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the project will be approximately $149.1 

million. 

Pursuant to section 157.9 of the 

Commission’s rules (18 CFR 157.9), 

within 90 days of this Notice, the 

Commission staff will either: complete 

its environmental assessment (EA) and 

place it into the Commission’s public 

record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or 

issue a Notice of Schedule for 

Environmental Review. If a Notice of 

Schedule for Environmental Review is 

issued, it will indicate, among other 

milestones, the anticipated date for the 

Commission staff’s issuance of the final 

environmental impact statement (FEIS) 

or EA for this proposal. The filing of the 

EA in the Commission’s public record 

for this proceeding or the issuance of a 

Notice of Schedule for Environmental 

Review will serve to notify federal and 

state agencies of the timing for the 

completion of all necessary reviews, and 

the subsequent need to complete all 

federal authorizations within 90 days of 

the date of issuance of the Commission 

staff’s FEIS or EA. 

There are two ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project. First, any person wishing to 

obtain legal status by becoming a party 

to the proceedings for this project 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

a motion to intervene in accordance 

with the requirements of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the NGA (18 

CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 

status will be placed on the service list 

maintained by the Secretary of the 

Commission and will receive copies of 

all documents filed by the applicant and 

by all other parties. A party must submit 

seven copies of filings made in the 

proceeding with the Commission and 

must mail a copy to the applicant and 

to every other party. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

However, a person does not have to 

intervene in order to have comments 

considered. The second way to 

participate is by filing with the 

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as 

possible, an original and two copies of 

comments in support of or in opposition 

to this project. The Commission will 

consider these comments in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken, but the filing of a comment alone 

will not serve to make the filer a party 

to the proceeding. The Commission’s 

rules require that persons filing 

comments in opposition to the project 

provide copies of their protests only to 

the party or parties directly involved in 

the protest. 

Persons who wish to comment only 

on the environmental review of this 

project should submit an original and 

two copies of their comments to the 

Secretary of the Commission. 

Environmental commentors will be 

placed on the Commission’s 

environmental mailing list, will receive 

copies of the environmental documents, 

and will be notified of meetings 

associated with the Commission’s 

environmental review process. 

Environmental commentors will not be 

required to serve copies of filed 

documents on all other parties. 

However, the non-party commentors 

will not receive copies of all documents 

filed by other parties or issued by the 

Commission (except for the mailing of 

environmental documents issued by the 

Commission) and will not have the right 

to seek court review of the 

Commission’s final order. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests 

and interventions in lieu of paper using 

the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://

www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file 

electronically should submit an original 

and 7 copies of the protest or 

intervention to the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Comment Date: March 25, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05685 Filed 3–12–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF14–21–000] 

Alaska Gasline Development 

Corporation; BP Alaska LNG, LLC; 

Conoco Phillips Alaska LNG Company; 

ExxonMobil Alaska LNG, LLC; 

TransCanada Alaska Midstream, LP; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Planned Alaska Lng Project and 

Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

that will discuss the environmental 

impacts of the Alaska LNG Project 

involving construction and operation of 

facilities by Alaska Gasline 

Development Corporation; BP Alaska 

LNG, LLC; Conoco Phillips Alaska LNG 

Company; ExxonMobil Alaska LNG, 

LLC; and TransCanada Alaska 

Midstream, LP (Applicants) in Alaska. 

The Commission will use this EIS 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 

and its cooperating agencies 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 EIS. Understanding that 

affected stakeholders may include 

communities that depend on seasonal 

subsistence activities, the scoping 

period will remain open for an extended 

period, closing on December 4, 2015. 

This is not your only public input 

opportunity; please refer to the 

Environmental Review Process flow 

chart in attachment 1. 

You may submit comments in written 

form or verbally. Further details on how 

to submit written comments are in the 

Public Participation section of this 

notice. In lieu of or in addition to 

sending written comments, the 

Commission invites you to attend the 

public scoping meetings to provide 

verbal and/or written comments on the 

project. 

A schedule of the public scoping 

meeting dates, locations, and times will 

be issued in a separate notice at least 

one month prior to the date of the 

meetings. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this project. The 

environmental mailing list includes 

potentially affected landowners (crossed 

by or adjacent to the project route); 

landowners within 0.5 mile of 

compressor station sites, the gas 

treatment plant (GTP), and the 

liquefaction terminal; federal, state, and 

local government agencies; elected 

officials; environmental and public 

interest groups; Alaska Native tribes; 

local libraries and newspapers; and 

other interested parties. State, local, and 

tribal government representatives are 

asked to notify their constituents of this 

planned project and encourage them to 

comment on their areas of concern. 

A fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need 

To Know?’’ is available for viewing on 

the FERC Web site (www.ferc.gov). 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. 

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1A pipeline ‘‘pig’’ is an internal device to clean 

or inspect the pipeline. A pig launcher/receiver is 

an aboveground facility where pigs are inserted into 

or retrieved from the pipeline. 

2Attachments 1 (Process Flow Chart), 2 (General 

Location Map), and 3 (Mailing List/Environmental 

Document Request Form) are not being printed in 

the Federal Register. Copies are available on the 

Commission’s Web site (www.ferc.gov) at the 

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

Reference Room at 202–502–8371. For instructions 

on connecting to eLibrary, refer to the ‘‘Availability 

of Additional Information’’ section at the end of this 

notice. The General Project Map and Mailing List/ 

Environmental Document Request Form were sent 

to all those receiving this notice in the mail. 

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

environmental staff of the FERC’s Office of Energy 

Projects. 

4The FERC granted the Applicants’ request to 

begin the pre-filing process on September 12, 2014. 

Summary of the Planned Project 

The Applicants plan to develop, 

construct, and operate facilities that 

would commercialize the natural gas 

resources on Alaska’s North Slope. 

The Alaska LNG Project would 

consist of the following major facilities, 

associated ancillary facilities would also 

be needed: 

GTP/Associated Pipelines: 

• Three parallel treatment systems 

(trains) with a capacity up to 4.3 billion 

cubic feet per day; 

• a 1-mile-long, large diameter 

aboveground pipeline to transport gas 

from the existing central gas facility to 

the GTP; 

• a 60-mile-long 30-inch-diameter 

pipeline to transport gas from the Point 

Thomson Unit to the GTP; 

• Prudhoe Bay Unit improvements to 

the West Dock loading and unloading 

facilities; and 

• water reservoir, pump facilities, and 

a transfer line to provide water to the 

GTP. 

Mainline facilities include: 

• About 800 miles of 42-inchdiameter pipeline from the planned GTP 

to the planned liquefied natural gas 

(LNG) plant in Nikiski Alaska; and 

• Eight natural gas driven compressor 

stations, four custody transfer meter 

stations, multiple pig launching/

receiving 1 stations, heater stations, 

cathodic protection facilities; and 

mainline block valves. 

LNG Liquefaction Facilities include: 

• Marine terminal facilities; 

• three liquefaction trains capable of 

liquefying 20 million tons per year of 

LNG; and 

• three 160,000 cubic meter storage 

tanks. 

A number of support facilities that are 

not under FERC jurisdiction would also 

be undertaken to complete and operate 

the FERC jurisdictional facilities. These 

include: 

• Updates to existing transportation 

infrastructure; 

• gravel quarries; and 

• construction camps. 

The planned Alaska LNG Project 

would start at the GTP and generally 

follow the existing Trans-Alaska 

Pipeline System crude oil pipeline 

(TAPS) and adjacent highways south to 

Livengood, Alaska. From Livengood, the 

mainline would diverge from TAPS and 

generally head south-southwest to 

Trapper Creek following the Parks 

Highway and Beluga Highway. Then the 

project turns south-southeast around 

Viapan Lake. Finally, it crosses the Cook 

Inlet in the vicinity of Shorty Creek to 

Boulder Point on the Kenai Peninsula. 

A map depicting the general location of 

project facilities is included as 

attachment 2.2

The Applicants anticipate starting 

construction in 2018 or early 2019, with 

construction and startup taking 

approximately seven years. On this 

basis, the planned project system would 

be placed into service about 2025–2026. 

Land Requirements for Construction 

The planned Alaska LNG Project 

facilities current design includes about 

30,000 acres of land that would be 

temporarily impacted during 

construction, with about half of those 

acres within the permanent (or 

operational) right-of-way. 

The EIS 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 an 

Authorization under Section 3 of the 

Natural Gas Act. NEPA also requires us 3

to identify 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 EIS on 

important environmental issues. By this 

notice, the Commission requests public 

comments on the scope of the issues to 

be addressed in the EIS. All comments 

received during the scoping period will 

be considered during the preparation of 

the EIS. 

