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1The appendices referenced in this notice are not 

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of 

appendices were sent to all those receiving this 

notice in the mail and are available at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the link called ‘‘eLibrary’’ or 

from the Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call 

(202) 502–8371. For instructions on connecting to 

eLibrary, refer to the last page of this notice. 

2 ‘‘We’’, ‘‘us’’, and ‘‘our’’ refer to the environmental 

staff of the Commission’s Office of Energy Projects. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF10–14–000] 

National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Planned West to East—Overbeck to 

Leidy Project and Request for 

Comments on Environmental Issues 

May 20, 2010. 

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 West to East—Overbeck to Leidy 

Project involving construction and 

operation of facilities by National Fuel 

Gas Supply Corporation (National Fuel) 

in Elk, Jefferson, Clearfield, Cameron, 

and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania. 

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 announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies on the project. 

Your input will help the Commission 

staff determine what issues need to be 

evaluated in the EA. Please note that the 

scoping period will close on June 21, 

2010. This is not your only public input 

opportunity; please refer to the 

Environmental Review Process flow 

chart in Appendix 1. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this project. 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. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, you may be contacted by a 

pipeline company representative about 

the acquisition of an easement to 

construct, operate, and maintain the 

planned facilities. The company would 

seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable 

agreement. However, if the project is 

approved by the Commission, that 

approval conveys with it the right of 

eminent domain. Therefore, if easement 

negotiations fail to produce an 

agreement, the pipeline company could 

initiate condemnation proceedings 

where compensation would be 

determined in accordance with state 

law. 

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 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 Planned Project 

National Fuel plans to construct and 

operate about 78.4 miles of 24-inchdiameter pipeline and related facilities 

in Elk, Jefferson, Clearfield, Cameron, 

and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania. 

National Fuel would also build two 

compressor stations totally 25,000 

horsepower (hp) of compression and a 

new meter station. The West to East— 

Overbeck to Leidy Project would 

provide about 425,000 dekatherms per 

day (dth/d) of natural gas from the 

Marcellus producing area to the Leidy, 

Pennsylvania hub. According to 

National Fuel, its project would enable 

National Fuel to provide firm 

transportation services requested by 

producers from new and existing 

producer interconnects in the Marcellus 

Shale region in central Pennsylvania to 

the interstate pipeline hub of Leidy at 

Tamarack, Pennsylvania. The West to 

East—Overbeck to Leidy Project would 

consist of the following facilities: 

• About 78.4 miles of 24-inchdiameter pipeline; 

• The Elk Compressor Station in Elk 

County, totaling about 7,000 hp of 

compression; 

• The Millstone Compressor Station 

in Jefferson County, totaling about 

18,000 hp of compression; 

• One new meter station at the Leidy 

Hub in Clinton County; 

• Four mainline valve assemblies; 

and 

• Access roads. 

The general location of the project 

facilities is shown in Appendix 2.1

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the planned facilities 

would disturb approximately 1,025 

acres of land for the aboveground 

facilities and the pipeline. Following 

construction, approximately 425 acres 

would be maintained for permanent 

operation of the project’s facilities; the 

remaining acreage would be restored 

and allowed to revert to former uses. 

About 97 percent of the planned 

pipeline route parallels existing 

pipeline, utility, or road rights-of-way. 

Over 71 percent of the planned pipeline 

route would cross public lands managed 

by the Allegheny National Forest, the 

Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry, and 

the Pennsylvania Game Commission. 

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 2 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 

notice, the Commission requests public 

comments on the scope of the issues to 

address in the EA. All comments 

received will be considered during the 

preparation of the EA. 

In the EA we will discuss impacts that 

could occur as a result of the 

construction and operation of the 

planned project under these general 

headings: 

• Geology and soils; 

• Blasting; 

• Land use (including public lands); 

• Water resources, fisheries, and 

wetlands; 

• Cultural resources; 

• Vegetation and wildlife, including 

migratory birds; 

• Air quality and noise; 

• Endangered and threatened species; 

and 

• Public safety. 

We will also evaluate reasonable 

alternatives to the planned project or 

portions of the project, and make 

recommendations on how to lessen or 

avoid impacts on the various resource 

areas. 

Although no formal application has 

been filed, we have already initiated our 

NEPA review under the Commission’s 

pre-filing process. The purpose of the 

pre-filing process is to encourage early 

involvement of interested stakeholders 

and to identify and resolve issues before 

an application is filed with the FERC. 

