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

environmental staff of the Office of Energy Projects 

(OEP). 

Applicants: Marianas Energy 

Company, LLC. 

Description: Marianas Energy 

Company, LLC an indirect subsidiary of 

Osaka Gas Energy America Corporation 

submits notification of self-certification 

of foreign utility company status. 

Filed Date: 04/06/2007. 

Accession Number: 20070410–0161. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Friday, April 27, 2007. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 

and 385.214) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. It 

is not necessary to separately intervene 

again in a subdocket related to a 

compliance filing if you have previously 

intervened in the same docket. 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. 

Anyone filing a motion to intervene or 

protest must serve a copy of that 

document on the Applicant. In reference 

to filings initiating a new proceeding, 

interventions or protests submitted on 

or before the comment deadline need 

not be served on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http:// 

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with Internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First St. NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above proceedings 

are accessible in the Commission’s 

eLibrary system by clicking on the 

appropriate link in the above list. They 

are also available for review in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room in 

Washington, DC. There is an 

eSubscription link on the Web site that 

enables subscribers to receive e-mail 

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. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–7113 Filed 4–13–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1051–012 Alaska] 

Alaska Power & Telephone Company; 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment 

April 10, 2007. 

In accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended, and the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s (Commission 

or FERC) regulations, 18 CFR part 380 

(Order No. 486, 52 FR 47897), the Office 

of Energy Projects has reviewed the 

application for a subsequent license for 

the existing Skagway-Dewey Lakes 

Hydroelectric Project and has prepared 

an Environmental Assessment (EA) for 

the project. The 943-kilowatt (kW) 

project is located on Pullen, Dewey, 

Reid, Icy, and Snyder Creeks in 

Skagway, southeastern Alaska. The 

project does not occupy any federal 

lands. The project generates an average 

of about 3,500,000 kilowatthours (kWh) 

of energy annually. AP&T proposes no 

new capacity and no new construction. 

The EA contains the staff’s analysis of 

the potential environmental effects of 

the proposed project and concludes that 

licensing the project, with appropriate 

environmental protective measures, 

would not constitute a major federal 

action that would significantly affect the 

quality of the human environment. 

A copy of the EA is on file with the 

Commission and is available for public 

inspection. The EA may also 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 

filed to access the document. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at (866)–208–3676; for TTY contact 

(202) 502–8659. 

Any comments on the EA should be 

filed within 30 days from the date of 

this notice and should be addressed to 

the Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Room 1–A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Please affix ‘‘Skagway-Dewey Lakes 

Hydroelectric Project No. 1051–012’’ to 

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 ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. For 

further information, contact Shana 

Murray at (202) 502–8333 or by e-mail 

at shana.murray@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–7158 Filed 4–13–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP07–88–000] 

Egan Hub Storage, LLC; Notice of 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Egan 

Fourth Cavern Project and Request for 

Comments on Environmental Issues 

April 9, 2007. 

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 Egan Fourth Cavern Project, 

involving construction and operation of 

facilities by Egan Hub Gas Storage, LLC 

(Egan Hub) in Acadia and Evangeline 

Parishes, Louisiana. The EA will be 

used by the Commission in its decisionmaking process to determine whether or 

not to authorize the project. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping period that will be used to 

gather environmental input from the 

public and interested agencies on the 

project. Your input will help the 

Commission staff determine which 

issues need to be evaluated in the EA. 

Please note that the scoping period will 

close on May 9, 2007. 

An effort is being made to send this 

notice to all individuals, organizations, 

Native American Tribes, and 

government entities interested in and/or 

potentially affected by the proposed 

project. This includes all landowners 

who are potential right-of-way 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. We1 encourage 

government representatives to notify 

their constituents of this planned 


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2Egan Hub’s application in Docket No. CP07–88–

000 was filed with the Commission under Section 

7 of the Natural Gas Act. 

3The appendices referenced in this notice are not 

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of all 

appendices, other than appendix 1 (map), are 

available on the Commission’s Web site at the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link 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. Copies of the appendices were sent to 

all those receiving this notice in the mail. 

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 pipeline 

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?’’ addresses a number of 

typically asked questions, including the 

use of eminent domain and how to 

participate in the Commission’s 

proceedings. It is available for viewing 

on the FERC Internet Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov). 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

Egan Hub proposes to expand its 

existing storage facility in Acadia and 

Evangeline Parishes, Louisiana. The 

project would involve constructing a 

new salt dome storage cavern and a 

16.5-mile-long, 24-inch-diameter 

looping pipeline, along with other 

appurtenant facilities, to connect the 

Egan Gas Storage Facility with an 

existing Texas Gas Transmission 

Corporation pipeline. The proposed 

storage cavern would have a capacity of 

10.5 Bcf (8.0 Bcf working gas), and 

increase Egan Hub’s total storage 

capacity to 42 Bcf (32 Bcf working gas).2

The general location of Egan Hub’s 

proposed facilities is shown in 

appendix 1.3

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the proposed Egan 

Fourth Cavern Project would affect a 

total of about 248.3 acres of land. 

