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appeal periods to run concurrently.

Should the Commission issue Maritimes

a Certificate for the proposed action, it

would be subject to a 30-day rehearing

period.

Additional information about the

proposed project is available from Paul

McKee in the Commission’s Office of

External Affairs, at (202) 208–1088.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–16897 Filed 6–24–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP96–153–004]

Southern Natural Gas Company;

Notice of Availability of the Draft

Supplement to the Final Environmental

Impact Statements for the Proposed

Amended North Alabama Pipeline

Project

June 19, 1998.

The staff of the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (FERC or

Commission) has prepared this Draft

Supplement to the Final Environmental

Impact Statement (Supplement) for the

North Alabama Pipeline Project and it

addresses the environmental impact of

the amended natural gas pipeline

project proposed by Southern Natural

Gas Company (Southern) in the abovereferenced docket.

The staff prepared the Supplement to

satisfy the requirements of the National

Environmental Policy Act. The staff

concludes that the Amended North

Alabama Pipeline Project would result

in limited adverse environmental

impact if it is constructed as planned

and with the additional mitigation

recommended in this Supplement. This

document supplements the North

Alabama Pipeline Project Final

Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS)

that was noticed by the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency in the

Federal Register on May 30, 1997. The

Supplement only examines the route

changes north of milepost 95.25 (about

milepost 91.2 of the route previously

studied in the FEIS). There are no

changes in the facilities south of

milepost 95.25.

The Supplement assesses the

potential environmental effects of

construction and operation of the

following Southern facilities:

• About 27.1 miles of interstate

natural gas pipeline (26.9 miles of 16-

inch-diameter pipeline and 0.2 mile of

12-inch-diameter pipeline); and

• Two new meter stations, and

related facilities.

Facilities required by two local

distribution companies to receive

natural gas from Southern are also

examined.

The purpose of Southern’s proposed

facilities would be to transport a total of

69,000 thousand cubic feet per day of

natural gas to one existing and two new

customers in northern Alabama.

Comment Procedure

Written Comments

Any person wishing to comment on

the Supplement may do so. Please

carefully follow these instructions to

ensure that your comments are received

in time and properly recorded:

• Reference Docket No. CP96–153–

004;

• Send two copies of your comments

to: Office of the Secretary, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, N.E., Room 1A,

Washington, D.C. 20426.

• Label one copy of the comments for

the attention of the Environmental

Review and Compliance Branch II, PR

11.2; and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, D.C. on

or before August 10, 1998.

Public Meeting Schedule

A public meeting to receive comments

on the Supplement will be held on July

30, 1998 at 7:00 p.m. at the: Hartselle

Civic Center, 406 Nanceford Road,

Hartselle, AL 35640.

Interested groups and individuals are

encouraged to attend and present oral

comments on the environmental

impacts described in the Supplement.

Anyone who would like to speak at the

public meeting may get on the speakers

list by signing up at the public meeting.

Priority will be given to persons

representing groups. A transcript will be

made of the meeting.

After these comments are reviewed,

any significant new issues are

investigate, and modifications are made

to the draft Supplement, a final

Supplement will contain the staff’s

responses to timely comments received

on the draft Supplement.

The Supplement has been placed in

the public files of the FERC and is

available for public inspection at:

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

Public Reference and Files Maintenance

Branch, 888 First Street, N.E., Room 2A,

Washington, D.C. 20426, (202) 208–

1371.

A limited number of copies are

available at this location.

Copies of the Supplement have been

mailed to Federal, state, and local

agencies, public interest groups,

interested individuals, newspapers, and

parties to this proceeding. Comments

will be considered by the Commission

but will not serve to make the

commentor a party to the proceeding.

Any person may file a timely motion to

intervene during the comment period on

the basis of the Commission staff’s draft

Supplement (see 18 CFR 380.106 and

385.214). You do not need intervenor

status to have your comments

considered.

Additional information about the

proposed project is available from Paul

McKee in the Commission’s Office of

External Affairs, at (202) 208–1088.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–16884 Filed 6–24–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project Nos. 2699–001, 2019–017, 11452–

000, 11563–002, and 11477–000 California]

Utica Power Authority and Northern

California Power Agency; Notice of

Intent to Conduct Public Scoping

Meetings and Site Visit

June 19, 1998.

The Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission (Commission) received

applications from Utica Power

Authority and Northern California

Power Agency (applicants) to relicense

the Angels, Utica, and Upper Utica

Projects as follows:

Project No. Project name Applicant

—2699–001 .............................................................. Angels ...................................................................... Utica Power Authority.

—2019–017 .............................................................. Utica ......................................................................... Utica Power Authority.

11452–000 ............................................................... Angels ...................................................................... Northern California Power Agency.

11477–000 ............................................................... Utica ......................................................................... Northern California Power Agency.
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Project No. Project name Applicant

11563–000 ............................................................... Upper Utica .............................................................. Northern California Power Agency.

