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[FR Doc. 05–17448 Filed 8–31–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Impact Statement: Site 

Selection for the Expansion of the 

Strategic Petroleum Reserve 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Conduct Public Scoping Meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Energy Policy Act of 2005 

(EPACT), enacted on August 8, 2005, 

directs the Secretary of Energy to 

acquire petroleum to fill the Strategic 

Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to its 

authorized 1 billion-barrel capacity as 

expeditiously as possible, and, no later 

than 1 year after enactment, to select 

sites necessary to expand the SPR from 

its current 727 million-barrel capacity to 

1 billion barrels. DOE has determined 

that the site selection and expansion 

required by EPACT constitute a major 

Federal action which may have a 

significant impact upon the 

environment within the meaning of the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA). For this reason, DOE intends to 

prepare an environmental impact 

statement (EIS) to assess the proposed 

capacity expansion at three of the four 

existing SPR storage sites and the 

development of a new storage site in the 

Gulf Coast region. 

DOE will prepare the EIS in 

accordance with NEPA, the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) NEPA 

regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500–1508) 

and the DOE NEPA regulations (10 CFR 

Part 1021). 

DATES: DOE invites interested agencies, 

organizations, Native American tribes, 

and members of the public to submit 

comments or suggestions to assist in 

identifying significant environmental 

issues and in determining the 

appropriate scope of the EIS. The public 

scoping period starts with the 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register and will continue until October 

14, 2005. Written and oral comments 

will be given equal weight and DOE will 

consider all comments received or 

postmarked by October 14, 2005, in 

defining the scope of the Draft EIS. 

Written comments postmarked or sent 

after this date will be considered to the 

degree practicable. 

DOE invites oral comments and 

suggestions at public scoping meetings 

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to which agencies, organizations, Native 

American tribes, and the general public 

are invited. The dates for these meetings 

are as follows: 

1. October 4, 2005; 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; 

Hattiesburg, Mississippi 

2. October 5, 2005; 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; 

Pascagoula, Mississippi 

3. October 6, 2005; 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; 

Houma, Louisiana 

4. October 11, 2005; 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; 

Lake Jackson, Texas 

The locations of the public scoping 

meetings were selected based on their 

proximity to the locations of proposed 

new oil storage sites or related major 

ancillary offsite facilities under 

consideration. If an agency, 

organization, or a member of the general 

public desires to have a scoping meeting 

near one of the proposed expansion 

sites, please contact Donald Silawsky at 

the address listed in the ADDRESSES

section of this Notice. If DOE decides to 

host a public scoping meeting near one 

of the proposed expansion sites, DOE 

will publish an amendment to this 

Notice and other public 

announcements. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments or 

suggestions on the scope and content of 

the EIS and requests to speak at the 

scoping meetings should be directed to: 

Donald Silawsky, Office of Petroleum 

Reserves (FE–47), U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585–0301; 

telephone: (202) 586–1892; fax: (202) 

586–4446; or electronic mail at 

Donald.Silawsky@hq.doe.gov. 

Envelopes and the subject line of 

e-mails or faxes should be labeled 

‘‘Scoping for the SPR EIS.’’ Please note 

that conventional mail to DOE may be 

delayed by anthrax screening. 

The locations of the scoping meetings 

are as follows: 

1. C.E. Roy Community Center, 300 East 

5th Street, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 

2. La Font Inn, 2703 Denny Avenue, 

Pascagoula, Mississippi 

3. Ramada Inn, 1400 West Tunnel 

Boulevard, Houma, Louisiana 

4. Cherotel Brazosport Hotel and 

Conference Center, 925 Hwy 332, 

Lake Jackson, Texas 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: For 

information on the proposed project or 

to receive a copy of the Draft EIS when 

it is issued, contact Donald Silawsky by 

any of the means listed in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

Additional information may also be 

found on the DOE Fossil Energy website 

at http://www.fe.doe.gov. 

For further information on the DOE 

NEPA process, please contact: Carol M. 

Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA 

Policy and Compliance (EH–42), U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0119; telephone: 

202–586–4600; fax: 202–586–7031; or 

leave a toll-free message at: 1–800–472–

2756. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background and Need for Agency 

Action 

The SPR is a national stockpile of 

petroleum, established pursuant to the 

Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 

1975, to protect the United States from 

interruption in petroleum supplies that 

would be detrimental to our energy 

security, national security, and 

economy. The SPR currently consists of 

four underground oil storage facilities 

along the Gulf Coast, two in Louisiana 

(Bayou Choctaw and West Hackberry) 

and two in Texas (Big Hill and Bryan 

Mound), and an administrative facility 

in New Orleans, Louisiana. At the 

storage facilities, crude oil is stored in 

caverns constructed by the solution 

mining of rock salt formations (salt 

domes). The four SPR facilities have a 

current storage capacity of 727 million 

barrels and a current inventory of 700 

million barrels (August 2005). 

DOE conducted planning activities for 

the expansion of the SPR to 1 billion 

barrels under prior Congressional 

directives in 1988 and 1990. The 

expansion planning directive in 1988 

resulted in an initial plan for expansion 

entitled Report to Congress on 

Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum 

Reserve to One Billion Barrels. The 

expansion planning directive in 1990 

resulted in a Report to Congress on 

Candidate Sites for Expansion of the 

Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One 

Billion Barrels and the preparation of a 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement, 

DOE/EIS–0165–D in 1992, which 

assessed five candidate sites for the 

expansion of the SPR to one billion 

barrels: Big Hill, Texas; Stratton Ridge, 

Texas; Weeks Island, Louisiana; Cote 

Blanche, Louisiana; and Richton, 

Mississippi. (DOE/EIS–0165–D is 

available on the DOE Fossil Energy 

website at http://www.fe.doe.gov.) 

Section 301(e) of EPACT directs the 

Secretary of Energy to ‘‘acquire 

petroleum in quantities sufficient to fill 

the [SPR] to the 1,000,000,000 barrel 

capacity authorized under section 

154(a) of [EPCA].’’ In addition, section 

303 of EPACT directs that: ‘‘Not later 

than 1 year after the date of enactment 

of this Act, the Secretary shall complete 

a proceeding to select, from sites that 

the Secretary has previously studied, 

sites necessary to enable acquisition by 

the Secretary of the full authorized 

volume of the Strategic Petroleum 

Reserve. In such proceeding, the 

Secretary shall first consider and give 

preference to the five sites which the 

Secretary previously addressed in the 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement, 

DOE/EIS–0165–D. However, the 

Secretary, in his discretion may select 

other sites as proposed by a State where 

a site has been previously studied by the 

Secretary to meet the full authorized 

volume of the Strategic Petroleum 

Reserve.’’

In a preliminary review of the five 

sites addressed in the Draft DOE/EIS–

0165–D, DOE has concluded that the 

Weeks Island site and the Cote Blanche 

site are no longer viable alternatives due 

to the sale of DOE’s Weeks Island oil 

pipeline in 1998 and its subsequent 

conversion to natural gas transmission. 

This pipeline was required for oil 

distribution from these sites. DOE 

proposes to eliminate these sites from 

further consideration. 

In addition to the sites addressed in 

Draft DOE/EIS–0165–D, DOE proposes 

to include potential expansions to SPR’s 

West Hackberry and Bayou Choctaw, 

Louisiana, storage sites as well as two 

potential new storage site candidates—

Clovelly and Chacahoula, Louisiana. 

These sites have been previously 

studied by DOE to meet the authorized 

expansion to 1 billion barrels. The 

proposed expansions of the two existing 

SPR sites would utilize existing 

infrastructure and pipelines of each oil 

storage site, which would lower 

development time and cost. The two 

potential new SPR storage site 

candidates, Clovelly or Chacahoula, 

Louisiana, would provide distribution 

capabilities to Gulf Coast refining 

regions which are not adequately served 

by the existing SPR storage sites. 

