29786 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 106 / Friday, June 1, 2001 / Notices

ADDRESSES: To obtain a copy of the

solicitation once it is issued, interested

parties must access the DOE Golden

Field Office Home Page at http://

www.golden.doe.gov/

businessopportunities.html, click on

‘‘Solicitations.’’ And then locate the

solicitation number identified above.

DOE does not intend to issue written

copies of the solicitation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Matthew Barron, Contracting Officer,

DOE Golden Field Office, 1617 Cole

Boulevard, Golden, CO 80401–3393 or

facsimile to (303) 275–4788, or

electronically to matt_barron@nrel.gov.

Responses to questions will be made by

Amendment and posted on the DOE

Golden Field Office Home Page.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

objective of this solicitation is to award

cooperative agreements to State Energy

Offices that will support deploying

projects under the following DOE

energy technology initiatives (this list of

EERE programs is not all inclusive): (1)

Wind Energy; (2) Geothermal Energy; (3)

Biomass Energy; (4) Distributed Energy

Resources (DER); (5) Solar Energy; (6)

Community Energy Partnerships; (7)

Federal Energy Management; (8)

Residential Energy Savings Program; (9)

Alternative Transportation Fuels

Program; (10) Industrial Energy

Program.

Proposals will be subject to the

objective merit review procedures for

the Office of Energy Efficiency and

Renewable Energy. Eligibility for this

assistance is restricted to Governordesignated State Energy Offices. For

individual projects subsequently

awarded, selected applicants may enter

teaming or partnership agreements with

industry, DOE national laboratories,

institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations and Native

American organizations.

Issued in Golden, Colorado, on May 22,

2001.

Jerry L. Zimmer,

Director, Office of Acquisition and Financial

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–13746 Filed 5–31–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Energy Efficiency and

Renewable Energy

Federal Energy Management Advisory

Committee

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting

correction.

On May 15, 2001, the Department of

Energy published a notice of open

meeting announcing a meeting of the

Federal Energy Management Advisory

Committee 66 FR 26846. In that notice,

the second session was scheduled from

6–7:30 p.m.. Today’s notice is

announcing that the second session will

begin at 5 p.m. and adjourn at 7 p.m.

Issued in Washington, DC on May 29,

2001.

Belinda G. Hood,

Acting Deputy Advisory Committee

Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–13826 Filed 5–31–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP01–366–000]

Columbia Gas Transmission

Corporation; Notice of Filing

May 25, 2001.

Take notice that on May 16, 2001,

Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation

(Columbia), 12801 Fair Lakes Parkway,

Fairfax, Virginia 22030–0146, filed in

Docket No. CP01–366–000 an

abbreviated application pursuant to

Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA)

and the Commission’s Rules and

Regulations for a certificate of public

convenience and necessity authorizing

Columbia to abandon by sale certain

natural gas facilities, designated as the

CHEWP System, located in West

Virginia and Pennsylvania (facilities)

and abandonment authorization for the

various services provided through the

facilities to be sold. Further, Columbia

requests that the Commission determine

the facilities be exempt from

Commission jurisdiction, except in

those limited cases where incidental

deliveries will be made by the buyer to

certain Local Distribution Companies

(LDC’s), all as more fully set forth in the

application which is on file with the

Commission and open to public

inspection. The filing may be viewed at

http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm

(call 202–208–2222 for assistance).

Columbia states that the facilities

have been offered for sale by public

auction. Additionally, Columbia states

that the sale of the facilities will be

conditioned on the buyer’s continued

service to the current customers under

items acceptable to both the buyer and

the customers. As a result of this

condition, Columbia contends that there

will be no material change to, or

interruption in, the services currently

being provided through the facilities.

Columbia is not proposing any

construction or facility removal in

connection with the proposed

abandonment. Columbia states that it

will require the buyer to install custody

transfer meters at or near points of

interconnection between Columbia’s

facilities to be retained and those being

sold.

Columbia states that upon sale and

transfer of the facilities to the buyer, the

facilities will, among other things,

continue to be used for incidental

delivery of gas to LDC customers

currently receiving service through the

facilities. Under the present operating

conditions, locally produced gas is

received into the facilities and

transported to Columbia’s mainline

transmission system. The facilities are

also used to provide service to the LDCs,

as well as mainline tap customers. At

current production rates, Columbia

states that the gas supply in certain

parts of the system is insufficient to

meet the demand, especially during

periods of high demand, such as winter

heating season. In order to maintain

service to those customers, Columbia

states that it backflows gas from its main

transmission system into the facilities to

satisfy any gas shortfalls. Columbia

notes that it is not requesting that the

Commission issue a limited jurisdiction

certificate authorizing the buyer’s

incidental use of the facilities, but that

it believes such a certificate may be

required by the buyer to continue such

deliveries. Therefore, Columbia is

providing such information to

familiarize the Commission with the

operation of the facilities in anticipation

that the buyer will file an application

for such an order.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

application should on or before June 15,

2001, file with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426, a

motion to intervene or a protest 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). All protests filed with the

Commission will be considered by it in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken but will not serve to make the

protestants parties to the proceeding.

