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1With this notice, 18 CFR 4.38(b)(3)(ii), the 

requirement to hold an initial information meeting, 

also known as a joint meeting, no earlier than 30 

days and no later than 60 days after the Alternative 

Licensing Process is approved, is waived. Holding 

the initial information meeting outside the required 

timeframe will result in greater participation from 

the licensing participants. 

below, and to solicit your scoping 

comments. 

Scoping Meetings, Initial Information 

Meeting (also known as a Joint 

Meeting), and Environmental Site 

Review 1

Minnesota Housing Associates will 

hold two scoping meetings, one in the 

daytime and one in the evening, to help 

us identify the scope of issues to be 

addressed in the APEA. The initial 

information meeting will be held at the 

same time as the daytime scoping 

meeting. 

The daytime scoping meeting will 

focus on resource agency concerns, 

while the evening scoping meeting is 

primarily for public input. All 

interested individuals, organizations, 

and agencies are invited to attend one 

or both of the meetings, and to assist the 

staff in identifying the environmental 

issues that should be analyzed in the 

APEA. The times and locations of these 

meetings and environmental site review 

are as follows: 

Daytime Meeting 

Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 12 p.m. 

(CST), 1000 LaSalle Avenue, Room 

202 of the Terrence Murphy Hall, 

Minneapolis, MN 55403. 

Evening Meeting 

Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 5 p.m. 

(CST), 1000 LaSalle Avenue, Room 202 

of the Terrence Murphy Hall, 

Minneapolis, MN 55403. 

Environmental Site Review 

Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 2 p.m. 

(CST), Xcel Energy Water Power Park, 

206 Main Street SE., Minneapolis, MN 

55414. 

Please notify Neal Route at (763) 354– 

5500, or email: nroute@

dominiuminc.com if you plan to attend 

the environmental site review. 

To help focus discussions, Minnesota 

Housing Associates will mail the 

Scoping Document 1 (SD1), outlining 

the subject areas to be addressed in the 

APEA, to the parties on the mailing and 

distribution list. Copies of the SD1 also 

will be available at the scoping 

meetings. Minnesota Housing 

Associates will file SD1 with the 

Commission and the document will be 

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 

(P–14628) in the docket number field to 

access the document. 

You may also register online at 

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

esubscription.asp to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact 

FERCONlineSupport@ferc.gov. 

Based on all written comments 

received, a Scoping Document 2 (SD2) 

may be issued. SD2 will include a 

revised list of issues, based on the 

scoping sessions. 

Meeting Objectives 

At the scoping meetings, Minnesota 

Housing Associates will: (1) Summarize 

the environmental issues tentatively 

identified for analysis in the APEA; (2) 

solicit from the meeting participants all 

available information, especially 

quantifiable data, on the resources at 

issue; (3) encourage statements from 

experts and the public on issues that 

should be analyzed in the APEA, 

including viewpoints in opposition to, 

or in support of, Minnesota Housing 

Associates’ preliminary views; (4) 

determine the resource issues to be 

addressed in the APEA; and (5) identify 

those issues that require a detailed 

analysis, as well as those issues that do 

not require a detailed analysis. 

Meeting Procedures 

The meetings will be recorded by a 

stenographer and will become part of 

the formal record of the Commission 

proceeding on the project. 

Dated: November 14, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27554 Filed 11–20–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP14–504–000] 

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 

Company, LLC; Notice of Availability 

of the Environmental Assessment for 

the Proposed Rock Springs Expansion 

Project 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared an 

environmental assessment (EA) for the 

Rock Springs Expansion Project 

(Project), proposed by Transcontinental 

Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC (Transco) 

in the above referenced docket. Transco 

requests authorization to construct and 

operate natural gas pipeline facilities in 

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and 

Cecil County, Maryland. The Project 

would provide 192,000 dekatherms of 

natural gas per day to the Wildcat Point 

Generating Facility in Cecil County, 

Maryland. 

