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other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

Dated: August 29, 2018. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19262 Filed 9–5–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. EL18–193–000] 

Notice of Institution of Section 206 

Proceeding and Refund Effective Date: 

Citizens Sycamore-Penasquitos 

Transmission LLC 

On August 30, 2018, the Commission 

issued an order in Docket No. EL18– 

193–000, pursuant to section 206 of the 

Federal Power Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C. 

824e (2012), instituting an investigation 

into whether Citizens SycamorePenasquitos Transmission LLC’s 

proposed transmission owner tariff may 

be unjust and unreasonable. Citizens 

Sycamore-Penasquitos Transmission 

LLC, 164 FERC 61,149 (2018). 

The refund effective date in Docket 

No. EL18–193–000, established 

pursuant to section 206(b) of the FPA, 

will be the date of publication of this 

notice in the Federal Register. 

Any interested person desiring to be 

heard in Docket No. EL18–193–000 

must file a notice of intervention or 

motion to intervene, as appropriate, 

with the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20426, in accordance 

with Rule 214 of the Commission’s 

Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 

385.214, within 21 days of the date of 

issuance of the order. 

Dated: August 30, 2018. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19270 Filed 9–5–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP18–538–000] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Proposed Gateway Project, and 

Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues: Sendero 

Carlsbad Gateway, LLC 

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 Gateway Project involving 

construction and operation of facilities 

by Sendero Carlsbad Gateway, LLC 

(Gateway) in Eddy County, New Mexico 

and Culberson County, Texas. The 

Commission will use this EA in its 

decision-making process to determine 

whether the project is in the public 

convenience and necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies about issues 

regarding the project. The National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

requires the Commission to take into 

account the environmental impacts that 

could result from its action whenever it 

considers the issuance of a Certificate of 

Public Convenience and Necessity. 

NEPA also requires the Commission to 

discover concerns the public may have 

about proposals. This process is referred 

to as ‘‘scoping.’’ The main goal of the 

scoping process is to focus the analysis 

in the EA on the important 

environmental issues. By this notice, the 

Commission requests public comments 

on the scope of the issues to address in 

the EA. To ensure that your comments 

are timely and properly recorded, please 

submit your comments so that the 

Commission receives them in 

Washington, DC on or before 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on September 28, 2018. 

You can make a difference by 

submitting your specific comments or 

concerns about the project. Your 

comments should focus on the potential 

environmental effects, reasonable 

alternatives, and measures to avoid or 

lessen environmental impacts. Your 

input will help the Commission staff 

determine what issues they need to 

evaluate in the EA. Commission staff 

will consider and address all filed 

comments during the preparation of the 

EA. 

If you sent comments on this project 

to the Commission before the opening of 

this docket on August 9, 2018, you will 

need to file those comments in Docket 

No. CP18–538–000 to ensure they are 

considered as part of this proceeding. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this project. State and 

local government representatives should 

notify their constituents of this 

proposed project and encourage them to 

comment on their areas of concern. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, a pipeline company 

representative may contact you about 

the acquisition of an easement to 

construct, operate, and maintain the 

proposed facilities. The company would 

seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable 

easement agreement. You are not 

required to enter into an agreement. 

However, if the Commission approves 

the project, that approval conveys with 

it the right of eminent domain. 

Therefore, if you and the company do 

not reach an easement agreement, the 

pipeline company could initiate 

condemnation proceedings in court. In 

such instances, compensation would be 

determined by a judge in accordance 

with state law. 

Gateway provided landowners with a 

fact sheet prepared by the FERC entitled 

‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas Facility On 

My Land? What Do I Need To Know?’’ 

This fact sheet addresses a number of 

typically asked questions, including the 

use of eminent domain and how to 

participate in the Commission’s 

proceedings. It is also available for 

viewing on the FERC website 

(www.ferc.gov). 

Public Participation 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to submit your 

comments to the Commission. The 

Commission encourages electronic filing 

of comments and has staff available to 

assist you at (866) 208–3676 or 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. Please 

carefully follow these instructions so 

that your comments are properly 

recorded. 

(1) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website (www.ferc.gov) 

under the link to Documents and 

Filings. Using eComment is an easy 

method for submitting brief, text-only 

comments on a project; 

(2) You can file your comments 

electronically by using the eFiling 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website (www.ferc.gov) 

under the link to Documents and 

Filings. With eFiling, you can provide 

comments in a variety of formats by 

attaching them as a file with your 

submission. New eFiling users must 


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1A ‘‘pig’’ is a tool that the pipeline company 

inserts into and pushes through the pipeline for 

cleaning the pipeline, conducting internal 

inspections, or other purposes. 

