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1The appendices referenced in this notice are not 

being printed in the Federal Register. 

number (P–1494) excluding the last 

three digits in the docket number field 

to access the document. For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. 

Any comments should be filed by 

May 1, 2007, and should be addressed 

to the Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Room 1–A, Washington, DC 

20426. Please reference the project name 

and project number (P–1494) on all 

comments. Comments may be filed 

electronically via Internet in lieu of 

paper. The Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filings. See 18 

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

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site under the ‘‘eFiling’’ link. For further 

information, contact Lesley Kordella at 

(202) 502–6406. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–6442 Filed 4–5–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF07–1–000] 

Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Gulf Crossing Project, 

Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues, and Notice of 

Public Scoping Meetings 

April 2, 2007. 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

that will identify and address the 

environmental impacts that could result 

from the construction and operation of 

the Gulf Crossing Project proposed by 

Gulf Crossing Pipeline Company, LLC 

(Gulf Crossing) and Gulf South Pipeline 

Company, L.P. (Gulf South). 

In order to assist staff with the 

identification of environmental issues 

and to comply with the requirements of 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

of 1969 (NEPA), a thirty-day scoping 

period has been opened to receive 

comments on the proposed project. 

Please note that the scoping period for 

this project will close on May 4, 2007. 

Additionally, as part of the scoping 

process, we will also hold four public 

meetings, as described below, to receive 

comments on the proposed project. 

Date and time Location 

April 23, 2007, 

7 p.m.

Delhi High School Auditorium, 413 Main Street, 

Delhi, LA 71232. 

April 24, 2007, 

7 p.m.

Serepta High School Auditorium, 6041 Highway 2, 

Serepta, LA 71071. 

April 25, 2007, 

7 p.m.

Mt. Pleasant Civic Center, 

1800 N. Jefferson, Mt. 

Pleasant, TX 75455. 

April 26, 2007, 

7 p.m.

Bryan County Free Fair, 

1901 South 9th Street, 

Durant, OK 74702. 

This notice is being sent to affected 

landowners; Federal, State, and local 

government agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American tribes; other 

interested parties; and local libraries 

and newspapers; all of which are 

encouraged to submit comments on the 

proposed project. Details on how to 

submit comments are provided in the 

Public Participation section of this 

notice. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, you may be contacted by a 

Boardwalk, Gulf Crossing or Gulf South 

representative about the acquisition of 

an easement to construct, operate, and 

maintain the proposed project facilities. 

The pipeline company would seek to 

negotiate a mutually acceptable 

agreement. However, if the project is 

approved by the FERC, 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?’’ is available for viewing on 

the FERC Internet Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov). This fact sheet addresses 

a number of typically asked questions, 

including the use of eminent domain 

and how to participate in the FERC’s 

proceedings. 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

Boardwalk, through its subsidiary 

Gulf Crossing, proposes to construct, 

own and operate approximately 351 

miles of new 42-inch-diameter natural 

gas transmission pipeline, four (4) new 

compressor stations, four (4) new 

metering and regulating (M&R) stations 

and associated facilities in Grayson, 

Fannin, Lamar, Red River, Franklin, 

Titus, Morris, and Cass Counties, Texas; 

Bryan County, Oklahoma; and Caddo, 

Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, Lincoln, 

Union, Ouchida, Morehouse, Richland, 

and Madison Parishes, Louisiana. 

In addition, as part of the Gulf 

Crossing Project, Boardwalk, through its 

subsidiary Gulf South, proposed to 

construct, own and operate a 4.5-milelong 42-inch-diamter pipeline loop 

(Loop A) in Madison Parish, Louisiana; 

and 11.2-mile-long 42-inch-diameter 

pipeline loop (Loop B) in Hinds, 

Copiah, and Simpson Counties, 

Mississippi; as well as installing an 

additional 30,000 horsepower (hp) of 

compression at the proposed Harrisville 

Compressor Station (Docket Number 

CP07–32–000). 

