44838 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 167 / Monday, August 31, 2009 / Notices 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

Public Reference Room, 888 First Street, 

NE., Room 2A, Washington, DC 

20426, (202) 502–8371 

U.S. Bureau of Land Management 

Wyoming State Office, 5353 

Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, WY 

82003 

Buffalo Field Office, 1425 Fort Street, 

Buffalo, WY 82834 

Montana State Office, 5001 Southgate 

Drive, Billings, MT 59101 

Miles City Field Office, 111 Garryowen 

Road, Miles City MT 59301 

North Dakota Field Office, 99 23rd 

Avenue West, Suite A, Dickinson, ND 

58601 

A limited number of hard copies and 

CD–ROMs of the draft EIS are available 

from the FERC’s Public Reference Room 

identified above. This draft EIS is also 

available for public viewing on the 

FERC’s Internet Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov. In addition, copies of the 

draft EIS have been mailed to Federal, 

State, and local government agencies; 

elected officials; Native American tribes; 

local libraries and newspapers; 

intervenors in the FERC’s proceeding; 

individuals who provided scoping 

comments; affected landowners and 

individuals who requested the draft EIS; 

and new landowners identified as being 

crossed by route alternatives either 

recommended by FERC staff or still 

under consideration. 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at 1–866–208–FERC (3372) or on the 

FERC Internet Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov). Using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link, select ‘‘General Search’’ from the 

eLibrary menu, enter the selected date 

range and ‘‘Docket Number,’’ excluding 

the last three digits in the Docket 

Number field (i.e., CP09–161), and 

follow the instructions. You may also 

search using the phrase ‘‘Bison Pipeline 

Project’’ in the ‘‘Text Search’’ field. For 

assistance with access to eLibrary, the 

helpline can be reached at 1–866–208– 

3676, TTY (202) 502–8659, or at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. The 

eLibrary link on the FERC Internet Web 

site also provides access to the texts of 

formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission offers a 

free service called eSubscription that 

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. To register for this service, 

go to http://www.ferc.gov/ 

esubscribenow.htm. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–20852 Filed 8–28–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP09–432–000] 

Tricor Ten Section Hub LLC; Notice of 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Ten 

Section Storage Project and Request 

for Comments on Environmental 

Issues, and Notice of Public Scoping 

Meeting 

August 21, 2009. 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

the Ten Section Storage Project 

involving construction and operation of 

facilities proposed by Tricor Ten 

Section Hub LLC (Tricor) in Kern 

County, California. This EA will be used 

by the Commission in its decisionmaking process to determine whether 

the project is in the public convenience 

and necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process we 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 September 

21, 2009. 

Comments on the project may be 

submitted in written form in a letter to 

the Secretary of the Commission, or 

verbally at the public scoping meeting. 

Further details on how to submit 

written comments are provided in the 

Public Participation section of this 

notice (page 5). In lieu of sending 

written comments, we invite you to 

attend a public scoping meeting 

scheduled as follows: 

FERC Public Scoping Meeting, Tricor 

Ten Section Storage Project, 

Thursday, September 10, 2009, 6:30 

p.m., Bakersfield Marriott at the 

Convention Center, 801 Truxtun Ave., 

Bakersfield, CA 93301. 661–323– 

1900. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing for this project, which includes 

affected landowners; Federal, State, and 

local government agencies; elected 

officials; environmental and public 

interest groups; Indian tribes and Native 

American organizations; parties to this 

proceeding; and local libraries and 

newspapers. State and local government 

representatives are asked to notify their 

constituents of this proposed project 

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 project is 

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 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 Tricor 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 Project 

On June 12, 2009, Tricor submitted its 

application to the FERC under section 

7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), in 

Docket No. CP09–423–000. The FERC 

issued a Notice of Application on June 

23, 2009. 

Tricor proposes to construct and 

operate a natural gas storage field and 

pipeline in unincorporated Kern 

County, California. The storage facilities 

would be within the existing Ten 

Section oil and gas field, about 12 miles 

southwest of the city of Bakersfield. 

