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The purpose of the scoping process is

to identify significant issues related to

the proposed action and to determine

what issues should be covered in the

environmental document pursuant to

the National Environmental Policy Act

of 1969. The document entitled

‘‘Scoping Document I’’ (SDI) will be

circulated shortly to enable appropriate

federal, state, and local resource

agencies, developers, Indian tribes, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and

other interested parties to effectively

participate in and contribute to the

scoping process. SDI provides a brief

description of the proposed action,

project alternative, the geographic and

temporal scope of a cumulative effects

analysis, and a list of preliminary issues

identified by staff.

The Commission will decide, based

on the application, and agency and

public comments to scoping, whether

licensing the Irving Hydroelectric

Project constitutes a major federal action

significantly impacting the quality of

the human environment. The

Commission staff will not hold scoping

meetings unless the Commission

decides to prepare an environmental

impact statement, or the response to SDI

warrants holding such meetings.

Individuals, organizations, and

agencies with environmental expertise

and concerns are encouraged to

comment on SDI and assist the staff in

defining and clarifying the issues to be

addressed.

All filings should contain an original

and 8 copies. Failure to file an original

and 8 copies may result in appropriate

staff not receiving the benefit of your

comments in a timely manner. See 18

CFR 4.34(h). In addition, commentors

may submit a copy of their comments

on a 31⁄2-inch diskette formatted for MSDOS based computers. In light of our

ability to translate MS-DOS based

materials, the text need only be

submitted in the format and version that

it was generated (i.e., MS Word,

WordPerfect 5.1/5.2, ASCII, etc.). It is

not necessary to reformat word

processor generated text to ASCII. For

MacIntosh users, it would be helpful to

save the documents in Macintosh word

processor format then write them to files

on a diskette formatted for MS-DOS

machines. All comments should be

submitted to the Office of the Secretary,

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426, and should show the following

captions on the first page: Irving

Hydroelectric Project, FERC No. 11516.

Further, interested persons are

reminded of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedures, requiring

parties or interceders (as defined in 18

CFR 385.2010) to file documents on

each person whose name is on the

official service list for this proceeding.

See CFR 4.34(b).

The Commission staff will consider

all written comments and may issue a

Scoping Document II (SDII). SDII will

include a revised list of issues, based on

the scoping process.

For further information regarding the

scoping process, please contact Ms. Julie

Bernt, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, Office of Hydropower

Licensing, 888 First Street NE.,

Washington, D.C. 20426 at (202) 219–

2814.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–31287 Filed 12–26–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Project No. 11120–002–MI]

Commonwealth Power Company;

Notice Not Ready for Environmental

Analysis Notice Requesting

Interventions and Protests, and Notice

of Scoping Pursuant to the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969

December 20, 1995.

On November 29, 1995, the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission

(Commission) issued a letter accepting

Commonwealth Power Company’s

application filed on March 4, 1994, as

amended December 29, 1994, for the

Middleville Hydroelectric Project,

located in the Thornapple River in Barry

County, Michigan.

The Middleville Project’s principal

project features would consist of an

existing 125-foot-high concrete gravity

dam, an existing reservoir with a storage

capacity of 30 acres and a normal

maximum surface elevation of 708.5 feet

msl, a 25-foot-long penstock, an existing

powerhouse containing one generating

unit with a rated capacity of 350 kW

and an existing 100-foot-long

transmission line. The project would

have an average annual generation of

1,400,000 kWh. The project site is

owned by the applicant.

The application is not ready for

environmental analysis at this time. A

public notice will be issued in the

future indicating its readiness for

environmental analysis and soliciting

comments, recommendations, terms and

conditions, or prescriptions on the

application and the applicant’s reply

comments.

The purpose of this notice is to: (1)

Invite interventions and protests; (2)

advise all parties as to the proposed

scope of the staff’s environmental

analysis, including cumulative effects,

and to seek additional information

pertinent to this analysis; and (3) advise

all parties of their opportunity for

comment.

Inverventions and Protests

All filings must: (1) bear in all capital

letters the title ‘‘PROTEST,’’ ‘‘MOTION

TO INTERVENE,’’ ‘‘NOTICE OF

INTENT TO FILE COMPETING

APPLICATION,’’ or ‘‘COMPETING

APPLICATION;’’ (2) set forth in the

heading the name of the applicant and

the project number of the application to

which the filing responds; (3) furnish

the name, address, and telephone

number of the person protesting or

intervening; and (4) otherwise comply

with the requirements of 18 CFR

385.2001 through 385.2005. Agencies

my obtain copies of the application

directly from the applicant. Any of these

documents must be filed by providing

the original and the number of copies

required by the Commission’s

regulations to: Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street

NE., Washington, D.C. 20426.

An additional copy must be sent to:

Director, Division of Project Review,

Office of Hydropower Licensing,

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

at the above address. A copy of any

protest or motion to intervene must be

served upon each representative of the

applicant specified in the particular

application.

All filings for any protest or motion to

intervene must be received 60 days from

the issuance date of this notice.

Scoping Process

The Commission’s scoping objectives

are to:

• identify significant environmental

issues;

• determine the depth of analysis

appropriate to each issue;

• identify the resource issues not

requiring detailed analysis; and

• identify reasonable project

alternatives.

