Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 223 / Wednesday, November 19, 1997 / Notices 61815

Company (Union Light), 139 East Fourth

Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, filed in

Docket No. CP98–70–000 an application

pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural

Gas Act for a certificate of public

convenience and necessity to modify

the service currently provided under

Rate Schedule X–4, all as more fully set

forth in the application which is on file

with the Commission and open to

public inspection.

It is stated that under Rate Schedule

X–4, Union Light provides for the

transportation of gas to The Cincinnati

Gas & Electric Company (Cincinnati) for

the account of Columbia Gas

Transmission Corporation (Columbia). It

is further stated that for such service,

Union Light bills Columbia and then

Cincinnati reimburses Columbia. Union

Light states that Columbia’s

involvement in the transportation

service is no longer necessary due to

changed delivery points. Therefore,

Union Light states that it proposes to

modify the service currently provided

under Rate Schedule X–4 to reflect that

the service rendered by Union Light to

Cincinnati no longer requires

Columbia’s involvement and that the

gas transported by Union Light on

behalf of Cincinnati may include

customer-owned gas.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

application should on or before

December 4, 1997, file with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission,

Washington, D.C. 20426, a motion to

intervene or a protest in accordance

with the requirements of the

Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211)

and the Regulations under the Natural

Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10). All protests

filed with the Commission will be

considered by it in determining the

appropriate action to be taken but will

not serve to make the protestants parties

to the proceeding. Any person wishing

to become a party to a proceeding or to

participate as a party in any hearing

therein must file a motion to intervene

in accordance with the Commission’s

Rules.

Take further notice that, pursuant to

the authority contained in and subject to

jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission by

Sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act

and the Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure, a hearing will be held

without further notice before the

Commission or its designee on this

application if no motion to intervene is

filed within the time required herein, if

the Commission on its own review of

the matter finds that a grant of the

certificate is required by the public

convenience and necessity. If a motion

for leave to intervene is timely filed, or

if the Commission on its own motion

believes that a formal hearing is

required, further notice of such hearing

will be duly given.

Under the procedure herein provided

for, unless otherwise advised, it will be

unnecessary for Union Light to appear

or be represented at the hearing.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–30308 Filed 11–18–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP96–53–000 et al.]

NE Hub Partners, L.P.; Notice of

Availability of the Environmental

Assessment for the Proposed NE Hub

Partners, L.P. Tioga Storage Project

November 13, 1997.

The staff of the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (FERC or

Commission) has prepared an

environmental assessment (EA) on both

the natural gas storage field and

pipeline facilities proposed by NE Hub

Partners, L.P. (NE Hub) in the abovereferenced docket and the related brine

evaporation/salt plant proposed by

United Salt Northeast, L.L.C. (USN).

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 NE Hub’s

proposed underground gas storage

facility and related pipeline facilities,

including:

• A freshwater intake pumping

station at the Cowanesque Reservoir;

• 3.9 miles of 12-inch-diameter

freshwater pipeline to transport water to

the leaching operation;

• Two cavern leaching/natural gas

storage wells;

• Two gas storage caverns with a

capacity of 3 billion cubic feet each;

• A leaching plant facility including

electrical substation, emergency

generator, warehouse, office/control

room, four 300,000 barrel storage tanks,

six 4,000 barrel storage tanks, and other

appurtenant facilities;

• A gas system facility, including a

compression facility (18,750 horsepower

total) with exhaust mufflers and

aftercoolers for gas injection to and

withdrawal from et al.

• The storage caverns, meter station,

electrical substation, emergency

generator, and other appurtenant

facilities;

• Four segments of 26-inch-diameter

transmission pipeline totaling 12.3

miles;

• 7.7 miles of 12-inch-diameter brine

and freshwater pipelines;

• 5.0 miles of 4-inch-diameter fuel

gas and residual/mineral salt purge

pipelines;

• 1.4 miles of 12-inch-diameter

freshwater, mid-brine return, mid-brine,

and saturated brine pipelines;

• 3.7 miles of 24-inch-diameter gas

storage pipeline; and

• Two meter stations.

In conjunction with these facilities,

USN proposes to construct and operate

the following:

• A railroad siding turnout and truck/

hopper railcar bulk loading station to

ship commercial salt products; and

• A brine evaporation/salt plant to

dispose of the brine by production of

commercial salt products, and other

facilities to the extent needed for salt

production, storage, and transportation.

