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1The 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. 

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

environmental staff of the Commission’s Office of 

Energy Projects. 

analyzes the potential environmental 

effects of licensing the projects, and 

concludes that licensing the projects, 

with appropriate environmental 

protective measures, would not 

constitute a major federal action that 

would significantly affect the quality of 

the human environment. 

A copy of the final EA is on file with 

the Commission and is available for 

public inspection. The final EA may 

also be viewed on the Commission’s 

Web site at http://www.ferc.gov using 

the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number, excluding the last three digits, 

in the docket number field, to access 

documents. For assistance, contact 

FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. You may also register 

online at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/esubscription.asp to be notified 

via email of new filings and issuances 

related to these or other pending 

projects. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

For further information, contact Amy 

Chang at (202) 502–8250 or amy.chang@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: January 20, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01496 Filed 1–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP15–26–000] 

Kaiser-Frontier Midstream, LLC; Notice 

of Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Silo 

Pipeline Project and Request for 

Comments on Environmental Issues 

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 Silo Pipeline Project involving 

construction and operation of facilities 

by Kaiser-Frontier Midstream, LLC 

(Kaiser-Frontier) in Laramie County, 

Wyoming, and Weld County, Colorado. 

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 on the project. 

Your input will help the Commission 

staff determine what issues they need to 

evaluate in the EA. Please note that the 

scoping period will close on February 

20, 2015. 

You may submit comments in written 

form. Further details on how to submit 

written comments are in the Public 

Participation section of this notice. If 

you sent comments on this project to the 

Commission before the opening of this 

docket on December 5, 2014, you will 

need to file those comments in Docket 

No. CP15–26–000 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 

agreement. However, if the Commission 

approves the project, 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 

where compensation would be 

determined in accordance with state 

law. 

Kaiser-Frontier 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 Web 

site (www.ferc.gov). 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

Kaiser-Frontier plans to construct, 

own, and operate 21.3 miles of new 

natural gas pipeline (Silo Pipeline 

Project), to connect the Silo Processing 

Plant in Laramie County, Wyoming, to 

the Wyoming Interstate Company (WIC) 

interstate pipeline at the Cheyenne Hub 

in Weld County, Colorado. 

The Silo Pipeline Project would 

consist of the following facilities: 

• 6.8 miles of 6-inch-diameter 

pipeline (Northern Segment); 

• 14.5 miles of 8-inch-diameter 

pipeline (Southern Segment); 

• a 6-inch-diameter pig launcher; 

• a 8-inch-diameter pig launcher; 

• a 8-inch-diameter pig receiver; and 

• three mainline valves. 

Additionally, Kaiser-Frontier is 

requesting a blanket certificate pursuant 

to part 157, subpart F of the 

Commission’s regulations to engage in 

certain routine construction, operation, 

and maintenance activities, and is 

requesting Commission certification to 

convert 9.9 miles of existing 6-inchdiameter intrastate pipeline facilities, 

known as the Middle Segment for 

continued operation as interstate 

facilities. 

The general location of the project 

facilities is shown in appendix 1.1

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the proposed facilities 

would disturb about 227.2 acres of land 

for the pipeline and aboveground 

facilities including 41.3 acres of 

additional temporary workspace to be 

used during construction. Following 

construction, Kaiser-Frontier would 

maintain about 123.7 acres for 

permanent operation of the project’s 

facilities; the remaining 103.5 acres 

would be restored and allowed revert to 

former uses. 

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 2 to 

discover and address 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. We will consider all 

filed comments during the preparation 

of the EA. 

In the EA we 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; 

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3The Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations addressing cooperating agency 

responsibilities are at title 40, Code of Federal 

Regulations, part 1501.6. 

4The 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. 

• vegetation and wildlife; 

• air quality and noise; 

• endangered and threatened species; 

• public safety; and 

• cumulative impacts. 