Following construction, about 134.2 

acres of land would be allowed to revert 

to its previous conditions. Disturbance 

associated with aboveground facilities 

would comprise about 4.7 acres of 

permanently affected land. 

For the associated 24-inch-diameter 

pipeline, an 85-foot-wide construction 

right-of-way (ROW) is proposed in 

upland areas and a 75-foot-wide 

construction ROW is proposed in 

upland forested and wetland areas. Egan 

Hub would maintain a 50-foot-wide 

permanent ROW for operation and 

maintenance of the proposed facilities. 

The EA Process 

We are preparing the EA to comply 

with the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) which 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 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, we are requesting 

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. 

Our independent analysis of the 

issues will be in the EA. Depending on 

the comments received during the 

scoping process, the EA may be 

published and mailed to federal, state, 

and local agencies; public interest 

groups; interested individuals; affected 

landowners; newspapers and libraries in 

the project area; and the Commission’s 

official service list for this proceeding. 

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. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the project. 

By becoming a commenter, your 

concerns will be addressed in the EA 

and considered by the Commission. 

Your comments should focus on the 

potential environmental effects of the 

proposal, reasonable alternatives to the 

proposal (including alternative locations 

and routes), and measures to avoid or 

lessen environmental impact. The more 

specific your comments, the more useful 

they will be. Please carefully follow 

these instructions to ensure that your 

comments are received in time and 

properly recorded: 

• Send an original and two copies of 

your letter to: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

• Label one copy of the comments for 

the attention of Gas Branch 1; 

• Reference Docket No. CP07–88–

000; 

• Mail your comments so that they 

will be received in Washington, DC on 

or before May 9, 2007. 

Please note that the Commission 

strongly encourages electronic filing of 

comments. See 18 Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) 

and the instructions on the 

Commission’s Internet Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov under the ‘‘eFiling’’

link and the link to the User’s Guide. 

Prepare your submission in the same 

manner as you would if filing on paper 

and save it to a file on your hard drive. 

Before you can file comments you will 

need to create an account by clicking on 

‘‘Login to File’’ and then ‘‘New User 

Account.’’ You will be asked to select 

the type of filing you are making. This 

filing is considered a ‘‘Comment on 

Filing.’’

Becoming an Intervenor 

In addition to involvement in the EA 

scoping process, you may want to 

become an official party to the 

proceeding known as an ‘‘intervenor’’. 

Intervenors play a more formal role in 

the process. Among other things, 

intervenors have the right to receive 

copies of case-related Commission 

documents and filings by other 

intervenors. Likewise, each intervenor 

must send one electronic copy (using 

the Commission’s e-Filing system) or 14 

paper copies of its filings to the 

Secretary of the Commission and must 

send a copy of its filings to all other 

parties on the Commission’s service list 

for this proceeding. If you want to 

become an intervenor, you must file a 

motion to intervene according to Rule 

214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 

385.214). Only intervenors have the 

right to seek rehearing of the 

Commission’s decision. 

Affected landowners and parties with 

environmental concerns may be granted 

intervenor status upon showing good 

cause by stating that they have a clear 

and direct interest in this proceeding 

which would not be adequately 

represented by any other parties. You do 

not need intervenor status to have your 

environmental comments considered. 

Additional Information 

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:// 


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www.ferc.gov). Using the ‘‘eLibrary’’

link, select ‘‘General Search’’ from the 

eLibrary menu, enter the selected date 

range and ‘‘Docket Number’’ (i.e., CP07–

88–000), and follow the instructions. 

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 rule makings. 

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. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–7146 Filed 4–13–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2088–068] 

South Feather Water and Power 

Agency; Notice of Application 

Tendered for Filing With the 

Commission, Soliciting Additional 

Study Requests, and Establishing 

Procedural Schedule for Relicensing 

and a Deadline for Submission of Final 

Amendments 

April 9, 2007. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric Application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: P–2088–068. 

c. Date Filed: March 26, 2007. 

d. Applicant: South Feather Water 

and Power Agency. 

e. Name of Project: South Feather 

Power Project. 

f. Location: On the South Fork Feather 

River (SFFR), Lost Creek and Slate 

Creek in Butte, Yuba and Plumas 

counties, California. The project affects 

1,977.12 acres of federal lands 

administered by the Plumas National 

Forest and 10.57 acres of federal land 

administered by the U.S. Bureau of 

Land Management. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Michael Glaze, 

General Manager, South Feather Water 

and Power Agency, 2310 Oro-Quincy 

Highway, Oroville, CA 95966, (530) 

533–4578 

i. FERC Contact: John Mudre, (202) 

502–8902, or john.mudre@ferc.gov. 

j. Cooperating Agencies: We are 

asking Federal, State, local, and tribal 

agencies with jurisdiction and/or 

special expertise with respect to 

environmental issues to cooperate with 

us in the preparation of the 

environmental document. Agencies who 

would like to request cooperating status 

should follow the instructions for filing 

such requests described in item l below. 

