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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, or call 

(202) 502–8371. For instructions on connecting to 

eLibrary, refer to the last page of this notice. 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

date as indicated below. Anyone filing 

an intervention or protest must serve a 

copy of that document on the Applicant. 

Anyone filing an intervention or protest 

on or before the intervention or protest 

date need not serve motions to intervene 

or protests on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 7 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

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

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern time 

on Monday, October 25, 2010. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26822 Filed 10–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP10–494–000] 

Tallulah Gas Storage, LLC; Notice of 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Tallulah 

Gas Storage Project, Request for 

Comments on Environmental Issues, 

and Notice of Onsite Environmental 

Review 

October 18, 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 Tallulah Gas Storage Project, 

involving construction and operation of 

facilities by Tallulah Gas Storage, LLC 

(TGS) in Madison Parish, Louisiana. 

This EA will be used by the 

Commission in its decision-making 

process to determine whether the 

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 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 November 

17, 2010. Further details on how to 

submit written comments are provided 

in the Public Participation section of 

this notice. 

On November 3, 2010, the Office of 

Energy Projects staff will conduct on 

onsite environmental review of the 

project area to gather data for its 

environmental analysis of the proposed 

project. Staff will examine the specific 

pipeline route, leaching plant location, 

caverns, well locations, and alternative 

locations filed by TGS. Viewing of this 

area is anticipated to be from public 

access points and TGS’ right-of-way. 

All interested parties are invited to 

attend but must provide their own 

transportation. Those attending should 

meet at the following location and time: 

• On November 3, 2010 at 1 p.m. 

Central Time in the parking area of the 

TA Travel Center at 224 Highway 65 in 

Tallulah, Louisiana at Exit 171 of 

Interstate-20. Meet by the company 

truck with the ‘‘Tallulah Gas Storage’’ 

sign. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this 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 

storage company representative about 

the acquisition of an easement to 

construct, operate, and maintain the 

proposed 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 company could initiate 

condemnation proceedings where 

compensation would be determined in 

accordance with State or Federal law. 

A fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need 

To Know?’’ was attached to the project 

notice TGS provided to landowners. 

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. It is also available for 

viewing on the FERC Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov). 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

TGS proposes to construct a new 

natural gas storage facility within a 

geologic salt dome in Madison Parish, 

Louisiana. The Tallulah Gas Storage 

Project would include three salt dome 

storage caverns, each with a capacity of 

11.4 billion cubic feet (Bcf), for a total 

facility capacity of 34.2 Bcf. According 

to TGS, its project would provide 

storage services through 

interconnections with four nearby 

interstate natural gas transmission 

pipelines. 

The Tallulah Gas Storage Project 

would consist of the following facilities: 

• Three storage caverns; 

• Dual 3.29-mile-long, 24-inchdiameter bidirectional natural gas 

pipelines; 

• One 28,410-horsepower compressor 

station; 

• A leaching plant; 

• 14 salt water disposal wells, 3 raw 

water supply wells, and 1 observation 

well; 

• Other appurtenant water and brine 

disposal pipelines; and 

• 4.5 miles of nonjurisdictional 

electric distribution lines and additional 

electric facilities. 

The general location of the project 

facilities is shown in appendix 1.1

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the proposed facilities 

would disturb about 147 acres of land 

for the storage facility, the pipeline 

rights-of-way, and additional temporary 

workspaces. Following construction, 

about 74 acres would be maintained for 

permanent operation of the project’s 

facilities; the remaining acreage would 

be restored and allowed to revert to 

former uses. 

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 


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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 of the 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 for Historic Places. 

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 

proposed 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 

• Public safety. 

We will also evaluate reasonable 

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 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 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 below. 

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 the 

Louisiana State Historic Preservation 

Office (SHPO), and to solicit its 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 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 them so that they 

will be received in Washington, DC on 

or before November 17, 2010. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods which you can use to submit 

your comments to the Commission. In 

all instances please reference the project 

docket number (CP10–494–000) with 

your submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has expert eFiling staff 

available to assist you at (202) 502–8258 

or 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 

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 proposed 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 

In addition to involvement in the EA 

scoping process, 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. 


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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 at 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., CP10–494). Be sure you have 

selected an appropriate date range. 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. 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. 

Any public meetings or additional site 

visits will be posted on the 

Commission’s calendar located at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/ 

EventsList.aspx along with other related 

information. 

Finally, to request additional 

information on the project or to provide 

comments directly to the project 

sponsor, you can contact TGS through 

its parent company Icon NGS by calling 

toll free at 1–877–318–3938 or by e-mail 

at info@icon-ngs.com. Also, TGS has 

established an Internet Web site at 

http://www.tallulahgas.com with 

additional information about the 

project. In addition, TGS has made 

information about the project available 

to the local community by placing the 

public portion of the its FERC 

application in the Madison Parish 

Library located at 403 North Mulberry 

in Tallulah, Louisiana. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26823 Filed 10–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. CP10–457–000; CP10–458– 

000] 

National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation; 

Notice of Availability of the 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Proposed Line N Projects 

October 18, 2010. 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared an 

environmental assessment (EA) for the 

Line N Projects proposed by National 

Fuel Gas Supply Corporation (National 

Fuel) in the above referenced docket. 

National Fuel requests authorization to 

abandon, construct, operate, and 

maintain the Line N Relocation and 

Interconnect (R&I) Project and the Line 

N Compressor Installation Expansion 

(CIE) Project (together, the Line N 

Projects or Projects), located in Greene 

and Washington Counties, Pennsylvania 

(PA). National Fuel has stated that the 

purpose of the proposed Project is 

twofold (1) to relocate the existing Line 

N, which is currently affected by mining 

operations in the area and (2) increase 

capacity of the system. 

The EA assesses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the Line 

N Projects in accordance with the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act. The FERC 

staff concludes that approval of the 

proposed project, with appropriate 

mitigating measures, would not 

constitute a major Federal action 

significantly affecting the quality of the 

human environment. 

The proposed Line N Projects 

includes the following facilities: 

• Construction of 20.1 miles of 

20-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline; 

• Construction of the new Holbrook 

M&R Station; 

• Construction of the new 4,740 

horsepower Buffalo Compressor Station; 

and 

• Abandon service, and idle 

approximately 15.6 miles of existing 20- 

inch-diameter natural gas pipeline. 

The EA has been placed in the public 

files of the FERC and is available for 

public viewing on the FERC’s Web site 

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

eLibrary link. A limited number of 

copies of the EA are available for 

distribution and public inspection at: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Public Reference Room, 888 First Street, 

NE., Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, 

(202) 502–8371. 

Copies of the EA have been mailed to 

Federal, State, and local government 

representatives and agencies; elected 

officials; environmental and public 

interest groups; Native American tribes; 

potentially affected landowners and 

other interested individuals and groups; 

newspapers and libraries in the project 

area; and parties to this proceeding. 

Any person wishing to comment on 

the EA may do so. 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 properly recorded and 

considered prior to a Commission 

decision on the proposal, it is important 

that the FERC receives your comments 

in Washington, DC on or before 

November 18, 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 (CP10–457 or CP10–458) 

with your submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has dedicated eFiling 

expert staff available to assist you at 

(202) 502–8258 or 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. 

Although your comments will be 

considered by the Commission, simply 

filing comments will not serve to make 

the commenter a party to the 

proceeding. Any person seeking to 

become a party to the proceeding must 


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