66860 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 245 / Monday, December 22, 1997 / Notices

1 KNW’s application was filed with the

Commission under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act

and Part 157 of the Commission’s regulations.

2Pipeline carriers having facilities at Rockport

include K N Interstate Gas Transmission Company,

Colorado Interstate Gas Company, Trailblazer

Pipeline Company, Williams Natural Gas Company,

and Wyoming Interstate Company.

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;

• Water resources, fisheries, and

wetlands;

• Vegetation and wildlife;

• Land use;

• Cultural resources;

• 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

Northern. This preliminary list of issues

may be changed based on your

comments and our analysis.

• Nine federally listed endangered or

threatened species may occur in the

proposed project area.

• The Granada Branch or the

Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail

would be crossed.

• About 14 miles of the Comanche

National Grass Lands would be crossed.

• Five perennial, streams would be

crossed: Frijole, San Francisco, Salt,

Trinchera, and Chacuaco Creeks.

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–

11.2)

• Reference Docket No. CP97–769–

000; and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC on

or before January 15, 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 intervenors 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 or

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR

385.214) (see appendix 2).

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. 97–33268 Filed 12–19–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP98–49–000]

K N. Wattenberg Transmission Limited

Liability Company; Notice of Intent To

Prepare an Environmental Assessment

for the Proposed Front Runner

Pipeline Project and Request for

Comments on Environmental Issues

December 17, 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 the

facilities proposed by K N Wattenberg

Transmission Limited Liability

Company (KNW) as the Front Runner

Pipeline Project.1 This EA will be used

by the Commission in its decisionmaking process to determine whether an

environmental impact statement is

necessary and whether the project is in

the public convenience and necessity.

Summary of the Proposed Project

KNW proposes to construct, acquire,

and operate new and existing pipeline

facilities to establish a new natural gas

transportation system along the Front

Range of the Rocky Mountains in north

central Colorado. KNW would

interconnect three segments (about 75

miles) of new pipeline with two

segments (about 33.5 miles) of existing

pipeline, providing new capacity for

transporting gas between the Rockport

‘‘gas hub’’ in northern Weld County and

natural gas processors, users, and

transporters in southern Weld and

northern Adams County (northern

Denver). The new pipeline would have

the capacity to provide users at the

southern end with 250 million cubic

feet (MMcf) of natural gas per day, and

gas producers at the southern end with

the ability to transport 80 MMcf per day

to new markets accessible via several

existing interstate carriers whose

facilities converge at Rockport.2

Specifically, KNW seeks authority to

construct and operate:

• About 45.2 miles of new 24-inchdiameter pipeline extending from

Rockport (in northern Weld County)

south to northern Johnstown;
Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 245 / Monday, December 22, 1997 / Notices 66861

3The appendices referred 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, NE,

Washington, DC 20426, or call (202) 208–1371.

Copies of the appendices were sent to all those

receiving this notice in the mail.

• About 10.6 miles of new 16-inchdiameter pipeline extending from the

Pan Energy-Mark Mewbourne Gas

Processing Plant westward towards an

area northwest of Platteville; and

• About 19.3 miles of new 6- and 12-

inch-diameter pipeline extending

eastward from the Erie area in southern

Weld County.

To complete the new system, KNW

would also acquire existing gathering

and related facilities from its affiliate K

N Gas Gathering Company (KNGG).

These facilities, which KNGG no longer

needs to meet its current level of service

requirements in Colorado, include:

• About 9.5 miles of 16-inch-diameter

unprocessed gas pipeline extending

from northern Johnstown to an area

northwest of Platteville; and

• About 24 miles of 12-, 10-, and 8-

inch-diameter processed gas pipeline

extending south from the Amoco gas

processing plant near Platteville to an

area southeast of Brighton in northern

Adams County. (This segment is

essentially 21 miles of 12-inch-diameter

mainline with three short, smalldiameter laterals extending to nearby

customers.)

KNW would need to clean and dry the

9.5-mile-long segment of unprocessed

gas pipeline before converting it to

processed gas service. KNW also plans

to construct/install mainline valves,

interconnects, metering and valving at

gas delivery/receipt points, and pigging

facilities along the system.

The location of the project facilities is

shown in appendix 1.3 If you are

interested in obtaining more detailed

maps of a specific portion of the project,

or procedural information, please write

to the Secretary of the Commission.

Land Requirements for Construction

Construction of the proposed facilities

would disturb about 698 acres of land

overall, based on a typical 75-foot-wide

pipeline construction right-of-way and

including extra work spaces needed

temporarily at waterbody, road, and

railroad crossings. Following

construction, about 458 acres would be

maintained as new permanent pipeline

rights-of-way (typically 50-feet-wide) or

aboveground facility sites. (This figure

excludes existing easements associated

with the pipeline segments that KNW

would acquire from KNGG.) The

remaining 240 acres of land disturbed

during construction would be restored

and allowed to revert to its former uses.

