[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 112 (Thursday, June 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31986-31987]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15513]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket Nos. CP98-49-000 and CP98-49-001]


K N Wattenberg Transmission Limited Liability Company; Notice of 
Availability of the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Front 
Runner Pipeline System

June 5, 1998.
    The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or 
Commission) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) on the 
natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by K N Wattenberg Transmission

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Limited Liability Company (KNW) in the above-referenced docket.
    The EA was prepared to satisfy the requirements of the National 
Environmental Policy Act. The staff concludes that approval of the 
proposed project, with appropriate mitigating measures, would not 
constitute a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality 
of the human environment.
    The EA assesses the potential environmental effects of KNW's 
proposal to construct, acquire, and operate new and existing pipeline 
facilities along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in north 
central Colorado, including:
    <bullet> About 44.9 miles of new 24-inch-diameter pipeline 
extending from near Rockport (in northern Weld County) south to 
northern Johnstown;
    <bullet> About 10.6 miles of new 16-inch-diameter pipeline 
extending from the Pan Energy-Mark Mewbourne Gas Processing Plant 
westward towards an area northwest of Platteville;
    <bullet> About 19.3 miles of new 6- and 12-inch-diameter pipeline 
extending eastward from the Erie area in southern Weld County;
    <bullet> About 9.5 miles of 16-inch-diameter existing unprocessed 
gas pipeline extending from northern Johnstown to an area northwest of 
Platteville; and
    <bullet> About 24 miles of existing 12-,       10-, and 8-inch-, 
diameter processed gas pipeline extending south from the Amoco gas 
processing plant near Platteville to an area southeast of Brighton in 
northern Adams County. (This segment is essentially 21 miles of 12-
inch-diameter mainline with three short, small-diameter laterals 
extending to nearby customers.)
    The purpose of the proposed facilities would be to establish new 
natural gas transportation system between the Colorado-Wyoming border 
and the northern suburbs of Denver. The new system would have the 
capacity to provide users at the southern end with 250 million cubic 
feet (MMcf) of natural gas per day, and gas producers at the southern 
end with the ability to transport 80 MMcf per day to new markets 
accessible via several existing interstate carriers whose facilities 
converge near Rockport.
    The EA has been placed in the public files of the FERC. A limited 
number of copies of the EA are available for distribution and public 
inspection at: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Reference 
and Files Maintenance Branch, 888 First Street, NE, Room 2A, 
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208-1371.
    Copies of the EA have been mailed to Federal, state and local 
agencies, public interest groups, interested individuals, newspapers, 
and parties to this proceeding.
    Any person wishing to comment on the EA may do so. To ensure 
consideration prior to a Commission decision on the proposal, it is 
important that we receive your comments before the date specified 
below. Please carefully follow these instructions to ensure that your 
comments are received in time and properly recorded:
    <bullet> Send two copies of your comments to: Secretary, Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Room, 1A, 
Washington, DC 20426.
    <bullet> Label one copy of the comments for the attention of the 
Environmental Review and Compliance Branch, PR-11.1
    <bullet> Reference Docket No. CP98-49-000; and
    <bullet> Mail your comments so that they will be received in 
Washington, DC on or before July 6, 1998.
    Comments will be considered by the Commission but will not serve to 
make the commentor a party to the proceeding. Any person seeking to 
become a party to the proceeding must file a motion to intervene 
pursuant to Rule 214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and 
Procedures (18 CFR 385.214).
    The date for filing timely motions to intervene in this proceeding 
has passed. Therefore, parties now seeking to file late interventions 
must show good cause, as required by section 385.214(b)(3), why this 
time limitation should be waived. Environmental issues have been viewed 
as good cause for late intervention. You do not need intervenor status 
to have your comments considered.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-15513 Filed 6-10-98; 8:45 am]
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