66240 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 214 / Friday, November 3, 2000 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Meeting of the DoD Healthcare Quality

Initiative Review Panel

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: On October 26, 2000, the DoD

Healthcare Quality Initiatives Review

panel published notice on an upcoming

meeting (65 FR 64204). This notice is

being published to change meeting dates

due to the Federal holiday on November

10th.

DATES: November 8 & 9, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Sheraton Crystal City, 1800

Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington, VA

22202.

TIME: November 8th, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.;

November 9th, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gia

Edmonds at (703) 933–8325.

Dated: October 30, 2000.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Officer,

Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 00–28213 Filed 11–2–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Second Interstate Natural

Gas Facility-Planning Seminar

October 27, 2000.

The Office of Energy Projects will

hold the second in a series of public

meetings around the country for the

purposes of exploring and enhancing

strategies for constructive public

participation in the earliest stages of

natural gas facility planning. This

meeting will be held in Romeoville,

Illinois on Thursday, December 7, 2000.

We are inviting interstate natural gas

companies; Federal, state and local

agencies; landowners and nongovernmental organizations with an

interest in developing a new way of

doing business to join us in this effort.

We will discuss the facility planning

process, not the merits of any pending

or planned pipeline projects.

Join us as we continue to explore new

strategies being employed by the natural

gas industry, agencies, and citizens to

learn about each others’ concerns and to

engage the public and agencies in

participatory project design. Interactive

discussions with panelists from various

Federal and state agencies,

representatives from natural gas

companies, and private landowners or

citizen representatives who have had

relevant experiences will be held. There

will be substantial opportunity for the

sharing of experiences and knowledge

during both the panel discussions and

in the interactive ‘‘brainstorming’’

session. So, bring your ideas with you

and prepare to share them. In addition,

a summary of the first seminar in

Albany, NY will be given by the staff of

the Commission’s Office of Energy

Projects.

The objectives of the meetings are:

• Build upon the discussions from

the first meeting in Albany, NY.

• To explore steps taken to identify

the parties directly involved with and

affected by natural gas facility siting

and/or permitting, so they can work

together and resolve issues.

• To explore the best avenues for

involving people and agencies toward

fostering settlements through creative

issue resolution.

• To encourage the submission of

filings with no or few contested issues

in order to reduce the Commission’s

processing time.

We are building on what was learned

at our Albany meeting and continuing to

work towards developing a toolbox of

the best available techniques for

increasing public involvement in the

pre-filing planning process. This will

help to plan projects with less

opposition that can achieve faster action

from the Commission with less

controversy and fewer conditions.

The meeting in Joliet, Illinois will be

held at the Sancta Alberta Convocation

Center at Lewis University, located in

Romeoville, Illinois. The meeting is

scheduled to start at 10:00 AM and

finish at 4:00 PM. A preliminary agenda

and directions to Lewis University are

enclosed. Also, see attachment 2

regarding the selection of locations of

future meetings.

If you plan to attend, please respond

by November 22, 2000 via facsimile to

Pennie Lewis-Partee at 202–208–0353,

or you can email our team at:

gasoutreach@ferc.fed.us. Please include

in the response the names, addresses,

and telephone numbers of all attendees

from your organization. We will send

acknowledgment of your request.

To help us enhance our panel

discussions, please consider issues and/

or questions you would like to have

addressed at the meetings and email

them to us. If you have any questions,

you may contact any of the staff listed

below:

Richard Hoffmann 202/208–0066

Lauren O’Donnell 202/208–0325

Jeff Shenot 202/219–2178

Howard Wheeler 202/208–2299

J. Mark Robinson,

Director, Division of Environmental &

Engineering Review, Office of Energy Projects.

Appendix 1—Agenda

2nd Interstate Natural Gas Facility Planning

Seminar

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois,

December 7, 2000, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

10:00 Introductions

Welcome: Mark Robinson, Director,

Division of Environmental & Engineering

Review, Office of Energy Projects, FERC

Rich Hoffmann, Office of Energy

Projects, FERC

10:15 The Pipeline Planning/Approval

Process

Where FERC fits in

Who’s involved and when

10:30 Summary of Comments from the

Albany Meeting

10:45 Panel 1. Perspectives on Initial

Project Announcement and General

Route Planning

[Discussion of factors surrounding

announcement and general planning of the

project route/sites & alternatives, types of

surveys needed; who to tell and when. What

are the needs of the various stakeholders?]

Howard Heffler, Alliance Pipeline Company

Marian Gibson, Administrator, Village of

Channahon, Illinois (citizen)

Jim Hartwig, Office of Farmland Protection,

Illinois Department of Agriculture

[10 minute discussion by each panelist with

interactive Q&A session with panelists and

audience for remainder of Panel]

11:45 Lunch

12:50 Panel 2. Perspectives on Detailed

Pipeline Route Planning [Discussion of

details of how landowners and agencies

hear about facility locations; where

disturbance would occur; aboveground

facility sites, and alternatives? What

timing and mitigation is involved? How

best to be involved?]

Brian Smith, Chicago District, U.S. Corps

of Engineers?

John Hopkins, ANR Pipeline Company

llllll, Citizen/NGO

[10 minute discussion by each panelist with

interactive Q&A session with panelists and

audience for remainder of Panel]

2:00 Discussion by Kearns & West, Inc. on

Stakeholder Involvement

2:15 Brainstorming Session * * * OEP Staff

will lead an all-participants discussion

of issues regarding:

Pre-filing Best Management Practices

(BMPs) from an Industry Perspective

• How best to work with landowners and

communities.

Pre-filing BMPs from an Agency

Perspective

• How best to work with applicants and

agencies:

• How to coordinate with multiple

agencies/jurisdictions.

Pre-filing BMPs from a Citizen Perspective