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1 Interventions may also be filed electronically via 

the Internet in lieu of paper. See the previous 

discussion on filing comments electronically. 

Commission, 888 First St., NE., Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

• Label one copy of your comments to 

the attention of Gas Branch 2, DG2E; 

and Reference Docket No. CP07–44–000 

on the original and both copies. 

• Mail your comments so that they 

will be received in Washington, DC on 

or before June 18, 2007. 

Please note that the Commission 

strongly encourages the electronic filing 

(‘‘eFiling’’) of comments. Instructions on 

how to ‘‘eFile’’ comments can be found 

on the Commission’s Web site at 

www.ferc.gov under the ‘‘Documents 

and Filings’’ link. In lieu of or in 

addition to sending written comments, 

we invite you to attend the public 

comment meetings the FERC will 

conduct in the project area to receive 

comments on the Draft EIS. All meetings 

will begin at 6 p.m. (CDT), and are 

scheduled as follows: 

Date and time Location 

Monday, May 21, 6:00 p.m ...................................................................... Lucedale Rocky Creek Inn, 120 Woods Ridge Road, Lucedale, MS 

39452, (601) 947–6900. 

Tuesday, May 22, 6:00 p.m ..................................................................... La Quinta Inn—Mississippi Ballroom, 6563 U.S. Highway 49 North, 

Hattiesburg, MS 39401, (601) 268–2850. 

Thursday, May 24, 6:00 p.m .................................................................... Multipurpose Building, West Gallman Road, Gallman, MS 39077, (601) 

953–9907. 

The public comment meetings will be 

posted on the FERC’s calendar located 

at www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/ 

EventsList.aspx. Interested groups and 

individuals are encouraged to attend 

and present oral comments on the Draft 

EIS. Transcripts of the meetings will be 

prepared. 

After the comments received are 

reviewed, any significant new issues are 

investigated, and modifications are 

made to the Draft EIS, a Final EIS will 

be published and distributed by the 

FERC staff. The Final EIS will contain 

the staff’s responses to timely comments 

received on the Draft EIS. 

Comments will be considered by the 

Commission but will not serve to make 

the commentor a party to the 

proceeding. Any person seeking to 

become a party to the proceeding must 

file a motion to intervene pursuant to 

Rule 214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedures (18 CFR 

385.214). Anyone may intervene in this 

proceeding based on this Draft EIS. You 

must file your request to intervene as 

specified above.1 You do not need 

intervenor status to have your 

comments considered. 

The Draft EIS has been placed in the 

public files of the FERC and is available 

for public inspection at: Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, Public 

Reference Room, 888 First Street, NE., 

Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, (202) 

502–8371. 

A limited number of copies of the 

Draft EIS are available from the Public 

Reference Room identified above. In 

addition, CD copies of the Draft EIS 

have been mailed to affected 

landowners; various federal, state, and 

local government agencies; elected 

officials; environmental and public 

interest groups; Native American tribes; 

local libraries and newspapers; 

intervenors; and other individuals that 

expressed an interest in the proposed 

Project. Hard-copies of the Draft EIS 

have also been mailed to those who 

requested that format during the scoping 

and comment periods for the proposed 

Project. 

Additional information about the 

proposed Project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at 1–866–208–FERC or on the FERC 

Internet Web site (www.ferc.gov). 

To access information via the FERC 

website click on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link then 

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. The ‘‘eLibrary’’ link provides 

access to the texts of formal documents 

issued by the Commission, such as 

orders, notices, and rulemakings. For 

assistance with ‘‘eLibrary’’, please 

contact FERC Online Support at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free 

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

(202) 502–8659. 

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 

these documents. To learn more about 

eSubscription and to sign up for this 

service please go to www.ferc.gov/ 

esubscribenow.htm. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–8519 Filed 5–3–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[ FERC Docket No. CP06–459–000] 

Transwestern Pipeline Company, LLC; 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Draft General Conformity 

Determination for the Proposed 

Phoenix Expansion Project 

April 27, 2007. 

