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1Williams’ application was filed with the

Commission under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act

and Part 157 of the Commission’s regulations.

Comment date: November 9, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

20. Jersey Central Power & Light

Company, Metropolitan Edison

Company and Pennsylvania Electric

Company

[Docket No. ER01–166–000]

Take notice that on October 19, 2000,

Jersey Central Power & Light Company,

Metropolitan Edison Company and

Pennsylvania Electric Company

(individually doing business as GPU

Energy), tendered for filing Notice of

Cancellation of the Service Agreement

between GPU Service Corporation and

Morgan Stanley Capital Group, Inc.,

FERC Electric Tariff, Original Volume

No. 1, Service Agreement No. 53.

GPU Energy requests that cancellation

be effective December 18, 2000.

Comment date: November 9, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

21. Jersey Central Power & Light

Company, Metropolitan Edison

Company and Pennsylvania Electric

Company

[Docket No. ER01–167–000]

Take notice that on October 19, 2000,

Jersey Central Power & Light Company,

Metropolitan Edison Company and

Pennsylvania Electric Company

(individually doing business as GPU

Energy), tendered for filing Notice of

Cancellation of the Service Agreement

between GPU Service Corporation and

Baltimore Gas and Electric Company,

FERC Electric Tariff, Original Volume

No. 1, Service Agreement No. 31.

GPU Energy requests that cancellation

be effective December 18, 2000.

Comment date: November 9, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

22. Jersey Central Power & Light

Company, Metropolitan Edison

Company and Pennsylvania Electric

Company

[Docket No. ER01–170–000]

Take notice that on October 19, 2000,

Jersey Central Power & Light Company,

Metropolitan Edison Company and

Pennsylvania Electric Company

(individually doing business as GPU

Energy), tendered for filing Notice of

Cancellation of the Service Agreement

between GPU Service Corporation and

LG&E Power Marketing Inc., FERC

Electric Tariff, Original Volume No. 1,

Service Agreement No. 8.

GPU Energy requests that cancellation

be effective December 18, 2000.

Comment date: November 9, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

23. Consumers Energy Company and

CMS Marketing, Services and Trading

Company

[Docket No. ER01–171–000]

Take notice that on October 19, 2000,

Consumers Energy Company (CECo) and

CMS Marketing, Services and Trading

Company (CMS MST), tendered for

filing an application requesting

modification of Code of Conduct,

modification of CECo’s market-based

rate power sales tariff, FERC Electric

Tariff, First Revised Volume No. 8, and

acceptance of a service agreement.

Comment date: November 9, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

24. Illinois Power Company

[Docket No. ER01–175–000]

Take notice that on October 18, 2000,

Illinois Power Company (IP), 500 South

27th Street, Decatur, Illinois 65251–

2200, tendered for filing with the

Commission a Service Agreement for

Network Integration Transmission

Service and a Network Operating

Agreement with Central Illinois Light

Company entered into pursuant to IP’s

Open Access Transmission Tariff.

IP requests an effective date of

September 18, 2000 for the Agreements

and accordingly seeks a waiver of the

Commission’s notice requirement.

IP has served a copy of the filing on

CILCO.

Comment date: November 8, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

25. PG Power Sales Twelve, L.L.C.

[Docket No. ER01–196–000]

Take notice that on October 16, 2000,

PG Power Sales Twelve, L.L.C.,

tendered for filing Notice that effective

September 28, 2000, CP Power Sales

Four, L.L.C., changed its name to PG

Power Sales Twelve, L.L.C.

Comment date: November 6, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

26. PG Power Sales Eleven, L.L.C.

[Docket No. ER01–197–000]

Take notice that on October 16, 2000,

PG Power Sales Eleven, L.L.C., tendered

for filing Notice that effective September

28, 2000, CP Power Sales Eleven, L.L.C.,

changed its name to PG Power Sales

Eleven, L.L.C.