As part of our pre-filing review, we have 

begun to contact some federal and state 

agencies to discuss their involvement in 

the scoping process and the preparation 

of the EA. See Appendix 1 for an 

overview of the Commission’s Pre-Filing 

Environmental Review Process. 

Our independent analysis of the 

issues will be presented in the EA. The 


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30020 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 103 / Friday, May 28, 2010 / Notices 

3The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s 

regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 800. Historic properties are 

defined in those regulations as any prehistoric or 

historic district, site, building, structure, or object 

included in or eligible for inclusion in the National 

Register for Historic Places. 

EA will be placed in the public record 

and, depending on the comments 

received during the scoping process, 

may be published and distributed to the 

public. A comment period will be 

allotted if the EA is published for 

review. 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 beginning on page 5. 

With this notice, we are asking 

agencies with jurisdiction and/or 

special expertise with respect to 

environmental issues to formally 

cooperate with us in the preparation of 

the EA. These agencies may choose to 

participate once they have evaluated the 

proposal relative to their 

responsibilities. Agencies that would 

like to request cooperating agency status 

should follow the instructions for filing 

comments provided under the Public 

Participation section of this notice. 

Currently, the Army Corps of Engineers 

and the Allegheny National Forest have 

expressed their intention to possibly 

participate as a cooperating agency in 

the preparation of the EA to satisfy their 

NEPA responsibilities related to this 

project. 

Consultations Under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

In accordance with the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation’s 

implementing regulations for the section 

106 process, we are using this notice to 

solicit the views of the public on the 

project’s potential effects on historic 

properties.3 We will document our 

findings on the impacts on cultural 

resources and summarize the status of 

consultations under section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act in 

our EA. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the 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 your comments so 

that they will be received in 

Washington, DC on or before June 21, 

2010. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to submit your 

comments to the Commission. In all 

instances, please reference the project 

docket number (PF10–14–000) with 

your submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has expert eFiling 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 at 

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

called ‘‘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 that is listed under the 

‘‘Documents and Filings’’ link. 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 to your submission. New 

eFiling users must first create an 

account by clicking on the links called 

‘‘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 a paper copy of your 

comments at the following address: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

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

DC 20426. 

Environmental Mailing List 

The environmental mailing list 

includes 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. This list also includes 

all affected landowners (as defined in 

the Commission’s regulations) who are 

potential right-of-way grantors, whose 

property may be used temporarily for 

project purposes, or who own homes 

within certain distances of aboveground 

facilities, and anyone who submits 

comments on the project. We will 

update the environmental mailing list as 

the analysis proceeds to ensure that we 

send the information related to this 

environmental review to all individuals, 

organizations, and government entities 

interested in and/or potentially affected 

by the planned project. 

If the EA is published for distribution, 

copies will be sent to the environmental 

mailing list for public review and 

comment. If you would prefer to receive 

a paper copy of the document instead of 

the CD version or would like to remove 

your name from the mailing list, please 

return the attached Information Request 

(Appendix 3). 

Becoming an Intervenor 

Once National Fuel files its 

application with the Commission, you 

may want to become an ‘‘intervenor,’’ 

which is an official party to the 

Commission’s 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 the 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 Web site. 

Please note that you may not request 

intervenor status at this time. You must 

wait until a formal application for the 

project is filed with the Commission. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC 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 (i.e., 

PF10–14). Be sure you have selected an 

appropriate date range. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free 

at (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 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/ 


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1 18 CFR section 385.2010. 

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12862 Filed 5–27–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 516–459–South Carolina] 

South Carolina Electric & Gas 

Company Saluda Hydroelectric 

Project; Notice of Proposed Restricted 

Service List for a Programmatic 

Agreement for Managing Properties 

Included In or Eligible for Inclusion In 

the National Register of Historic Places 

May 20, 2010. 

Rule 2010 of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s (Commission) 

Rules of Practice and Procedure 

provides that, to eliminate unnecessary 

expense or improve administrative 

efficiency, the Secretary may establish a 

restricted service list for a particular 

phase or issue in a proceeding.1 The 

restricted service list should contain the 

names of persons on the service list 

who, in the judgment of the decisional 

authority establishing the list, are active 

participants with respect to the phase or 

issue in the proceeding for which the 

list is established. 