The environmental staffs of the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission or FERC); the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM); the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service (FS); the U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Office of Pipeline Safety 

(OPS); the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); 

and the Navajo Nation, collectively 

referred to as the Agency Staffs, have 

prepared the draft environmental 

impact statement (draft EIS) to address 

Transwestern Pipeline Company, LLC’s 

(Transwestern) proposed expansion of 

its natural gas pipeline system. A draft 

General Conformity Determination was 

also prepared by the FERC to assess the 

potential air quality impacts associated 

with construction and operation of the 

proposed project and is included as 

Appendix Q of the draft EIS. 

The draft EIS was prepared to satisfy 

the requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The 

Agency Staffs have concluded that if the 

project is constructed and operated in 

accordance with applicable laws and 

regulations, Transwestern’s proposed 

mitigation, and the Agency Staffs’ 

additional mitigation measures, it 

would have limited adverse 

environmental impact. 


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1A loop is a segment of pipeline that is usually 

installed adjacent to an existing pipeline and 

connected to it at both ends. The loop allows more 

gas to be moved through the system. 

2A lateral pipeline typically takes gas from the 

main system to deliver it to a customer, local 

distribution system, or another interstate 

transmission system. 

The FERC is the lead federal agency 

and will use the EIS to consider the 

environmental impacts that could result 

if it issues Transwestern a Certificate of 

Public Convenience and Necessity 

under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act. 

The BLM and the FS are federal land 

management agencies affected by 

Transwestern’s proposal and have 

elected to act as cooperating agencies in 

preparing the draft EIS. The BLM will 

use the document to meet its NEPA 

responsibilities in considering 

Transwestern’s application for a Rightof-Way Grant and obtain Temporary Use 

Permits for the portion of the project on 

federal lands under section 185(f) of the 

Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. The BLM 

would issue the Right-of-Way Grant and 

Temporary Use Permits for the crossing 

of BLM-managed lands and the Kaibab 

and Prescott National Forests, which are 

managed by the FS, and for crossing 

lands managed by the U.S. Department 

of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation 

(BOR). The BLM would consider the 

concurrence or non-concurrence of the 

FS and BOR, as well as FERC approval 

or denial, in making its decision 

whether to issue the Right-of-Way Grant 

and Temporary Use Permits. The BLM’s 

decision would be documented in a 

Record of Decision. 

The OPS is participating as a 

cooperating agency in preparing the 

draft EIS because it is responsible for 

ensuring the safe, reliable, and 

environmentally sound operation of the 

nation’s transportation system and for 

providing oversight for oil and natural 

gas pipelines. The OPS’ authority is 

found under the Natural Gas Pipeline 

Safety Act of 1968 (49 U.S.C. 1671 et 

seq.) and the Hazardous Liquids 

Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 (49 U.S.C. 

2001 et seq.). 

The BIA and the Navajo Nation have 

also elected to act as cooperating 

agencies in preparing the draft EIS 

because the proposed project would be 

near tribal lands in Arizona and would 

cross two classes of Navajo Nation lands 

in New Mexico: Tribal lands and 

allotted lands. Tribal lands are owned in 

fee by the Navajo Nation, and access to 

these lands would be acquired through 

direct negotiation between 

Transwestern and officials of the Navajo 

Nation Tribal Headquarters in Window 

Rock, Arizona. Allotted lands are held 

in trust by the United States government 

and managed by the BIA for the benefit 

of individual allottees. 

The Phoenix Expansion Project is 

designed to transport up to 500 million 

cubic feet per day of natural gas to the 

Phoenix area, which is one of the 

fastest-growing regions in the United 

States. The project would not only help 

to satisfy the increasing demand for 

electricity and natural gas, but would 

also increase competition in the regional 

energy market, thereby working to 

stabilize costs to the consumer. 

The draft EIS addresses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

following facilities proposed by 

Transwestern: 

• 24.6 miles of new 36-inch-diameter 

pipeline loop 1 (the San Juan Lateral 

Loops A and B) extending along the 

existing San Juan Lateral in San Juan 

and McKinley Counties, New Mexico; 

• 259.3 miles of new 42- and 36-inchdiameter lateral 2 pipeline (the Phoenix 

Lateral), consisting of 95.7 miles of 42- 

inch-diameter pipeline extending from 

milepost (MP) 0.0 in Yavapai County, 

Arizona to MP 95.2 in Maricopa County, 

Arizona, and 163.6 miles of 36-inchdiameter pipeline extending from MP 

95.2 in Maricopa County, Arizona to MP 

255.1 in Pinal County, Arizona; 