Comment date: November 6, 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). Beginning

November 1, 2000, comments and

protests may be filed electronically via

the internet in lieu of paper. See, 18

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the

instructions on the Commission’s web

site at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/

doorbell.htm.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–27897 Filed 10–30–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–U

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP01–10–000]

Williams Gas Pipelines Central, Inc.;

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Assessment for the

Proposed Welda/Ottawa Compression

Project and Request for Comments on

Environmental Issues

October 25, 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 Welda/Ottawa Compression Project

involving construction, operation, and

abandonment of facilities proposed by

Williams Gas Pipelines Central, Inc.

(Williams) in Anderson and Franklin

Counties, Kansas.1 Williams proposes to

install 6,107 horsepower (hp) of

compression and abandon 7,000 hp of

compression. This EA will be used by

the Commission in its decision-making

process to determine whether the

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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 these receiving this

notice in the mail.

3 ‘‘Us’’, ‘‘we’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to the

environmental staff of the FERC’s Office of Energy

Projects.

project is in the public convenience and

necessity.

If you are a landowner receiving this

notice, you should have been contacted

by Williams if you reside within 1⁄2 mile

of the compressor stations. Also, you

may be contacted by a pipeline

company representative about the

acquisition of an easement to construct

an access road near the north property

line of the Welda compressor Station.

The pipeline company would seek to

negotiate a mutually acceptable

agreement. However, if the project is

approved by the commission, that

approval conveys with it the right of

eminent domain. Therefore, if easement

negotiations fail to produce an

agreement, the pipeline company could

initiate condemnation proceedings in

accordance with state law.

A fact sheet prepared by the FERC

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need

To Know?’’ was attached to the project

notice Williams provided to

landowners. 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

available for viewing on the FERC

Internet website (www.ferc.fed.us).

Summary of the Proposed Project

Williams proposes to:

• Abandon by removal seven 1,000-

hp Cooper Type 22 compressors at its

Ottawa Compressor Station in Franklin

County, Kansas; and

• Install one 6,107-hp Solar Centaur

50 turbine and appurtenant facilities at

its Welda Compressor Station in

Anderson County, Kansas in

replacement of the compressors

proposed to be abandoned at its Ottawa

Compressor Station.

The system modifications would

increase operating efficiency and

reliability on this segment of Williams’

pipeline system. Williams indicates that

due to their obsolescence, abandonment

of the compressors would enable

Williams to eliminate maintenance and

parts procurement problems associated

with these compressors. Replacement of

this compression at the Welda

Compressor Station with a new 6,107-

hp turbine would enable Williams to

operate its Ottawa-Welda 20-inchdiameter pipeline at the existing

designed and certificated maximum

allowable operating pressure (MAOP) of

690 pounds per square inch gauge

during periods of peak withdrawal from

the Welda Storage Complex.

Williams indicates that pursuant to 18

Code of Federal Regulation (CFR)

2.55(a) of the Commission’s regulations,

it would also construct station piping,

headers and other appurtenant facilities

to tie the three existing turbines into the

five existing reciprocating compressors

at the Welda Compressor Station in

order to utilize these reciprocating

compressors as second stage

compression during periods of peak

withdrawal. This would provide

Williams the flexibility of operating the

Ottawa-Welda 20-inch-diameter

pipeline at the existing certificated

MAOP. Williams is identifying the

modification in the application for

informational purposes.

The location of the proposed project

facilities is shown in appendix 1.2

Land Requirements for Construction

The only additional land required for

this project is about 0.21 acre of land

required to construct a new access road

on the north side of the Welda

Compressor Station. All other proposed

construction work would take place

within the 17-acre Welda Compressor

Station requiring a disturbance of about

3.89 acres and within the 73-acre

Ottawa Compressor Station requiring a

disturbance of about 2.53 acres.

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.

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.

The EA will discuss impacts that

could occur as a result of the

construction and operation of the

proposed project under these general

headings:

• Land use

• Cultural resources

• Vegetation and wildlife

• Air quality and noise

• Endangered and threatened species

• Public safety

This preliminary list of issues may be

changed based on your comments and

our analysis. 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

comments are received in time and

properly recorded:

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• Send an original and two copies of

your letter to: David P. Boergers,

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 Gas Group 2, PJ–

11.2.

