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3According to the applicant, the project will not

affect any waters of the United States. We will

report any potential impacts, or their absence,

under this heading.

1Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation’s

application was filed with the Commission under

Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of

the Commission’s regulations.

The EPA 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. We

call this ‘‘scoping’’. The main goal of the

scoping process is to focus the analysis

in the EA on the important

environmental issues. By this Notice of

Intent, the Commission requests public

comments on the scope of the issues it

will address in the Eas. All comments

received are considered during the

preparation of the Eas. State and local

government representatives are

encouraged to notify their constituents

of these proposed actions and encourage

them to comment on their areas of

concern.

The Eas will discuss impacts that

could occur as a result of the

construction and operation of the

proposed projects under these general

headings:

• Geology and soils.

• Water resources, fisheries.

• Land use

• Cultural resources and wetlands.3

• Vegetation and wildlife.

• Endangered and threatened species.

• Public safety.

• Haardous waste.

We will also evaluate possible

alternatives to the proposed projects or

portions of the projects, 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 Eas. Depending on

the comments received during the

scoping process, the Eas may be

published and mailed to Federal, state,

and local agencies, public interest

groups, interested individuals, affected

landowners, newspapers, libraries, and

the Commissions official service list for

each proceeding. A comment period

will be allotted for review if the Eas are

published. We will consider all

comments on the Eas before we

recommend that the Commission

approve or not approve the project.

Currently Identified Environmental

Issues

We have already identified several

issues that we think deserve attention

based on a preliminary review of the

proposed facilities and the

environmental information provided by

Columbia. Keep in mind that this is a

preliminary list.The list of issues may

be added to, subtracted from, or

changed based on your comments and

our analysis. Issues are:

Coco Transmission Project (Docket

No. CP95–170–000):

• The project would cross four

perennial streams and five wetlands.

• The project would cross or be near

cultural resources/archaeological sites.

Coco Storage Filed Project (Docket

No. CP95–181–000):

• The project would cross six

perennial streams at 13 locations, and

18 wetlands.

• The project would cross or be near

cultural resources/archaeological sites.

Public Participation

You can make a difference by sending

a letter addressing your specific

comments or concerns about the project.

You should focus on the potential

environmental effects of the proposal,

alternatives to the proposal (including

alternative locations/routes), and

measures to avoid or lessen

environmental impact. The more

specific your comments, the more useful

they will be. Please follow the

instructions below to ensure that your

comments are received and properly

recorded:

• Address your letter to: Lois Cashell,

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 825 North Capitol Street,

NE., Washington, D.C. 20426.

• Reference Docket No. CP95–170–

000 and/or CP95–181–000;

• Send a copy of your letter to:

For the Coco Transmission Project

(Docket No. CP95–170–000): Mr. Jeff

Shenot, EA Project Manager, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 825

North Capitol Street NE., Room 7312,

Washington, D.C. 20426; and/or.

For the Coco Storage Field Project

(Docket No. CP95–181–000): Ms. Medha

Kochhar, EA Project Commission,

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

825 North Capitol Street NE., Room

7312, Washington, D.C. 20426; and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, D.C. on

or before March 20, 1995.

If you wish to receive a copy of the

EA, you should request one from Mr.

Shenot or Ms. Kochhar, for Docket Nos.

CP95–170–000 and CP95–181–000,

respectively, at the above addresses.

Becoming an Intervenor

In addition to involvement in the EA

scoping process, you may want to

become an official party to the

proceeding or become an ‘‘intervenor’’.

Among other things, intervenors have

the right to receive copies of caserelated Commission documents and

filings by other intervenors. Likewise,

each intervenor must provide copies of

its filings to all other parties. If you

want to become an intervenor you must

file a motion to intervene according to

Rule 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR

385.214) attached as appendix 2.

The dates for filing of timely motions

to intervene for the Coco Transmission

Project (Docket No. CP95–170–000) and

Coco Storage Field Project (Docket

No.CP95–181–000) are February 16,

1995 and February 23, 1995,

respectively. After these dates, parties

seeking to file late interventions must

show good cause, as required by section

385.214(b)(3), why this time limitation

should be waived. Environmental issues

have been viewed as good cause for late

intervention. You do not need

intervenor status to have your scoping

comments considered.

Additional information about the

proposed project is available from Mr.

Jeff Shenot, Coco Transmission Project

EA Manager, at (202) 219–0295, or from

Medha Kochhar, Coco Field Project EA

Manager, at (202) 208–2270.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–3900 Filed 2–15–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP95–75–000]

Texas Eastern Transmission

Corporation; Intent to Prepare an

Environmental Assessment for the

Proposed MS–1 Pipeline Project and

Request for Comments on

Environmental Issues

February 10, 1995.

