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eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

Dated: October 17, 2014. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25342 Filed 10–23–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP14–529–000] 

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, 

L.L.C.; Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Proposed Connecticut Expansion 

Project, Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues, Notice of Public 

Scoping Meetings, and Notice of 

Environmental Site Reviews 

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 Connecticut Expansion Project 

(Project) involving construction and 

operation of facilities by Tennessee Gas 

Pipeline Company, L.L.C. (Tennessee) 

in Albany County, New York; Berkshire 

and Hampden Counties, Massachusetts; 

and Hartford County, Connecticut. The 

Commission will use the EA 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 they need to 

evaluate in the EA. Please note that the 

scoping period will close on November 

10, 2014. 

You may submit comments in written 

form or verbally. Further details on how 

to submit written comments are in the 

Public Participation section of this 

notice. In lieu of or in addition to 

sending written comments, the 

Commission invites you to attend one of 

the FERC public scoping meetings 

scheduled for the Project as follows: 

FERC PUBLIC SCOPING MEETINGS

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Thursday, October 30, 2014 

7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. 

East Granby Community Center, 20 Center 

Street, East Granby, CT 06026.

Sandisfield Art Center, 5 Hammertown Road, 

Sandisfield, MA 01255.

Town Hall Auditorium, 445 Delaware Avenue, 

Delmar, NY 12054. 

The public scoping meetings are 

designed to provide you with more 

detailed information and another 

opportunity to offer your comments on 

the proposed Project. Tennessee 

representatives will be present one hour 

before each meeting with Project maps 

and will be available to answer 

questions. Interested groups and 

individuals are encouraged to attend the 

meetings and to present comments on 

the issues they believe should be 

addressed in the EA. A transcript of 

each meeting will be made so that your 

comments will be accurately recorded. 

On October 28, 29, and 30, 2014, the 

Commission staff will also conduct an 

onsite environmental review of the 

proposed locations for Tennessee’s 

Project. The onsite review will 

commence at the meeting locations 

identified below and will proceed by 

vehicle and on foot to view the 

proposed pipeline routes from public 

access points and Tennessee’s existing 

pipeline right-of-way. Each site review 

will require about three hours to 

complete. Any interested parties 

planning to attend must provide their 

own transportation and should meet at 

8:30am at the following locations: 

FERC ONSITE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Thursday, October 30, 2014 

8:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. 

East Granby Community Center, 20 Center 

Street, East Granby, CT 06026.

Old Town Hall, 3 Silverbrook Road, 

Sandisfield, MA 01255.

Town Hall Annex, 445 Delaware Avenue, 

Delmar, NY 12054. 

For additional information regarding 

the onsite environmental reviews, 

please contact FERC’s Office of External 

Affairs at (866) 208–FERC. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this Project. State and 

local government representatives should 

notify their constituents of this 

proposed Project and encourage them to 

comment on their areas of concern. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, a pipeline company 

representative may contact you 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 Commission 

approves the Project, 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. 

Tennessee provided landowners with 

a fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need 

To Know?’’ This fact sheet addresses a 

number of typically-asked questions, 

including the use of eminent domain 


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1The appendices referenced in this notice will 

not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of the 

appendices were sent to all those receiving this 

notice in the mail and are available at 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. 

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

environmental staff of the Commission’s Office of 

Energy Projects. 

3The Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations addressing cooperating agency 

responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 1501.6. 

4The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s 

regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 800. Those regulations define 

historic properties as any prehistoric or historic 

district, site, building, structure, or object included 

in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register 

of Historic Places. 

and how to participate in the 

Commission’s proceedings. It is also 

available for viewing on the FERC Web 

site (www.ferc.gov). 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

Tennessee proposes to construct, 

install, and operate new natural gas 

pipeline loops to provide an additional 

72,100 dekatherms per day of firm 

transportation capacity to Tennessee’s 

existing 200 Line and 300 Line pipeline 

system. Pipeline loops are segments of 

pipe constructed parallel to an existing 

pipeline to increase capacity. 