We 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 our independent 

analysis of the issues and will be 

available in the public record through 

eLibrary. Depending on the comments 

received during the scoping process, we 

may also publish and distribute the EA 

to the public for an allotted comment 

period. We will consider all comments 

on the EA before making our 

recommendations to the Commission. 

To ensure we have the opportunity to 

consider and address your comments, 

please carefully follow the instructions 

in the Public Participation section 

below. 

With this notice, we are asking 

agencies with jurisdiction by law and/ 

or special expertise with respect to the 

environmental issues of this project to 

formally cooperate with us in the 

preparation of the EA.3 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. 

Consultations 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, we are using this 

notice to initiate consultation with the 

applicable State Historic Preservation 

Office(s) (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.4 We will 

define the project-specific Area of 

Potential Effects (APE) in consultation 

with the SHPO(s) 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). Our EA for this 

project will document our findings on 

the impacts on historic properties and 

summarize the status of consultations 

under section 106. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with 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. 

The more specific your comments, the 

more useful they will be. To ensure that 

your comments are timely and properly 

recorded, please send your comments so 

that the Commission receives them in 

Washington, DC on or before February 

20, 2015. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods which you can use to submit 

your comments to the Commission. In 

all instances please reference the project 

docket number (CP15–26–000) with 

your submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has expert staff available 

to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or 

efiling@ferc.gov. 

(1) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 

feature on the Commission’s Web site 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to 

Documents and Filings. This is an easy 

method for interested persons to submit 

brief, text-only comments on a project; 

(2) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eFiling feature 

on the Commission’s Web site 

(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 first create an account by 

clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You must select 

the type of filing you are making. If you 

are filing a comment on a particular 

project, please select ‘‘Comment on a 

Filing’’; or 

(3) You can file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

following address: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

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. We will 

update the environmental mailing list as 

the analysis proceeds to ensure that we 

send the information related to this 

environmental review to all individuals, 

organizations, and government entities 

interested in and/or potentially affected 

by the proposed project. 

If we publish and distribute the EA, 

copies will be sent to the environmental 

mailing list for public review and 

comment. If you would prefer to receive 

a paper copy of the document instead of 

the CD version or would like to remove 

your name from the mailing list, please 

return the attached Information Request 

(appendix 2). 

Becoming an Intervenor 

In addition to involvement in the EA 

scoping process, you may want to 

become an ‘‘intervenor’’ which is an 

official party to the Commission’s 

proceeding. Intervenors play a more 

formal role in the process and are able 

to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be 

heard by the courts if they choose to 

appeal the Commission’s final ruling. 

An intervenor formally participates in 

the proceeding by filing a request to 

intervene. Instructions for becoming an 

intervenor are in the User’s Guide under 

the ‘‘e-filing’’ link on the Commission’s 

Web site. 

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 Web 

site at www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Click on the eLibrary 

link, click on ‘‘General Search’’ and 

enter the docket number, excluding the 

last three digits in the Docket Number 

field (i.e., CP15–26). Be sure you have 

selected an appropriate date range. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov 

or toll free at (866) 208–3676, or for 

TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. The 

eLibrary link also provides access to the 

texts of formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission now 

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 

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proceedings by automatically providing 

you with notification of these filings, 

document summaries, and direct links 

to the documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/esubscription.asp. 

Finally, public meetings 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: January 21, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01454 Filed 1–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14628–000] 

Minneapolis Leased Housing 

Associates IV, Limited Partnership; 

Notice of Draft License Application and 

Draft Preliminary Draft Environmental 

Assessment and Request for 

Preliminary Terms and Conditions 

Take notice that the following Draft 

License Application (DLA) and draft 

Preliminary Draft Environmental 

Assessment (PDEA) have been filed 

with the Commission and are available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Original 

Minor. 

b. Project No.: 14628–000. 

c. Date Filed: January 8, 2015. 

d. Applicant: Minnesota Leased 

Housing Associates IV, Limited 

Partnership (Minnesota Housing 

Associates). 