The general location of the proposed 

pipeline is shown in the figure included 

as Appendix 1.1

Specifically, Boardwalk proposes to 

construct and operate the following 

facilities: 

• Approximately 351 miles of 42- 

inch-diameter pipeline beginning in 

Sherman, Texas; northeast through 

Bennington, Oklahoma; and southeast to 

the proposed Gulf South Tallulah 

Compressor Station near Tallulah, 

Louisiana; 

• Approximately 4.5-mile-long, 42- 

inch-diameter pipeline loop line west of 

the Mississippi River in Madison Parish, 

Louisiana; 

• An approximately 11.2-mile-long, 

42-inch-diamter pipeline loop line in 

Hinds, Copiah, and Simpson Counties, 

Mississippi that terminates at the Gulf 

South Harrisville Compressor Station 

(Proposed in Docket number CP07–32–

000); 

• A new 35,641 hp compressor 

station at Milepost (MP) 0.0 near 

Sherman, Texas; 

• A new 18,940 hp compressor 

station at MP 72.7 near Paris, Texas; 

• A new 20,604 hp compressor 

station at MP 183 near Mira, Louisiana; 

• A new 25,339 hp compressor 

station at MP 293 near Sterlington, LA; 

• An additional 30,000 hp of 

compression at Gulf South’s proposed 

Harrisville Compressor Station (docket 

CP07–32–000) 

• Four (4) meter and regulation 

(M&R) stations to interconnect with 

Enterprise Texas Pipeline L.P. at MP 0.0 

in Grayson County, TX, Enogex 

intrastate pipeline at MP 34.2 in Bryan 

County, Oklahoma, Crosstex North 

Texas Pipeline at MP 72.7 in Lamar 

County, Texas, and Gulf South at MP 

350.7 in Madison Parish, Louisiana; 

• 4 pig launching/receiving sites, 3 

launching only facilities, 3 receiving 

only facilities and 17 mainline valves. 

Boardwalk proposes to have the 

project constructed and operational by 

October 1, 2008. 


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Land Requirements for Construction 

As proposed, the typical construction 

right-of-way for the project pipeline 

would be 100-feet wide. Following 

construction, Gulf Crossing has 

proposed to retain a 60-foot-wide 

permanent right-of-way for operation of 

the project. Additional, temporary extra 

workspaces beyond the typical 

construction right-of-way limits may 

also be required at certain feature 

crossings (e.g., roads, railroads, 

wetlands, or waterbodies), in areas with 

steep side slopes, or in association with 

special construction techniques. In 

residential areas, wetlands, and other 

sensitive areas, the construction rightof-way width would be reduced as 

necessary to protect homeowners and 

environmental resources. 

Based on preliminary information, 

construction and operation of the 

proposed project facilities would affect 

about 5,650 acres of land. Following 

construction, about 2,709 acres would 

be maintained as permanent right-ofway, and about 44.5 acres of land would 

be maintained as new aboveground 

facility sites. The remaining 2,896.5 

acres of temporary workspace 

(including all temporary construction 

rights-of-way, extra workspaces, and 

pipe storage and contractor yards) 

would be restored and allowed to revert 

to its former use. 

The EIS Process 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) requires the Commission to 

take into account the environmental 

impacts that could result from the 

approval of an interstate natural gas 

pipeline. The FERC will use the EIS to 

consider the environmental impact that 

could result if the Gulf Crossing project 

is authorized under section 7 of the 

Natural Gas Act. 

NEPA also requires us to discover and 

address concerns the public may have 

about proposals to be considered by the 

Commission. This process is referred to 

as ‘‘scoping.’’ The main goal of the 

scoping process is to focus the analysis 

in the EIS on the important 

environmental issues. With this Notice 

of Intent, the Commission staff is 

requesting public comments on the 

scope of the issues to be addressed in 

the EIS. All comments received will be 

considered during preparation of the 

EIS. 

