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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. 

[FR Doc. E7–8538 Filed 5–3–07; 8:45 am] 

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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2Copiah states that it did not build under the 

original certificate in 2002 due to a decrease in the 

electric generation market. 

3The 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. 

4 ’’We’’, ‘‘us’’, and ‘‘our’’ refer to the environmental 

staff of the Office of Energy Projects (OEP). 

used by the Commission in its decisionmaking process to determine whether 

the project is in the public convenience 

and necessity. Please note that the 

scoping period will close on May 30, 

2007. 

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 that Copiah 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 

Copiah is proposing to expand its 

currently unbuilt certificated facilities 2

in order to meet market demand for high 

deliverability storage services for the 

Gulf Coast and Northeast markets. 

Under their current certificate CP02–25– 

000, Copiah is authorized to construct: 

• A single 3.3 billion cubic feet (Bcf) 

capacity gas storage cavern extending 

approximately 5,500 feet below the 

ground surface within an underground 

salt dome (with an option for a second 

cavern); 

• 13,350 horsepower (hp) compressor 

station to provide compression for 

injection and withdrawal of natural gas 

from the gas storage cavern; 

• Approximately 635 feet of 20-inchdiameter pipeline from the compressor 

station to the storage cavern wellhead; 

• Up to five well sites consisting of a 

freshwater withdrawal well and brine 

injection well at each site; and 

• Appurtenant facilities consisting of 

20-inch-diameter water supply and 

brine discharge pipelines, instrument 

and control equipment, and access 

roads. 

Under this amendment, CP02–25– 

001, Copiah is seeking authorization to 

add a second storage cavern and to 

increase the size of the currently 

certificated underground salt cavern 

from 3.3 Bcf working capacity to 7.75 

Bcf for a two-cavern storage facility with 

a total of 15.5 Bcf working gas capacity. 

The storage facility would have a peak 

withdrawal capacity of 1,300,000 

dekatherms per day (Dth/d) and peak 

injection capacity of 650,000 Dth/d at 

full capacity. Copiah also seeks to 

increase the horsepower of the 

compressor station to 32,000 hp. 

Also under this amendment, Copiah 

is seeking authorization to construct 

header facilities to connect to two 

natural gas pipelines: 

• 1.55 miles of 24-inch-diameter 

pipeline connecting the storage facility 

to the Texas Eastern Transmission, LP 

(TETLP) pipeline. 

• 13.43 miles of 24-inch-diameter 

pipeline connecting the storage facility 

to the proposed Southeast Supply 

Header (SESH) and Southern Natural 

Gas (SNG) pipeline. 

• Appurtenant facilities consisting of 

two tap valves, two pig launcher and 

receivers, two meter and regulator 

stations, and access roads. 

The Copiah Storage Facility would be 

located in Copiah, Mississippi. The 

location of the project facilities is shown 

in Appendix 1.3

Land Requirements for Construction 

The Copiah Storage Facility would be 

located within an approximately 665- 

acre parcel of land owned by Copiah. 

Construction of these proposed facilities 

would require 86.70 acres of land. 

Following construction, 83.31 acres 

would be maintained as new 

aboveground facility sites and 

permanent rights-of-way. The remaining 

3.39 acres would be returned to its 

previous land use. No facilities or 

activities are proposed for the remaining 

578.30 acres. 

Construction of the Copiah Header 

Facilities, the two connecting pipelines, 

would require 154.63 acres during 

construction and 55.64 acres during 

operation. The remaining 98.99 acres 

would be returned to its previous land 

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 4 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. 

• Public safety. 

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 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. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 


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

staff of the FERC’s Office of Energy Projects. 

comments or concerns about the project. 

By becoming a commentor, your 

concerns will be addressed in the EA 

and considered by the Commission. You 

should focus on the potential 

environmental effects of the proposal, 

alternatives to the proposal, 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 3. 

• Reference Docket No. CP02–25– 

001. 

• Mail your comments so that they 

will be received in Washington, DC on 

or before May 30, 2007. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing of any comments or 

interventions or protests to this 

proceeding. See 18 CFR 

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

on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov under the 

‘‘e-Filing’’ link and the link to the User’s 

Guide. Before you can file comments 

you will need to create a free account 

which can be created on-line. 

We may mail the EA for comment. If 

you are interested in receiving it, please 

return the Information Request 

(Appendix 3). 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 official party to the 

proceeding, or ‘‘intervenor’’. 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). Intervenors 

have the right to seek rehearing of the 

Commission’s decision. Motions to 

Intervene should be electronically 

submitted using the Commission’s 

eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons without Internet access should 

send an original and 14 copies of their 

motion to the Secretary of the 

Commission at the address indicated 

previously. Persons filing Motions to 

Intervene on or before the comment 

deadline indicated above must send a 

copy of the motion to the Applicant. All 

filings, including late interventions, 

submitted after the comment deadline 

must be served on the Applicant and all 

other intervenors identified on the 

Commission’s service list for this 

proceeding. Persons on the service list 

with email addresses may be served 

electronically; others must be served a 

hard copy of the filing. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

[FR Doc. E7–8540 Filed 5–3–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF07–4–000] 

Midcontinent Express Pipeline LLC; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Midcontinent Express 

Pipeline Project, Request for 

Comments on Environmental Issues, 

and Notice of Public Scoping Meetings 

April 27, 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 construction and operation of the 

Midcontinent Express Pipeline Project 

(Project) proposed by Midcontinent 

Express Pipeline LLC (MEP). The 

Commission will use the EIS in its 

decision-making process to determine 

whether or not to authorize the Project. 

This notice explains the scoping process 

we 1 will use to gather input from the 

public and interested agencies on the 

Project. Your input will help us 

determine the issues that need to be 

evaluated in the EIS. Please note that 

the scoping period will close on May 29, 

2007. 

Comments on the Project and the 

issues that should be addressed in the 

EIS may be submitted in written form or 

verbally. Further details on how to 

submit written comments are provided 

in the Public Participation section of 

this notice. In lieu of sending written 

comments, we invite you to attend the 

public scoping meetings that we have 

scheduled as follows: 


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