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A copy of the EA 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, contact FERC Online 

Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. 

You may also register online at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via 

e-mail of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

Any comments should be filed within 

30 days from the issuance date of this 

notice, and should be addressed to the 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Room 1–A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Please affix ‘‘Expanded Kansas River 

Hydropower Project No. 13526–002’’ to 

all comments. Comments may be filed 

electronically via the Internet in lieu of 

paper. The Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filings which may 

be filed at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/efiling.asp. See 18 CFR 

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

on the Commission’s Web site under the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link. 

For further information, contact 

Monte TerHaar at (202) 502–6035. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF10–21–000] 

Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Planned Texas Eastern Appalachia to 

Market Expansion Project and Request 

for Comments on Environmental 

Issues 

August 19, 2010. 

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 planned Texas Eastern Appalachia 

to Market Expansion Project (TEAM 

2012 Project) which involves the 

construction and operation of interstate 

natural gas transmission facilities by 

Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas 

Eastern) in Adams, Bedford, Greene, 

Fayette, and Franklin Counties, 

Pennsylvania. This EA will be used by 

the Commission in its decision-making 

process to determine whether the TEAM 

2012 Project is in the public 

convenience and necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies on the TEAM 

2012 Project. Your input will help the 

Commission staff determine what issues 

need to be evaluated in the EA. Please 

note that the scoping period will close 

on September 17, 2010. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for the TEAM 2012 Project. 

State and local government 

representatives are asked to notify their 

constituents of this project and 

encourage them to comment on their 

areas of concern. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, you may be contacted by a 

pipeline company representative about 

the acquisition of an easement to 

construct, operate, and maintain the 

planned facilities. The company would 

seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable 

agreement. However, if the project is 

approved by the Commission, that 

approval conveys with it the right of 

eminent domain. Therefore, if easement 

negotiations fail to produce an 

agreement, the pipeline company could 

initiate condemnation proceedings 

where compensation would be 

determined in accordance with state 

law. 

A fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need 

To Know?’’ is available for viewing on 

the FERC Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov). This fact sheet addresses 

a number of typically asked questions, 

including the use of eminent domain 

and how to participate in the 

Commission’s proceedings. 

Summary of the Planned Project 

Texas Eastern has agreed to provide 

Range Resources—Appalachia and the 

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation 

natural gas transportation services. 

According to Texas Eastern, these 

services are required to meet a growing 

demand for natural gas in the northeast 

and to provide additional natural gas 

supply diversity and reliability. 

To satisfy its agreements, Texas 

Eastern plans to install and operate 

approximately 17.8 miles of 36-inchdiameter natural gas transmission 

pipeline and associated aboveground 

facilities adjacent to its existing natural 

gas transmission pipeline system. Texas 

Eastern also plans to abandon 

approximately 11.3 miles of 24-inchdiameter natural gas transmission 

pipeline. The planned new pipeline 

facilities include: 

Facility name * Length 

(miles) County 

Heidlersburg Discharge Abandonment and Loop ............................................................................................................. 4.0 Adams. 

Holbrook East Loop ........................................................................................................................................................... 4.7 Fayette. 

Chambersburg Discharge Abandonment and Loop .......................................................................................................... 7.3 Franklin. 

Holbrook West Loop .......................................................................................................................................................... 1.8 Greene. 

* Associated aboveground facilities include main line valves, pig launchers and receivers, cathodic protection stations, and meter stations. 

Additionally, Texas Eastern plans to 

increase the amount of compression at 

its Bedford Compressor Station by 

20,720 horsepower (hp). Texas Eastern 

plans to install a 26,000 horsepower 

(hp) electrical compressor unit, uprate 

two 11,000 hp electrical units to 14,300 

hp units, and abandon in-place nine 

reciprocating units. 

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1The appendices referenced in this notice are not 

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of 

appendices were sent to all those receiving this 

notice in the mail and are available at http:// 

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

from the Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 (202) 502– 

8371. For instructions on connecting to eLibrary, 

refer to the last page of this notice. 

2 ‘‘We’’, ‘‘us’’, and ‘‘our’’ refer to the environmental 

staff of the Commission’s Office of Energy Projects. 

3The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s 

regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 800. Historic properties are 

defined in those regulations as any prehistoric or 

historic district, site, building, structure, or object 

included in or eligible for inclusion in the National 

Register of Historic Places. 

The general location of the planned 

project facilities is shown in Appendix 

1.1

Land Requirements for Construction 

Texas Eastern anticipates temporarily 

disturbing approximately 303.29 acres 

of land during construction of the 

planned TEAM 2012 Project. Following 

construction, Texas Eastern plans to 

maintain approximately 161.95 acres of 

land for operation of the planned 

facilities. Of the land required for use 

during construction and operation of the 

planned facilities, approximately 141.64 

acres of this land is currently utilized as 

Texas Eastern natural gas pipeline 

permanent right-of-way. 

