16870 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 63 / Monday, April 3, 1995 / Notices

of this filing are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–8035 Filed 3–31–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 9948–000]

Public Utility District No. 1 of Jefferson

County, Washington, and City of

Tacoma, Washington; Notice of Intent

To Prepare An Environmental Impact

Statement and Conduct Public

Scoping Meetings

March 28, 1995.

The Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission (Commission) has received

an application for license to construct

the proposed Elkhorn Hydroelectric

Project No. 9948. The project would be

located in the Olympic National Forest

on the Dosewallips River approximately

6 miles west of the City of Brinnon,

Jefferson County, Washington.

The Commission’s staff has

determined that licensing this project

would constitute a major federal action

significantly affecting the quality of the

human environment. Therefore, the staff

intends to prepare an Environmental

Impact Statement (EIS) for the Elkhorn

Hydroelectric Project in accordance

with the National Environmental Policy

Act.

The EIS will objectively consider both

site-specific and cumulative

environmental impacts of the project

and reasonable alternatives, and will

include an economic, financial and

engineering analysis.

A draft EIS will be issued and

circulated for review to all the

interested parties. All comments filed

on the draft EIS will be analyzed by the

staff and considered in a final EIS. The

staff’s conclusions and

recommendations will then be

presented for the consideration of the

Commission in reaching its final

licensing decision.

Scoping Meetings

Two scoping meetings will be

conducted. A scoping meeting oriented

toward the public will be conducted on

May 3, 1995, from 7:00 p.m. to 10 p.m.,

at the Brinnon Elementary School, 46

Schoolhouse Road, Brinnon,

Washington. The school is located just

off the Dosewallips River Road near U.S.

Highway 101. A scoping meeting

oriented toward the resource agencies

will be conducted on May 4, 1995, from

10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the Willaby

Room, 1835 Black Lake Boulevard, at

the Olympia National Forest

Headquarters, Olympia, Washington.

The headquarters building is located

just off U.S. Highway 101 at the Black

Lake Boulevard exit.

Interested individuals, organizations,

and agencies are invited to attend either

or both meetings and assist the staff in

identifying the scope of environmental

issues that should be analyzed in the

EIS.

To help focus discussion at the

meetings, scoping document 1 outlining

subject areas to be addressed in the EIS

will be mailed to agencies and

interested individuals on the

Commission’s mailing list. Copies of the

scoping document will also be available

at the scoping meetings.

Objectives

At the scoping meetings the staff will:

(1) Summarize the environmental issues

tentatively identified for analysis in the

EIS; (2) determine the relative depth of

analysis for issues to be addressed in the

EIS; (3) identify resource issues that are

not important and do not require

detailed analysis; (4) solicit all available

information from the meeting

participants, especially quantified data

on site-specific and cumulative impacts

on the resources at issue; and (5) listen

to statements from experts and the

public on issues that should be analyzed

in the EIS.

Procedures

The meetings will be recorded by a

court reporter and all statements (oral

and written) thereby become a part of

the formal record of the Commission

proceedings on the Elkhorn

Hydroelectric Project. Individuals

presenting statements at the meetings

will be asked to clearly identify

themselves for the record.

Individuals, organizations, and

agencies with environmental expertise

and concerns are encouraged to attend

the meetings and assist the staff in

defining and clarifying the issues to be

addressed in the EIS.

Participants wishing to make oral

comments at the public meetings are

asked to keep them to five minutes to

allow everyone the opportunity to

speak.

Persons choosing not to speak at the

meetings, but who have views on the

issues or information relevant to the

issues, may submit written statements

for inclusion in the public record at the

meeting. In addition, written scoping

comments may be filed with the

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 825 North Capitol Street,

NE, Washington, D.C. 20426, until June

5, 1995.

All written correspondence should

clearly show the following caption on

the first page: Elkhorn Hydroelectric

Project No. 9948.

Intervenors—those on the

Commission’s service list for this

proceeding (parties)—are reminded of

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure, requiring parties filing

documents with the Commission, to

serve a copy of the document on each

person whose name appears on the

official service list.

Further, if a party or interceder files

comments or documents with the

Commission relating to the merits of an

issue that may affect the responsibilities

of a particular resource agency, they

must also serve a copy of the document

on that resource agency.

If you have any questions please

contact Thomas Dean at (202) 219–2778.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–8034 Filed 3–31–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP95–265–000, et al.]

ANR Pipeline Company, et al.; Natural

Gas Certificate Filings

March 24, 1995.

Take notice that the following filings

have been made with the Commission:

1. ANR Pipeline Co.

[Docket No. CP95–265–000]

Take notice that on March 22, 1995,

ANR Pipeline Company (ANR), 500

Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan

48243, filed in Docket No. CP95–265–

000 a request pursuant to Sections

157.205 and 157.212(a) of the

Commission’s Regulations under the

Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and

157.212(a)) for authorization to

construct and operate an

interconnection which will allow a bidirectional flow of natural gas between

ANR and the Egan Hub Partners, L.P.

(Egan), in Acadia Parish, Louisiana,

under the blanket certificate issued in

Docket No. CP82–480–000, all as more

fully set forth in the request which is on

file with the Commission and open to

public inspection.

The interconnection (‘‘Egan

Interconnection’’) will be located in

Section 37, T9S, R2W, Acadia Parish,

Louisiana. The proposed Egan

Interconnection will consist of two 12-

inch hot taps into ANR’s existing 26-

inch mainlines; associated valves,

controllers, and flanges; and