In the EIS, we will discuss impacts 

that could occur as a result of the 

construction and operation of the 

planned project under the following 

general headings: 

• Geology and soils; 

• water resources, fisheries, and 

wetlands; 

• vegetation and wildlife; 

• endangered and threatened species; 

• cultural resources; 

• socioeconomics and subsistence; 

• land use, recreation, and visual 

resources; 

• air quality and noise; 

• public health and safety; and 

• cumulative impacts. 

We will also evaluate possible 

alternatives to the planned project or 

portions of the project, and make 

recommendations on how to lessen or 

avoid impacts on the various resources. 

Although no formal application has 

been filed, we have already initiated our 

NEPA review under the FERC’s prefiling process.4 The purpose of the prefiling process is to encourage early 

involvement of interested stakeholders 

and to identify and resolve issues before 

an application is filed with the FERC. 

As part of our pre-filing review, we have 

already started to meet with the 

Applicants, jurisdictional agencies, 

Alaska Native tribes, local officials, and 

other interested stakeholders to discuss 

the project and identify issues/impacts 

and concerns before the FERC receives 

an application. In addition, with this 

NOI, we are formally initiating 

government-to-government consultation 

with federally-recognized Alaska Native 

tribes. 

We participated in 14 public open 

house meetings in Alaska hosted by the 

Applicants in October 2014 through 

January 2015. Additionally, we have 

begun meeting with interested state and 

federal agencies to discuss their possible 

involvement in the scoping process and 

the preparation of the EIS. 

Our independent analysis of the 

issues will be presented in the EIS. The 

draft EIS will be published and 

distributed for a 45-day public review 

and comment period. We will consider 

all timely comments and revise the 

document, as necessary, before issuing a 

final EIS. To ensure your comments are 

considered, please carefully follow the 

instructions in the Public Participation 

section of this notice. 

With this notice, we are asking 

agencies with jurisdiction and/or statewide special expertise with respect to 

environmental issues to formally 

cooperate with us in the preparation of 

the EIS. Cooperating agencies will be 

expected to provide project-wide 

perspectives on environmental issues. 

These agencies may choose to 

participate once they have evaluated the 

proposal relative to their 

responsibilities. 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. 

The FERC is the lead federal agency 

in preparing the EIS to satisfy the 

requirements of NEPA. In accordance 

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5The Interagency Agreement on Early 

Coordination of Required Environmental and 

Historic Preservation Reviews Conducted in 

Conjunction with the Issuance of Authorizations to 

Construct and Operate Interstate Natural Gas 

Pipelines Certificated by the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission was put into place in May 

of 2002. 

6The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 

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. 

with the 2004 Interagency Agreement on 

the safety and security review of 

waterfront import/export LNG facilities, 

the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. 

Department of Transportation will 

participate as cooperating agencies. 

Further, under our 2002 Memorandum 

of Understanding 5 with the U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers (COE), U.S. Bureau 

of Land Management (BLM), and U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE), these 

permitting agencies will participate as 

cooperating agencies in the preparation 

of the EIS to satisfy their NEPA 

responsibilities. 

The COE has jurisdictional authority 

pursuant to Section 404 of the Clean 

Water Act, which governs the discharge 

of dredged or fill material into waters of 

the United States, and Section 10 of the 

Rivers and Harbors Act, which regulates 

any work or structures that potentially 

affect the navigability of a waterway. 

Under Section 3 of the Natural Gas 

Act, Title 15 of the U.S. Code, Part 717b, 

the DOE would authorize the export of 

natural gas, including LNG, to countries 

with which the United States has not 

entered into a free trade agreement 

requiring national treatment for trade in 

natural gas, unless it finds that the 

proposed export will not be consistent 

with the public interest. For the Project, 

the purpose and need for DOE’s action 

is to respond to the Alaska LNG 

application, filed with DOE on July 18, 

2014 (FE Docket No. 14–96–LNG) 

seeking authorization to export 

domestic natural gas as LNG for a 30- 

year term commencing the earlier of the 

date of first export or 12 years from the 

date that the requested authorization is 

granted. DOE’s authorization of the 

Alaska LNG application would allow 

the export of LNG to any country with 

the capacity to import LNG and with 

which trade is not prohibited by U.S. 

law or policy. 

The BLM must issue a permit because 

the project would cross federally 

administered lands in Alaska. As a 

cooperating agency, the BLM would 

adopt the EIS per Title 40 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations, Part 1506.3 to 

meet its responsibilities under NEPA 

regarding the Applicants’ application 

for a Right-of-Way Grant and Temporary 

Use Permit for crossing federally 

administered lands. Impacts on 

resources and programs, and the 

proposed project’s conformance with 

land use plans, will be considered in the 

BLM’s decision. 