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 2 to 

discover and address concerns the 

public may have about proposals. This 

process is referred to as scoping. The 

main goal of the scoping process is to 

focus the analysis in the EA on the 

important environmental issues. By this 

notice, the Commission requests public 

comments on the scope of the issues to 

address in the EA. All comments 

received will be considered during the 

preparation of the EA. 

In the EA we will discuss impacts that 

could occur as a result of the 

construction and operation of the 

planned project under these general 

headings: 

• Geology and soils; 

• Land use; 

• Water resources, fisheries, and 

wetlands; 

• Cultural resources; 

• Vegetation and wildlife; 

• Air quality and noise; 

• Endangered and threatened species; 

and 

• Reliability and safety. 

We will also evaluate possible 

alternatives to the planned project or 

portions of the project, and make 

recommendations on how to lessen or 

avoid impacts on the various resource 

areas. 

Although no formal application has 

been filed, we have already initiated our 

NEPA review under the Commission’s 

pre-filing process. The purpose of the 

pre-filing process is to encourage early 

involvement of interested stakeholders 

and to identify and resolve issues before 

an application is filed with the FERC. 

As part of our pre-filing review, we will 

contact numerous federal and state 

agencies to discuss their involvement in 

the scoping process and the preparation 

of the EA. 

Our independent analysis of the 

issues will be presented in the EA. The 

EA will be placed in the public record, 

and depending on the comments 

received during the scoping process, 

may be published and distributed to the 

public. A public comment period will 

be allotted if the EA is published for 

review. We will consider all comments 

on the EA before we make our 

recommendations to the Commission. 

To ensure your comments are 

considered, please carefully follow the 

instructions in the Public Participation 

section on page 5. 

With this notice, we are asking 

agencies with jurisdiction and/or 

special expertise with respect to 

environmental issues to formally 

cooperate with us in the preparation of 

the EA. These agencies may choose to 

participate once they have evaluated the 

proposal relative to their 

responsibilities. Agencies that would 

like to request cooperating agency status 

should follow the instructions for filing 

comments provided under the Public 

Participation section of this notice. 

Consultations Under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

In accordance with the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation’s 

implementing regulations for section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act, we are using this 

notice to initiate consultation with 

applicable State Historic Preservation 

Office(s), and to solicit their views and 

those of other government agencies, 

interested Indian tribes, and the public 

on the project’s potential effects on 

historic properties.3 We will define the 

project-specific Area of Potential Effects 

(APE) in consultation with the SHPO(s) 

as the project is further developed. On 

natural gas facility projects, the APE at 

a minimum encompasses all areas 

subject to ground disturbance (examples 

include construction right-of-way, 

contractor/pipe storage yards, 

compressor stations, and access roads). 

Our EA for this project will document 

our findings on the impacts on historic 

properties and summarize the status of 

consultations under section 106. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the project. 

Your comments should focus on the 

potential environmental effects, 

reasonable alternatives, and measures to 

avoid or lessen environmental impacts. 

The more specific your comments, the 

more useful they will be. To ensure that 

your comments are timely and properly 

recorded, please send your comments so 

that they will be received in 

Washington, DC on or before September 

17, 2010. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to submit your 

comments to the Commission. In all 

instances, please reference the project 

docket number (PF10–21–000) with 

your submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has expert eFiling staff 

available to assist you by phone at (202) 

502–8258 or by e-mail at 

efiling@ferc.gov. 

(1) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eComment 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov under the link to 

Documents and Filings. An eComment 

is an easy method for interested persons 

to submit brief, text-only comments on 

a project; 

(2) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eFiling 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov under the link to 

Documents and Filings. With eFiling 

you can provide comments in a variety 

of formats by attaching them as a file 

with your submission. New eFiling 

users must first create an account by 

clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be 

asked to select the type of filing you are 

making. A comment on a particular 

project is considered a ‘‘Comment on a 

Filing’’; or 

(3) You may file a paper copy of your 

comments at the following address: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. 

Environmental Mailing List 

The environmental mailing list 

includes federal, state, and local 

government representatives and 

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agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American Tribes; other 

interested parties; and local libraries 

and newspapers. This list also includes 

all affected landowners (as defined in 

the Commission’s regulations) who are 

potential right-of-way grantors, whose 

property may be used temporarily for 

project purposes, or who own homes 

within certain distances of aboveground 

facilities, and anyone who submits 

comments on the project. We will 

update the environmental mailing list as 

the analysis proceeds to ensure that we 

send the information related to this 

environmental review to all individuals, 

organizations, and government entities 

interested in and/or potentially affected 

by the planned project. 

