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Company (Dominion Virginia Power),

tendered for filing an Amended

Settlement Agreement between Virginia

Electric and Power Company and North

Carolina Eastern Municipal Power

Agency, North Carolina Electric

Membership Corporation, Southeastern

Federal Power Customers, Inc.,

Southeastern Power Administration,

Virginia Municipal Electric Association

No. 1, Central Virginia Electric

Cooperative, Inc., Craig-Botetourt

Electric Cooperative, Inc., and Old

Dominion Electric Cooperative. The

Amended Settlement Agreement

amends the Settlement Agreement

accepted by the Commission on October

28, 1999 in Docket No. ER99–417–000.

Dominion Virginia Power requests an

effective date of September 29, 2000, the

date of filing of the Amended

Settlement Agreement.

Copies of the filing were served upon

the parties of record in Docket No.

ER99–417–000, North Carolina Eastern

Municipal Power Agency, North

Carolina Electric Membership

Corporation, Southeastern Federal

Power Customers, Inc., Southeastern

Power Administration, Virginia

Municipal Electric Association No. 1,

Central Virginia Electric Cooperative,

Inc., Craig-Botetourt Electric

Cooperative, Inc., Old Dominion

Electric Cooperative, the Virginia State

Corporation Commission, the Public

Service Commission of West Virginia,

and the North Carolina Utilities

Commission.

Comment date: October 20, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

17. Atlantic City Electric Company

[Docket No. ER00–3786–000]

Take notice that on September 29,

2000, Atlantic City Electric Company

(Atlantic), tendered for filing an

executed umbrella service agreement

with PSEG Energy Resources & Trade

LLC under Atlantic’s market rate sales

tariff, FERC Electric Tariff, Second

Revised Volume No. 1.

Atlantic requests an effective date of

September 1, 2000.

Comment date: October 20, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

18. Delmarva Power & Light Company

[Docket No. ER00–3787–000]

Take notice that on September 29,

2000, Delmarva Power & Light Company

(Delmarva), tendered for filing an

executed umbrella service agreement

with PSEG Energy Resources & Trade

LLC under Delmarva’s market rate sales

tariff, FERC Electric Tariff, Second

Revised Volume No. 14.

Delmarva requests an effective date of

September 1, 2000.

Comment date: October 20, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

19. Commonwealth Edison Company

[Docket No. ER00–3788–000]

Take notice that on September 29,

2000, Commonwealth Edison Company

(ComEd), tendered for filing two

Network Service Agreements (Service

Agreements) and two Network

Operating Agreements (Operating

Agreements) between ComEd and the

City of Batavia and the City of St.

Charles. These agreements will govern

ComEd’s provision of network service

load under the terms of ComEd’s Open

Access Transmission Tariff (OATT).

ComEd requests an effective date of

September 1, 2000 for the Agreements,

and accordingly, seeks waiver of the

Commission’s notice requirements.

Comment date: October 20, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

20. PSI Energy, Inc.

[Docket No. ER00–3789–000]

Take notice that on September 29,

2000, PSI Energy, Inc., tendered for

filing its Power Coordination Agreement

and Power Supply Agreement with

Wabash Valley Power Association and

its Service Agreement for Firm Point-toPoint Transmission Service with the

City of Logansport, Indiana,

redesignated according to Order No.

614. This filing is being made in

conjunction with the filing of revised

pages to these three agreements as part

of a partial settlement in Docket No.

ER00–188.

This filing has been served on the

Wabash Valley Power Association and

Logansport Municipal Utilities.

Comment date: October 20, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

21. Metropolitan Edison Company

[Docket No. ER00–3790–000]

Take notice that on September 29,

2000, Metropolitan Edison Company

(Metropolitan Edison), tendered for

filing a Generation Facility

Interconnection Agreement (Agreement)

by and between Metropolitan Edison

and Green Knight Economic

Development Corporation (Green

Knight), entered into on September 11,

2000.

Copies of the filing were served upon

Green Knight and regulators in the State

of Pennsylvania.

Comment date: October 20, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

22. Metropolitan Edison Company

[Docket No. ER00–3791–000]

Take notice that on September 29,

2000, Metropolitan Edison Company

(Metropolitan Edison), tendered for

filing a Generation Facility

Interconnection Agreement (Agreement)

by and between Metropolitan Edison

and Lebanon Methane Recovery, Inc.

(Lebanon Methane), entered into on July

17, 2000.

Copies of the filing were served upon

Lebanon Methane and regulators in the

State of Pennsylvania.