The projects are located in Calaveras,

Alpine, and Toulumne Counties,

California. The Commission will hold

agency and public scoping meetings on

July 22, and 23, 1998, for preparation of

an Environmental Assessment (EA)

under the National Environmental

Policy Act (NEPA) for the issuance of

licenses for the projects.

Scoping Meetings

FERC staff will conduct one agency

scoping meeting and two public

meetings. The agency scoping meeting

will focus on resource agencies and

non-governmental organizations (NGO)

concerns, while the public scoping

meetings are primarily for public input.

All interested individuals,

organizations, and agencies are invited

to attend one or all the meetings, and to

assist the staff in identifying the scope

of the environmental issues that should

be analyzed in the EA. The times and

locations of these meetings are as

follows:

Agency Meeting

Wednesday, July 22, 1998, 10:00 am,

Bret Harte High School, Music Room,

364 Murphys Grade Road, Angels

Camp, California

Public Meetings

Wednesday, July 22, 1998 7:00 pm, Bret

Harte High School Music Room, 364

Murphys Grade Road, Angels Camp,

California

Thursday, July 23, 1998, 7:00 pm, Bear

Valley Lodge, 3 Bear Valley Road,

Bear Valley, California

To help focus discussions, we will

distribute a Scoping Document (SD1)

outlining the subject areas to be

addressed at the meetings to the parties

on the Commission’s mailing list.

Copies of the SD1 also will be available

at the scoping meetings.

Site Visit

The applicants and Commission staff

will conduct project site visits as

follows:

Angels and Utica Projects

Tuesday, July 21, 1998 9:00 am.

Meet in front of the Utica Power

Authority Building, 1168 Booster Way,

Angels Camp, California.

Those interested in participating

should contact Mr. Dennis Dickman at

(209) 754–4230 in advance.

Upper Utica Project

Thursday, July 23, 1998 10:00 am.

Meet in front of the Bear Valley

Lodge, 3 Bear Valley Road, Bear Valley,

California.

Those interested in participating

should contact: Mr. Hari Modi at (916)

781–4204 in advance.

All interested individuals,

organizations, and agencies are invited

to attend. All participants are

responsible for their own transportation

to the sites.

Objectives

At the scoping meetings, the staff will:

(1) summarize the environmental issues

tentatively identified for analysis in the

EA; (2) solicit from the meeting

participants all available information,

especially quantifiable data, on the

resources at issue; (3) encourage

statements from experts and the public

on issues that should be analyzed in the

EA, including viewpoints in opposition

to, or in support of, the staff’s

preliminary views; (4) determine the

relative depth of analysis for issues to be

addressed in the EA; and (5) identify

resources issues that are of lesser

importance, and, therefore, do not

require detailed analysis.

Procedures

The meetings will be recorded by a

stenographer and will become part of

the formal record of the Commission

proceeding on the projects. Individuals

presenting statements at the meetings

will be asked to sign in before the

meeting starts and to clearly identify

themselves for the record. Speaking

time for attendees at the meetings will

be determined before the meeting, based

on the number of persons wishing to

speak and the approximate amount of

time available for the session. All

speakers will be provided at least 5

minutes to present their views.

Individuals, organizations, and

agencies with environmental expertise

and concerns are encouraged to attend

the meetings and to assist the staff in

defining and clarifying the issues to be

addressed in the EA.

Persons choosing not to speak at the

meetings, but who have views on the

issues, may submit written statements

for inclusion in the public record at the

meeting. In addition, written scoping

comments may be filed with the

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, N.E.,

Washington, D.C. 20426, not later than

August 24, 1998. All filings should

contain an original and eight copies,

and must clearly show at the top of the

first page the project names(s) and

project number(s).

For further information, please contact

Hector M. Perez at (202) 219–2843.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–16880 Filed 6–24–98; 8:45 am]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OW–FRL–6116–6]

Notice of National Strategy for the

Development of Regional Nutrient

Criteria

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of National Strategy for

the Development of Regional Nutrient

Criteria, and request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) announces the

availability of a National Strategy for the

Development of Regional Nutrient

Criteria. The Strategy describes the

aspproach the Agency is taking to

develop scientific information relating

to nutrient overenrichment of the

Nation’s surface waters and to working

with States to assure that State water

quality standards reflect this nutrient

information.

This Strategy has been through

Agency review and external peer

review. If you have comments on this

document please provide them to the

address below. They will be addressed

in future updates of the Strategy.

DATES: Written comments should be

submitted to the person listed by August

24, 1998.

Comments should be sent to: Nicholas

A. Baer, Health and Ecological Criteria

Division (4304), Office of Science and

Technology, Office of Water, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 401

M Street SW, Washington, DC 20460.

ADDRESSES: This notice contains a

summary of the National Strategy for the

Development of Regional Nutrient

Criteria. Copies of the complete

document or a fact sheet summarizing

the Strategy may be obtained from the

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,