Currently Identified Environmental 

Issues 

We have already identified a number 

of issues that we think deserve attention 

based on the public open houses, 

interagency meetings, and our review of 

the information provided by the 

Applicants. This preliminary list of 

issues may be changed based on your 

comments and our analysis. 

• Permafrost, Soils, and Reclamation 

—Construction limitations and slope 

stabilization in steep terrain and 

permafrost. 

—Potential for problematic reclamation 

due to poor soils and permafrost 

conditions. 

—Material, design, and operations and 

maintenance procedures/

specifications for permafrost and 

subsidence locations for installation 

and on-going future maintenance and 

integrity management. 

—Potential for introduction or spread of 

invasive and/or noxious species of 

vegetation during and after 

construction. 

• Cultural Resources 

—Impacts on traditional Alaska Native 

culture, historic sites, and landscapes. 

• Water Resources and Wetlands 

—Effects of construction and operation 

on waterbodies and wetlands. 

—Effects of dredging, dock construction, 

and dumping dredged material into 

ocean waters. 

• Fish, Wildlife, Vegetation, and 

Sensitive Species 

—Effects of project construction on fish 

and wildlife and their habitat, 

including federally listed threatened 

and endangered species, marine 

mammals, migratory birds, and big 

game species. 

—Effects of water depletion from 

hydrostatic test water withdrawals 

and ice road construction. 

• Seismic Activity and Geohazards 

—Pipeline and facility design in 

seismically active areas. 

—Construction in geohazard areas. 

• Land Use, Recreation, and Special 

Interest Areas 

—Impacts on potential wilderness areas. 

—Impacts on existing conservation 

system units (e.g., Denali National 

Park). 

—Private land crossings. 

—Impacts on recreation (e.g., fishing, 

hunting, boating, camping, hiking, 

skiing, mushing, and 

snowmachining). 

• Socioeconomics 

—Effects of construction workforce 

demands on public services and 

temporary housing. 

—Economic impacts on local 

communities. 

—Environmental Justice. 

• Subsistence and Public Health 

—Effects of construction and operation 

on fish, wildlife, marine mammal, and 

plant species used for subsistence. 

—Impacts on access to subsistence 

resources. 

—Health impacts on local communities. 

• Air Quality and Noise 

• Reliability and Safety 

• Cumulative Impacts 

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 

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.6 We will 

define the project-specific Area of 

Potential Effects (APE) in consultation 

with the SHPO 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 EIS 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 

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recorded, please send your comments so 

that the Commission receives them in 

Washington, DC on or before December 

4, 2015. This is not your only public 

input opportunity; please refer to the 

Environmental Review Process 

flowchart in attachment 1. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to submit your 

comments to the Commission. In all 

instances, please reference the project 

docket number (PF14–21–000) 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 located 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 

located 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. 

In addition to the methods listed 

above, we will also hold public scoping 

meetings and mail notices to our 

environmental mailing list identifying 

the date, time, and locations of these 

meetings later this year. 

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 planned project. 

Copies of the completed draft EIS 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 

(attachment 3). 

Becoming an Intervenor 

Once the Applicants file its 

application with the Commission, 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. Please note that 

the Commission will not accept requests 

for intervenor status at this time. You 

must wait until the Commission 

receives a formal application for the 

project. 

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 (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., PF14– 

21). 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 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 proceedings 

by automatically providing you with 

notification of these filings, document 

summaries, and direct links to the 

documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/esubscription.asp. 

Further, 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. Finally, 

additional information about the project 

can be seen from the Applicant’s Web 

site at http://ak-lng.com. 

Dated: March 4, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. OR15–20–000] 

Express Pipeline LLC; Notice of 

Petition for Declaratory Order 

Take notice that on February 27, 2015, 

pursuant to Rule 207(a)(2) of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s 

(Commission) Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207(a)(2) (2014), 

Express Pipeline LLC filed a petition for 

a declaratory order seeking approval of 

a committed rate structure and related 

contract terms to support the cost of 

additional tanks, pumps, and piping to 

‘‘debottleneck, ’’ a constraint point on 

its system, all as more fully explained 

in the petition. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

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 notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. Anyone filing a motion 

to intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Petitioner. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 5 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

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