[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 203 (Tuesday, October 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54627-54628]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-27776]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-276-000]


Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation; Notice of Availability of 
the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Line 1-A Reactivation 
Project

October 15, 1997.
    The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or 
Commission) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) on the 
natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Eastern) in the above-referenced docket.
    The EA was prepared to satisfy the requirements of the National 
Environmental Policy Act. The staff concludes that approval of the 
proposed project, with appropriate mitigating measures, would not 
constitute a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality 
of the human environment.
    The EA assesses the potential environmental effects of the 
construction and operation of the proposed reactivation of Line 1-A in 
Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania, including:
    <bullet> Reactivating about 22.7 miles of the 20-inch-diameter Line 
1-A, which includes investigating and repairing/replacing 101 anomaly 
sites, if needed, and hydrostatically testing the entire length of the 
pipeline;
    <bullet> Installing new regulating facilities at Eagle Compressor 
Station;
    <bullet> Installing a delivery tap off Line 1-A for Texas Eastern's 
existing Planebrook Measuring and Regulating Station (M&R);
    <bullet> Installing mainline valves at mileposts 6.8, 12.6, and 
16.0;
    <bullet> Installing delivery taps on Line 1-H and Line 1-A for PICO 
Energy Company's (PECO) new Hersheys Mill M&R Station;
    <bullet> Installing delivery taps on Line 1-A and 1-H, and a new 
Brookhaven M&R Station at the existing Chester Junction site; and
    <bullet> Replacing the existing temporary pig receiver with a 
permanent receiver at the Chester Junction site.
    The purpose of the proposed facilities would be to allow Texas 
Eastern to deliver on a firm basis up to 120,000 dekatherms per day 
(Dth/d) of natural gas to PECO and 8,000 Dth/d to Mobil Oil 
Corporation.
    The EA has been placed in the public files of the FERC. A limited 
number of copies of the EA are available for distribution and public 
inspection at: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Reference 
and Files Maintenance Branch, 888 First Street, N.E., Room 2A, 
Washington, D.C. 20426, (202) 208-1371.
    Copies of the EA have been mailed to Federal, state and local 
agencies, public interest groups, interested individuals, newspapers, 
and parties to this proceeding.
    Any person wishing to comment on the EA may do so. To ensure 
consideration prior to a Commission decision on the proposal, it is 
important that we receive your comments before the date specified 
below. Please carefully follow these instructions to ensure that your 
comments are received in time and properly recorded:
    <bullet> Send two copies of your comments to: Lois Cashell, 
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First St., FN.E., 
Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.

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    <bullet> Label one copy of the comments for the attention of the 
Environmental Review and Compliance Branch, PR-11.2
    <bullet> Reference Docket No. CP97-276-000; and
    <bullet> Mail your comments so that they will be received in 
Washington, DC on or before November 14, 1997.
    Comments will be considered by the Commission but will not serve to 
make the comenter 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).
    The date for filing timely motions to intervene in this proceeding 
has passed. Therefore, parties now seeking to file late interventions 
must show good cause, as required by Section 385.214(b)(3), why this 
time limitation should be waived. Environmental issues have been viewed 
as good cause for late intervention. You do not need intervenor status 
to have your comments considered.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-27776 Filed 10-20-97; 8:45 am]
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