As directed by EPACT, DOE will 

consider other sites as proposed by the 

States where a site has been previously 

studied by the Secretary to meet the full 

authorized volume of the Strategic 

Petroleum Reserve. 

Proposed Action 

The proposed action is to expand SPR 

storage capacity to one billion barrels by 

expanding existing sites at West 

Hackberry (up to an additional 15 

million barrels), Bayou Choctaw (up to 

an additional 30 million barrels), and 

Big Hill (up to an additional 108 million 

barrels), and by developing one new oil 

storage site with up to 160 million 

barrels of storage capacity at either 

Clovelly or Chacahoula, Louisiana; 

Richton, Mississippi; or Stratton Ridge, 

Texas. 

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For both existing site expansions and 

a new site, DOE would create oil storage 

caverns in rock salt formations from 

1,000 to 6,000 feet below ground 

surface. Caverns would be constructed 

through a technique known as solution 

mining or leaching using fresh or salt 

water. Leaching generates 

approximately 80 million barrels of 

concentrated brine wastewater per 10 

million barrels in cavern space created. 

This wastewater would be disposed of 

either by pipeline to diffusers in the 

Gulf of Mexico or by an array of 

underground injection wells. 

All SPR salt dome storage sites 

require a raw water system for cavern 

leaching and oil drawdown, a brine 

setting and disposal system, a crude oil 

injection/distribution system, a fixed 

fire protection system, and a central 

control system. Major surface buildings 

and structures would include an 

electrical substation, a control center, an 

administration building, security 

operations buildings, communication 

structures, a covered laydown area, a 

fire house, and a warehouse for storage 

and maintenance. To supply the water 

to a new site, a raw water intake 

structure would be constructed offsite in 

a surface water body. The water and 

brine systems for leaching caverns 

would be sized to supply up to 1.2 

million barrels per day and the crude oil 

distribution system would be designed 

for drawdown up to one million barrels 

per day. The proposed expansions of 

existing SPR facilities would, in general, 

use the existing infrastructure and 

pipelines of the oil storage site. 

Expanding the Big Hill site, however, 

would require additional pumping 

systems to increase the site’s drawdown 

rate and the construction of an 

additional pipeline to Nederland, Texas, 

for oil distribution. 

The development of a new oil storage 

site would include the construction of 

offsite infrastructure and pipelines for 

water supply, brine disposal, and for 

crude oil receipt and distribution. An 

SPR storage site at Clovelly would be 

co-located on the salt dome with the 

Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) 

petroleum storage terminal and would 

use the existing commercial oil 

distribution infrastructure. An SPR 

storage site at Chacahoula would require 

a 58-mile pipeline for brine disposal to 

the Gulf of Mexico, and a 50-mile 

pipeline for oil distribution to the LOOP 

petroleum storage terminal at Clovelly, 

and/or a 21-mile pipeline to the marine 

facilities in St. James, Louisiana. An 

SPR storage site at Richton would 

require two, co-located pipelines to 

Pascagoula, a 96-mile brine disposal 

pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico and a 83- 

mile oil distribution pipeline; the 

construction of a 118-mile oil 

distribution pipeline to the Capline 

Interstate Pipeline injection station at 

Liberty, Mississippi; and the 

construction of new marine oil 

distribution facilities (docks and storage 

tanks) in the Port of Pascagoula. An SPR 

storage site at Stratton Ridge would 

require an 11-mile brine disposal 

pipeline and a 37-mile oil distribution 

pipeline to Texas City, Texas. 

Alternatives 

DOE is considering developing each 

of the proposed new oil storage sites 

(Clovelly, Louisiana; Chacahoula, 

Louisiana; Richton, Mississippi: or 

Stratton Ridge, Texas) as an 

independent alternative. The 

assessment of each alternative site will 

include consideration of ancillary offsite 

facilities and alternative pipeline routes 

to crude oil transportation and 

distribution complexes. As part of each 

new site alternative, DOE will assess a 

range of alternative capacity expansions 

of the three existing oil storage sites. 

