60186 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 196 / Tuesday, October 10, 2000 / Notices

1Columbia Gulf’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, N.E., Washington, D.C. 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 ‘‘Us,’’ ‘‘we,’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to the

environmental staff of the FERC’s Office of Energy

Projects.

(Agreements) with the City of Chicago

(CHGO), Indeck Energy Services, Inc.

(Indeck), The Legacy Energy Group, LLC

(Legacy), NRG Power Marketing Inc.

(NRG), and SCANA Energy Marketing,

Inc. (SCANA), and eleven Short-Term

Firm Transmission Service Agreements

with Automated Power Exchange, Inc.

(APX), Carolina Power & Light Company

(CPL), CHGO, Florida Power & Light

Company (FPL), FPL Energy Power

Marketing, Inc. (FPLM), Indeck, Legacy,

NRG, SCANA, TXU Energy Trading

Company (TXU), and Wisconsin Public

Power Inc. (WPPI) under the terms of

ComEd’s Open Access Transmission

Tariff (OATT).

ComEd requests an effective date of

September 28, 2000 for the Agreements,

and accordingly, seeks waiver of the

Commission’s notice requirements.

Comment date: October 18, 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, N.E., Washington, D.C.

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. 00–25838 Filed 10–6–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP00–434–000]

Columbia Gulf Transmission

Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare

an Environmental Assessment for the

Proposed Stanton Compressor

Replacement and Request for

Comments on Environmental Issues

October 3, 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 Stanton Compressor Replacement

Project, involving replacement,

construction and operation of facilities

by Columbia Gulf Transmission

Company (Columbia Gulf) in Stanton

County, Kentucky.1 These facilities

would consist of replacing an existing

gas-powered turbine and compressor

package with a new compressor

package, constructing two small

buildings to house the new compressor

package and related control equipment,

and constructing associated yard piping

to tie-in the new compressor to the

existing compressor station. 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

Columbia Gulf wants to replace an

aging compressor package at its existing

Stanton Compressor Station. Columbia

Gulf seeks authority for the following

activities:

• Abandon by removal one 12,050-

horsepower (hp) gas-powered turbine

compressor and driver, the related

compressor and control buildings, and

associated piping and valves;

• Construct and operate a new

14,470-hp gas turbine compressor

package within a new prefabricated

building;

• Construct a second prefabricated

building to house compressor control

and communication equipment; and

• Construct and operate about 2,300

feet of new 30-inch-diameter pipeline to

tie-in the replacement compressor

facilities with the existing station

piping.

All of the proposed activities would

be conducted within Columbia Gulf’s

existing Stanton Compressor Station

yard. The location of the project

facilities is shown in appendix 1.2 The

replacement would not change the

design day or certificated capacity of the

compressor station.

Land Requirements for Construction

Abandonment of the existing

compressor package and construction of

the proposed facilities would disturb

about 0.7 acre of land. Following

abandonment and construction

activities, all disturbed areas would be

stabilized and revegetated.

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 3 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

abandonment, construction and

operation of the proposed project under

these general headings:

• Geology and soils

• Water resources, fisheries, and

wetlands

• Vegetation and wildlife

• Air quality and noise

• Land use

• Endangered and threatened species

• Cultural resources

• Public safety

We will also evaluate possible

alternatives to the proposed project, and

make recommendations on how to

lessen or avoid impacts on the various

resource areas.

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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

comments are received in time and

properly recorded:

• Send two copies of your letter to:

David P. Boergers, Secretary, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., Room 1A, Washington,

DC 20426.

• Label one copy of the comments for

the attention of Gas Group 1, PJ–11.1.

• Reference Docket No. CP00–434–

000.

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC on

or before November 3, 2000.

Becoming an Intervenor

In addition to involvement in the EA

scoping process, you may want to

become an official party to the

proceeding known as an ‘‘intervenor’’.

Intervenors play a more formal role in

the process. Among other things,

intervenors have the right to receive

copies of case-related Commission

documents and filings by other

intervenors. Likewise, each intervenor

must provide 14 copies of its filings to

the Secretary of the Commission and

must send a copy of its filings to all

other parties on the Commission’s

service list for this proceeding. If you

want to become an intervenor you must

file a motion to intervene according to

Rule 214 of the Commission’s Rule of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR

385.214) (see appendix 2). Only

intervenors have the right to seek

rehearing of the Commission’s decision.

Affected landowners and parties with

environmental concerns may be granted

intervenor status upon showing good

cause by stating that they have a clear

and direct interest in this proceeding

which would not be adequately

represented by any other parties. You do

not need intervenor status to have your

environmental comments considered.

Additional information about the

proposed project is available from the

Commission’s Office of External Affairs

at (202) 208–0004 or on the FERC

website (www.ferc.fed.us) using the

‘‘RIMS’’ link to information in this

docket number. Click on the ‘‘RIMS’’

link, select ‘‘Docket #’’ from the RIMS

Menus, and follow the instructions. For

assistance with access to RIMS, the

RIMS helpline can be reached at (202)

208–2222.

Similarly, the ‘‘CIPS’’ link on the

FERC Internet website provides access

to the texts of formal documents issued

by the Commission, such as orders,

notices, and rulemakings. From the

FERC Internet website, click on the

‘‘CIPS’’ link, select ‘‘Docket #’’ from the

CIPS menu, and follow the instructions.

For assistance with access to CIPS, the

CIPS helpline can be reached at (202)

208–2474.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–25863 Filed 10–6–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP00–455–002]

Honeoye Storage Corporation; Notice

of Proposed Change in FERC Gas

Tariff

October 3, 2000.

Take notice that on September 28,

2000 Honeoye Storage Corporation

(Honeoye) tendered for filing as part of

its FERC Gas Tariff, Second Revised

Volume 1, the following tariff sheet to

be effective October 10, 2000:

First Revised Sheet No. 22B

Honeoye states that the purpose of the

filing is to establish a new proposed

Article XIX to the General Terms and

Conditions of its Part 157 gas tariff that

affords customers the right to make title

transfers of top gas or cushion gas in the

Honeoye Storage Field, but limits the

availability of such title transfer

authority of gas in place to only upon

contract termination. Honeoye further

requests that the Commission waive the

requirements of Section 154.207 of its

regulation so that revised tariff sheet

may be made effective October 10, 2000

so that Honeoye may make

arrangements to dispose of cushion gas

and top gas which remains in the

Honeoye gas field after termination of

the Providence Gas Company gas

storage agreement on March 31, 2000.

Honeoye states that its filing is

consistent with the Commission’s

September 14, 2000 letter order in

Docket No. RP00–455–000 which,

among other matters, rejected without

prejudice Honeoye’s proposed tariff

provision designed to grant its

customers the right to make title

transfers to other customers of gas

which is held in the Honeoye gas field.

The Commission’s September 14 letter

order found that the title transfer right

provided more flexibility to Part 157

customers than is allowed under

Commission policy. However, the

Commission stated that its rejection of

this provision was without prejudice to

Honeoye’s right to file a tariff provision

limiting title transfers to only upon

contract termination.

Honeoye states that copies of the

filing are being mailed to Honeoye’s

jurisdictional customers and interested

state regulatory agencies.

Any person desiring to protest said

filing should file a protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC

20426, in accordance with Section

385.211 of the Commission’s Rules and

Regulations. All such protests must be

filed in accordance with Section

154.210 of the Commission’s

Regulations. 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 proceedings. Copies of this filing are

on file with the Commission and are

available for public inspection in the

Public Reference Room. This filing may

be viewed on the web at http://

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

202–208–2222 for assistance).

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–25840 Filed 10–6–00; 8:45 am]

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