The purpose of the scoping process is

to identify significant issues related to

the proposed action and to determine

what issues should be covered in the

environmental document pursuant to

the National Environmental Policy Act

of 1969. The document entitled

‘‘Scoping Document I’’ (SDI) will be

circulated shortly to enable appropriate

federal, state, and local resource

agencies, developers, Indian tribes, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and

other interested parties to effectively

participate in and contribute to the

scoping process. SDI provides a brief

description of the proposed action,

project alternative, the geographic and
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temporal scope of a cumulative effects

analysis, and a list of preliminary issues

identified by staff.

The Commission will decide, based

on the application, and agency and

public comments to scoping, whether

licensing the Middleville Hydroelectric

Project constitutes a major federal action

significantly impacting the quality of

the human environment. The

Commission staff will not hold scoping

meetings unless the Commission

decides to prepare an environmental

impact statement, or the response to SDI

warrants holding such meetings.

Individuals, organizations, and

agencies with environmental expertise

and concerns are encouraged to

comment on SDI and assist the staff in

defining and clarifying the issues to be

addressed.

All filings should contain an original

and 8 copies. Failure to file an original

and 8 copies may result in appropriate

staff not receiving the benefit of your

comments in a timely manner. See 18

CFR 4.34(h). In addition, commenters

may submit a copy of their comments

on a 31⁄2-inch diskette formatted for MSDOS based computers. In light of our

ability to translate MS-DOS based

materials, the text need only be

submitted in the format and version that

it was generated (i.e., MS Word,

WordPerfect 5.1/5.2, ASCII, etc.). It is

not necessary to reformat word

processor generated text to ASCII. For

Macintosh users, it would be helpful to

save the documents in Macintosh word

processor format then write them to files

on a diskette formatted for MS-DOS

machines. All comments should be

submitted to the Office of the Secretary,

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426, and should show the following

captions on the first page: Middleville

Hydroelectric Project, FERC No. 11120–

002.

Further, interested persons are

reminded of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedures, requiring

parties or interceders (as defined in 18

CFR 385.2010) to file documents on

each person whose name is on the

official service list for this proceeding.

See CFR 4.34(b).

The Commission staff will consider

all written comments and may issue a

Scoping Document II (SDII). SDII will

include a revised list of issues, based on

the scoping process.

For further information regarding the

scoping process, please contact Ms. Julie

Bernt, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, Office of Hydropower

Licensing, 888 First Street NE.,

Washington, D.C. 20426 at (202) 219–

2814.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–31288 Filed 12–26–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. ER95–1096–000]

PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc.;

Notice of Filing

December 15, 1995.

Take notice that on December 14,

1995, PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc.,

tendered for filing an amendment in the

above-referenced docket.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

protest said filing should file a motion

to intervene or protest with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426, in accordance with Rules 211

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211

and 18 CFR 385.214). All such motions

or protests should be filed on or before

January 2, 1996. 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 motion to intervene. Copies

of this filing are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–31282 Filed 12–26–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP95–74–002]

Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.;

Notice of Petition to Amend

December 20, 1995.

Take notice that on December 18,

1995, Texas Eastern Transmission

Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400

Westheimer Court, Houston, Texas

77056–5310, filed in Docket No. CP95–

74–002 pursuant to Section 7(c) of the

Natural Gas Act a petition to amend the

authorization issued June 6, 1995, in

Docket No. CP95–74–000, in order to

‘‘firm-up’’ service for two shippers

under Rate Schedules FTS–7 and FTS–

8 and to delete one shipper from the

group of shippers for which additional

firm long-term incremental

transportation service was previously

authorized for another FTS–7/FTS–8

shipper as well as to construct and

operate different incremental facilities

from those previously authorized, all as

more fully set forth in the amendment

on file with the Commission and open

to public inspection.

Texas Eastern states that the June 6,

1995, order authorized it to provide

firm, additional, long-term, incremental

transportation service of natural gas

under Rate Schedules FTS–7 and/or

FTS–8 of up to a total of 8,776

Dekatherms per day (Dthd) for the

Customers as follows:

FTS–7

DTH/d

FTS–8

DTH/d

NJN ............................... 1,449 3

PGW ............................. 318 7

Colonial ......................... 6,984 15

Total ................... 8,751 25

In order to provide the addition

service the order also authorized Texas

Eastern to construct and operate

facilities consisting of approximately

2.39 miles of 36-inch pipeline looping

in two separate segments in the state of

Pennsylvania. The specific facilities

included:

• 1.0 miles of 36-inch pipeline

looping between Texas Eastern’s

Delmont Compressor Station in

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

and

• 1.39 miles of 36-inch pipeline

looping between Texas Eastern’s

existing Shermans Dale and Grantsville

Compressor Stations in Dauphin

County, Pennsylvania.

The estimated total cost of the

proposed facilities (in 1996 dollar was

$8,203,000.

Finally, Texas Eastern was authorized

to adjust the reservation charges

applicable to Rate Schedules FTS–7 and

FTS–8 to reflect the impact of ‘‘rolling

in’’ the costs association with the

expanded facilities, although Texas

Eastern was required to make a limited

Section 4 filing to place the rates into

effect.

In the instant amendment, Texas

Eastern proposes to modify the facilities

required to provide the service and to

reflect a change in the group of parties

participating in the project. Texas

Eastern states that it has been informed

by Colonial that it no longer requires the

additional service authorized for it.

Additionally, Texas Eastern states that it

was notified that other Rate Schedules

FTS–7 and/or FTS–8 customers, namely

Commonwealth Gas Company

(commonwealth) and Providence Gas

Company (Providence), sought to

participate in the project and have since

executed long term service agreements.

As a result of these requests, Texas

Eastern states it has identified changes

to existing facilities which can be made

with will result in the ability to provide