The staff of the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (FERC or the

Commission) will prepare an

environmental assessment (EA) that will

discuss the environmental impacts of

the construction and operation of

facilities proposed in the MS–1 Pipeline

Project.1 This EA will be used by the

Commission in its decision-making

process to determine whether an

environmental impact statement is

necessary and whether to approve the

project.

Summary of the Proposed Project

Texas Eastern Transmission

Corporation (Texas Eastern) wants to
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2Copiah County Storage Company is a

partnership composed of Mistex Gas Corporation, a

wholly owned subsidiary of Tejas Power

Corporation, and Flex Star Corporation, a wholly

owned subsidiary of Panhandle Eastern

Corporation.

3The appendices referenced in this notice are not

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies are

available from the Commission’s Public Reference

and Files Maintenance Branch, Room 3104, 941

North Capitol Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426,

or call (202) 208–1371. Copies of the appendices

were sent to all those receiving this notice in the

mail.

expand its facilities to transport natural

gas to and from nonjurisdictional

storage facilities (MS–1 Storage

Facilities) that would be constructed in

Copiah County, Mississippi by Copiah

County Storage Company (Partnership).2

The MS–1 Storage Facilities would be

leased by MS–1 Distribution & Storage

Corporation (MS–1 Distribution), a

nonjurisdictional company, from

Partnership. Texas Eastern proposes to

construct pipeline facilities that would

be capable of transporting up to 600,000

thousand cubic feet of natural gas per

day (Mcfd). Texas Eastern wants

Commission authorization to construct

and operate the following facilities in

Copiah County, Mississippi:

• 1.88 miles of 24-inch-diameter

pipeline extending from Texas Eastern’s

existing Line Nos. 14 and 18 near

milepost 264 to the MS–1 Storage

Facilities; and

• A tap and filter separator located at

the MS–1 Storage Facilities.

The storage facilities are being

constructed by Copiah County Storage

Company, currently a nonjurisdictional

company, and as such may not fall

within the Commission’s jurisdiction.

The location of the project facilities is

shown in appendix 1.3

Land Requirements for Construction

Texas Eastern’s pipeline would be

constructed on a new right-of-way.

Texas Eastern proposes to use an 85-

foot-wide construction right-of-way that

would extend through a pine plantation

and mixed oak-hickory forest. Clearing

would be required along the entire

construction right-of-way. Texas Eastern

would retain a 50-foot-wide permanent

right-of-way after construction is

complete. Following construction, the

disturbed area would be restored and

the 35 feet of construction right-of-way

not included in the permanent right-ofway could be allowed to revert to its

former land use.

Additional right-of-way width would

be required at steep side slopes.

Additional working space would be

required adjacent to streams.

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. We

call this ‘‘scoping’’. The main goal of the

scoping process is to focus the analysis

in the EA on the important

environmental issues. By this Notice of

Intent, the Commission requests public

comments on the scope of the issues it

will 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.

The EA 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.

• Water resources, fisheries, and

wetlands.

• Vegetation and wildlife.

• Endangered and threatened species.

• Land use.

• Cultural resources.

• Hazardous waste.

We will also evaluate possible

alternatives to the proposed project or

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

recommend that the Commission

approve or not approve the project.

Currently Identified Environmental

Issues

We have already identified several

issues that we think deserve attention

based on a preliminary review of the

proposed facilities and the

environmental information provided by

Texas Eastern. Keep in mind that this is

a preliminary list. The list of issues may

be added to, subtracted from, or

changed based on your comments and

our analysis. Issues are:

• The proposed project would require

clearing of forest along a new right-ofway.

• The proposed project may affect

forested wetlands.

• The proposed project would require

an 85-foot-wide construction right-ofway.

Also, we have made a preliminary

decision not to address the impacts of

the facilities described as

nonjurisdictional. We will briefly

describe their location and status in the

EA and do a more in depth analysis in

a subsequent document if appropriate.

Public Participation

You can make a difference by sending

a letter addressing your specific

comments or concerns about the project.

You should focus on the potential

environmental effects of the proposal,

alternatives to the proposal (including

alternative routes), and measures to

avoid or lessen environmental impact.

The more specific your comments, the

more useful they will be. Please follow

the instructions below to ensure that

your comments are received and

properly recorded:

• Address your letter to: Lois Cashell,

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 825 North Capitol Street

NE., Washington, D.C. 20426.

