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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:

• About 44.9 miles of new 24-inchdiameter pipeline extending from near

Rockport (in northern Weld County)

south to northern Johnstown;

• About 10.6 miles of new 16-inchdiameter pipeline extending from the

Pan Energy-Mark Mewbourne Gas

Processing Plant westward towards an

area northwest of Platteville;

• About 19.3 miles of new 6- and 12-

inch-diameter pipeline extending

eastward from the Erie area in southern

Weld County;

• About 9.5 miles of 16-inch-diameter

existing unprocessed gas pipeline

extending from northern Johnstown to

an area northwest of Platteville; and

• 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:

• Send two copies of your comments

to: Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, NE,

Room, 1A, Washington, DC 20426.

• Label one copy of the comments for

the attention of the Environmental

Review and Compliance Branch, PR–

11.1

• Reference Docket No. CP98–49–

000; and

• 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]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project Nos. 9648–011, 9649–011 and 9650–

020]

Westinghouse Electric Corporation,

Lovejoy Tool Company and Factory

Falls, Inc.; Notice of Availability of

Final Multi-Project Environmental

Assessment

June 5, 1998.

A final multi-project environmental

assessment (FMEA) is available for

public review. The FMEA examines

downstream Atlantic salmon fish

passage at the Fellows Dam Project (No.

9648), Lovejoy Dam Project (No. 9649),

and Gilman Dam Project (No. 9650), all

located on the Black River, Vermont.

The FMEA finds that approval of the

licensee’s fish passage plans, with

enhancements, and with monitoring

conducted at the Gilman Project, would

allow downstream passage of Atlantic

salmon, and would not constitute a

major federal action significantly

affecting the quality of the human

environment.

The FMEA was written by staff in the

Office of Hydropower Licensing,

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Copies of the FMEA can be viewed at

the Commission’s Reference and

Information Center, 888 First Street, NE,

Washington, DC 20426. Copies can also

be obtained by calling the project

manager, Pete Yarrington, at (202) 219–

2939.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–15528 Filed 6–10–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Application Tendered for

Filing With the Commission

June 5, 1998.

Take notice that the following

hydroelectric application has been filed

with the Commission and is available

for public inspection:

a. Type of Application: Major New

License (Tendering Notice).

b. Project No.: 2651–006.

c. Date filed: May 19, 1998.

d. Applicant: Indiana Michigan Power

Company.

e. Name of Project: Elkhart

Hydroelectric Project.

f. Location: In the City of Elkhart,

Concord Township, Elkhart County,

Indiana, on the St. Joseph River 77 miles

upstream from confluence with Lake

Michigan.

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act, 16 USC 791(a)–825(r).

h. Applicant Contact: J.R. Jones,

Senior Vice President, Fossil & Hydro

Production, American Electric Power

Service Corporation, 1 Riverside Plaza,

Columbus, Ohio 43215, (614) 223–1801.

i. FERC Contact: Edward R. Meyer,

(202) 208–7998.

j. Brief Description of Project: The

proposed project would consist of: (1) a

300-foot-long by 14-foot-high concrete

spillway, the crest of which bears 11,

25-foot-wide by 10.5-foot-high Tainter

gates separated by 2.5-foot-wide piers;
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(2) an approximately 100-foot-long by

80-foot-wide brick powerhouse attached

to the spillway on the south bank of the

St. Joseph River having 3 horizontal

shaft 4-Francis turbines (2 camelback

pairs) with a 3.44 megawatts installed

capacity; (3) 6, 9-foot six-inch diameter

concrete draft tube tunnels transitioning

to 10-foot-high 6-foot-wide openings;

and (4) other appurtenances.

k. With this notice, we are initiating

consultation with the Indiana State

Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), as

required by § 106, National Historic

Preservation Act, and the regulations of

the Advisory Council on Historic

Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4.

l. Under Section 4.32(b)(7) of the

Commission’s regulations (18 CFR

4.32(b)(7)), if any resource agency,

SHPO, Indian Tribe, or person believes

that the applicant should conduct an

additional scientific study to form an

adequate, factual basis for a complete

analysis of this application on its merits,

they must file a request for the study

with the Commission, together with

justification for such request, not later

than 60 days after the application is

filed, and must serve a copy of the

request on the applicant.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–15525 Filed 6–16–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Hearings and Appeals

Notice of Issuance of Decisions and

Orders During the Week of February 2

Through February 6, 1998

During the week of February 2

through February 6, 1998, the decisions

and orders summarized below were

issued with respect to appeals,

applications, petitions, or other requests

filed with the Office of Hearings and

Appeals of the Department of Energy.