The Project would include 

construction and operation of the 

following facilities: 

• About 1.35 miles of new 36-inchdiameter natural gas pipeline in Albany 

County, New York; 

• about 3.81 miles of new 36-inchdiameter natural gas pipeline in 

Berkshire County, Massachusetts; 

• about 8.10 miles of new 24-inchdiameter natural gas pipeline in 

Hampden County, Massachusetts and 

Hartford County, Connecticut; 

• modifications to the existing 

Agawarm Compressor Station in 

Hampden County, Massachusetts; and 

• other appurtenant and ancillary 

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 106 acres of land 

for the pipeline and aboveground 

facilities. Following construction, 

Tennessee would maintain about 35 

acres for permanent operation of the 

Project’s facilities; the remaining 

acreage would be restored and revert to 

former uses. Tennessee would locate the 

pipeline loops within or adjacent to its 

existing system rights-of-way where 

practicable and feasible. 

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. We note that many 

comments were filed prior to this 

notice. We want to assure those 

commentors that their concerns will be 

considered in the scope of our 

environmental review; you do not need 

to resubmit comments. We will consider 

all filed comments 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; 

• public safety; and 

• cumulative impacts. 

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. 

The EA will present our independent 

analysis of the issues. The EA will be 

available in the public record through 

eLibrary. Depending on the comments 

received during the scoping process, we 

may also publish and distribute the EA 

to the public for an allotted comment 

period. We will consider all comments 

on the EA before making our 

recommendations to the Commission. 

To ensure we have the opportunity to 

consider and address your comments, 

please carefully follow the instructions 

in the Public Participation section 

below. 

With this notice, we are asking 

agencies with jurisdiction by law and/ 

or special expertise with respect to the 

environmental issues of this Project to 

formally cooperate with us in the 

preparation of the EA.3 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. Currently the New 

York State Department of Agriculture 

and Markets has expressed their 

intention to participate as a cooperating 

agency in the preparation of the EA to 

satisfy their NEPA responsibilities 

related to this Project. 

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 

applicable State Historic Preservation 

Offices (SHPO), 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.4 We will 

define the Project-specific Area of 

Potential Effects (APE) in consultation 

with the SHPOs as the Project develops. 

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 the Commission receives them in 

Washington, DC on or before November 

10, 2014. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods which you can use to submit 

written comments to the Commission. 

In all instances please reference the 

project docket number (CP14–529–000) 

with your submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has expert staff available 

to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or 

efiling@ferc.gov. 

(1) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 


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feature on the Commission’s Web site 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to 

Documents and Filings. This is an easy 

method for interested persons to submit 

brief, text-only comments on a project; 

(2) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eFiling feature 

on the Commission’s Web site 

(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 must select 

the type of filing you are making. If you 

are filing a comment on a particular 

project, please select ‘‘Comment on a 

Filing’’; or 

(3) You can file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

following address: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Room 1A, 

Washington, DC 20426. 

Alternatively, you may attend one of 

the public scoping meetings identified 

on page 1 of this notice and provide 

your comments verbally. Verbal 

comments will be transcribed and made 

part of the public record for this 

proceeding. Please note that we give 

equal consideration to all comments 

whether submitted in written format or 

provided verbally at one of the scoping 

meetings. 

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 we publish and distribute the EA, 

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 in the User’s Guide under 

the ‘‘e-filing’’ link on the Commission’s 

Web site. 

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 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., CP14–529). 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 www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/esubscription.asp. 

Finally, public meetings or site visits 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

calendar located at www.ferc.gov/

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Dated: October 10, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25324 Filed 10–23–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER15–124–000] 

Tucson Electric Power Company; 

Notice of Filing 

Take notice that on October 17, 2014, 

pursuant to section 205 of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA); 16 U.S.C. 824d, Part 

35 of the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission’s Regulations 

(Commission), and Rule 602 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.602, Tucson 

Electric Power Company filed an Offer 

of Settlement between itself and Salt 

River Project Agricultural Improvement 

and Power District (SRP); and (ii) 

tenders for filing four long-term 

transmission service agreements, as 

more fully explained in the filing. 

Since the settlement was filed as a 

section 205 filing, the Rule 602 

comment and reply comment periods do 

not apply. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

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 

comment date. On or before the 

comment date, it is not necessary to 

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 5 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 email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 


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