• Reference Docket No. CP95–75–

000.

• Send a copy of your letter to: Ms.

Jennifer Goggin, EA Project Manager,

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

825 North Capitol Street NE., Room

7312, Washington, D.C. 20426; and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, D.C. on

or before March 20, 1995.

If you wish to receive a copy of the

EA, you should request one from Ms.

Goggin at the above address.

Becoming an Intervenor

In addition to involvement in the EA

scoping process, you may want to

become an official party to the

proceeding or become an ‘‘intervenor’’.

Among other things, intervenors have

the right to receive copies of caserelated Commission documents and

filings by other intervenors. Likewise,

each intervenor must provide copies of

its filings to all other parties. If you

want to become an intervenor you must

file a motion to intervene according to

Rule 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR

385.214) attached as appendix 2.

The date for filing timely motions to

intervene in this proceeding has passed.
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1Standards of Conduct and Reporting

Requirements for Transportation and Affiliate

Transactions, Order No. 566, 59 FR 32885 (June 27,

1994), III FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 30,997 (June 17,

1994); Order No. 566–A, order on rehearing, 59 FR

52896 (October 20, 1994), 69 FERC ¶ 61,044

(October 14, 1994); Order No. 566–B, order on

rehearing, 59 FR 65707, (December 21, 1994); 69

FERC ¶ 61,334 (December 14, 1994); appeal

docketed sub nom. Conoco, Inc. v. FERC, D.C. Cir.

No. 94–1745 (December 13, 1994).

Therefore, parties now seeking to file

late interventions must show good

cause, as required by § 385.214(b)(3),

why this time limitation should be

waived. Environmental issues have been

viewed as good cause for late

intervention. You do not need

intervenor status to have your scoping

comments considered.

Additional information about the

proposed project is available from Ms.

Jennifer Goggin, EA Project Manager, at

(202) 208–2226.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–3845 Filed 2–15–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP95–199–000]

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.;

Notice of Application

February 10, 1995.

Take notice that on February 7, 1995,

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line

Corporation (TGPL), P.O. Box 1396,

Houston, Texas 77251, filed in Docket

No. CP95–199–000 an application

pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural

Gas Act for permission and approval to

abandon a firm gas transportation

service to Natural Gas Pipeline

Company of America (NGPL), which

was authorized in Docket No. CP76–

007–000, all as more fully set forth in

the application on file with the

Commission and open to public

inspection.

TGPL states that it seeks authorization

to abandon TGPL’s Rate Schedule X–75,

effective as of April 29, 1995. TGPL

states that NGPL no longer needs such

service, and TGPL and NGPL have

mutually agreed to terminate Rate

Schedule X–75.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

application should on or before March

3, 1995, file with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 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 Natural Gas Act (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.

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 Natural Gas

Act 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 permission and

approval for the proposed abandonment

are 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 TGPL to appear or be

represented at the hearing.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–3847 Filed 2–15–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. ER95–342–000]

PacifiCorp; Notice of Filing

February 9, 1994.

Take notice that on January 23, 1995,

Sierra Pacific Power Company, tendered

for filing a Certificate of Concurrence in

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, 825

North Capitol 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 February 23, 1995. 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. 94–3848 Filed 2–15–94; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. MG88–51–008]

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.;

Notice of Filing

February 10, 1995.

Take notice that on January 31, 1995,

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line

Company (Transco) filed a revised Code

of Conduct pursuant to Order Nos. 566

and 566–A.1 Transco states that the

purpose of the filing is to reflect certain

changes in accordance with Order Nos.

566 and 566–A.

Transco states that copies of this filing

have been mailed to all parties to Docket

No. MG88–51.

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, 825

North Capitol Street NE., Washington,

DC 20426, in accordance with Rules 211

or 214 of the Commission’ Rules of

Practice and Procedure 918 CFR 385.211

or 385.214). All such motions to

intervene or protest should be filed on

or before February 27, 1995. 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. 95–3849 Filed 2–15–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket Nos. CP94–196–002; and CP94–

197–002]

Williams Natural Gas Company

Williams Gas Processing—MidContinent Region Co.; Notice of Filing

February 10, 1995.

Take notice that on February 3, 1995,

Williams Natural Gas Company (WNG),

Post Office Box 3288, Tulsa, Oklahoma

74101, tendered for filing a default

contract to comply with the

Commission’s December 22, 1994, Order

in Docket No. CP94–196–000, all as

more fully set forth in the filing which