e. Name of Project: A-Mill Artists Loft 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the Mississippi River, 

in the city of Minneapolis, Hennepin 

County, Minnesota. No federal lands are 

occupied by the project works or located 

within the project boundary. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Owen Metz, 

2905 Northwest Blvd., Suite 150, 

Plymouth, MN 55441; (763) 354–5618; 

email ometz@dominiuminc.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Janet Hutzel at (202) 

502–8675; or email at janet.hutzel@

ferc.gov. 

j. Status of Project: With this notice 

the Commission is soliciting (1) 

preliminary terms, conditions, and 

recommendations on the draft PDEA, 

and (2) comments on the DLA. 

k. Deadline for filing: 30 days from the 

issuance of this notice. 

All comments on the draft PDEA and 

DLA should be sent to the addresses 

noted above in Item (h), and filed with 

FERC. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments 

using the Commission’s eFiling system 

at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

efiling.asp. Commenters can submit 

brief comments up to 6,000 characters, 

without prior registration, using the 

eComment system at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 

208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 

(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please 

send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The first page of any filing should 

include docket number P–1462–000. 

All comments must bear the heading 

Preliminary Comments, Preliminary 

Recommendations, Preliminary Terms 

and Conditions, or Preliminary 

Prescriptions. 

l. A copy of the application is 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

You may also register online at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

esubscription.asp to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

Minnesota Housing Associates has 

mailed a copy of the Preliminary DEA 

and Draft License Application to 

interested entities and parties. Copies of 

these documents are available for 

review at http://

amillartistloftshydroproject.com and the 

Minneapolis Central Library, 300 

Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN. 

m. With this notice, we are initiating 

consultation with the Minnesota State 

Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as 

required by section 106, National 

Historic Preservation Act, and the 

regulations of the Advisory Council on 

Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4. 

Dated: January 21, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01455 Filed 1–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF15–1–000] 

PennEast Pipeline Company, LLC; 

Notice of Extension of Comment 

Period and Clarification of Location of 

Public Scoping Meetings for the 

Penneast Pipeline Project 

On January 13, 2015, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC 

or Commission) issued a Notice of 

Intent to Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Planned 

PennEast Pipeline Project, Requests for 

Comments on Environmental Issues, 

and Notice of Public Scoping Meetings. 

The notice solicited comments on the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

planned project and announced the time 

and location of five public scoping 

meetings being held for the 

environmental proceeding. The close of 

the public comment period in that 

notice is listed as February 12, 2015. 

Due to a limited printing delay in the 

mailing of the notice, we are extending 

the comment period. Please note that 

the scoping period will now close on 

February 27, 2015. 

In addition to extending the scoping 

period, the Commission staff has 

provided further clarification on its 

scoping meeting locations. The table 

below now lists the name of the 

building or hall at each meeting 

location. Please note that signage will be 

placed upon the entry of the meeting 

venues for your assistance. 

Date and time Location 

January 27, 

2015, 6:00 

p.m. Eastern 

Time.

College of New Jersey, Kendall Hall, Performance 

Theater, 2000 Pennington 

Road, Ewing, NJ 08628. 

January 28, 

2015, 6:00 

p.m. Eastern 

Time.

Bucks County Community 

College, Kevin and Sima 

Zlock Performing Arts 

Center, Gateway Auditorium, 275 Swamp Road, 

Newtown, PA 18940. 

February 10, 

2015, 6:00 

p.m. Eastern 

Time.

Northampton Community 

College, Main Campus, 

Kopecek Hall, Lipkin Theater, 3835 Green Pond 

Rd, Bethlehem, PA 18020. 

February 11, 

2015, 6:00 

p.m. Eastern 

Time.

Penn’s Peak, Main Concert 

Hall, 325 Maury Road, Jim 

Thorpe, PA 18229. 

February 12, 

2015, 6:00 

p.m. Eastern 

Time.

Best Western Hotel & Conference Center, Empress 

Ballroom, 77 E Market 

Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA. 

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