In the EIS we 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; 

• Wetlands and vegetation; 

• Fish and wildlife; 

• Threatened and endangered 

species; 

• Land use, recreation, and visual 

resources; 

• Air quality and noise; 

• Cultural resources; 

• Socioeconomics; 

• Reliability and safety; and 

• Cumulative environmental impacts. 

In the EIS, we will also evaluate 

possible alternatives to the proposed 

project or portions of the project, and 

make recommendations on how to 

lessen or avoid impacts on affected 

resources. 

Our independent analysis of the 

issues will be included in a draft EIS. 

The draft EIS will be mailed to Federal, 

State, and local government agencies; 

elected officials; environmental and 

public interest groups; Native American 

tribes; affected landowners; 

commentors; other interested parties; 

local libraries and newspapers; and the 

FERC’s official service list for this 

proceeding. A 45-day comment period 

will be allotted for review of the draft 

EIS. We will consider all comments on 

the draft EIS and revise the document, 

as necessary, before issuing a final EIS. 

We will consider all comments on the 

final EIS before we make our 

recommendations to the Commission. 

To ensure that your comments are 

considered, please follow the 

instructions in the Public Participation 

section of this notice. 

Although no formal application has 

been filed, the FERC staff has already 

initiated its NEPA review under the 

Commission’s Pre-filing Process. The 

purpose of the Pre-filing Process is to 

encourage the early involvement of 

interested stakeholders and to identify 

and resolve issues before an application 

is filed with the FERC. 

With this notice, we are asking 

Federal, State, and local governmental 

agencies with jurisdiction and/or 

special expertise with respect to 

environmental issues, especially those 

identified in Appendix 2, to express 

their interest in becoming cooperating 

agencies for the preparation of the EIS. 

These agencies may choose to 

participate once they have evaluated the 

proposal relative to their 

responsibilities. Agencies that would 

like to request cooperating status should 

follow the instructions for filing 

comments provided in Appendix 2. 

Currently Identified Environmental 

Issues 

The EIS will discuss impacts that 

could occur as a result of the 

construction and operation of the 

proposed project. We have already 

identified several issues that we think 

deserve attention based on a 

preliminary review of the project site 

and the facility information provided by 

Boardwalk. This preliminary list of 

issues may be changed based on your 

comments and our analysis. 

• Potential effects on prime farmland 

and erodable soils. 

• Potential impacts to perennial and 

intermittent waterbodies, including 

waterbodies with federal and/or state 

designations/protections. 

• Evaluation of temporary and 

permanent impacts on wetlands and 

development of appropriate mitigation. 

• Potential impacts to fish and 

wildlife habitat, including potential 

impacts to federally and state-listed 

threatened and endangered species. 

• Potential visual effects of the 

aboveground facilities on surrounding 

areas. 

• Potential impacts and potential 

benefits of construction workforce on 

local housing, infrastructure, public 

services, and economy. 

• Impacts to air quality and noise 

associated with construction and 

operation. 

• Public safety and hazards 

associated with the transport of natural 

gas. 

• Alternative alignments for the 

pipeline route and alternative sites for 

the compressor stations. 

• Potential impacts to Native 

American lands and cultural resources. 

• Land use impacts from pipeline 

easements. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the 

proposed project. By becoming a 

commentor, your concerns will be 

addressed in the EIS and considered by 

the Commission. Your comments 

should focus on the potential 

environmental effects, reasonable 

alternatives (including alternative 

facility sites and pipeline routes), and 

measures to avoid or lessen 

environmental impact. The more 

specific your comments, the more useful 

they will be. To ensure that your 

comments are timely and properly 

recorded, please carefully follow these 

instructions: 

• Send an original and two copies of 

your letter to: Philis J. Posey, Acting 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First St., NE., Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

• Label one copy of your comments 

for the attention of Gas Branch 3, DG2E. 

• Reference Docket No. PF07–1–000 

on the original and both copies. 


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• Mail your comments so that they 

will be received in Washington, DC on 

or before May 4, 2007. 