• 1.4 miles of new 24-, 20-, 16-, and 

6-inch-diameter lateral pipeline (the 

customer laterals) connecting the 

Phoenix Lateral to meter stations that 

are not located immediately adjacent to 

the Phoenix Lateral right-of-way; 

• Minor piping and pressure control 

modifications at the existing Bloomfield 

Compressor Station in San Juan County, 

New Mexico and at the existing 

Seligman Compressor Station No. 1 in 

Mohave County, Arizona; 

• Installation of the Ash Fork Facility 

at MP 0.0 of the Phoenix Lateral in 

Yavapai County, Arizona including 2 

filter separators, odorant injection 

facilities, and telecommunications 

equipment; and 

• Installation of 4 taps, 31 valves, 11 

meter stations, 6 pig launchers, and 3 

pig receivers. 

Transwestern would also acquire an 

undivided interest in the existing East 

Valley Lateral consisting of 36.7 miles of 

24-inch-diameter lateral pipeline in 

Pinal and Maricopa Counties, Arizona. 

Comment Procedures and Public 

Meetings 

Any person wishing to comment on 

the draft EIS and/or draft General 

Conformity Determination is 

encouraged to do so. To ensure 

consideration prior to a Commission 

decision on the proposal, it is important 

that your comments be received before 

the date specified below. 

Please note that the Commission 

strongly encourages electronic filing of 

any comments, interventions, or 

protests to this proceeding. See Title 18 

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

instructions on the FERC Internet Web 

site (www.ferc.gov) under the eFiling 

link and the link to the User’s Guide. 

Before you can submit comments, you 

will need to create a free account by 

clicking on ‘‘Sign-up’’ under ‘‘New User.’’ 

You will be asked to select the type of 

submission you are making. This type of 

submission is considered a ‘‘Comment 

on Filing.’’ Comments submitted 

electronically must be submitted by 

June 18, 2007. 

If you wish to mail comments, please 

mail your comments so that they will be 

received in Washington, DC on or before 

June 18, 2007. 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 comments to: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First St. NE; Room 1A, 

Washington, DC 20426; 

• Reference Docket No. CP06–459– 

000; and 

• Label one copy of your comments 

for the attention of Gas 2, DG2E. 

In addition to or in lieu of sending 

written comments, the FERC and the 

cooperating agencies invite you to 

attend public meetings the Agency 

Staffs will conduct in the project area to 

receive comments on the draft EIS and 

draft General Conformity Determination. 

The dates, times, and locations of these 

meetings are as follows: 


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3 Interventions may also be filed electronically via 

the Internet in lieu of paper. See the previous 

discussion on filing comments electronically. 

Date Location 

Monday, June 4, 2007; 7 p.m. (MST) ...................................................... Central Arizona Seniors Association, 9360 East Manzanita Circle, 

Prescott Valley, AZ 86314, (928) 772–3337. 

Tuesday, June 5, 2007; 7 p.m. (MST) ..................................................... Albins Civic Center, Black Canyon Community Association,19055 East 

K-Mine Road, Black Canyon City, AZ 85375, (623) 374–5553. 

Wednesday, June 6, 2007; 7 p.m. (MST) ................................................ Buckeye Community Center, 201 East Centre Avenue, Buckeye, AZ 

85326, (623) 349–6600. 

Thursday, June 7, 2007; 7 p.m. (MST) .................................................... Hotel Casa Grande, Cotton/Copper Room, 777 North Pinal Avenue, 

Casa Grande, AZ 85222, (520) 426–3500. 

Tuesday, June 12, 2007; 1 p.m. (MST) ................................................... Navajo Technical College, (former Crownpoint Institute of Technology), 

Lower Point Road and State Highway 371, Crownpoint, NM 87313, 

(505) 786–4100. 

These public meetings will be posted 

on the FERC’s calendar located at 

http://www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/ 

EventsList.aspx. Interested groups and 

individuals are encouraged to attend 

and present written or oral comments 

on the draft EIS and/or draft General 

Conformity Determination. Transcripts 

of the meetings will be prepared. 