The following summary also contains a

list of submissions that were dismissed

by the Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Copies of the full text of these

decisions and orders are available in the

Public Reference Room of the Office of

Hearings and Appeals, 950 L’Enfant

Plaza, SW, Washington, D.C., Monday

through Friday, except federal holidays.

They are also available in Energy

Management: Federal Energy

Guidelines, a commercially published

loose leaf reporter system. Some

decisions and orders are available on

the Office of Hearings and Appeals

World Wide Web site at http://

www.oha.doe.gov.

Dated: June 2, 1998.

George B. Breznay,

Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Decision List No. 71, Week of February

2 Through February 6, 1998

Appeals

Hanford Education Action League,

2/2/98, VFA–0217

Hanford Education Action League

appealed a denial by the Richland

Operations Office of a request for

information that it filed under the

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Because the withheld information was

identified as classified under the

Atomic Energy Act, the DOE withheld it

under Exemption 3. The DOE

determined on appeal that the

information was no longer classified

and released an unredacted version.

Accordingly, the Appeal was granted.

The Oregonian, 2/3/98, VFA–0368

The Department of Energy granted a

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

Appeal filed by the Oregonian of a

determination issued by the Bonneville

Power Administration (BPA) that

documents relating to litigation

expenses were exempt from mandatory

disclosure pursuant to the attorney work

product and attorney-client privileges

encompassed by Exemption 5. The DOE

found that the documents contained

some information that was properly

withheld, but that information relating

to travel, copying, courier and shipping

expenses was improperly withheld. The

DOE remanded this matter to the BPA

for further review and for the

segregation and release of non-exempt

material.

Personnel Security Hearing

Personnel Security Hearing, 2/6/98,

VSO–0181

A Hearing Officer issued an Opinion

regarding the eligibility of an individual

to maintain access authorization. The

Hearing Officer found that the

individual had been appropriately

diagnosed with a mental illness

affecting his judgment and reliability

and was habitually using alcohol to

excess. Accordingly, the Hearing Officer

recommended that the individual’s

access authorization not be restored.

Refund Application

Primerica Corporation, 2/6/98, RR272–

00300, RR272–00301, RF265–02888

The DOE denied reconsideration of

Primerica Corp., 26 DOE ¶ 85,050

(1997), which determined that Primerica

was not entitled to a refund for the

American Can Company business or for

American Can’s interest in Chemplex. In

considering Primerica’s request for

reconsideration, the DOE determined

that American Can (i) transferred the

can business assets, including the right

to the refund, to a third party, and (ii)

did not retain the right to the refund for

Chemplex when it sold to a third party

the stock of the American Can

subsidiary which owned Chemplex.

Finally, the DOE determined a refund

granted to Primerica in the Getty Oil

Company refund proceeding should be

rescinded.

Refund Applications

The Office of Hearings and Appeals

issued the following Decisions and

Orders concerning refund applications,

which are not summarized. Copies of

the full texts of the Decisions and

Orders are available in the Public

Reference Room of the Office of

Hearings and Appeals.

ALABAMA HIDE TALLOW CO. ET AL ............................................................................................................. RF272–94128 2/6/98

ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO./JOPPA FOOD STORE ET AL .............................................................................. RF304–14124 2/6/98

CRUDE OIL SUPPLE REF DIST .......................................................................................................................... RB272–00132 2/2/98

GULF OIL CORPORATION/G.J. FOOD CENTER INC ....................................................................................... RF300–13634 2/3/98

JOHN DEHNER, INC ET AL ................................................................................................................................ RK272–03539 2/6/98

WARREN LYONS ET AL ..................................................................................................................................... RK272–1980 2/6/98

Dismissals

The following submissions were dismissed.

Name Case No.

BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY ................................................................................................................................................................ RF272–95320

HOWARD TRUCKING CO., INC ...................................................................................................................................................... RF272–95284