Please note that we are continuing to 

experience delays in mail deliveries 

from the U.S. Postal Service. As a result, 

we will include all comments that we 

receive within a reasonable time frame 

in our environmental analysis of this 

project. The Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filing of any 

comments in response to this Notice of 

Intent. For information on electronically 

filing comments, please see the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

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

The public scoping meetings are 

designed to provide another opportunity 

to offer comments on the proposed 

project. Interested groups and 

individuals are encouraged to attend the 

meetings and to present comments on 

the environmental issues they believe 

should be addressed in the EIS. A 

transcript of each meeting will be 

generated so that your comments will be 

accurately recorded. 

Once Broadwater formally files its 

application with the Commission, you 

may want to become an official party to 

the proceeding known as an 

‘‘intervenor.’’ 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 a 

Commission 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. 

Please note that you may not request 

intervenor status at this time. You must 

wait until a formal application is filed 

with the Commission. 

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 distances 

defined in the Commission’s regulations 

of certain aboveground facilities. 

If you received this notice, you are on 

the environmental mailing list for this 

project. 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 3). If 

you do not return the Information 

Request, you will be removed from the 

Commission’s environmental mailing 

list. 

Availability of Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at 1–866–208–FERC (3372). Additional 

information can also be found on the 

Internet at http://www.ferc.gov. The 

‘‘eLibrary link’’ on the FERC Web site 

provides access to documents submitted 

to and issued by the Commission, such 

as comments, orders, notices and 

rulemakings. Once on the FERC Web 

site, click on the ‘‘eLibrary link,’’ select 

‘‘General Search’’ and in the ‘‘Docket 

Number’’ field enter the project docket 

number excluding the last three digits 

(PF07–1). When researching information 

be sure to select an appropriate date 

range. In addition, the FERC now offers 

a free e-mail 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. 

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. 

For assistance with the FERC Web site 

or with eSubscription, please contact 

FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at 1–866–208–3676, or TTY, contact 

1–202–502–8659. 

Finally, Boardwalk has established an 

Internet Web site for this project at 

http://www.gulfcrossing.com. The 

website includes a description of the 

project, a map of the proposed pipeline 

route, and answers to frequently asked 

questions. You can also request 

additional information or provide 

comments directly to Boardwalk at 1–

713–544–5420. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–6443 Filed 4–5–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Request for Extension of 

Time To Commence and Complete 

Project Construction and Soliciting 

Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 

Protests 

April 2, 2007. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection: 

a. Application Type: Request for 

Extension of Time. 

b. Project No: 11480–004. 

c. Date Filed: March 19, 2007. 

d. Applicant: Haida Corporation. 

e. Name of Project: Upper Reynolds 

Creek Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On Reynolds Creek, near 

the town of Hydaburg, Copper River 

Meridian, Prince of Wales, in the 

Ketchikan County recording district, 

Alaska. 

g. Pursuant to: Pub. L. 109–297, 120 

STAT. 1471. 

h. Applicant Contact: Donald H. 

Clarke, Law Offices of GKRSE, 1500 K 

Street, NW., Suite 330, Washington, DC 

20005; (202) 408–5400. 

i. FERC Contact: Diane M. Murray, 

Telephone: (202) 502–8838 and e-mail: 

diane.murray@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

motions to intervene, and protests: May 

10, 2007. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. Please include the project 

number (P–11480–004) on any 

comments. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all intervenors 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 

each person whose name appears on the 

official service list for the project. 

Further, if an intervenor files comments 

or documents with the Commission 

relating to the merits of an issue that 

may affect the responsibilities of a 

particular resource agency, they must 

also serve a copy of the document on 

that resource agency. A copy of any 

motion to intervene must also be served 

upon each representative of the 

Applicant specified in the particular 

application. 

k. Description of Request: The 

licensee requests that the Commission 

grant two, two-year extensions of time 

from the existing deadlines to 

commence and complete project 


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