After the comments are reviewed, any 

significant new issues are investigated, 

and necessary modifications are made to 

the draft EIS and draft General 

Conformity Determination, a final EIS, 

including a final General Conformity 

Determination, will be published and 

distributed. The final EIS will contain 

the Agency Staffs’ responses to timely 

comments filed on the draft EIS and 

draft General Conformity Determination 

that are related to environmental issues. 

Comments will be considered by the 

Commission and the cooperating 

agencies but will not serve to make the 

commentor a party to the proceeding. 

Any person seeking to become a party 

to the proceeding must file a motion to 

intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (Title 18 CFR Part 385.214). 

Anyone may intervene in this 

proceeding based on the draft EIS and 

draft General Conformity Determination. 

You must file your request to intervene 

as specified above.3 You do not need 

intervenor status to have your 

comments considered. 

The draft EIS, including the draft 

General Conformity Determination, has 

been placed in the public files of the 

FERC and is available for distribution 

and public inspection at: 

Federal Regulatory Energy Commission, 

Public Reference Room, 888 First St. 

NE; Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, 

(202) 208–1371. 

A limited number of copies are 

available from the FERC’s Public 

Reference Room identified above. These 

copies may be requested in hard copy or 

as .pdf files on a CD that can be read by 

a computer with a CD–ROM drive. The 

draft EIS, including the draft General 

Conformity Determination, is also 

available for viewing on the FERC 

Internet Web site at www.ferc.gov. In 

addition, copies of the document have 

been mailed to federal, state, and local 

government agencies; elected officials; 

Native American tribes; affected 

landowners; local libraries and 

newspapers; intervenors to the FERC’s 

proceeding; and other interested parties. 

Hard copies of the draft EIS, including 

the draft General Conformity 

Determination, can be viewed at the 

following libraries in the project area: 

Ash Fork Public Library, 518 Lewis 

Avenue, Ash Fork, AZ 86320. 

Avondale-Goodyear Public Library, 328 

West Western Avenue, Avondale, AZ 

85323. 

Black Canyon City Community Library, 

34701 South Old Black Canyon Hwy, 

Black Canyon, AZ 85324. 

Buckeye Public Library, 310 North 6th 

Street, Buckeye, AZ 85032. 

Casa Grande Public Library, 449 North 

Dry Lake, Casa Grande, AZ 85222. 

Chino Valley Public Library, 1020 West 

Palomino Road, Chino Valley, AZ 

86323. 

Coolidge Public Library, 160 West 

Central Avenue, Coolidge, AZ 85228. 

Flagstaff Public Library, 300 West 

Aspen, Flagstaff, AZ 86001. 

Fredonia Public Library, 118 North 

Main Street, Fredonia, AZ 86022. 

Mayer Public Library, 10004 Wicks 

Street, Mayer, AZ 86333. 

Arizona State Library, 1700 West 

Washington Street, Phoenix, AZ 

85007. 

North Central Regional Library, 17811 

North 32nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 

85032. 

Yavapai County Library District, 172 

East Merritt Street, Suite E, Prescott, 

AZ 86301. 

Prescott Public Library, 215 East 

Goodwin, Prescott, AZ 86303. 

Prescott Valley Public Library, 7501 East 

Civic Circle, Prescott Valley, AZ 

86314. 

Williams Public Library, 113 South First 

Street, Williams, AZ 86046. 

Bloomfield Public Library, 333 South 

First Street, Bloomfield, NM 87413. 

Farmington Public Library, 100 West 

Broadway, Farmington, NM 87401– 

6420. 

Octavia Fellin Public Library, 115 West 

Hill, Gallup, NM 87301. 

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 (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 on the FERC Internet website 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 

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 the eSubscription link on 

the FERC Internet Web site. 

Information concerning the 

involvement of the cooperating agencies 

in the EIS process may be obtained 

from: 

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau 

of Land Management, Mark 

Mackiewicz, (435) 636–3616. 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Prescott National Forest, Ken 

Simeral, (928) 443–8010. 

Kaibab National Forest, Tom Mutz, 

(928) 635–5661. 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

Office of Pipeline Safety, John Pepper, 

(713) 272–2849. 


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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. 

[FR Doc. E7–8524 Filed 5–3–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

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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