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1This NOI is also being sent to affected 

landowners along the planned CP&L nonjurisdictional transmission line. 

2The appendices referenced in this notice are not 

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of all 

appendices, other than appendix 1 (maps) are 

available on the Commissions Web site at the 

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

Reference Room, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, 

DC 20426, or call (202) 502–8371. For instruction 

on connecting to eLibrary, refer to the last page of 

this notice. Copies of the appendices were sent to 

all those receiving this notice in the mail. 

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

environmental staff of the Office of Energy Projects 

(OEP). 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

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

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Tuesday, March 24, 2009. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–5680 Filed 3–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP09–58–000] 

Rockies Express Pipeline LLC; Notice 

of Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Meeker 

to Cheyenne Expansion Project and 

Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues 

March 10, 2009. 

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 Meeker to Cheyenne Expansion 

Project involving construction and 

operation of facilities by Rockies 

Express Pipeline LLC (REX) in Moffat 

County, Colorado, and Carbon County, 

Wyoming. This EA will be used by the 

Commission in its decision-making 

process to determine whether the 

project is in the public convenience and 

necessity. 

This Notice of Intent (NOI) announces 

the opening of the scoping process we 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies on the project. 

Your input will help the Commission 

staff determine which issues need to be 

evaluated in the EA. Please note that the 

scoping period will close on April 9, 

2009. 

This notice is being sent to 

landowners of property within 2.5 mile 

of the Big Hole and Arlington 

Compressor Stations; 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. State and local 

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 Internet Web site (http:// 

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. 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

REX proposes to design, construct, 

and maintain (a) a new 17,500- 

horsepower (hp) electric-driven 

compressor unit at the existing 

Arlington Compressor Station in Carbon 

County, Wyoming; and (b) a new 

20,500-hp gas-fired compressor unit at 

the existing Big Hole Compressor 

Station in Moffat County, Colorado. 

Carbon Power and Light, Inc. (CP&L) 

would construct a 230-kilovolt electric 

transmission line about three (3) miles 

long to serve the electric compressor 

units at the Arlington Compressor 

Station. The proposed transmission line 

would begin at the Foot Creek 

Substation and follow a route to the 

southwest along Wyoming State 

Highway 13 to CP&L’s planned 

Arlington substation site adjacent to the 

Arlington Compressor Station.1

The additional compression 

expansion would provide an additional 

200,000 dekatherms per day (Dth/day) 

of natural gas from the Meeker Hub 

northward to the Wamsutter Hub and 

continuing eastward to the Cheyenne 

Hub as a result of a ‘‘ramp-up’’ 

contractual agreement with EnCana 

Marketing USA. If approved, REX 

proposes to commence construction of 

the proposed facilities in July 2010. 

The general location map of REX’s 

Meeker to Cheyenne Expansion Project 

and CP&L’s facilities are shown in 

Appendix 1.2

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the compressor 

station expansions would occur 

completely within the fenced property 

boundaries of the existing 19.4-acre Big 

Hole and 10.8-acre Arlington 

Compressor Stations. Land required for 

operation of the new compressor units 

would be 0.7 acre within the existing 

compressor station sites. Existing public 

roads would be used to access the 

facilities. 

CP&L’s planned transmission line 

would be about 4.2 miles long with a 

150-foot wide right of way (ROW). 

Support structures would be 

‘‘H∼Frame’’ wooden poles which would 

be placed every 650 feet apart for a total 

of about 34 structures. Land disturbance 

during construction would be 

approximately 2800 square feet per 

structure. At each structure there would 

be a 100-foot by 100-foot area that 

would be permanently cleared of trees 

or shrubbery. 

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 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 

NOI, the Commission staff requests 

public comments on the scope of the 

issues to address in the EA. All 

comments received are considered 

during the preparation of the EA. State 

and local government representatives 

are encouraged to notify their 

constituents of this proposed action and 

encourage them to comment on their 

areas of concern. 

In the EA we 3 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. 

• Vegetation and wildlife. 

• Air quality and noise. 

• Endangered and threatened species. 

• Public safety. 

We will also evaluate possible 

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portions of the project, and make 

recommendations on how to lessen or 

avoid impacts on the various resource 

areas. 