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 will be 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;

• Water resources, fisheries, and

wetlands;

• Vegetation and wildlife;

• Endangered and threatened species;

• Land use;

• Cultural resources;

• Air quality and noise;

• Public safety.

We will also evaluate possible

alternatives to the proposed project or

portions of the project, and make

recommendations on how to lessen or

avoid impact on the various resource

areas.

Our independent analysis of the

issues will be presented 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 two issues

that we think deserve attention based on

a preliminary review of the proposed

facilities and the environmental

information provided by KNW. This

preliminary list may be changed based

on your comments and our analysis.

• Eleven federally listed endangered

or threatened species may occur in the

proposed project area.

• The proposed facilities would

require at least three waterbody

crossings which would impact

associated wetland and riparian

vegetation which are considered

sensitive resources in the project area.

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/locations), 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.,

NE., Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426;

• Label one copy of your comments

for the attention of the Environmental

Review and Compliance Branch, PR–

11.1;

• Reference Docket No. CP98–49–

000; and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC on

or before January 16, 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).

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.
66862 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 245 / Monday, December 22, 1997 / Notices

You do not need intervenor status to

have your comments considered.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–33270 Filed 12–19–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of As-Built Exhibits

December 16, 1997.

Take notice that the following

hydroelectric application has been filed

with the Commission and is available

for public inspection:

a. Type of Application: As-Built

Exhibits.

b. Project No.: 8914–012.

c. Dates Filed: July 7, 1993 and

December 5, 1997.

d. Applicant: Rio Blanco Water

Conservancy District.

e. Name of Project: Taylor Draw

Project.

f. Location: On the White River in Rio

Blanco County, Colorado.

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act, 16 U.S.C. § 791(a)–825(r).

h. Applicant Contact: Ms. Ann Brady

2252 East Main Street Rangely, CO

81648 (970) 675–5055.

i. FERC Contact: Paul Shannon, (202)

219–2866.

j. Comment Date: January 28, 1997.

k. Description of Filings: Rio Blanco

Water Conservancy District (Rio Blanco)

filed as-built exhibit drawings showing

changes to the projects transmission line

and boundary. Rio Blanco was

authorized to construct a 7.5-mile-long

transmission line from the project to the

Southwest Rangely Substation. During

construction, Rio Blanco instead tied

into an existing transmission line 1,000

feet from the project’s powerhouse. The

as-built exhibits revise the project

boundary to include the 1,000-foot-long

new transmission line.

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

Procedure, 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

Energy 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

be sent to the Applicant’s

representatives.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–33275 Filed 12–19–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5938–1]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; Hazardous

Waste Generator Standards

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this document announces

that the following Information

Collection Request (ICR) has been

forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and

approval: Hazardous Waste Generator

Standards, OMB Control Number 2050–

0035, expiring on 2/28/98. The ICR

describes the nature of the information

collection and its expected burden and

cost; where appropriate, it includes the

actual data collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before January 21, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

a copy of the ICR, call Sandy Farmer at

EPA, (202) 260–2740, or download off

the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/icr/

icr.htm and refer to EPA ICR No.

0820.07.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Hazardous Waste Generator

Standards (OMB Control Number 2050–

0035; EPA ICR No. 0820.07.) expiring

2/28/98. This is a request for extension

of a currently approved collection.

Abstract: In the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA),

as amended, Congress directed the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

to implement a comprehensive program

for the safe management of hazardous

waste. The core of the national waste

management program is the regulation

of hazardous waste from generation to

transport to treatment and eventual

disposal, or from ‘‘cradle to grave.’’

Section 3001(d) of RCRA requires EPA

to develop standards for small quantity

generators. Section 3002 of RCRA

among other things states that EPA shall

establish requirements for hazardous

waste generators regarding

recordkeeping practices. Section 3002

also requires EPA to establish standards

on appropriate use of containers by

generators.

Finally, section 3017 of RCRA

specifies requirements for individuals

exporting hazardous waste from the

United States, including a notification

of the intent to export, and an annual

report summarizing the types,

quantities, frequency, and ultimate

destination of all exported hazardous

waste (additional reporting

requirements for exporters and

importers of recyclable materials are

covered under ICR Number 1647.01).

This ICR targets four categories of

informational requirements in part 262:

pre-transport requirements for both

large (LQG) and small (SQG) quantity

generators (including the generator pretransport requirements referenced in 40

CFR part 265), air emission standards

requirements for LQGs (referenced in 40

CFR part 265, subparts I and J),

recordkeeping and reporting

requirements for LQGs and SQGs, and

export requirements for LQGs and SQGs

(i.e., notification of intent to export and

annual reporting).

This collection of information is

necessary to help generators and EPA

(1) identify and understand the waste

streams being generated and the hazards