2The appendices referenced in this notice will 

not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of 

appendices were sent to all those receiving this 

notice in the mail and are available at www.ferc.gov 

using the link called eLibrary or from the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888 First 

Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, or call (202) 502– 

8371. For instructions on connecting to eLibrary, 

refer to the last page of this notice. 

3For instructions on connecting to eLibrary, refer 

to the last page of this notice. 

4The Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations addressing cooperating agency 

responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal 

Regulations, part 1501.6. 

5The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s 

regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, part 800. Those regulations define 

historic properties as any prehistoric or historic 

district, site, building, structure, or object included 

in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register 

of Historic Places. 

first create an account by clicking on 

eRegister. You will be asked to select the 

type of filing you are making; a 

comment on a particular project is 

considered a Comment on a Filing; or 

(3) You can file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

following address. Be sure to reference 

the project docket number (CP18–538– 

000) with your submission: Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

Gateway proposes to construct, 

operate, and maintain various facilities 

in connection with its proposed 

Gateway Project located in Eddy 

County, New Mexico and Culberson 

County, Texas. The Gateway Project 

would provide about 400 million 

standard cubic feet of natural gas per 

day from Gateway’s newly expanded 

Carlsbad Plant (a cryogenic gas 

processing plant) to the Agua Blanca 

intrastate pipeline owned by White 

Water Midstream, LLC. According to 

Gateway, its project would help 

alleviate natural gas supply delivery 

constraints in southeast New Mexico 

and satisfy overall demand in the 

western region of the United States. 

The Gateway Project would consist of 

the following facilities: 

• Approximately 23 miles of 24-inchdiameter natural gas transmission 

pipeline; 

• A new meter station (including a 

mainline block valve and pig 1 launcher) 

within the existing Carlsbad Plant; 

• A mainline block valve at milepost 

15.0; and 

• A pig receiver and mainline block 

valve at milepost 23.3 near a White 

Water Midstream, LLC meter station. 

The general location of the project 

facilities is shown in appendix 1.2

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the proposed facilities 

would disturb about 334 acres of land 

for the aboveground facilities and the 

pipeline. Following construction, 

Gateway would maintain about 100 

acres of land for permanent operation of 

the project’s facilities; the remaining 

acreage would be restored and would 

revert to former uses. About 82 percent 

of the proposed pipeline route parallels 

existing pipeline, utility, or road rightsof-way. 

The EA Process 

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; 

• Air quality and noise; 

• Endangered and threatened species; 

• Public safety; and 

• Cumulative impacts. 

Commission staff will also evaluate 

reasonable 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. 

The EA will present Commission 

staffs’ independent analysis of the 

issues. The EA will be available in the 

public record through eLibrary,3 and 

issued for an allotted comment period. 

Commission staff will consider and 

address all comments on the EA before 

making recommendations to the 

Commission. To ensure Commission 

staff have the opportunity to address 

your comments, please carefully follow 

the instructions in the Public 

Participation section, beginning on page 

2. 

With this notice, the Commission is 

asking agencies with jurisdiction by law 

and/or special expertise with respect to 

the environmental issues of this project 

to formally cooperate in the preparation 

of the EA.4 Agencies that would like to 

request cooperating agency status 

should follow the instructions for filing 

comments provided under the Public 

Participation section of this notice. 

Consultation Under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

In accordance with the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation’s 

implementing regulations for section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act, the Commission is 

using this notice to initiate consultation 

with the applicable State Historic 

Preservation Offices (SHPO), and to 

solicit their views and those of other 

government agencies, interested Indian 

tribes, and the public on the project’s 

potential effects on historic properties.5

Commission staff will define the 

project-specific Area of Potential Effects 

(APE) in consultation with the SHPOs 

as the project develops. On natural gas 

facility projects, the APE at a minimum 

encompasses all areas subject to ground 

disturbance (examples include 

construction right-of-way, contractor/ 

pipe storage yards, compressor stations, 

and access roads). The EA for this 

project will document findings on the 

impacts on historic properties and 

summarize the status of consultations 

under section 106. 