Cooperating agencies should note the 

Commission’s policy that agencies that 

cooperate in the preparation of the 

environmental document cannot also 

intervene. See, 94 FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001). 

k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 

CFR of the Commission’s regulations, if 

any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or 

person believes that an additional 

scientific study should be conducted in 

order to form an adequate factual basis 

for a complete analysis of the 

application on its merit, the resource 

agency, Indian Tribe, or person must file 

a request for a study with the 

Commission not later than 60 days from 

the date of filing of the application, and 

serve a copy of the request on the 

applicant. 

l. Deadline for filing requests for 

cooperating agency status and 

additional study requests: May 25, 2007. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Additional study requests and 

requests for cooperating agency status 

may be filed electronically via the 

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 (http:// 

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

m. This application has not been 

accepted for filing and is not ready for 

environmental analysis. We are not 

soliciting motions to intervene, protests, 

or final terms and conditions at this 

time. 

n. The South Feather Power Project is 

a water supply/power project 

constructed in the late 1950s/early 

1960s. The Project is composed of four 

developments: Sly Creek, Woodleaf, 

Forbestown and Kelly Ridge, each of 

which is described below. The Project 

can store about 172,000 acre-feet (af) of 

water (gross storage) and has generated 

an average of about 514.1 gigawatt hours 

(gWh) of power annually for the past 20 

years, since the addition of Sly Creek 

Powerhouse. 

The Sly Creek Development includes: 

(1) Little Grass Valley Dam—a 210-foothigh, 840-foot-long, rock filled dam on 

the SFFR with a crest elevation of 5,052 

feet (all elevations are in National 

Geodetic Vertical Datum, or NGVD, 

unless otherwise specified) and with a 

180-foot-long spillway controlled by 

two 14-feet-high by 40-feet-long steel 

radial gates that forms a 89,804 acre-foot 

(af) storage reservoir covering 1,650 

acres at a maximum water surface (flood 

level) elevation of 5,047 feet with the 

spill gates closed; (2) South Fork 

Diversion Dam—a 60-foot-high, 167- 

foot-long, concrete overflow arch dam 

on the SFFR with a crest elevation of 

3,557 to 3,559 feet and with four 

uncontrolled overflow spillway sections 

that forms an 87 af diversion 

impoundment covering about 9 acres at 

a normal maximum water surface 

elevation of 3,557 feet; (3) South Fork 

Diversion Tunnel—a 14,256-foot-long, 

11-foot-diameter concrete lined and 

unlined horseshoe un-pressurized 

tunnel controlled by two 6-foot-high by 

4-foot-long electric hoist slide gates that 

diverts up to 600 cubic feet per second 

(cfs) of water from the South Fork 

Diversion Dam to Sly Creek Reservoir; 

(4) Slate Creek Diversion Dam—a 62- 

foot-high, 223.5-foot-long, concrete 

overflow arch dam on Slate Creek with 

a crest elevation of 3,552 to 3,554 feet 

and with three uncontrolled overflow 

spillway sections that forms a negligible 

diversion impoundment due to 

sediment accumulation; (5) Slate Creek 

Diversion Tunnel—a 13,200-foot-long, 

11-foot-diameter, concrete lined and 

unlined horseshoe un-pressurized 

tunnel controlled by two 8-foot-high by 

6-foot-long manual slide gates that 

diverts up to a maximum flow capacity 

of 848 cfs of water (though water rights 

limit flows to 600 cfs and at times flows 

are limited to 500 cfs due to high storage 

volume in the receiving reservoir) from 

the Slate Creek Diversion Dam to Sly 

Creek Reservoir; (6) Sly Creek Dam—a 

289-foot-high, 1,200-foot-long, zoned 

earth-filled dam on Lost Creek with a 

crest elevation of 3,536 feet and with a 

649-foot-long spillway controlled by one 

16-foot-high by 54-foot-long steel radial 

gate that forms a 64,338 af storage 

reservoir covering 619 acres at a 

maximum water surface (flood level) 

elevation of 3,531 feet with the spill 

gates closed; (7) Sly Creek Penstock—a 

1,100-foot-long, 90-inch-insidediameter, steel penstock enclosed in the 


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