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1The appendices referenced in this notice will 

not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of the 

appendices were sent to all those receiving this 

notice in the mail and are available at 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. 

2A ‘‘pig’’ is a tool that the pipeline company 

inserts into and pushes through the pipeline for 

cleaning the pipeline, conducting internal 

inspections, or other purposes. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF18–6–000] 

Summit Permian Transmission, LLC; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Document for the 

Planned Double E Pipeline Project and 

Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental document that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

the Double E Pipeline Project involving 

construction and operation of facilities 

by Summit Permian Transmission, LLC 

(Summit) in New Mexico and Texas. 

The Commission will use this 

environmental document in its 

decision-making process to determine 

whether the project is 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 about issues 

regarding the project. The National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

requires the Commission to consider the 

environmental impacts that could result 

from its action whenever it considers 

the issuance of a Certificate of Public 

Convenience and Necessity. NEPA also 

requires the Commission to discover 

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 

Commission’s environmental document 

on the important environmental issues. 

By this notice, the Commission requests 

public comments on the scope of the 

issues to address. Your input will also 

help the Commission staff determine 

whether the preparation of an 

environmental assessment, or an 

environmental impact statement, would 

be appropriate for this project. To 

ensure that your comments are timely 

and properly recorded, please submit 

your comments so that the Commission 

receives them in Washington, DC on or 

before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 

January 10, 2019. 

You can make a difference by 

submitting your specific comments or 

concerns about the project. Your 

comments should focus on the potential 

environmental effects, reasonable 

alternatives, and measures to avoid or 

lessen environmental impacts. Your 

input will help the Commission staff 

determine the scope of the 

environmental review and what issues 

need to be evaluated. Commission staff 

will consider all filed comments during 

the preparation of the environmental 

document. 

If you sent comments on this project 

to the Commission before the opening of 

this docket on July 25, 2018, you will 

need to file those comments in Docket 

No. PF18–6–000 to ensure they are 

considered as part of this proceeding. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this project. State and 

local government representatives should 

notify their constituents of this planned 

project and encourage them to comment 

on their areas of concern. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, a pipeline company 

representative may contact you about 

the acquisition of an easement to 

construct, operate, and maintain the 

planned facilities. The company would 

seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable 

easement agreement. You are not 

required to enter into an agreement. 

However, if the Commission approves 

the project, that approval conveys with 

it the right of eminent domain. 

Therefore, if you and the company do 

not reach an easement agreement, the 

pipeline company could initiate 

condemnation proceedings in court. In 

such instances, compensation would be 

determined by a judge 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?’’ is available for viewing on 

the FERC website (www.ferc.gov) at 

https://www.ferc.gov/resources/guides/ 

gas/gas.pdf. 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. 

Public Participation 

The Commission offers a free service 

called eSubscription that makes it easy 

to stay informed of all issuances and 

submittals regarding the dockets/ 

projects to which you subscribe. These 

instant email notifications are the fastest 

way to receive notification and provide 

a link to the document files which can 

reduce the amount of time you spend 

researching proceedings. To sign up go 

to www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp. 

For your convenience, three methods 

are available to submit your comments 

to the Commission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has staff available to 

assist you at (866) 208–3676 or 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. Please 

carefully follow these instructions so 

that your comments are properly 

recorded. 

(1) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website (www.ferc.gov) 

under the link to Documents and 

Filings. Using eComment is an easy 

method for submitting brief, text-only 

comments on a project; 

(2) You can file your comments 

electronically by using the eFiling 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website (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 clicking on 

‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be 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 can file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

following address. Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. Be sure to 

reference the project docket number 

(PF18–6–000) with your submission. 

Please note this is not your only 

public input opportunity; please refer to 

the review process flow chart in 

appendix 1 for more information about 

opportunities to comment on this 

project.1

Summary of the Planned Project 

The scope of facilities currently 

includes the following: 

• Approximately 34 miles of new 30- 

inch-diameter trunk-line pipeline 

(Trunk-line 100 or T100) from Summit’s 

existing Lane Processing Plant in Eddy 

County, New Mexico to a planned Poker 

Lake Compressor Station site, also in 

Eddy County. In addition to the trunkline, this portion of the project would 

include: 

—One 30-inch pig launcher 2 and one 

receipt meter located within the Lane 

Processing Plant; 

—two mainline block valves within a 

40-foot by 50-foot gravel pad within 

the planned right-of-way; and 


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3The appendices referenced in this notice will 

not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of the 

appendices were sent to all those receiving this 

notice in the mail and are available at 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. 

4For instructions on connecting to eLibrary, refer 

to the last page of this notice. 