• Reference Docket No. CP01–10–

000.

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC on

or before November 24, 2000. Beginning

November 1, 2000, comments and

protests may be filed electronically via

the internet in lieu of paper. See, 18

CFR 385.200(a)(1)(iii) and the

instructions on the Commission’s web

site at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/

doorbell.htm.

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 Rules 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

Menu, 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.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–27849 Filed 10–31–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Request To Use Alternative

Procedures in Preparing a Licenses

Application

October 25, 2000.

Take notice that the following request

to use alternative procedures to prepare

a license application has been filed with

the Commission.

a. Type of Application: Request to use

alternative procedures to prepare a

license application has been filed with

the Commission.

b. Project Nos.: P–2146, P–2146, P–82,

P–618, and P–2165.

c. Date filed: September 22, 2000.

d. Applicant: Alabama Power

Company.

e. Name of Projects: Coosa River

Project, Mitchell Project, Jordan Project,

and Warrior River Projects, collectively

called the Coosa-Warrior Projects.

f. Location: On the Coosa and Warrior

Rivers, in Cherokee, Etowah, Calhoun,

St. Clair, Talladega, Chilton, Coosa,

Shelby, Elmore, Walker, Winston,

Cullman, and Tuscaloosa Counties,

Alabama and Floyd County, Georgia.

The Warrior River Project occupies

federal lands within the Bankhead

National Forest.

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).

h. Applicant Contacts: Jim Crew,

Relicensing Project Manager, Alabama

Power Company, 600 North 18th Street,

Birmingham, AL 35291, (205) 257–4265

or Barry Lovett Project Manager,

Alabama Power Company, 600 North

18th Street, Birmingham, AL35291,

(205) 257–1268.

i. FERC Contact: Ronald McKitrick at

(770) 452–3778; e-mail

ronald.mckitrick@ferc.fed.us.

j. Deadline for Comments: 30 days

from the date of this notice. Project No.

2146, et al.

All documents (original and eight

copies) should be filed with: David P.

Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

Beginning November 1, 2000, comments

and protests may be filed electronically

via the internet in lieu of paper. See, 18

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the

instructions on the Commission’s web

site at http;//www.ferc.fed.us/efi/

doorbell.htm.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure require all interveners

filing documents with the Commission

to serve a copy of that document on

each person on the official service list

for the project. Further, if an intervener

files comments or documents with the

Commission relating to the merits of an

issue that may affect the responsibilities

of a particular resource agency, they

must also serve a copy of the document

on that resource agency.

k. The existing Coosa River Project

consists of five developments (Weiss,

Neely Henry, Logan Martin, Lay,

Bouldin) with a total rated capacity of

705.78 MW, Lay and Bouldin operate

principally as run-of-river the other

three as peaking projects. The Mitchell

Project has a rated capacity of 170 MW

and operates run-of-river. The Jordan

Project has a rated capacity of 100 MW

and operates principally as run-of-river.

The Jordan Project has a rated capacity

of 100 MW and operates principally as

run-of-river. The Warrior River Projects

consists of two developments (Lewis

Smith and Bankhead) with a total rated

capacity of 210 MW, Lewis Smith is a

peaking project and Bankhead operates

principally as run-of-river.

l. Alabama Power Company (APC) has

demonstrated that it has made an effort

to contact all federal and state resources

agencies, non-governmental

organizations (NGO), and others affected

by the project. APC has also

demonstrated that a consensus exists

that the use of alternative procedures is

appropriate in this case. APC has

submitted a communications protocol

that is supported by the stakeholders.

The purpose of this notice is to invite

any additional comments on Alabama

Power Company’s request to use the

alternative procedures, pursuant to

Section 4.34(i) of Commission’s

regulations. Additional notices seeking

comments on the specific project

proposal, interventions and protests,

and recommended terms and conditions

will be issued at a later date. APC will

complete and file a preliminary

Environmental Assessment, in lieu of

Exhibit E of the license application.

This differs from the traditional process,

in which an applicant consults with

agencies, Indian tribes, NGOs, and other

parties during preparation of the license

application and before filing the

application, but the Commission staff