Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 170 / Tuesday, September 2, 2008 / Notices 51295 

Pipeline LLC from engaging in 

hydrostatic testing on a portion of its 

pipeline beginning September 3, 2008, 

and anticipated to end September 26, 

2008. 

The petition is on file with the 

Commission and open for public 

inspection. This petition is available for 

review at the Commission in the Public 

Reference Room or may be viewed on 

the Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

Any person desiring to intervene in 

this proceeding or to be heard in 

response to the petition must file in 

accordance with the Commission’s 

Rules of Practice and Procedure by the 

date designated below. The Commission 

strongly encourages electronic filings of 

comments, protests, and interventions 

via the Internet in lieu of paper. See 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ‘‘eFiling’’ link. 

Comment Date: August 20, 2008. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–20211 Filed 8–29–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM98–1–000] 

Records Governing Off-the Record 

Communications; Public Notice 

August 15, 2008. 

This constitutes notice, in accordance 

with 18 CFR 385.2201(b), of the receipt 

of prohibited and exempt off-the-record 

communications. 

Order No. 607 (64 FR 51222, 

September 22, 1999) requires 

Commission decisional employees, who 

make or receive a prohibited or exempt 

off-the-record communication relevant 

to the merits of a contested proceeding, 

to deliver to the Secretary of the 

Commission, a copy of the 

communication, if written, or a 

summary of the substance of any oral 

communication. 

Prohibited communications are 

included in a public, non-decisional file 

associated with, but not a part of, the 

decisional record of the proceeding. 

Unless the Commission determines that 

the prohibited communication and any 

responses thereto should become a part 

of the decisional record, the prohibited 

off-the-record communication will not 

be considered by the Commission in 

reaching its decision. Parties to a 

proceeding may seek the opportunity to 

respond to any facts or contentions 

made in a prohibited off-the-record 

communication, and may request that 

the Commission place the prohibited 

communication and responses thereto 

in the decisional record. The 

Commission will grant such a request 

only when it determines that fairness so 

requires. Any person identified below as 

having made a prohibited off-the-record 

communication shall serve the 

document on all parties listed on the 

official service list for the applicable 

proceeding in accordance with Rule 

2010, 18 CFR 385.2010. 

Exempt off-the-record 

communications are included in the 

decisional record of the proceeding, 

unless the communication was with a 

cooperating agency as described by 40 

CFR 1501.6, made under 18 CFR 

385.2201(e)(1)(v). 

The following is a list of off-therecord communications recently 

received by the Secretary of the 

Commission. The communications 

listed are grouped by docket numbers in 

ascending order. These filings are 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary 

link. Enter the docket number, 

excluding the last three digits, in the 

docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, please contact 

FERC, Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

Exempt: 

Docket No. Date received Presenter or requester 

1. CP06–365–000,et al. ...................................................................................................................... 8–4–08 Hon. Ron Wyden. 

2. P–2677–019 .................................................................................................................................... 8–12–08 Arie DeWaal. 

3. P–2677–019 .................................................................................................................................... 8–13–08 Michael Donofrio. 

4. P–12557–001 .................................................................................................................................. 8–12–08 Kristen Murphy.1

1 Memo to the Files—Record of FERC staff’s telephone and e-mail communication. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–20208 Filed 8–29–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Notice of Cancellation of 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Eastern Plains Transmission 

Project (EPTP), Eastern Colorado and 

Western Kansas 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of cancellation of 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy, Western Area Power 

Administration (Western) is canceling 

the preparation of an Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) on a proposal by 

Western to participate with Tri-State 

Generation and Transmission 

Association, Incorporated (Tri-State), in 

the construction of the Eastern Plains 

Transmission Project (EPTP). Western 

would have obtained 275 megawatts of 

capacity rights on the proposed 

transmission lines by participating in 

the EPTP. The EIS would have 

addressed the construction, operation, 

and maintenance of approximately 

1,000 miles of high-voltage transmission 

lines and ancillary facilities, which 

included substations, fiber optic 

installation, access roads, and 

construction staging areas. Western 

issued a Notice of Intent to prepare an 

EIS for the EPTP in the Federal Register 

on August 2, 2006 (71 FR 43733), and 

conducted 10 public scoping meetings 

throughout the project area from August 

28 through September 14, 2006. 

Additional public meetings were held in 

February 2007 (72 FR 2507), and in June 

2007 (72 FR 30792). Western is 

canceling the preparation of the EIS due 

to anticipated changes in the EPTP 

scope. If Western decides to participate 

in the re-defined EPTP, a National 

Environmental Policy Act review will 


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