63702 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 231 / Tuesday, December 2, 1997 / Notices

1The original compressor was a T–4002 unit, and

the operation of the new T–4700 compressor has

been limited to the design capability of the original

unit.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP98–95–000]

NorAm Gas Transmission Company;

Notice of Application

November 25, 1997.

Take notice that on November 19,

1997, NorAm Gas Transmission

Company (NorAm), 1600 Smith Street,

Houston, Texas, 77002, pursuant to

Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act

(NGA), filed an application with the

Commission in Docket No. CP98–95–

000 for a certificate of public

convenience and necessity to upgrade

and operate a compressor facility,

located on NorAm’s Line J, at its design

horsepower level, in order to create

additional capacity on Line J, all as

more fully set forth in the application

which is on file with the Commission

and open to the public for inspection.

Specifically, NorAm proposes to

operate the Solar Centaur T–4700

turbine unit, which was recently

installed at NorAm’s existing Round

Mountain Compressor Station located

on Line J in Conway County, Arkansas,

at its design capacity rather than the

4,000 horsepower at which it is

currently operating.1 NorAm states that

the upgrade compressor, when

operating at its design capability, will

create approximately 3,100 MMBtu per

day of additional capacity on Line J.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

application should, on or before

December 16, 1997, file with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, N.E., 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 385.211 and

385.214) and the Regulations under the

NGA (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. The Commission’s rules

require that protestors provide copies of

their protests to the party or parties

directly involved. 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.

A person obtaining intervenor status

will be placed on the service list

maintained by the Secretary of the

Commission and will receive copies of

all documents filed by the applicant and

by every one of the intervenors. An

intervenor can file for rehearing of any

Commission order and can petition for

court review of any such order.

However, an intervenor must submit

copies of comments or any other filings

it makes with the Commission to every

other intervenor in the proceeding, as

well as an original and 14 copies with

the Commission.

A person does not have to intervene,

however, in order to have comments

considered. A person, instead, may

submit two copies of comments to the

Secretary of the Commission.

Commenters will be placed on the

Commission’s environmental mailing

list, will receive copies of

environmental documents and will be

able to participate in meetings

associated with the Commission’s

environmental review process.

Commenters will not be required to

serve copies of filed documents on all

other parties. However, commenters

will not receive copies of all documents

filed by other parties or issued by the

Commission and will not have the right

to seek rehearing or appeal the

Commission’s final order to a federal

court.

The Commission will consider all

comments and concerns equally,

whether filed by commenters or those

requesting intervenor status.

Take further notice that, pursuant to

the authority contained in and subject to

the jurisdiction conferred upon the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

by Sections 7 and 15 of the NGA 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 NorAm to appear or be

represented at the hearing.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–31483 Filed 12–1–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 1982–017]

Northern States Power Company;

Notice of Meeting to Discuss a

Settlement Process for Relicensing

Northern States Power Company’s

Lower Chippewa River Hydroelectric

Projects

November 25, 1997.

On December 3, at 1:00 p.m. Central

Standard Time, Commission staff from

the Office of Hydropower Licensing will

attend a meeting for the proposed

relicensing of the Holcombe

Hydroelectric Project and Northern

States Power Company’s other lower

Chippewa River hydroelectric projects.

The meeting will be held at Northern

States Power Company’s Western

Avenue Service Center, located at 1400

Western Avenue in Eau Claire, WI.

The purpose of this meeting is to

discuss a settlement process and to

organize a negotiation team.

For further information, please

contact Mark Pawlowski at (202) 219–

2795, or Lloyd Everhart at 715–839–

2692.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–31484 Filed 12–1–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 2000–010]

Power Authority of the State of New

York; Notice of 1998 Schedule of

Meetings To Discuss Settlement for

Relicensing of the St. Lawrence–FDR

Power Project

November 25, 1997.

The establishment of the Cooperative

Consultation Process (CCP) Team and

the Scoping Process for relicensing of

the St. Lawrence–FDR Power Project

was identified in the NOTICE OF

MEMORANDUM OF

UNDERSTANDING, FORMATION OF

COOPERATIVE CONSULTATION

PROCESS TEAM, AND INITIATION OF

SCOPING PROCESS ASSOCIATED

WITH RELICENSING THE ST.

LAWRENCE–FDR POWER PROJECT

issued May 2, 1996, and found in the

Federal Register dated May 8, 1996,

Volume 61, No. 90, on page 20813.

The following is a list of the 1998

schedule of meetings for the CCP Team