65262 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 238 / Thursday, December 11, 1997 / Notices

1The pre-registration forms referenced in this

notice are not being printed in the Federal Register.

Copies of the forms were sent to those receiving this

notice in the mail.

the protestants parties to the

proceeding. Any person wishing to

become a party must file a motion to

intervene. Copies of this filing are on

file with the Commission and are

available for public inspection.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–32375 Filed 12–10–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Environmental Compliance

and Applicant Environmental Report

Preparation Training Courses

December 5, 1997.

The Office of Pipeline Regulation

(OPR) staff will conduct the first of three

planned sessions of its Environmental

Compliance Training Course and the

Environmental Report Preparation

Course on January 27–29, 1998.

These courses are a result of the

positive response to our outreach

training courses held since 1992 and as

recently as October of this year. We

encourage interested organizations and

the public to take advantage of the

courses to gain an understanding of the

requirements and objectives of the

Commission in ensuring compliance

with all environmental certificate

conditions and meeting its

responsibilities under the National

Environmental Policy Act and other

laws and regulations. We also encourage

feedback, either at the courses or in

reply to this notice, on how we can

improve the courses.

Environmental Report Preparation

Course

The Environmental Report

Preparation Course presentation and its

manual focus primarily on Section 7

filings. However, the course manual will

address the following topics:

A. The types of projects that require

environmental filings.

1. Natural Gas Act section 7

2. Natural Gas Policy Act filings

3. Section 2.55 replacements

B. The filings required for each type of

project.

C. Information to include in each filing.

D. Potential time saving procedures.

1. Applicant-prepared DEA

2. Third-party EA or EIS

The staff intends the manual to be a

sourcebook for preparing environmental

filings under section 7 of the Natural

Gas Act.

If you have specific questions related

to the subject matter of this course, or

if you would like the course to address

a particular item, please call Mr. John

Leiss at (202) 208-1106.

This one-day Environmental Report

Preparation Course will be held on the

date and at the location shown below.

Attendees must call the number listed

for the hotel by the reservation deadline

and identify themselves as Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission seminar

attendees to receive the discounted

group rate.

Session: January 27, 1998

Location: Fairmont Hotel, 123 Baronne

Street, New Orleans, Louisiana,

70112, 1–800–527–4727, (504) 527–

7111

Reservations by: January 5, 1998.

We also intend to have sessions in

Chicago and Las Vegas in March and

May, respectively. Information on those

sessions (and registration forms) should

be available by the middle of January

through the telephone number given

below under Pre-registration.

Environmental Compliance Training

Course

The two-day Environmental

Compliance Training Course and its

manual will include the following

topics:

A. Post-certificate clearance filings.

B. Environmental inspection as it

relates to:

1. Right-of-way preparation;

2. Temporary erosion control;

3. Cultural resources;

4. Waterbody crossings;

5. Wetland construction;

6. Residential area construction;

7. Right-of-way restoration; and

8. Techniques for environmental

compliance.

The Environmental Compliance

Training Course will be held on the

dates and at the location shown below.

Attendees must call the numbers listed

for the hotels by the reservation

deadline and identify themselves as

FERC seminar attendees to receive the

discounted group rate.

Session: January 28–29, 1998

Location: Fairmont Hotel, 123 Baronne

Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112

Information: 1–800–527–4727, (504)

527–7111

Reservations by: January 5, 1998

We also intend to have sessions in

Chicago and Las Vegas in March and

May, respectively. Information on those

sessions (and registration forms) should

be available by the middle of January

through the telephone number given

below under Pre-registration.

Pre-Registration

The OPR staff and Foster Wheeler

Environmental Corporation, the

Commission’s environmental support

contractor for natural gas projects, will

conduct the training. There is no fee for

the courses, but you must pre-register

because space is limited.

If you would like to attend either of

these courses, please call the telephone

number listed below to obtain a preregistration form.1 NOTE: IF YOU PLAN

TO ATTEND BOTH THE

ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT

PREPARATION COURSE AND THE

SUBSEQUENT ENVIRONMENTAL

COMPLIANCE TRAINING COURSE,

YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER

SEPARATELY FOR EACH (ONLY ONE

FORM IS NEEDED). Attendance will be

limited to the first 150 people to preregister in each course. Call or FAX

requests for pre-registration forms to:

Ms. Donna Connor, c/o Foster Wheeler

Environmental Corporation, 470

Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA 02210,

Telephone or FAX (Menu driven): (508)

384–1424.