Comment date: October 20, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs

E. Any person desiring to be heard or

to protest such filing should file a

motion to intervene or protest 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). All such motions or

protests should be filed on or before the

comment date. Protests will be

considered by the Commission in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but will not serve to make

protestants parties to the proceeding.

Any person wishing to become a party

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of these filings are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection. This filing may also be

viewed on the Internet at http://

www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call

202–208–2222 for assistance).

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–25989 Filed 10–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 2183–023, Oklahoma]

Grand River Dam Authority; Notice of

Availability of Environmental

Assessment

October 4, 2000.

An environmental assessment (EA) is

available for public revivew. The EA

analyzes the environmental impacts of

Grand River Dam Authority’s (GRDA)

application to grant a permit to Mike

Sisemore (applicant) to install 2 boat

docks with 38 slips in Lake Hudson, the

reservoir for the Markham Ferry

Hydroelectric Project. GRDA’s proposed

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1 DOMAC’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 on the Commission’s website at the

‘‘RIMS’’ link or from the Commission’s Public

Reference and Files Maintenance Branch, 888 First

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call (202)

208–1371. For instructions on connecting to RIMS

refer to the last page of this notice. Copies of the

appendices were sent to all those receiving this

notice in the mail.

3 ‘‘We,’’ ‘‘us,’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to the

environmental staff of the Office of Energy Projects

(OEP).

permit would also allow the applicant

to dredge about 25,000 cubic yards of

sediment to improve boat access from

the docks to Lake Hudson. The

Markham Ferry Project is on the Grand

(Nesho) River in Mayes County,

Oklahoma.

The EA was written by staff in the

Office of Energy Projects, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission. In the

EA, Commission staff conclude that

approving GRDA’s application to grant

the permit would not constitute a major

federal action significantly affecting the

quality of the human environment.

Copies of the EA can be viewed on the

web at www.ferc.fed.us/online/

rims.htm. Call (202) 208–2222 for

assistance. Copies are also avaiable for

inspection and reproduction at the

Commission’s Public Reference Room,

located at 888 First Street, NE., Room

2A, Washington DC 20426, or by calling

(202) 208–1371.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–26061 Filed 10–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP00–447–000]

Distrigas of Massachusetts LLC;

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Assessment for the

Proposed High Pressure Expansion

Project and Request for Comments on

Environmental Issues

October 4, 2000.

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 High Pressure Expansion Project

involving construction and operation of

facilities by Distrigas of Massachusetts

LLC (DOMAC) at its existing liquefied

natural gas (LNG) storage facility

Everett, Massachusetts.1 These facilities

would consist of new vaporization

equipment and associated systems to

provide regasified LNG to a

nonjurisdictional electric power

generating plant currently under

construction. This EA will be used by

the Commission in its decision-making

process to determine whether the

project is in the public convenience and

necessity.

Summary of the Proposed Project

The proposed project would allow

DOMAC to supply 280,000 million

British thermal units per day of

regasified LNG to an electric power

generating plant. Specifically, DOMAC

requests Commission authorization to:

• Install four submerged combustion

vaporization units capable of 600,000

thousand cubic feet per day;

• Replace the existing LNG tank

pumps with higher capacity pumps;

• Install eight LNG booster pumps;

• Modify the LNG impoundment and

vapor control systems; and

• Install various cross-connections,

tie-ins, pollution control systems, and

odorization equipment.

In addition to the above jurisdictional

facilities, Sithe Mystic Development

LLC is constructing the New Mystic

Station, a 1,550 megawatt natural gasfired, combined-cycle electric

generating power plant at Everett,

Massachusetts. The New Mystic Station,

approved by the Massachusetts Energy

Facilities Siting Board on September 30,

1999, is currently under construction

and was 40 percent complete at the time

of DOMAC’s filing with the

Commission. A 24-inch-diameter

nonjurisdictional pipeline,

approximately 1,200 feet in length,

would also be constructed by Boston

Gas Company to transport the regasified

LNG to the New Mystic Station.

The general location of DOMAC’s

proposed project facilities is shown on

the map attached as appendix 1.2

Construction of the proposed facilities

would occur completely on DOMAC’s

existing LNG plant site.

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’’.3 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

• Vegetation and wildlife

• Public safety

• Cultural resources

• Water resources, fisheries, and

wetlands

• Endangered and threatened species

• Land use

• Air quality and noise impacts

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.

To ensure your comments are

considered, please carefully follow the

instructions in the public participation

section below.

Public Participation

You can make a difference by

providing us with your specific

comments or concerns about the project.

By becoming a commentor, your

concerns will be addressed in the EA

and considered by the Commission. You

should focus on the potential

environmental effects of the proposal,

alternatives to the proposal, 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