DOE will review an 80, 96, or 108 

million barrel capacity expansion at Big 

Hill, a no expansion or a 15 million 

barrel capacity expansion at West 

Hackberry, and a 20 or 30 million barrel 

capacity expansion at Bayou Choctaw. 

This will allow DOE to assess a wide 

range of alternative configurations to 

achieve the 1 billion barrel storage 

capacity, as mandated by the Energy 

Policy Act of 2005. In addition, DOE 

will assess the no action alternative in 

accordance with the CEQ NEPA 

regulations (40 CFR 1502.14). 

Identification of Environmental Issues 

The purpose of this notice is to solicit 

comments and suggestions for 

consideration in the preparation of the 

EIS. As background for public comment, 

this notice contains a list of potential 

environmental issues that DOE has 

tentatively identified for analysis. This 

list, which DOE developed from 

preliminary scoping of the proposed 

expansion and similar projects, is not 

intended to be all-inclusive or to imply 

any predetermination of impacts. 

Instead, it is presented to facilitate 

public comment on the planned scope 

and content of the EIS. Additions to or 

deletions from this list may occur as a 

result of the public scoping process. The 

preliminary list of potential 

environmental issues that may be 

analyzed in the EIS includes the 

following: 

(1) Air Quality: The effects of 

construction and operation of the 

proposed new SPR facilities and 

expansion at existing sites on local and 

regional air quality. 

(2) Water Resources: The effects of 

construction (e.g., construction in water 

bodies and brine disposal) and 

operation (e.g., raw water intake and 

potential spills) on the quantity and 

quality of local and regional marine, 

freshwater, and groundwater systems. 

(3) Ecological Resources: The effects 

of construction and operation on 

terrestrial and aquatic plants and 

animals, including state- and Federallylisted threatened and endangered 

species, and other protected resources 

(e.g., wetlands and essential fish 

habitat). 

(4) Land Use: The effects of allocating 

land resources for the SPR rather than 

for other uses (e.g., agriculture, 

commercial, or recreation). 

(5) Geological Resources: The effects 

on the local geology and soils including 

halokinesis or cavern ‘‘creep,’’

subsidence, mixing of soil horizons, and 

compaction. 

(6) Public Health and Safety: The 

effects of construction and operation on 

public health and safety, including 

potential incidental spills and releases. 

(7) Socioeconomics: The effects of a 

potential influx of workers and the 

potential increase in demand for local 

services. 

(8) Cultural Resources: The potential 

effects on historical, archaeological, and 

culturally important sites. 

(9) Environmental Justice: The 

potential for disproportionately high 

and adverse effects on populations 

protected under Executive Order 12898. 

Scoping Process 

To ensure that all issues related to 

this proposal are addressed, DOE will 

conduct an open process to define the 

scope and content of the EIS. Interested 

agencies, organizations, Native 

American tribes, and the members of the 

public are encouraged to submit 

comments or suggestions concerning the 

content of the EIS, issues and impacts 

to be addressed in the EIS, and 

alternatives that should be considered. 

Written comments should be sent to 

DOE as described in the ADDRESSES

section above. Public scoping meetings 

will be held at the locations, dates, and 

times listed in the DATES and ADDRESSES

sections. These meetings will be 

informal. A presiding officer designated 

by DOE will establish procedures 

governing the conduct of the meetings. 

The meetings will not be conducted as 

evidentiary hearings, and those who 

choose to make statements will not be 

cross-examined by other speakers. To 

request time to speak at the public 

scoping meetings, please contact Donald 

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Silawsky via mail, fax, or e-mail as 

listed in the ADDRESSES section of this 

Notice. Persons may also sign up to 

speak before each meeting at the 

reception desk at the entrance to the 

meeting. 

To ensure that everyone who wishes 

to speak has a chance to do so, five 

minutes will be allotted to each speaker. 

Depending on the number of persons 

requesting to speak, DOE may allow 

longer times for representatives of 

organizations. Persons wishing to speak 

on behalf of an organization should 

identify that organization when they 

sign up to speak. 