The EA assesses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

proposed Project in accordance with the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). 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 Maryland Department of Natural 

Resources participated as a cooperating 

agency in the preparation of the EA. 

Cooperating agencies have jurisdiction 

by law or special expertise with respect 

to resources potentially affected by the 

proposal and participate in the National 

Environmental Policy Act analysis. 

Transco proposes to: (1) Construct 

and operate a 11.2-mile-long pipeline 

lateral from Transco’s Mainline Systems 

‘‘A’’ and ‘‘B’’ in Lancaster County, 

Pennsylvania to the Old Dominion 

Electric Cooperative’s Wildcat Point 

Generating Facility; (2) a new 4,000- 

horsepower electric compressor station 

at the terminus of the lateral, and 

appurtenant facilities; and (3) modify 

piping and valves at its existing 

Compressor Station 200 in Chester 

County, Pennsylvania. 

The FERC staff mailed copies of the 

EA 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. In 

addition, the EA is available for public 

viewing on the FERC’s Web site 

(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. 

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 

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specific your comments, the more useful 

they will be. To ensure that the 

Commission has the opportunity to 

consider your comments prior to 

making its decision on this Project, it is 

important that we receive your 

comments in Washington, DC on or 

before December 15, 2014. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods in which you can use to file 

your comments to the Commission. In 

all instances, please reference the 

project docket numbers (CP14–504–000) 

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 may file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 

feature on the Commission’s Web site 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to 

Documents and Filings. This is an easy 

method for submitting brief, text-only 

comments on a project; 

(2) You may also 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 may file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

following address: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First St. NE., Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. 

Any person seeking to become a party 

to the proceeding must file a motion to 

intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedures (18 CFR 385.214).1 Only 

intervenors have the right to seek 

rehearing of the Commission’s decision. 

The Commission grants affected 

landowners and others with 

environmental concerns intervenor 

status upon showing good cause by 

stating that they have a clear and direct 

interest in this proceeding which no 

other party can adequately represent. 

Simply filing environmental comments 

will not give you intervenor status, but 

you do not need intervenor status to 

have your comments considered. 1See the previous discussion on the 

methods for filing comments. 

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 (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– 

504). 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 now 

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/

esubscribenow.htm. 

Dated: November 14, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27552 Filed 11–20–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF14–10–000] 

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 

Company, LLC, Supplemental Notice 

of Intent to Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Planned Dalton 

Expansion Project, Request for 

Comments on Environmental Issues 

On October 21, 2014, the Commission 

issued the Notice of Intent to Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Planned Dalton Expansion Project, and 

Notice of Public Scoping Meeting (NOI). 

It has come to our attention that the 

environmental mailing list was not 

provided copies of the NOI; therefore, 

we are issuing this Supplemental NOI to 

extend the scoping period and provide 

additional time for interested parties to 

file comments on environmental issues. 

The NOI identified November 20, 2014 

as the close of the scoping period. 

Please note that the scoping period is 

now extended and will close on 

December 20, 2014. 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 

Company, LLC’s (Transco’s) Dalton 

Expansion Project (Project) involving 

construction and operation of new 

pipeline and aboveground facilities in 

Georgia and the modification of 

Transco’s existing mainline system in 

Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. 

The Commission will use this EA in its 

decision-making process to determine 

whether the Project is in the public 

convenience and necessity. 

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 planned 

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 

planned 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. 

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 (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 

Transco plans to construct and 

operate about 110.8 miles of new 

natural gas pipeline in Coweta, Carroll, 

Douglas, Paulding, Bartow, Gordon, and 

Murray Counties, Georgia and a new 

compressor station in Carroll County, 

Georgia. In addition, Transco plans to 

modify facilities along its existing 

mainline system in Maryland, Virginia, 

and North Carolina to accommodate 

bidirectional flow. Transco has 

indicated that the Project would provide 

448,000 dekatherms per day of 

incremental firm transportation service 

to markets in northwest Georgia. 

The Project would include the 

installation of the following facilities: 

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