The Commission staff is consulting 

with the South Carolina State Historic 

Preservation Officer (hereinafter, South 

Carolina SHPO), and the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation 

(hereinafter, Council) pursuant to the 

Council’s regulations, 36 CFR Part 800, 

implementing section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act, as 

amended (16 U.S.C. section 470 f), to 

prepare and execute a programmatic 

agreement for managing properties 

included in, or eligible for inclusion in, 

the National Register of Historic Places 

at the Saluda Hydroelectric Project No. 

516–459. 

The programmatic agreement, when 

executed by the Commission and the 

South Carolina SHPO would satisfy the 

Commission’s section 106 

responsibilities for all individual 

undertakings carried out in accordance 

with the license until the license expires 

or is terminated (36 CFR 800.13[e]). The 

Commission’s responsibilities pursuant 

to section 106 for the Saluda Project 

would be fulfilled through the 

programmatic agreement, which the 

Commission proposes to draft in 

consultation with certain parties listed 

below. The executed programmatic 

agreement would be incorporated into 

any Order issuing a license. 

South Carolina Electric & Gas 

Company, as licensee for Saluda 

Hydroelectric Project No. 516, the 

Catawba Indian Nation, and the Eastern 

Band of Cherokee Indians have 

expressed an interest in this preceding 

and are invited to participate in 

consultations to develop the 

programmatic agreement. 

For purposes of commenting on the 

programmatic agreement, we propose to 

restrict the service list for the 

aforementioned project as follows: 

John Eddins or Representative, Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation, The 

Old Post Office Building, Suite 803, 

1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20004. 

Rebekah Dobrasko or Representative, 

Review and Compliance Coordinator, 

Archives & History Center, 8301 

Parklane Road, Columbia, SC 29223. 

Tyler Howe or Representative, Eastern 

Band of Cherokee Indians, Qualla 

Boundary, P.O. Box 455, Cherokee, 

NC 28719. 

Mr. William R. Argentieri or 

Representative, South Carolina 

Electric & Gas Company, 111 Research 

Drive, Columbia, South Carolina 

29203. 

Dr. Wenonah G. Haire or Representative, 

Catawba Indian Nation THPO, 1536 

Tom Stevens Rd., Rock Hill, SC 

29730. 

Any person on the official service list 

for the above-captioned proceeding may 

request inclusion on the restricted 

service list, or may request that a 

restricted service list not be established, 

by filing a motion to that effect within 

15 days of this notice date. In a request 

for inclusion, please identify the 

reason(s) why there is an interest to be 

included. Also please identify any 

concerns about historic properties, 

including Traditional Cultural 

Properties. If historic properties are to 

be identified within the motion, please 

use a separate page, and label it NONPUBLIC Information. 

Any such motions may be filed 

electronically via the Internet. See 18 

CFR385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site (http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

ferconline.asp) under the ‘‘eFiling’’ link. 

For a simpler method of submitting text 

only comments, click on ‘‘Quick 

Comment.’’ For assistance, please 

contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov; call tollfree at (866) 208–3676; or, for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. Although the 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing, documents may also be 

paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an 

original and eight copies to: Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

If no such motions are filed, the 

restricted service list will be effective at 

the end of the 15 day period. Otherwise, 

a further notice will be issued ruling on 

any motion or motions filed within the 

15 day period. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12857 Filed 5–27–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 516–459] 

South Carolina Electric and Gas 

Company; Saluda Hydroelectric 

Project; Notice of Teleconference With 

the National Marine Fisheries Service 

Regarding Preparation of a Biological 

Assessment for the Saluda Project 

May 20, 2010. 

On June 16, 2010, there will be a 

teleconference concerning the above 

referenced proceeding, initiated from 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(FERC) Headquarters, commencing at 2 

p.m. (Eastern Standard Time [EST]) and 

concluding by 4 p.m. EST. 

The purpose of the meeting is to gain 

a better understanding of why and what 

is being requested by the National 

Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) 

regarding their request for FERC to 

prepare a biological assessment for 

shortnose sturgeon for the Saluda 

Hydroelectric Project. The South 

Carolina Electric and Gas Company will 

also participate in the teleconference. 

All local, state, and federal agencies, 

Indian tribes, and other interested 

parties are invited to listen by 

telephone. The FERC contact for the 

Saluda Hydroelectric Project is Lee 

Emery. Please call Lee Emery at (202) 

502–8379 by 4 p.m. EST, June 11, 2010, 

or by e-mail at lee.emery@ferc.gov, to 

receive specific instructions on how to 

participate in the teleconference. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12856 Filed 5–27–10; 8:45 am] 

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