6518 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 29 / Wednesday, February 12, 1997 / Notices

Action Program Committee, will be

available on February 12, 1997.

DATES: Comments should be submitted

by Friday, March 14, 1997.

ADDRESSES: To Obtain Copies of the

Report or Submit Comments to: James T.

Melillo, Special Assistant to the

Assistant Secretary for Environmental

Management, Environmental

Management Advisory Board, EM–1,

1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.,

Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586–4400.

The Internet address is:

James.Melillo@em.doe.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose of

the Board. The purpose of the Board is

to provide the Assistant Secretary for

Environmental Management (EM) with

advice and recommendations on issues

confronting the Environmental

Management program from the

perspectives of affected groups and

State and local Governments. The Board

helps to improve the Environmental

Management Program by assisting in the

process of securing consensus

recommendations, and providing the

Depart ment’s numerous publics with

opportunities to express their opinions

regarding the Environ mental

Management Program including the

Formerly Utilized Site Remedial Action

Program, pursuant to the provisions of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Public Law 92–463, 86 Stat. 770).

The objectives of this Report currently

available for comment are to provide

risk information on FUSRAP materials

and to provide recommended guiding

principles developed by the Committee

and involved stakeholders to assure that

actions taken at FUSRAP sites are

protective of public health and the

environment and are sensitive to

stakeholder interests.

Issued at Washington, DC on February 7,

1997.

Rachel M. Samuel,

Acting Deputy Advisory Committee,

Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 97–3512 Filed 2–11–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP97–216–000]

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of

America; Notice of Request Under

Blanket Authorization

February 6, 1997.

Take notice that on January 29, 1997,

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of

America (Natural), 701 East 22nd Street,

Lombard, Illinois 60148, filed in Docket

No. CP97–216–000 a request pursuant to

Sections 157.205, and 157.212 of the

Commission’s Regulations under the

Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205,

157.212) for authorization to continue to

operate existing delivery point facilities

in Vermilion Block 380, offshore

Louisiana, under Natural’s blanket

certificate issued in Docket No. CP82–

402–000, pursuant to Section 7 of the

Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set

forth in the request that is on file with

the Commission and open to public

inspection.

Natural proposes to operate the

existing delivery point facilities to

deliver approximately 1,000 MMBtu of

natural gas per day to Forcenergy

Exploration, Inc. (Forcenergy), a

producer of natural gas. It is stated that

the existing facilities, consisting of 2.6

miles of 12-inch pipeline and an 8-inch

meter, were installed in 1982 to connect

Block 380 with the facilities of ANR

Pipeline Company (ANR) in Vermilion

Block 397 in order for Natural to receive

gas from Texaco, Inc. (Texaco), the

former owner of the production

platform now owned by Forcenergy on

Block 380 for transportation on behalf of

ANR until 1992, when the

transportation agreement between

Natural and ANR was abandoned.

Natural now proposes to continue

operating the facilities for deliveries to

Forcenergy, pursuant to a transportation

agreement with Coastal Energy Group,

which begin in October 1996. It is stated

that the proposal would have no adverse

impact on Natural’s peak day deliveries.

It is further stated that Natural has

sufficient gas supply to make the

deliveries and that the deliveries can be

made without detriment or disadvantage

to Natural’s existing customers.

Any person or the Commission’s staff

may, within 45 days after issuance of

the instant notice by the Commission,

file pursuant to Rule 214 of the

Commission’s Procedural Rules (18 CFR

385.214) a motion to intervene or notice

of intervention and pursuant to Section

157.205 of the Regulations under the

Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a

protest to the request. If no protest is

filed within the time allowed therefor,

the proposed activity shall be deemed to

be authorized effective the day after the

time allowed for filing a protest. If a

protest is filed and not withdrawn

within 30 days after the time allowed

for filing a protest, the instant request

shall be treated as an application for

authorization pursuant to Section 7 of

the Natural Gas Act.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–3440 Filed 2–11–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP97–224–000]

Northwest Pipeline Corporation; Notice

of Application

February 6, 1997.

Take notice that on February 3, 1997,

Northwest Pipeline Corporation

(Northwest), 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake

City, Utah 84158–0900, filed in Docket

No. CP97–224–000 an application

pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural

Gas Act for permission and approval to

abandon transportation services for

Amoco Production Company (Amoco)

and Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (Chevron)

provided pursuant to agreements

certificated in Docket No. CP82–432 and

incorporated in Volume No. 2 of

Northwest’s Tariff as Rate Schedules X–

77 and X–78, all as more fully set forth

in the application on file with the

Commission and open to public

inspection.

Northwest states that Rate Schedules

X–77 and X–78 provide for interruptible

transportation of 1,200 Dth per day for

Amoco and 350 Dth per day for

Chevron, respectively, from the

Ryckman Creek Field in Uinta County,

Wyoming to a mainline meter

interconnect with the Amoco/Chevron

supply line for their sulphur terminals.

Northwest further states that these

transportation agreements have each

expired by their own terms, that no

services have been requested or

provided thereunder since early 1993,

and that Amoco and Chevron currently

are using open-access, interruptible

transportation agreements to provide for

deliveries to the Amoco/Chevron supply

line delivery point.

Northwest also states that no

abandonment of facilities is proposed in

conjunction with the abandonment of

these services.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

application should on or before

February 27, 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.