Environmental Mailing List 

The environmental mailing list 

includes federal, state, and local 

government representatives and 

agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American Tribes; other 

interested parties; and local libraries 

and newspapers. This list also includes 

all affected landowners (as defined in 

the Commission’s regulations) who are 

potential right-of-way grantors, whose 

property may be used temporarily for 

project purposes, or who own homes 

within certain distances of aboveground 

facilities, and anyone who submits 

comments on the project. Commission 

staff will update the environmental 

mailing list as the analysis proceeds to 

ensure that information related to this 

environmental review is sent to all 

individuals, organizations, and 

government entities interested in and/or 

potentially affected by the proposed 

project. 

If you need to make changes to your 

name/address, or if you would like to 

remove your name from the mailing list, 

please return the attached Mailing List 

Update Form (appendix 2). 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC 

website at www.ferc.gov using the 

eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary link, 

click on General Search and enter the 

docket number in the Docket Number 

field, excluding the last three digits (i.e., 

CP18–538). Be sure you have selected 

an appropriate date range. For 


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1A pig is a tool that the pipeline company inserts 

into and pushes through the pipeline for cleaning 

the pipeline, conducting internal inspections, or 

other purposes. 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov 

or (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact 

(202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also 

provides access to the texts of all formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission offers a 

free service called eSubscription which 

allows you to keep track of all formal 

issuances and submittals in specific 

dockets. This can reduce the amount of 

time you spend researching proceedings 

by automatically providing you with 

notification of these filings, document 

summaries, and direct links to the 

documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/esubscription.asp. 

Finally, public sessions or site visits 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

calendar located at www.ferc.gov/ 

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Dated: August 29, 2018. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19236 Filed 9–5–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER18–2335–000] 

Supplemental Notice That Initial 

Market-Based Rate Filing Includes 

Request for Blanket Section 204 

Authorization: Josco Energy USA, LLC 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding Josco 

Energy USA, LLC’s application for 

market-based rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate tariff, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability, is September 

19, 2018. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 5 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above-referenced 

proceeding are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the appropriate link in the 

above list. They are also available for 

electronic review in the Commission’s 

Public Reference Room in Washington, 

DC. There is an eSubscription link on 

the website that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Dated: August 30, 2018. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19269 Filed 9–5–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP18–13–000] 

Notice of Availability of the 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Proposed Columbia Gas Transmission, 

LLC Line 8000 Replacement Project 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared an 

environmental assessment (EA) for the 

Line 8000 Replacement Project (Project), 

proposed by Columbia Gas 

Transmission, LLC (Columbia) in the 

above-referenced docket. Columbia 

requests authorization to modernize and 

upgrade Columbia’s Line 8000 pipeline 

system by replacing and abandoning 

existing pipeline and constructing new 

pipeline and appurtenant facilities in 

Mineral County, West Virginia and 

Allegany County, Maryland. 

The EA assesses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

Project in accordance with the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The 

FERC 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 proposed Line 8000 Project 

would consist of: 

• Replacement of a total of 

approximately 13.25 miles of existing 

12-inch-diameter bare steel pipeline, 

with approximately 13.54 miles of new, 

coated 12-inch-diameter natural gas 

transmission pipeline in five sections 

and four modification points along Line 

8000 and Lateral Line 8006; 

• Replacement of a total of 

approximately 0.54 miles of existing 4- 

inch-diameter bare steel pipeline, with 

approximately 0.67 miles of new coated 

4-inch-diameter natural gas 

transmission pipeline along two laterals 

(Lateral Lines 8225 and 8244); 

• Installation of two new pig 1

launcher and receiver sites and four 

new mainline valves associated with 

pipeline facilities; 

• Modifications/abandonment of 

three existing mainline valves and three 

existing side tap valve sites and 

modification of tie-ins at two regulator 

stations; and 

• Abandonment of 13 active 

residential taps and 109 inactive taps. 

The FERC staff mailed copies of the 

EA to federal, state, and local 

government representatives and 

agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American tribes; 

potentially affected landowners and 

other interested individuals and groups; 

and newspapers and libraries in the 

project area. In addition, the EA is 

available for public viewing on the 

FERC’s website (www.ferc.gov) using the 

eLibrary link. A limited number of 

copies of the EA are available for 

distribution and public inspection at: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Public Reference Room, 888 First Street 

NE, Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, 

(202) 502–8371. 

Any person wishing to comment on 

the EA may do so. Your comments 

should focus on the EA’s disclosure and 

discussion of potential environmental 

effects, reasonable alternatives, and 


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