18596 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 70 / Wednesday, April 12, 1995 / Notices

1Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company’s

application was filed with the Commission under

Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of

the Commission’s regulations.

2The 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.

Discussion of National Science

Foundation (NSF) Elementary

Particle Physics Programs

Discussion of Status of Large Hadron

Collider (LHC) Project and U.S.

Participation in LHC

Discussion of University-based High

Energy Physics Programs

Reports on and Discussions of Topics of

General Interest in High Energy

Physics

Presentations of CESR/CLEO Programs

at Cornell University

Public Comment (10 minute rule)

Public Participation

The two-day meeting is open to the

public. The Chairperson of the Panel is

empowered to conduct the meeting in a

fashion that will, in his judgment,

facilitate the orderly conduct of

business. Any member of the public

who wishes to make oral statements

pertaining to agenda items should

contact the Executive Secretary at the

address or telephone number listed

above. Requests must be received at

least five days prior to the meeting and

reasonable provision will be made to

include the presentation on the agenda.

Minutes

The minutes of this meeting will be

available for public review and copying

at the Freedom of Information Public

Reading Room, 1E–190, Forrestal

Building, 1000 Independence Avenue,

S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585, between

9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday

through Friday, except holidays.

Issued in Washington, D.C. on April 5,

1995.

Rachel Murphy Samuel,

Acting Deputy Advisory Committee

Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 95–9005 Filed 4–11–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP95–233–000]

Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.;

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Assessment for the

Proposed Billy Creek-Sheridan

Replacement Project and Request for

Comments on Environmental Issues

April 6, 1995.

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 construction and operation of the

facilities proposed in the Billy CreekSheridan Replacement 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

Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline

Company (WBI) wants to replace 13.4

miles of 8-inch-diameter pipeline in

Johnson and Sheridan Counties,

Wyoming. WBI states that severe

corrosion and leaks have been found

throughout the Billy Creek-Sheridan

Pipeline, and the facilities proposed to

be replaced represent the final section of

replacement for the pipeline. WBI

would use the facilities to transport up

to 15,230 thousand cubic feet per day of

gas.

The location of the facilities are

shown in appendix 1.2

Land Requirements for Construction

Most of the proposed project would

be built within and near existing rightof-way, but about 40 percent of the new

pipeline would be located outside of the

existing right-of-way. WBI intends to

use a construction right-of-way width

that would vary between 50 and 100 feet

during construction. About 85 acres

would be disturbed during construction.

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 these proposed actions 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.

• Public safety.

• 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

the 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

WBI. 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 project would cross seven

perennial streams.

• 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 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:
Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 70 / Wednesday, April 12, 1995 / Notices 18597

• Address your letter to: Lois Cashell,

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 825 North Capitol St.,

N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426;

• Reference Docket No. CP95–233–

000;

• Send a copy of your letter to: Mr.

Jeff Shenot, EA Project Manager, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 825

North Capitol St., N.E., Room 7312,

Washington, D.C. 20426; and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, D.C. on

or before May 12, 1995.

If you wish to receive a copy of the

EA, you should request one from Mr.

Shenot 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) (appendix 2).

The date for filing of timely motions

to intervene in this proceeding has

passed. Therefore, parties now 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, EA Project Manager, at (202)

219–0295.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–8936 Filed 4–11–95; 8:45 am]

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[Docket No. CP95–298–000]

Columbia Gas Transmission

Corporation Columbia Gulf

Transmission Co., Notice of Joint

Application

April 6, 1995.

Take notice that on April 4, 1995,

Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation

(Columbia Gas), 1700 MacCorkl Avenue,

S.E., P.O. Box 1273, Charleston, West

Virginia, 25325–1273, and Columbia

Gulf Transmission Company (Columbia

Gulf), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E.,

P.O. Box 1273, Charleston, West

Virginia, 25325–1273, filed a joint

application pursuant to Section 7(b) of

the Natural Gas Act requesting authority

to abandon a transportation service

provided by Columbia Gas and

Columbia Gulf for FMC Corporation

(FMC) performed under Columbia Gas’

Rate Schedule X–128, all as more fully

set forth in the application which is on

file with the Commission and open to

public inspection.

The transportation service was

authorized in Docket No. CP85–606–000

which approved the agreement that

Columbia Gas and Columbia Gulf would

transport of up to 5,000 Dth/d of gas for

FMC’s Baltimore, Maryland plant.

Columbia Gulf would receive gas from

the producer, Amoco Production

Company (Amoco) at various points of

receipt in Cameron, Vermilion,

Lafourche, and Jefferson Davis Parishes,

Louisiana. Columbia Gulf transported

gas to Columbia Gas at an existing point

of interconnection near Leach,

Kentucky. Columbia Gas, in turn, would

transport the gas to existing points of

interconnection with Baltimore Gas and

Electric Company (BG&E) for ultimate

delivery to FMC in Baltimore,

Maryland. Volumes were last

transported in March of 1993 under Rate

Schedule X–128. The transportation

agreement provided for a primary term

of three years and could continue on

month to month thereafter until

terminated by any party upon written

notice to the other. On June 23, 1993

Columbia Gas notified FMC of its

cancellation of the transportation

service to be effective July 25, 1993.

Columbia Gas notified Columbia Gulf

and BG&E on June 25, 1993, of its intent

to terminate the transportation

agreement, X–128 to be effective July 25,

1993.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make a protest with reference to said

application should, on or before April

27, 1995, file with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (825 North

Capitol Street, NE., 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 285.214 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 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 Columbia Gas or

Columbia Gulf to appear or be

represented at the hearing.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–8934 Filed 4–11–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket Nos. TA94–1–23–005 and TA95–1–

23–001]

Eastern Shore Natural Gas Co.;

Conference To Discuss Settlement

April 6, 1995.

Pursuant to the Commission’s notice

issued on March 13, 1995, an informal

conference will be held to explore the

possibility of settlement of the issue

raised in the above-captioned

proceeding. All parties should come

prepared to discuss settlement, and the

parties should be represented by

principals who have the authority to

commit to a settlement.

The conference will be held on

Tuesday, April 25, 1995 at 9:00 A.M. in

a room to be designated at the offices of

the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 825 North Capitol Street,

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

All interested persons and Staff are

permitted to attend.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–8929 Filed 4–11–95; 8:45 am]

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