This field was first established in 1936, 

and is still in operation. Between 1977 

and 1982, the field was used to store 

natural gas by two local distribution 

companies (Pacific Gas and Electric 

[PG&E] and Southern California Gas). 

According to Tricor, its project would 

provide natural gas storage services to 

the interstate system in the 

southwestern United States. Tricor 

stated that the project would meet a 

growing demand for firm and 

interruptible storage services for 

customers in the gas marketing, 

distribution, transmission, production, 


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1The 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. 

2 ‘‘We’’, ‘‘us’’, and ‘‘our’’ refer to the 

environmental staff of the Commission’s Office of 

Energy Projects. 

and electric power generation 

industries. 

The Ten Section Storage Project 

would consist of a 32.5 billion cubic 

foot (Bcf) storage field with a working 

capacity of 22.4 Bcf (with 10.1 Bcf of 

cushion gas). The storage facilities 

would be designed to inject natural gas 

into underground storage at a maximum 

rate of 0.8 Bcf/d, and withdraw natural 

gas from storage at a maximum rate of 

about 1.0 Bcf/d. The Ten Section 

Storage Project would consist of the 

following facilities: 

• 26 new gas injection and 

withdrawal wells drilled within 5 well 

pads at the field; 

• 9 existing oil production wells 

converted into observation wells; 

• 5 existing water disposal wells used 

for the same purpose; 

• New 42,000 horsepower electric 

driven compressor station; 

• 2 new 20-inch-diameter field 

pipelines (high pressure and low 

pressure), extending for a total of 1.8 

miles, connecting the gas injection/ 

withdrawal wells to the Tricor 

compressor station; 

• New 4-inch-diameter water disposal 

pipeline, extending for 1.1 miles, 

connecting the 5 water disposal wells to 

the produced water tank at the 

compressor station; 

• New 36-inch-diameter bidirectional header pipeline, extending 

for 20.4 miles, between the Tricor 

compressor station and the existing 

Kern River Gas Transmission Company 

(Kern) interstate pipeline; and 

• New metering and regulating 

station at the interconnection with the 

Kern pipeline. 

Non-jurisdictional facilities associated 

with the project would include: 

• New electric substation to be built 

and operated by PG&E about 1.5 miles 

southwest of the storage field; 

• New 230-kilovolt transmission line, 

about 1.6-miles-long, to be built and 

operated by PG&E, connecting the new 

electric substation with the Tricor 

compressor station; and 

• New 10-inch-diameter crude oil 

pipeline, extending for 0.3-mile, 

between the Tricor compressor station 

and the existing facilities of Kern Oil 

and Refining Company. 

The general location of the Project 

facilities is shown in Appendix 1.1

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the proposed 

jurisdictional facilities would disturb a 

total of about 400 acres of land. 

Following construction, about 179 acres 

would be maintained for permanent 

operation of the project’s facilities. The 

remaining temporary construction 

acreage would be restored and allowed 

to revert to former uses. About 83 

percent of the construction right-of-way 

is agricultural land, and 14 percent is oil 

and gas production open land. 

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. The NEPA also requires us 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 2 will discuss impacts 

that could occur as a result of the 

construction and operation of the 

proposed project under these general 

headings: 

• Geology and soils; 

• Water resources and wetlands; 

• Vegetation and wildlife; 

• Cultural resources; 

• Land use and socioeconomics; 

• Air quality and noise; and 

• Safety and reliability. 

We will also evaluate reasonable 

alternatives to the proposed project or 

portions of the project, 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. 

Depending on the comments received 

during the scoping process, the EA may 

be published and mailed to those on our 

environmental mailing list (see 

discussion of how to remain on our 

mailing list on page 6 of this notice). A 

comment period will be allotted for 

review if the EA is published. 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 of this notice 

(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 

proposal 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 

(below). 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with 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. 