A complete transcript of the public 

scoping meetings will be retained by 

DOE and made available to the public 

for review via the DOE Web site at 

http://www.fe.doe.gov and during 

business hours at the Department of 

Energy, Freedom of Information Reading 

Room, Forrestal Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0173, and at the 

Department of Energy SPR Project 

Management Office, 900 Commerce 

Road East, New Orleans, LA 70123–

3406. Additional copies of the public 

scoping meetings transcripts will be 

made available during normal business 

hours at the following locations: 

Terrebonne Parish, LA, Terrebonne 

Parish Public Library, 151 Civic 

Center Blvd., Houma, LA 70360. 

Lafourche Parish LA, Martha Sowell 

Utley Memorial Library, Thibodaux 

Branch, 314 St. Mary Street, 

Thibodaux, LA 70301–2620. 

Jackson County, MS, Pascagoula Public 

Library, 3214 Pascagoula St, 

Pascagoula, MS 39567. 

Perry County, MS, Richton Public 

Library, 210 N Front St, Richton, MS 

39476. 

Brazoria County, TX, Lake Jackson 

Library, 250 Circle Way, Lake Jackson, 

TX 77566. 

Draft EIS Schedule and Availability 

The draft EIS is scheduled to be 

issued in early spring 2006. The 

availability of the Draft EIS and dates for 

public hearings soliciting comments on 

it will be announced in the Federal 

Register and local media. Comments on 

the Draft EIS will be considered in 

preparing the Final EIS. The Draft EIS 

will be made available for public 

inspection at the libraries identified 

above. 

Those interested parties who do not 

wish to submit comments at this time, 

but who would like to receive a copy of 

the Draft EIS and other project 

materials, please contact Donald 

Silawsky as provided in the ADDRESSES

section of this notice. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 29, 

2005. 

John Spitaleri Shaw, 

Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety 

and Health. 

[FR Doc. 05–17447 Filed 8–31–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EC05–131–000] 

Dynegy Holdings, Inc., et al.; Notice of 

Filing 

August 25, 2005. 

Take notice that on August 23, 2005, 

Dynegy Holdings, Inc. (Dynegy 

Holdings), Dynegy Power Corp. (DPC), 

Bluegrass Generation Company, L.L.C., 

Calcasieu Power, LLC, Dynegy 

Danskammer, L.L.C., Dynegy Roseton, 

L.L.C., Heard County Power, L.L.C., 

Renaissance Power, L.L.C., Riverside 

Generating Company, L.L.C., 

Rockingham Power, L.L.C., Rocky Road 

Power, LLC, Rolling Hills Generating, 

L.L.C., and DMT Holdings, Inc. (DMT 

Holdings) (collectively, Applicants) 

submitted an application pursuant to 

section 203 of the Federal Power Act for 

authorization of a disposition of 

jurisdictional facilities pursuant to an 

intra-corporate reorganization that 

results in DPC, now a direct whollyowned subsidiary of Dynegy Holdings, 

becoming an indirect wholly-owned 

subsidiary of Dynegy Holdings with 

DMT Holdings, also a direct whollyowned subsidiary of Dynegy Holdings, 

being inserted as DPC’s direct upstream 

parent. (Transaction). Applicants state 

that the Transaction as an intracorporate restructuring would be 

accomplished pursuant to authorizing 

board and shareholder resolutions. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. Anyone filing a motion 

to intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant and 

all the parties in this proceeding. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible online 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 e-mail 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 September 13, 2005. 

Linda Mitry, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E5–4791 Filed 8–31–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EG05–96–000] 

Hillcrest Wind, LLC; Notice of 

Application for Commission 

Determination of Exempt Wholesale 

Generator Status 

August 25, 2005. 

Take notice that on, August 17, 2005, 

Hillcrest Wind, LLC (Hillcrest) filed 

with the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission an application for 

determination of exempt wholesale 

generator status pursuant to part 365 of 

the Commission’s regulations. 

Hillcrest states that no state regulatory 

approvals or determinations were 

sought or received with respect to the 

facility or the power purchase 

agreement. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the