You will receive confirmation of preregistration and additional information

before the training course(s).

Additional training will be offered in

the future. Please indicate whether you

would like these courses to be offered

again, or if you are interested in any

other courses with different topics or

audiences. Please indicate your

preferences for location and time of

year. Suggestions on format are

welcome.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–32376 Filed 12–10–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6712–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP98–97–000]

Great Lakes Gas Transmission Limited

Partnership; Notice of Intent To

Prepare an Environmental Assessment

for the Proposed Carlton Delivery

Looping Project and Request for

Comments on Environmental Issues

December 5, 1997.

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 construction and operation of about

3.9 miles of 36-inch-diameter pipeline
Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 238 / Thursday, December 11, 1997 / Notices 65263

1 Great Lakes Gas Transmission Limited

Partnership’s application was filed with the

Commission under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act

and Part 157 of the Commission’s regulations.

2The appendices referenced in this notice are not

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies are

available from the Commission’s Public Reference

and Files Maintenance Branch, 888 First Street,

N.E., Washington, DC 20426, or call (202) 208–

1371. Copies of the appendices were sent to all

those receiving this notice in the mail.

loop and appurtenant facilities

proposed in the Carlton Delivery

Looping Project.1 This EA will be used

by the Commission in its decisionmaking process to determine whether

the project is in the public convenience

and necessity.

Summary of the Proposed Project

Great Lakes Transmission Limited

Partnership (Great Lakes) proposes to

expand the capacity of its facilities in

Minnesota and Wisconsin to transport

an additional 6,500 dekatherms per day

of natural gas to the City of Duluth,

Minnesota and Northwest Natural Gas

Company. Great Lakes seeks authority to

construct and operate:

• About 2.1 miles of 36-inch-diameter

pipeline loop from mileposts (MP) 22.7

to 24.8 on Great Lake’s existing

mainline facilities in Kittson County,

Minnesota (Loop 1);

• About 1.8 miles of 36-inch-diameter

pipeline loop from MPs 226.4 to 228.2

on Great Lake’s existing mainline

facilities in Itasca County, Minnesota

(Loop 2);

• Three downstream crossover

assemblies to tie-in the new loop

facilities to Great Lake’s existing loop

and mainline facilities at MPs 24.8,

226.4, and 228.2.

• One new side tap to be located at

an existing mainline valve site in

Douglas County, Wisconsin at MP

299.28. This sidetap would include two

aboveground tees and two aboveground

valves, together with piping and

supports.

The location of the project facilities is

shown in appendix 1.2 If you are

interested in obtaining procedural

information please write to the

Secretary of the Commission.

Land Requirements for Construction

Construction of the proposed facilities

would require about 57.3 acres of land.

Operation of the proposed project

facilities would permanently affect 12.3

acres of land associated with the new

permanent pipeline right-of-way.

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. We

call this ‘‘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 requests public

comments on the scope of the issues it

will 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.

The EA 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.

• Public safety.

• Endangered and threatened species.

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.

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

Great Lakes. This preliminary list of

issues may be changed based on your

comments and our analysis.

• A total of 7.7 acres of wetlands

would be affected during construction

of the proposed project.

• A total of 7.0 acres of forest land

would be cleared for the proposed

project.

No known nonjurisdictional facilities

have been identified for this project.

Public Participation

You can make a difference by sending

a letter addressing your specific

comments or concerns about the project.

You should focus on the potential

environmental effects of the proposal,

alternatives to the proposal including

alternative 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 two copies of your letter to:

Lois Cashell, Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First St.,

N.E., Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426;

• Label one copy of the comments for

the attention of the Environmental

Review and Compliance Branch, PR–

11.1;

• Reference Docket No. CP98–97–

000; and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC on

or before January 5, 1998.

Becoming an Intervenor

In addition to involvement in the EA

scoping process, you may want to

become an official party to the

proceeding or become an ‘‘intervenor’’.

Among other things, intervenors have

the right to receive copies of caserelated Commission documents and

filings by other intervenors. Likewise,

each intervenor must provide copies of

its filings to all other parties. If you

want 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) (see appendix 2).

You do not need intervenor status to

have your comments considered.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–32378 Filed 12–10–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Intent To File An Application

For A Subsequent License

December 5, 1997.

Take notice that the following

hydroelectric application has been filed