Any person wishing to become a party

to a proceeding or to participate as a

party in any hearing therein must file a

motion to intervene in accordance with

the Commission’s Rules. Any questions

regarding the application should be

directed to V.J. Hamilton, Certificate

Coordinator, Columbia Gas

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1Southern Natural Gas Company, 94 FERC

¶ 61,297 (2001).

Transmission Corporation, P.O. Box

1273, Charleston, West Virginia 25325–

1273, telephone (304) 357–2297.

Comments, protests, and

interventions may be filed electronically

via the internet in lieu of paper. See, 18

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the

instructions on the Commission’s web

site at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/

doorbell.htm.

A person obtaining intervenor 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 everyone of the intervenors. An

intervenor can file for rehearing of any

Commission order and can petition for

court review of any such order.

However, an intervenor must submit

copies of comments or any filing it

makes with the Commission to every

other intervenor in the proceeding, as

well as 14 copies with the Commission.

A person does not have to intervene,

however, in order to have comments

considered. A person, instead, may

submit two copies of comments to the

Secretary of the Commission.

Commenters will be placed on the

Commission’s environmental mailing

list, will receive copies of

environmental documents and will be

able to participate in meetings

associated with the Commission’s

environmental review process.

Commenters will not be required to

serve copies of filed documents on all

other parties. However, commenters

will not receive copies of all documents

by other parties or issued by the

Commission and will not have the right

to seek rehearing or appeal the

Commission’s final order at a federal

court.

The Commission will consider all

comments and concerns equally,

whether filed by commenters or those

requesting intervenor status.

Take further notice that, pursuant to

the authority contained in and subject to

the jurisdiction conferred upon the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

by Sections 7 and 15 of the NGA and the

Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure, a hearing will be held

without further notice before the

Commission or its designee on this

application if no motion to intervene is

filed within the time required herein, if

the Commission on its own review of

the matter finds that the proposal is

required by the public convenience and

necessity. If a motion for leave to

intervene is timely filed, or if the

Commission on its own motion believes

that a formal hearing is required, further

notice of such hearing will be duly

given.

Under the procedure herein provided

for, unless otherwise advised, it will be

unnecessary for Columbia to appear or

be represented at the hearing.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–13727 Filed 5–31–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket Nos. CP98–150–000 and CP98–151–

000]

Millennium Pipeline Company, LP,

Columbia Gas Transmission

Corporation; Notice of Site Visit

May 25, 2001.

From Monday, June 4 through

Wednesday June 6, 2001, the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission staff

will conduct a site visit of an alternative

route along and within the Consolidated

Edison of New York, Inc. (ConEd)

electric transmission and the Taconic

State Parkway rights-of-way. This

alternative is referred to as the ConEd

Offset/Taconic Alternative and is

between approximate mileposts 391.2

and 404.1 of the proposed Millennium

Pipeline Project.

We will meet at the following

locations on these dates and times:

• Jane E. Lytle Memorial Arboretum

parking area (go through the Hudson

National Golf Course on Lounsbury

Road, Croton-on-Hudson, New York) on

June 4, 2001, at 12 noon; and

• Teatown Lake Reservation Nature

Center, 1600 Spring Valley Road,

Ossining, New York, on June 5, 2001, at

9 am and will continue along the ConEd

Offset/Taconic Alternative.

For further information call the Office

of External Affairs, at (202) 208–0004.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–13728 Filed 5–31–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP00–233–003]

Southern Natural Gas Company;

Notice of Petition To Amend Order

Issuing Certificate and Approving

Abandonment

May 25, 2001.

Take notice that on May 18, 2001,

Southern Natural Gas Company

(Southern), AmSouth-Sonat Tower,

1900 Fifth Avenue North, Birmingham,

Alabama 35203, in Docket No. CP00–

233–003, filed an application pursuant

to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act

(NGA) and the Commission’s Rules and

Regulations, for a petition to amend an

order, all as more fully set forth in the

application which is on file with the

Commission and open to public

inspection. The filing may be viewed on

the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/

online/rims.htm (call 202–208–2222 for

assistance).

Southern states that it is making this

petition in order to amend the Order

Issuing Certificate and Approving

Abandonment (Certificate Order) issued

in this proceeding on March 15, 2001.1

Southern states that the Certificate

Order authorized the construction and

operation of the facilities commonly

referred to as Southern’s South System

Expansion Project. Southern states that

it seeks approval of a change in the size

of certain of the loop pipelines to be

added to Southern’s South System.

Southern states that it proposes to

substitute 36-inch pipe for certain of the

30-inch pipe authorized in the

Certificate Order. As indicated by

Southern, this change will reduce the

estimated cost of the South System

Expansion Project by $1.1 million and

will reduce the miles of new pipeline

required for the project by

approximately eight (8) miles.

More specifically, Southern states that

it is requesting the Commission issue an

order amending the Certificate Order

changing the pipe size from 30-inch

O.D. to 36-inch O.D. for the indicated

pipeline loop segments and changing

their lengths as follows:

Loop 1: 4.75 miles of pipeline in Clarke

County, Mississippi between Mileposts (MP)

67.23 and MP 71.98 (Phase I) and 3.95 miles

of pipeline in Clarke County, Mississippi,

between MP 71.98 and MP 75.93 (Phase II).

Loop 2: 3.56 miles of pipeline in Sumter

County, Alabama, between MP 102.85 and

MP 106.41 (Phase I) and 9.33 miles of