The more specific your comments, the 

more useful they will be. To ensure that 

your written comments are timely and 

properly recorded, please send in your 

comments so that they will be received 

in Washington, DC on or before 

September 21, 2009. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods which you can use to submit 

your written comments to the 

Commission. 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 Quick 

Comment feature, which is located at 

http://www.ferc.gov under the link 

called ‘‘Documents and Filings’’. A 

Quick Comment is an easy method for 

interested persons to submit text-only 

comments on a project; 

(2) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the ‘‘eFiling’’ 

feature that is listed under the 

‘‘Documents and Filings’’ link. eFiling 

involves preparing your submission in 

the same manner as you would if filing 

on paper, and then saving the file on 

your computer’s hard drive. You will 

attach that file to your submission. New 

eFiling users must first create an 

account by clicking on the links called 

‘‘Sign up’’ or ‘‘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 may file your comments with 

the Commission via mail by sending an 

original and two copies of your letter to: 

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1 74 FR 42671 (2009). 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

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

DC 20426. 

In all instances, please reference the 

project docket number CP09–432–000 

with your submission. Label one copy of 

the comments for the attention of Gas 

Branch 3, PJ–11.3. 

Environmental Mailing List 

An effort is being made to send this 

notice to all individuals, organizations, 

and government entities interested in 

and/or potentially affected by the 

proposed project. This includes all 

landowners who are potential right-ofway grantors, whose property may be 

used temporarily for project purposes, 

or who own homes within certain 

distances of aboveground facilities (as 

defined in the Commission’s 

regulations). 

If you do not want to send comments 

at this time but still want to remain on 

our mailing list, please return the 

Information Request (Appendix 2). If 

you do not return the Information 

Request, you will be taken off the 

mailing list. 

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 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at 1–866–208–FERC or on the Internet 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. Be sure you have selected an 

appropriate date range. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free 

at 1–866–208–3676, 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. E9–20848 Filed 8–28–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 12662–001] 

Renewable Resources, Inc.; Notice of 

Preliminary Permit Application 

Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 

Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 

Competing Applications 

August 24, 2009. 

On July 1, 2009, Renewable 

Resources, Inc. filed a successive 

preliminary permit application, 

pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA), proposing to study the 

feasibility of the Swift River Mill 

Hydroelectric Project No. 12662, to be 

located on the Pawcatuck River near the 

Towns of Westerly and Hopkinton, in 

Washington County, Rhode Island. 

The proposed Swift River Mill Project 

would consist of: (1) The 10-foot-high, 

112-foot-long Swift River Mill dam; (2) 

an existing 36-acre reservoir with a 

normal water surface elevation of 26.0 

feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum; 

(3) an existing powerhouse with two 

new turbine generating units with a 

combined capacity of 360 kilowatts 

(kW), and two new vortex aerator 

turbine generating units with a 

combined capacity of 30 kW for a total 

installed capacity of 390 kW; (4) a new 

300-foot-long underground transmission 

line; and (5) appurtenant facilities. The 

project would have an estimated annual 

generation of about 2,870 megawatthours. 

Applicant Contact: Mr. Edward 

Carapezza, P.O. Box 365, Hopkinton, RI 

02833, (401) 207–2643. 

FERC Contact: Tom Dean, (202) 502– 

6041. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Comments, motions to intervene, 

notices of intent, and competing 

applications may be filed electronically 

via the Internet. See 18 CFR 

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

on the Commission’s Web site under the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link. If unable to be filed 

electronically, documents may be paperfiled. To paper-file, an original and eight 

copies should be mailed to: Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. For 

more information on how to submit 

these types of filings please go to the 

Commission’s Web site located at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/filing-comments.asp. 

More information about this project 

can be viewed or printed on the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link of Commission’s Web 

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

elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number 

(P–12662) in the docket number field to 

access the document. For assistance, 

call toll-free 1–866–208–3372. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–20851 Filed 8–28–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM98–1–000] 

Records Governing Off-the Record 

Communications; Notice Regarding 

Prior Notice 

August 25, 2009. 

On August 24, 2009, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

published in the Federal Register a 

Public Notice in Docket No. RM98–1– 

000.1

The Commission inadvertently 

published this document in the Federal 

Register and the notice should be 

disregarded. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–20937 Filed 8–28–09; 8:45 am] 

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