If the EA is published for distribution, 

copies will be sent to the environmental 

mailing list for public review and 

comment. If you would prefer to receive 

a paper copy of the document instead of 

the CD version or would like to remove 

your name from the mailing list, please 

return the attached Information Request 

(Appendix 2). 

Becoming an Intervenor 

Once Texas Eastern files its 

application with the Commission, you 

may want to become an ‘‘intervenor’’ 

which is an official party to the 

Commission’s proceeding. Intervenors 

play a more formal role in the process 

and are able to file briefs, appear at 

hearings, and be heard by the courts if 

they choose to appeal the Commission’s 

final ruling. An intervenor formally 

participates in the proceeding by filing 

a request to intervene. Instructions for 

becoming an intervenor are included in 

the User’s Guide under the ‘‘e-filing’’ 

link on the Commission’s Web site. 

Please note that the Commission will 

not accept requests for intervenor status 

at this time. You must wait until a 

formal application for the project is filed 

with the Commission. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web 

site (http://www.ferc.gov) using the 

eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary link, 

click on ‘‘General Search’’ and enter the 

docket number, excluding the last three 

digits in the Docket Number field (i.e., 

PF10–21–000). Be sure you have 

selected an appropriate date range. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support by e-mail at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or by 

phone toll free at (866) 208–3676, or for 

TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. The 

eLibrary link also provides access to the 

texts of formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission offers a 

free service called eSubscription which 

allows you to keep track of all formal 

issuances and submittals in specific 

dockets. This can reduce the amount of 

time you spend researching proceedings 

by automatically providing you with 

notification of these filings, document 

summaries, and direct links to the 

documents. Go to http://www.ferc.gov/ 

esubscribenow.htm. 

Finally, any public meetings or site 

visits will be posted on the 

Commission’s calendar located at 

http://www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/ 

EventsList.aspx along with other related 

information. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP10–480–000] 

Central New York Oil and Gas 

Company LLC; Notice of Filing 

August 19, 2010. 

Take notice that on August 9, 2010, 

Central New York Oil and Gas Company 

LLC (CNYOG), Two Brush Creek 

Boulevard, Suite 200, Kansas City, MO 

64112, filed an application, pursuant to 

Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act 

(NGA) and Parts 157 and 284 of the 

Commission’s Rules and Regulations for 

a certificate of public convenience and 

necessity authorizing CNYOG to 

construct and operate certain facilities 

in Bradford, Sullivan, and Lycoming 

Counties, Pennsylvania, to provide 

open-access firm and interruptible 

transportation service (MARC I Project). 

The application is on file with the 

Commission and open for public 

inspection. This filing 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. 

CNYOG proposes: (i) To construct and 

operate an approximately 39-mile long, 

30-inch diameter pipeline between 

interconnects with interstate pipeline 

facilities of Tennessee Gas Pipeline 

Company (TGP) and Transcontinental 

Gas Pipe Line Company (Transco) in 

Bradford and Lycoming Counties, 

Pennsylvania, respectively; (ii) to 

construct and operate a new 

compression facility with 16,360 hp of 

gas-fired compression (M1–S) in 

Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, and an 

additional compressor unit (M1–N) with 

15,300 hp of electric-powered 

compression in Bradford County, 

Pennsylvania; and (iii) appurtenant 

facilities. CNYOG states that it has 

received executed Precedent 

Agreements for commitments to firm 

transportation capacity of 550,000 Dth/ 

day. CNYOG proposes to place the 

MARC I Project in service by July 1, 

2012. 

Any questions regarding the 

application are to be directed to William 

F. Demarest, Jr., Husch Blackwell 

Sanders LLP, 750 17th St., NW., Suite 

1000, Washington, DC 20006; phone 

number (202) 378–2300 or by e-mail at 

william.demarest@huschblackwell.com. 

Any person wishing to obtain legal 

status by becoming a party to the 

proceedings for this project should, on 

or before the below listed comment 

date, file with the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, a 

motion to intervene 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 NGA (18 CFR 157.10). A 

person obtaining party status will be 

placed on the service list maintained by 

the Secretary of the Commission and 

will receive copies of all documents 

filed by the applicant and by all other 

parties. A party must submit original 

and 7 copies of filings made with the 

Commission and must mail a copy to 

the applicant and to every other party in 

the proceeding. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

Motions to intervene, protests and 

comments may be filed electronically 

via the Internet in lieu of paper, see 18 

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

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. The 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings. 

Comment Date: September 9, 2010. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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