric LLC, Iowa; Notice 

of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment 

December 23, 2010. 

In accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission) regulations, 

18 CFR Part 380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 

47879), the Office of Energy Projects has 

reviewed the application for an original 

license for the Red Rock Hydroelectric 

Project (FERC Project No. 12576–004), 

to be located on the Des Moines River, 

in Marion County, Iowa, at the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers’ Red Rock 

Dam. 

Staff prepared an environmental 

assessment (EA), which analyzes the 

potential environmental effects of 

licensing the project, and concludes that 

licensing the project, with appropriate 

environmental protection measures, 

would not constitute a major federal 

action that would significantly affect the 

quality of the human environment. 

A copy of the EA is available for 

review at the Commission in the Public 

Reference Room or may be viewed on 

the Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov; toll-free 

at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 202– 

502–8659. 

You may also register online at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

Any comments should be filed within 

30 days from the date of this notice. 

Comments may be filed electronically 

via the Internet. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site http:// 

www.ferc.gov/doc-filing/efiling.asp. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support. 

Although the Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filing, documents 

may also be paper-filed. To paper-file, 

mail an original and seven copies to: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

For further information, contact 

Lesley Kordella at (202) 502–6406 or by 

e-mail at Lesley.Kordella@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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