Our independent analysis of the 

issues will be in the EA. Depending on 

the comments received during the 

scoping process, the EA may be 

published and mailed to federal, state, 

and local agencies; public interest 

groups; interested individuals; affected 

landowners; newspapers; libraries; and 

the Commission’s official service list for 

this proceeding. A comment period will 

be allotted for review if the EA is 

published. We will consider all 

comments on the EA before we make 

our recommendations to the 

Commission. To ensure your comments 

are considered, please carefully follow 

the instructions in the public 

participation section below. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the Meeker 

to Cheyenne Expansion 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 in your comments 

so that they will be received in 

Washington, DC on or before April 9, 

2009. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods in which you can use to submit 

your comments to the Commission. In 

all instances please reference the project 

docket number CP09–58–000 with your 

submission. The docket number can be 

found on the front of this notice. The 

Commission encourages electronic filing 

of comments and has dedicated eFiling 

expert staff available to assist you at 

202–502–8258 or efiling@ferc.gov. 

(1) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the Quick 

Comment feature, which is located on 

the Commission’s Internet Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov under the link to 

Documents and Filings. A Quick 

Comment is an easy method for 

interested persons to submit text-only 

comments on a project; 

(2) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eFiling 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s Internet website at http:// 

www.ferc.gov under the link to 

Documents and Filings. eFiling involves 

preparing your submission in the same 

manner as you would if filing on paper, 

and then saving the file on your 

computer’s hard drive. You will attach 

that file as your submission. New 

eFiling users must first create an 

account by clicking on ‘‘Sign up’’ or 

‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be asked to select 

the type of filing you are making. A 

comment on a particular project is 

considered a ‘‘Comment on a Filing;’’ or 

(3) You may file your comments via 

mail to the Commission by sending an 

original and two copies of your letter to: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. 

Label one copy of the comments for 

the attention of Gas Branch 1, PJ11.1. 

Environmental Mailing List 

An effort is being made to send this 

notice to all individuals, organizations, 

and government entities interested in 

and/or potentially affected by the 

proposed project. This includes all 

landowners who are potential right-ofway grantors, whose property may be 

used temporarily for project purposes, 

or who own homes within distances 

defined in the Commission’s regulations 

of certain aboveground facilities. 

If you do not want to send comments 

at this time but still want to remain on 

our mailing list, please return the 

Information Request (Appendix 2). If 

you do not return the Information 

Request, you will be taken off the 

mailing list. 

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 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 a 

Commission proceeding by filing a 

request to intervene. Instructions for 

becoming an intervenor are included in 

the User’s Guide under the ‘‘e-filing’’ 

link on the Commission’s Internet Web 

site. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at 1–866–208–FERC or on the FERC 

Internet Web site (http://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. Be sure you have selected 

an appropriate date range. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov 

or toll free at 1–866–208–3676, 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 

proceedings by automatically providing 

you with notification of these filings, 

document summaries and direct links to 

the documents. Go to http:// 

www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm. 

Finally, public meetings or site visits 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

calendar located at http://www.ferc.gov/ 

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–5679 Filed 3–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM98–1–000] 

Records Governing Off-the-Record 

Communications; Public Notice 

March 10, 2009. 

This constitutes notice, in accordance 

with 18 CFR 385.2201(b), of the receipt 

of prohibited and exempt off-the-record 

communications. 

Order No. 607 (64 FR 51222, 

September 22, 1999) requires 

Commission decisional employees, who 

make or receive a prohibited or exempt 

off-the-record communication relevant 

to the merits of a contested proceeding, 

to deliver to the Secretary of the 

Commission, a copy of the 

communication, if written, or a 

summary of the substance of any oral 

communication. 

Prohibited communications are 

included in a public, non-decisional file 

associated with, but not a part of, the 

decisional record of the proceeding. 

Unless the Commission determines that 

the prohibited communication and any 

responses thereto should become a part 

of the decisional record, the prohibited 

off-the-record communication will not 

be considered by the Commission in 

reaching its decision. Parties to a 

proceeding may seek the opportunity to 

respond to any facts or contentions 

made in a prohibited off-the-record 

communication, and may request that 


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