25290 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 86 / Friday, May 4, 2007 / Notices 

1The appendices referenced in this notice are not 

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of all 

appendices, other than Appendix 1 (maps), 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. 

2 ‘‘We’’, ‘‘us’’ ‘‘our’’ refer to the environmental staff 

of the Office of Energy Projects (OEP). 

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau 

of Indian Affairs, Navajo Area Office, 

Harrilene Yazzi, (505) 863–8286. 

Phoenix Area Office, Amy Heuslein, 

(602) 379–6750. 

Navajo Nation, Ron Maldonado, (928) 

871–7139. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF07–6–000] 

Colorado Interstate Gas Company; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Proposed Totem Storage Field Project 

and Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues 

April 30, 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 Totem Storage Field Project 

involving construction and operation of 

facilities by Colorado Interstate Gas 

Company (CIG) in Adams County, 

Colorado. 

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 which issues need to be 

evaluated in the EA. Please note that the 

scoping period will close on May 30, 

2007. 

This notice is being sent to affected 

landowners; Federal, State, and local 

government representatives and 

agencies; environmental and public 

interest groups; Native American tribes; 

other interested parties in this 

proceeding; and local libraries and 

newspapers. We encourage government 

representatives to 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, 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?’’ was attached to the project 

notice CIG 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 available for viewing 

on the FERC Internet Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov). 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

CIG proposes to convert a depleted 

natural gas production field in eastern 

Adams County, Colorado located 34 

miles northeast of the City of Denver 

into the proposed Totem Storage Field 

Project. The storage field design would 

have a total gas inventory of 

approximately 10.7 Bcf, comprised of 

7.0 Bcf of working gas and 3.7 Bcf of 

base gas. CIG seeks authority to: 

• Construct and operate a 9,400 

horsepower compressor station in 

Adams County, Colorado; 

• Reenter 16 abandoned wells and 

replug 10 of the 16 wells and convert 

the remaining six wells to observation 

wells; 

• Plug and abandon three of seven 

currently operational oil and gas wells 

and convert the remaining four 

operational oil and gas wells to 

observation wells; 

• Drill eight horizontal injection 

withdrawal wells from three separate 

well pad locations. Horizontal wells 

(Nos. 1, 2. and 3) would be drilled at 

Site Pad No. 1 near the north end of the 

field in the vicinity of an existing well 

pad (Well No. 8–10); horizontal well 

(Nos. 4, 7, and 8) would be grouped at 

Site Pad No. 2 located in the center of 

the field; and horizontal wells (Nos. 5 

and 6) would be drilled at Site Pad No. 

3 in the south central portion of the 

field in the vicinity of an existing well 

pad location (Well No. 48–2); 

• Drill one salt water disposal well; 

and 

• Construct about 3 miles of 6-inchdiameter gathering pipeline and 1.5 

miles of 4-inch-diameter saltwater 

pipeline. 

The gathering lines would be highpressure, steel line. The brine disposal 

line would be high-pressure, fiberglass 

line. Fiberglass pipe will also be used to 

collect brine and other fluids from the 

individual well head separators and 

dehydrators and will conduct these 

fluids to the dew point control plant 

located at the compressor station site. 

These pipes will occupy the same 

trench as the main gathering lines, fuel 

gas lines, electrical and communication 

lines. 

The location of the project facilities is 

shown in Appendix 1.1

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the proposed facilities 

would require about 442.5 acres of land. 

Following construction, about 29.9 acres 

would be maintained as permanent 

pipeline right-of-way, well sites, or new 

aboveground facility sites. The 

remaining 412.6 acres of land would be 

restored and allowed to revert to its 

former use. 

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. 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 of Intent, the Commission staff 

requests public comments on the scope 

of the issues to address in the EA. All 

comments received are considered 

during the preparation of the EA. State 

and local government representatives 

are encouraged to notify their 

constituents of this proposed action and 

encourage them to comment on their 

areas of concern. 

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. 

• Land use. 

• Water resources, fisheries, and 

wetlands. 

• Cultural resources. 

• Vegetation and wildlife. 

• Air quality and noise. 

• Endangered and threatened species. 

• Hazardous waste. 


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1Copiah’s application was filed with the 

Commission under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act. 

• Public safety. 

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 the various resource 

areas. 

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, libraries, 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. 

To ensure your comments are 

considered, please carefully follow the 

instructions in the public participation 

section below. 

Currently Identified Environmental 

Issues 

We have already identified several 

issues that we think deserve attention 

based on a preliminary review of the 

proposed facilities and the 

environmental information provided by 

CIG. This preliminary list of issues may 

be changed based on your comments 

and our analysis. 

• Federally listed endangered or 

threatened species may occur in the 

proposed project area. 

• Cultural resources may be affected 

by the project. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the project. 

By becoming a commentor, your 

concerns will be addressed in the EA/ 

EIS and considered by the Commission. 

You should focus on the potential 

environmental effects of the proposal, 

alternatives to the proposal (including 

alternative locations/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 St., NE., Room 1A, Washington, DC 

20426. 

• Label one copy of the comments for 

the attention of Gas Branch 2. 

• Reference Docket No. PF07–6–000. 

• Mail your comments so that they 

will be received in Washington, DC on 

or before May 30, 2007. 

Please note that the Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments. See 18 Code of Federal 

Regulations 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.’’ 

When CIG submits its application for 

authorization to construct and operate 

the Totem Storage Field Project, the 

Commission will publish a Notice of 

Application in the Federal Register and 

will establish a deadline for interested 

persons to intervene in the proceeding. 

Because the Commission’s Pre-Filing 

Process occurs before an application to 

begin a proceeding is officially filed, 

petitions to intervene during this 

process are premature and will not be 

accepted by 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. By this 

notice we are also asking governmental 

agencies, especially those in Appendix 

2, to express their interest in becoming 

cooperating agencies for the preparation 

of the EA. 

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 taken off the 

mailing list. 

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 FERC 

Internet Web site (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. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP02–25–001] 

Copiah Storage, LLC; Notice of Intent 

To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed 2007 

Copiah Storage Project and Request 

for Comments on Environmental 

Issues 

April 30, 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 2007 Copiah Storage Project 

involving construction and operation of 

facilities by Copiah Storage LLC. 

(Copiah) in Copiah County, 

Mississippi.1 In this docket, Copiah 

requests an amendment to Commission 

Order CP02–25–000 (issued June 13, 

2002) to expand previously certificated 

storage, compression and pipeline 

facilities that have not yet been 

constructed. This EA will supplement 

the previous EA and will only examine 

the additional facilities. This EA will be 


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