The purpose of the proposed facilities

would be to provide two high

deliverability natural gas storage

caverns with a capacity of up to 3

billion cubic feet per cavern. The

storage facility near tioga, Pennsylvania

would be interconnected with certain

interstate and intrastate pipelines. The

gas injection/withdrawal facilities

would be designed to allow the gas

storage facility to withdraw natural gas

from various existing pipelines during

periods of low gas demand and inject

the gas under high pressure into the

storage caverns. During periods of high

gas demand, the natural gas would be

withdrawn from the caverns and

released into the various pipelines at the

appropriate pressure. The injection/

withdrawal facilities would be designed

to inject 250 million cubic feet of gas a

day and withdraw 500 million cubic

feet of gas a day. The injection/

withdrawal cycle would be 20 days/10

days.

In conjunction with the storage

facilities, USN, would receive the brine

from NE Hub via pipeline and develop

a commercial salt business at a site

about 1.5 miles northeast of Tioga,

Pennsylvania.

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
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Branch, 888 First Street, N.E., Room 2A,

Washington, DC 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:

• Send two copies of your comments

to: Lois Cashell, Secretary, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First St., N.E., Room 1A, Washington,

DC 20426;

• Label one of those copies for the

attention of the Environmental Review

and Compliance Branch II, PR–11.2;

• Reference Docket No. CP96–53–000;

and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC on

or before December 15, 1997.

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).

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. 97–30306 Filed 11–18–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Project No. 11393–001 Alaska

City of Saxman; Notice of Availability

of Final Environmental Assessment

November 13, 1997.

In accordance with the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and

the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission’s (Commission)

regulations, 18 CFR Part 380 (Order No.

486, 52 F.R. 47897), the Office of

Hydropower Licensing has reviewed the

application for an original license for

the major, unconstructed, Mahoney

Lake Hydroelectric Project. The project

would be located on Upper Mahoney

lake and Upper Mahoney Creek near

Ketchikan in Southeast Alaska.

On July 14, 1997, the Commission

staff issued and distributed to all parties

a Draft Environmental Assessment

(DEA) on the project, and requested that

comments be filed with the Commission

within 30 days. Comments were filed

and are addressed in the Final

Environmental Assessment (FEA).

The FEA contains the staff’s analysis

of the potential environmental impacts

of the 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.

Copies of the FEA are available for

review in the Public Reference Room,

Room 2A, of the Commission’s offices at

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–30315 Filed 11–18–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Non-Project Use of Project

Lands and Waters

November 13, 1997.

Take notice that the following

hydroelectric application has been filed

with the Commission and is available

for public inspection:

a. Type of Application: Non-project

Use of Project Lands and Waters.

b. Project No.: 1494–146.

c. Date Filed: September 4, 1997.

d.. Applicant: Grand River Dam

Authority.

e. Name of Project: Pensacola.

f. Location: The proposed facilities

would be located on Monkey Island on

Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees in

Delaware County, Oklahoma.

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act, 16 U.S.C. § 791(a)–825(r).

h. Applicant Contact: Mary Von

Drehle, Grand River Dam Authority,

P.O. Box 409, Vinita, OK 74301, (918)

256–5545.

i. FERC Contact: Jon Confrancesco,

(202) 219–0079.

j. Comment Date: December 18, 1997.

k. Description of Project: Grand River

Dam Authority, licensee for the

Pensacola Project, requests Commission

authorization to permit Glenn Tucker,

d/b/a Newport Village (permittee) to

install five new floating, covered boat

docks, containing a total of 57 slips and

7 additional slips to an existing,

covered, floating, boat dock with 9 slips.

The existing and proposed dock

facilities contain a total of 73 slips. The

proposed docks would be used by the

local homeowner’s association.

1. This notice also consists of the

following standard paragraphs: B, C1,

and D2.

B. Comments, Protests, or Motions to

Intervene—Anyone may submit

comments, a protest, or a motion to

intervene in accordance with the

requirements of Rules of Practice and

Procedures, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .214.

In determining the appropriate action to

take, the Commission will consider all

protests or other comments filed, but

only those who file a motion to

intervene in accordance with the

Commission’s Rules may become a

party to the proceeding. Any comments,

protests, or motions to intervene must

be received on or before the specified

comment date for the particular

application.

C1. Filing and Service of Responsive

Documents—Any filings must bear in

all capital letters the title,

‘‘COMMENTS’’,

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TERMS

AND CONDITIONS’’, ‘‘PROTEST’’, or

‘‘MOTION TO INTERVENE’’, as

applicable, and the Project Number of

the particular application to which the

filing refers. Any of the above-named

documents must be filed by providing

the original and the number of copies

provided by the Commission’s

regulations to: The Secretary, Federal

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426. A

copy of any motion to intervene must

also be served upon each representative

of the Applicant specified in the

particular application.

D2. Agency Comments—Federal,

state, and local agencies are invited to

file comments on the described

application. A copy of the application

may be obtained by agencies directly

from the Applicant. If an agency does

not file comments within the time

specified for filing comments, it will be

presumed to have no comments. One

copy of an agency’s comments must also