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—Effect of facility construction and

operation on wildlife and fisheries

habitat, including threatened,

endangered, or sensitive animal and

plant species and their habitats (i.e.,

Carolina darter and burreed

community).

—Effect on wetland habitats.

• Cultural Resources.

—Effect on historic and prehistoric

sites.

—Native American and tribal concerns.

• Socioeconomics.

—Impact of a peak workforce of about

115 workers on the surrounding area.

—Long-term effects of increased

employment and taxes on the local

economy.

• Land Use.

—Impact on state areas of critical

environmental concern.

—Effect of aboveground facilities on

visual aesthetics in the area.

—Consistency with local land use plans

and zoning.

—Impact on residences and recreation

areas.

• Air Quality and Noise.

—Air quality and noise impacts

associated with construction.

—Impact on regional air quality and

noise-sensitive areas associated with

operation of the proposed LNG

facility.

• Public Safety.

—Compliance with 49 CFR 193 for

exclusion zones (thermal and vapor

gas dispersion), siting criteria, seismic

criteria, and cryogenic criteria.

—Consequences of a major spill.

—Safety concerns associated with

design of firewater pond dam.

We will also evaluate possible site

and technology 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.

Public Participation/Scoping Meeting

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 sites), 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, 888 First St., NE.,

Washington, DC 20426;

• Reference Docket No. CP96–52–

000;

• Send a copy of your letter to: Mr.

Michael Boyle, EA Project Manager,

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First St., NE., Room 72–59,

Washington, DC 20426; and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC on

or before March 22, 1996.

If you wish to receive a copy of the

EA, you should request one from Mr.

Boyle at the above address.

Beyond asking for written comments,

we invite you to attend our public

scoping meeting that will be held on

February 15, 1996, at 7:00 p.m., at the

Stokesdale Elementary School,

Stokesdale, North Carolina. This public

meeting will be designed to provide you

with more detailed information and

another opportunity to offer your

comments on the proposed project. The

staff will also visit the proposed site on

February 15, 1996.

On March 19, 1996, at 9:00 a.m., the

FERC staff will meet with

representatives of Pine Needle to

conduct a cryogenic design and

engineering review of the proposed LNG

facilities. This technical conference will

be held at the Stokesdale Town Hall,

U.S. Hwy 158, Stokesdale, North

Carolina. The staff will also visit the

proposed site area.

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) (see appendix 2).

The date for filing 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 and site visits is

available from Mr. Michael Boyle, EA

Project Manager, at (202) 208–0839.

Additional information concerning the

March 19 cryogenic design and

engineering technical conference is

available from Mr. Robert Arvedlund,

Chief, Environmental Review and

Compliance Branch I, at (202) 208–0091.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–1110 Filed 1–24–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. RP96–92–000]

Amoco Production Company vs. ANR

Pipeline Company; Notice of

Complaint and Request for Refunds

January 19, 1996.

Take notice that, on December 22,

1995, Amoco Production Company

(Amoco), 501 Westlake Park Blvd.,

Houston, Texas 77079, filed a complaint

and request for refunds, pursuant to

sections 4 and 5 of the Natural Gas Act

and Rules 206 and 212 of the

Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure (18 CFR 385.206 and

385.212), against ANR Pipeline

Company (ANR) regarding the charges

ANR assesses to the Mooreland Plant

owners for the transportation of gas

used to replace [make-up] gas removed

at the Mooreland Plant as plant fuel and

shrinkage resulting from processing, i.e.,

Plant Thermal Reduction (PTR), all as

more fully set forth in the application,

which is on file with the Commission

and open to public inspection.

The Mooreland Plant is located in

Oklahoma and is operated by Amoco.

Amoco asserts that ANR owns and

operates an extensive gathering system

behind the Mooreland Plant, which

gathers gas from hundreds of wells but

does not perform a transportation

service with respect to field production

delivered to the inlet of the Mooreland

Plant.

Amoco claims that ANR has classified

certain of its pipeline facilities upstream

of the Mooreland Plant as transmission

facilities (including a portion of ANR

pipeline that connects the rest of ANR’s

gathering system to the Mooreland Plant

and a portion of ANR’s Mooreland

Compression Station which is used to
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compress gathered gas to allow it to

enter the plant). Amoco contends that

these facilities are not transportation

facilities, but rather an integral part of

ANR’s Mooreland Area gathering

system.

