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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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1A ‘‘pig’’ is a tool that the pipeline company 

inserts into and pushes through the pipeline for 

cleaning the pipeline, conducting internal 

inspections, or other purposes. 

2The 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. 

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

environmental staff of the Commission’s Office of 

Energy Projects. 

4The Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations addressing cooperating agency 

responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 1501.6. 

5The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 

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. 

• A new 21,830 horsepower 

compressor station (Compressor Station 

116) in Carroll County, Georgia; 

• three new meter stations in Bartow 

and Murray counties, Georgia; 

• about 7.6 miles of new 30-inchdiameter pipeline in Coweta and Caroll 

Counties, Georgia; 

• 48.2 miles of new 24-inch-diameter 

pipeline in Carroll, Douglas, Paulding, 

and Bartow Counties, Georgia; 

• 53.5 miles of new 20-inch-diameter 

pipeline in Bartow, Gordon, and Murray 

Counties, Georgia; 

• 1.5 miles of new 16-inch-diameter 

pipeline in Murray County, Georgia; and 

• ancillary facilities associated with 

the new pipeline including mainline 

valves and pig 1 launchers/receivers 

facilities. 

The Dalton Expansion Project would 

also include the following modifications 

to Transco’s existing mainline facilities: 

• Addition of 30-inch mainline 

regulators at a compressor station in 

Howard County, Maryland; 

• addition of valves and yard piping 

for south flow compression at 

compressor stations in Pittsylvania and 

Prince William Counties, Virginia; 

• modifications at a compressor 

station in Mecklenburg County, 

Virginia; 

• modifications at meter stations in 

Rockingham, Warren, Northampton, and 

Buffalo Island Counties, North Carolina, 

and Pittsylvania, Halifax, Mecklenburg, 

Brunswick, and Greensville Counties, 

Virginia; and 

• modifications at two mainline 

valves in Rockingham County, North 

Carolina. 

The general location of the Project 

facilities is shown in appendix 1.2

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the planned pipeline 

and aboveground facilities in Georgia 

would disturb about 1,140 acres of land. 

Following construction, Transco would 

maintain about 685 acres for permanent 

operation of the Project’s facilities; the 

remaining acreage would be restored 

and revert to former uses. About 66 

percent of the planned pipeline route 

parallels existing pipeline, utility, or 

road rights-of-way. Modifications to 

Transco’s mainline facilities in 

Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina 

would occur within the boundaries of 

the existing facilities. 

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 3 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 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 

Project under these general headings: 

• Geology and soils; 

• water resources, fisheries, and 

wetlands; 

• vegetation and wildlife; 

• endangered and threatened species; 

• land use; 

• socioeconomics; 

• cultural resources; 

• air quality and noise; and 

• public safety. 

We will also evaluate possible 

alternatives to the 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 

the FERC receives an application. As 

part of our pre-filing review, we have 

begun to contact some federal and state 

agencies to discuss their involvement in 

the scoping process and the preparation 

of the EA. With this notice, we are 

asking agencies with jurisdiction by law 

and/or special expertise with respect to 

the environmental issues related to this 

Project to formally cooperate with us in 

the preparation of the EA 4. 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. 

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 we make 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 

beginning on page 6. 

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 

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.5 We will define the 

Project-specific Area of Potential Effects 

(APE) in consultation with the SHPO(s) 

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. 

Currently Identified Environmental 

Issues 

We have already identified several 

issues that we think deserve attention 

based on a preliminary review of the 

planned facilities and the 

environmental information provided by 

Transco and public comments. This 

preliminary list of issues may change 

based on your comments and our 

analysis. 

• Geology—Effects as a result of 

blasting to remove existing surface and 

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subsurface bedrock during Project 

construction. 

• Biological Resources—Effects on 

threatened and endangered species and 

sensitive habitats potentially occurring 

within or adjacent to the Project rightof-way. 

• Water Resources—Effects on 

waterbodies and wetlands. 

• Land Use—Effects on residential 

areas and agricultural lands during 

construction and operation of Project 

facilities. 

• Cultural Resources—Effects on 

archaeological sites and historic 

resources. 

• Air Quality and Noise—Effects on 

the local air quality and noise 

environment from construction and 

operation and maintenance of Project 

facilities. 

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 December 

20, 2014. 

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 (PF14–10–000) 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 

feature located 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 

located 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. 

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 planned Project. 

Copies of the EA 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 Transco 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 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 the Commission receives a 

formal application for the Project. 

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 (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., PF14– 

10). 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: November 14, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27548 Filed 11–20–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13563–003] 

Juneau Hydropower, Inc.; Notice of 

Intent To Prepare Environmental 

Impact Statement and Soliciting 

Comments, and Final 

Recommendations, Terms and 

Conditions, and Prescriptions 

November 17, 2014. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application and applicantprepared environmental assessment has 

been filed with Commission and is 

available for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Original Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 13563–003. 

c. Date filed: May 29, 2014. 

d. Applicant: Juneau Hydropower, 

Inc. 

e. Name of Project: Sweetheart Lake 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On Lower Sweetheart 

Lake and Sweetheart Creek in the City 

and Borough of Juneau, Alaska. The 

project would occupy about 2,058 acres 

of federal lands located in the Tongass 

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