Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 36 / Wednesday, February 24, 2010 / Notices 8329 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP10–51–000] 

Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company; 

Notice of Request Under Blanket 

Authorization 

February 17, 2010. 

Take notice that on February 2, 2010, 

Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company 

(Eastern Shore), 1110 Forrest Avenue, 

Dover, Delaware 19904, filed in Docket 

No. CP10–51–000, a prior notice request 

under its blanket certificate issued in 

Docket No. CP96–128–000 pursuant to 

sections 157.205(b), 157.208(c) and 

157.210 of the Commission’s regulations 

under the Natural Gas Act (NGA) for 

authority to construct, own, operate, 

and maintain new mainline facilities 

and install a new pressure control 

station in Sussex County, Delaware, in 

order to deliver an additional firm 

transportation service entitlement of 

1,600 dekatherms per day to Chesapeake 

Utilities Corporation—Maryland 

Division, all as more fully set forth in 

the application, which is on file with 

the Commission and open to public 

inspection. The filing may also be 

viewed on the Web 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 at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (866) 208–3676 or TTY, (202) 

502–8659. 

Any questions regarding the 

application should be directed to Glen 

DiEleuterio, Project Manager, Eastern 

Shore Natural Gas Company, 1110 

Forrest Avenue, Dover, Delaware 19904, 

at (302) 734–6710, ext. 6723 or via fax 

(302) 734–6745 or by e-mail to 

GDiElcutcrio@esng.com. 

Any person may, within 60 days after 

the issuance of the instant notice by the 

Commission, file pursuant to Rule 214 

of the Commission’s Procedural Rules 

(18 CFR 385.214) a motion to intervene 

or notice of intervention. Any person 

filing to intervene or the Commission’s 

staff may, pursuant to section 157.205 of 

the Commission’s Regulations under the 

NGA (18 CFR 157.205) file a protest to 

the request. If no protest is filed within 

the time allowed therefore, the proposed 

activity shall be deemed to be 

authorized effective the day after the 

time allowed for protest. If a protest is 

filed and not withdrawn within 30 days 

after the time allowed for filing a 

protest, the instant request shall be 

treated as an application for 

authorization pursuant to section 7 of 

the NGA. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests, 

and interventions via the Internet in lieu 

of paper. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) 

and the instructions on the 

Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov) under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM05–1–000] 

Regulations Governing the Conduct of 

Open Seasons for Alaska Natural Gas 

Transportation Projects; Notice of 

Rescheduled Alaska Natural Gas 

Transportation Projects Open Season 

Pre-Filing Workshop 

February 17, 2010. 

On February 22, 2010, the Staff of the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(FERC) will hold a workshop on the 

procedures and process for holding and 

commenting on an open season for an 

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation 

Project. The Workshop is being held at 

the Commission’s headquarters in 

Washington and has been rescheduled 

from the previous date of February 11, 

2010 due to the weather emergency 

closure of the Commission’s offices. 

In 2005, in the above-referenced 

docket, FERC enacted regulations under 

the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Act 

which established the procedures for 

conducting open seasons for the 

purpose of making binding 

commitments for the acquisition of 

capacity on Alaska natural gas 

transportation projects. TransCanada 

Alaska Company LLC (TC Alaska) has 

recently filed its request for approval of 

its Open Season plan for its Alaska 

Pipeline Project in Docket No. PF09–11– 

001. Denali—The Alaska Gas Pipeline 

LLC has publicly stated that it intends 

to hold an open season for its project in 

2010. 

Under FERC’s open season 

regulations, prior to conducting an open 

season for an Alaskan natural gas 

transportation project, each project 

sponsor is required to submit a detailed 

open season plan to FERC. After 

receiving the project sponsor’s open 

season plan, FERC will issue a notice 

requesting public comments on the 

open season plan and explain the 

procedure for submitting such 

comments. Absent unusual 

circumstances, FERC will act on the 

open season plan within 60 days of its 

submission by the project sponsor. 

Both of these project sponsors have 

initiated FERC’s pre-filing process, 

which is typically focused on FERC’s 

environmental review of a project. 

However in this instance, the pre-filing 

process also includes FERC’s review, 

approval, and oversight of the project 

sponsors’ open season. FERC Staff is 

holding this Open Season Pre-Filing 

Workshop to provide interested parties 

an opportunity to learn about and 

discuss the procedures and process for 

commenting upon and holding an open 

season. 

The workshop will be held on 

February 22, 2010, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

(EST) at: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 1st Street, NE.—Room 

3M–2 A&B, Washington, DC 20426. 

All interested parties may attend. The 

agenda for the Open Season Pre-Filing 

Workshop is attached. There will be no 

discussion of TC Alaska’s filing in 

Docket No. PF09–11–001, or any other 

aspect of the proposed Alaska pipeline 

projects. Rather, the Workshop will 

focus on the requirements of the 

Commission’s regulations and 

procedures and process for commenting 

upon and holding an open season. In 

order to ensure that questions could be 

appropriately answered, it was 

previously requested that interested 

parties provide any questions in 

advance to Commission Staff and these 

questions have been added to the 

Agenda without attribution. Any further 

new questions or follow-up questions 

will also be entertained at the 

Workshop. 

The Workshop will not be transcribed 

by the FERC Staff. Telephone 

participation will be available; by 

calling: 

Conference number: (888) 566–6129 

Participant passcode: 43634 

For security reasons, the passcode will 

be required to join the call. Restrictions 

may exist when accessing freephone/toll 

free numbers using a mobile telephone. 

For additional information concerning 

this event, please contact Richard Foley 

at (202) 502–8955 or Mary O’Driscoll at 

(202) 502–8680. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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