Amoco alleges that ANR’s improper

classification of these pipeline facilities

as transportation facilities has, in effect,

allowed ANR to rebundle transportation

and gathering rates for behind-the-plant

services and improperly charge the

Mooreland Plant owners transportation

rates for the PTR make-up volumes

sourced upstream of the Mooreland

Plant. Amoco further alleges that ANR

does not provide a transportation

service to the Mooreland Plant owners,

but requires the plant owners to pay

transportation charges for ‘‘fictional’’

transportation to the tailgate of the

Mooreland Plant, a practice that

(according to Amoco) permits ANR to

double or triple charge the plant owners

for transportation of the same gas

volumes.

Amoco asserts that, to make shippers

receiving make-up gas at the plant

tailgate or Southwest Area pool

responsible for the transportation

charges on ANR’s transmission system

downstream of the Mooreland Plant, to

ensure that gathering and transportation

rates are not rebundled and charged to

the Mooreland Plant owners, and to

prevent ANR from overcharging the

Mooreland Plant owners for the delivery

of the same gas volumes through some

other interpretation of its tariff, the

Mooreland Plant owners should be

permitted to physically deliver PTR

make-up volumes (in-kind) at the

tailgate of the plant, or through ANR’s

Southwest Area pool.

Amoco requests the Commission to

find that ANR does not perform a

transportation service upstream of the

Mooreland Plant, and to find that ANR’s

facilities upstream of the inlet to the

plant that are used to bring gas to the

inlet of the plant for processing only

perform a gathering function and, as

such, should be classified as gathering

facilities. Amoco also requests the

Commission to find that ANR has

already charged producers or

downstream shippers to transport PTR

make-up volumes, to find that ANR

cannot also charge the Mooreland Plant

owners again for the same service

provided to others, and to require ANR

to cease charging the Moreland Plant

owners transportation rates on gas

volumes that only move on ANR’s

behind-the-plant gathering system.

Amoco also requests the Commission to

find that the Mooreland Plant owners

should be permitted to physically

deliver PTR make-up volumes (in-kind)

at the tailgate of the plant, or through

ANR’s Southwest area pool.

Amoco further requests the

Commission to direct ANR to refund

(with interest), to the Mooreland Plant

owners, all transportation charges

assessed on PTR make-up volumes since

the effective date of ANR’s unbundled

gathering and transportation rates in

Docket No. RP94–43, and to grant such

other relief as the Commission may find

appropriate.

Any person desiring to be heard, or to

make any protest with reference to said

application should, on or before

February 20, 1996, file with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission,

Washington, D.C. 20426, a motion to

intervene or 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 the 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, or

if the Commission on its own review of

the matter finds that a grant of the

certificate is required by the public

convenience and necessity. If a motion

for leave to intervene is timely filed, or

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 Amoco and ANR to

appear or be represented at the hearing.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–1121 Filed 1–24–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. RP96–35–002]

East Tennessee Natural Gas Company;

Notice of Compliance Filing

January 19, 1996.

Take notice that on January 2, 1996,

East Tennessee Natural Gas Company

(East Tennessee) in accordance with the

Commission’s ‘‘Order Accepting and

Suspending Tariff Sheets Subject to

Conditions and Granting Waiver’’ issued

in the above-referenced docket on

December 1, 1995 (‘‘December 1

Order’’), submitted for filing Substitute

First Revised Sheet No. 52, Substitute

Original Sheet No. 52 A, and First

Revised Sheet No. 61. East Tennessee

proposes that the filed tariff sheets

become effective as of December 2,

1995.

East Tennessee states that on

November 2, 1995, East Tennessee

failed to change its tariff to impose a

limit on the quantity of gas a customer

can take without scheduling it and to

include language in its tariff allowing it

to waive its Daily Variance charge on a

nondiscriminatory basis. In its

December 1 Order, the Commission

accepted and suspended the proposed

tariff sheets to be effective on December

2, 1995, subject to East Tennessee

refiling certain sheets to reflect minor

changes. The instant filing reflects the

changes required by the December 1

Order.

Any person desiring to protest with

reference to said filing should file a

protest with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street

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

accordance with Section 211 of the

Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.211. All such

protests must be filed as provided in

Section 154.210 of the Commission’s

Regulations. Protests will be considered

by the Commission in determining the

appropriate action to be taken, but will

not serve to make Protestants parties to

this proceeding. Copies of this filing are

on file and available for public

inspection.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–1119 Filed 1–24–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP96–138–000]

El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice

of Request Under Blanket

Authorization

January 19, 1996.

Take notice that on January 16, 1996,

El Paso Natural Gas Company (El Paso),

P.O. Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978,