5The Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations addressing cooperating agency 

responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 1501.6. 

—one permanent and six temporary 

access roads. 

• One new compressor station (Poker 

Lake Compressor Station), sited on 

approximately 70 acres on federal land 

managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land 

Management, in Eddy County. The new 

compressor station would require two 

Taurus 70 turbine-driven compressor 

units, totaling about 22,200 

horsepowers. Associated facilities 

would include one 42-inch pig 

launcher; one 30-inch pig receiver; and 

one receipt meter located at the Poker 

Lake Compressor Station site with an 

expected volume of 175 million 

standard cubic feet per day (MMscfd). 

• Approximately 81.1 miles of new 

42-inch-diameter trunk-line pipeline 

(Trunk-line 200 or T200) from the 

planned Poker Lake Compressor Station; 

through Loving, Ward, and Reeves 

Counties, Texas and terminating at the 

Waha Pigging Station in Reeves County, 

Texas. In addition to the trunk-line, this 

portion of the project would include: 

—Four mainline block valves within a 

40-foot by 50-foot gravel pad within 

the planned right-of-way; 

—one 42-inch pig receiver, located 

within the Waha Hub Pigging Station 

site; and six permanent and 22 

temporary access roads. 

• Approximately 17.3 miles of new 

30-inch-diameter lateral-line pipeline 

(Lateral 100 or L100) from the existing 

Loving Processing Plants to the planned 

trunk-line in Eddy County, New 

Mexico. Additional facilities would 

include: 

—One 30-inch pig launcher within an 

approximate 300-foot by 300-foot site; 

—one 30-inch pig receiver within an 

approximate 200-foot by 200-foot site; 

and 

—three receipt meters with an 

approximate 300-foot by 300-foot site, 

including: 

D One receipt meter to serve the new 

Sendero Midstream Partners Plant, 

currently under construction; 

D one receipt meter to serve the 

existing Matador Resources Company’s 

Plant; and 

D one receipt meter to serve the new 

Lucid Energy Group Road Runner Plant, 

currently under construction. 

—one permanent and four temporary 

access roads. 

• Approximately 1.4 miles of new 42- 

inch-diameter trunk-line (Trunk-line 

300 or T300) from the planned 

Summit Waha Pigging Station site in 

Reeves County, Texas to the final 

delivery locations in the Waha Hub in 

Pecos, County, Texas. Aboveground 

facilities would include: 

—One delivery meter to serve Kinder 

Morgan’s Permian Highway Pipeline, 

currently under construction; 

—one delivery meter to serve Kinder 

Morgan’s existing Gulf Coast Express 

Pipeline; and 

—one delivery meter to serve Energy 

Transfer Company’s existing Trans 

Pecos Pipeline header pipeline. 

• Approximately 160 acres of 

temporary laydown or pipeyards are 

planned for the project. In addition, 

fiber optic cables would be installed 

within the same trench as the pipelines, 

for facility communications and 

operation. 

Summit anticipates initial 

construction activities to begin in April 

2020, with a planned in-service date of 

April 2021. The general location of the 

project facilities is shown in appendix 

2.3

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the planned facilities 

would disturb about 2,730 acres of land, 

including the trunk-line and lateral 

pipelines, new compressor station and 

the aboveground facilities. Following 

construction, Summit would maintain 

about 976 acres for permanent operation 

of the project’s facilities; the remaining 

acreages would be restored and revert to 

their former uses. About 93 percent of 

the planned pipeline route parallels 

existing pipeline, utility, or road rightsof-way. 

The NEPA Process 

The environmental document will 

discuss impacts that could occur as a 

result of the construction and operation 

of the planned project under these 

general headings: 

• Geology and soils; 

• water resources and wetlands; 

• vegetation and wildlife; 

• threatened and endangered species; 

• cultural resources; 

• land use; 

• socioeconomics; 

• air quality and noise; 

• public safety; and 

• cumulative impacts. 

Commission staff will also evaluate 

possible alternatives to the planned 

project or portions of the project, and 

make recommendations on how to 

lessen or avoid impacts on the various 

resource areas. 

Although no formal application has 

been filed, Commission staff have 

already initiated a NEPA review under 

the Commission’s pre-filing process. 

The purpose of the pre-filing process is 

to encourage early involvement of 

interested stakeholders and to identify 

and resolve issues before the 

Commission receives an application. As 

part of the pre-filing review, 

Commission staff will contact federal 

and state agencies to discuss their 

involvement in the scoping process and 

the preparation of the environmental 

document. 

The environmental document will 

present Commission staffs’ independent 

analysis of the issues, and will be 

available in electronic format in the 

public record through eLibrary 4 and the 

Commission’s website (https://

www.ferc.gov/industries/gas/enviro/ 

eis.asp). If eSubscribed, you will receive 

instant email notification when the 

environmental document is issued. The 

environmental document may be issued 

for an allotted public comment period. 

Commission staff will consider all 

comments on the environmental 

document before making 

recommendations to the Commission. 

To ensure Commission staff have the 

opportunity to consider and address 

your comments, please carefully follow 

the instructions in the Public 

Participation section, beginning on page 

2. 

With this notice, the Commission is 

asking agencies with jurisdiction by law 

and/or special expertise with respect to 

the environmental issues related to this 

project to formally cooperate in the 

preparation of the environmental 

document.5 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 U.S. Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM), Carlsbad Field 

Office has expressed its intention to 

participate as a cooperating agency in 

the preparation of the environmental 

document to satisfy the BLM’s NEPA 

responsibilities related to this project. 

Consultation 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, the Commission is 


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6The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 

regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 800. Those regulations define 

historic properties as any prehistoric or historic 

district, site, building, structure, or object included 

in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register 

of Historic Places. 

using this notice to initiate consultation 

with the applicable State Historic 

Preservation Office(s), and to solicit 

their views and those of other 

government agencies, interested Indian 

tribes, and the public on the project’s 

potential effects on historic properties.6

Commission staff will define the 

project-specific Area of Potential Effects 

(APE) in consultation with the SHPO(s) 

as the project develops. 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). The environmental 

document for this project will document 

the Commission staff’s findings on the 

impacts on historic properties and 

summarize the status of consultations 

under section 106. 

Currently Identified Environmental 

Issues 

Commission staff have already 

identified several issues that deserve 

attention based on a preliminary review 

of the planned facilities and the 

environmental information provided by 

Summit. This preliminary list of issues 

may change based on your comments 

and our analysis. 

• the project crosses federal lands 

managed by the BLM in New Mexico; 

• the project crosses lands managed 

by New Mexico State Lands Trust; 

• one or more known cultural 

resources sites may be impacted by the 

project; and 

• sensitive plant and animal species 

may be affected by the project. 

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 project. Commission 

staff will update the environmental 

mailing list as the analysis proceeds to 

ensure that Commission notices related 

to this environmental review are sent to 

all individuals, organizations, and 

government entities interested in and/or 

potentially affected by the planned 

project. 

When the Commission issues the 

environmental document for an allotted 

public comment period, a Notice of 

Availability of the environmental 

document will be sent to the 

environmental mailing list and will 

provide instructions to access the 

electronic document on the FERC’s 

website (www.ferc.gov). If you need to 

make changes to your name/address, or 

if you would like to remove your name 

from the mailing list, please return the 

attached ‘‘Mailing List Update Form’’ 

(appendix 3). 

Becoming an Intervenor 

Once Summit files its application 

with the Commission, you may want to 

become an ‘‘intervenor’’ which is an 

official party to the Commission’s 

proceeding. Only intervenors have the 

right to seek rehearing of the 

Commission’s decision 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 pursuant to Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedures (18 CFR 385.214). Motions 

to intervene are more fully described at 

http://www.ferc.gov/resources/guides/ 

how-to/intervene.asp. Please note that 

the Commission will not accept requests 

for intervenor status at this time. You 

must wait until the Commission 

receives a formal application for the 

project, after which the Commission 

will issue a public notice that 

establishes an intervention deadline. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC 

website (www.ferc.gov) using the 

eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary link, 

click on ‘‘General Search’’ and enter the 

docket number in the ‘‘Docket Number’’ 

field, excluding the last three digits (i.e., 

PF18–6). 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 all formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

Public sessions or site visits will be 

posted on the Commission’s calendar 

located at www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/ 

EventsList.aspx along with other related 

information. 

Dated: December 11, 2018. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27296 Filed 12–17–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AC19–46–000] 

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, 

L.L.C.; Notice of Filing 

Take notice that on December 6, 2018, 

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, 

L.L.C. filed a request for approval to use 

Account 439, authorized by the 

Financial Accounting Standards Board. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. Anyone filing a motion 

to intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

eFiling link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 5 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the eLibrary 

link and is available for review in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room in 

Washington, DC. There is an 

eSubscription link on the website that 

enables subscribers to receive email 

notification when a document is added 

to a subscribed docket(s). For assistance 

with any FERC Online service, please 

email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or 

call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, 

call (202) 502–8659. 

Comments: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 

December 26, 2018. 


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