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1See the previous discussion on the methods for 

filing comments. 

migration from the principal storage 

zone (Zone 2) of the Jackson Prairie 

Storage Facility into the gas recapture 

zone (Zone 1); 

• renew the authorization to convert 

an observation well (Well No. 52) to a 

gas recycle well in Zone 1 and to build 

approximately 500 feet of 3-inchdiameter natural gas pipeline to tie Well 

No. 52 into a gathering pipeline; and 

• drill a new water withdrawal well 

(Well No. 91) and construct related 

facilities to continue normal 

maintenance water withdrawal. 

The FERC staff mailed copies of the 

EA to federal, state, and local 

government representatives and 

agencies; elected officials; 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 

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 February 2, 2015. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to file your 

comments with the Commission. In all 

instances please reference the project 

docket number (CP14–543–000) 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 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 can 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 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. 

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. 

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– 

543). 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. 

Dated: January 2, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00087 Filed 1–8–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. CP15–22–000 CP15–24–000] 

Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP; Notice 

of Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed St. 

Charles Transportation and Keys 

Energy Projects and Request for 

Comments on Environmental Issues 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

two related projects—the St. Charles 

Transportation and Keys Energy 

Projects—both involving construction 

and operation of facilities proposed by 

Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP (DCP) in 

Fairfax County, Virginia and Charles 

County, Maryland. The Commission 

will use this EA in its decision-making 

process to determine whether the 

projects are 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 projects. 

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 February 4, 

2015. 

You may submit comments in written 

form. Further details on how to submit 

written comments are in the Public 

Participation section of this notice. If 

you sent comments on this project to the 

Commission before the opening of these 

dockets on December 3, 2014, you will 

need to file those comments in Docket 

No. CP15–22–000 for the St. Charles 

Transportation Project, and CP15–24– 

000 for the Keys Energy Project, to 

ensure they are considered as part of 

this proceeding. 

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 


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1The appendices referenced in this notice will 

not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of 

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. 

construct, access, 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. 

DCP provided potentially affected 

landowners and residents within 0.5 

mile radius around the proposed 

compression upgrades 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 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 

DCP proposes to construct, install, 

own, operate, and maintain certain 

facilities located in Fairfax County, 

Virginia and Charles County, Maryland 

which comprise the St. Charles 

Transportation Project and the Keys 

Energy Project. These projects would 

involve the installation of new facilities 

and modification of existing facilities. 

The St. Charles Transportation Project 

would consist of the following facilities: 

• Pleasant Valley Compressor Station 

(Fairfax County, Virginia) 

Æ Install one new 7,000-horsepower 

(hp) electric compressor at the existing 

compressor station; 

Æ extend the existing compressor 

building; 

Æ replace the existing filter-separator 

with one new filter-separator; 

Æ add one new gas cooler; and 

Æ install miscellaneous piping and 

measurement upgrades, meter runs, 

piping, fitting and valves. 

• Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) 

Maryland Interconnect (Charles County, 

Maryland) 

Æ Install two new 16-inch taps (one 

on TL–522 and one on TL–532) for 

customer delivery. 

The St. Charles Transportation Project 

would allow delivery of an additional 

132,000 dekatherms per day (Dt/d) of 

natural gas to CPV Maryland, LLC (CPV 

Maryland). According to DCP, 

additional compression at the Pleasant 

Valley Compressor Station is required to 

deliver gas to CPV Maryland. The two 

new 16-inch taps would be required for 

customer delivery. 

The Keys Energy Project would 

consist of the following facilities: 

• Pleasant Valley Compressor Station 

(Fairfax County, Virginia) 

Æ Install one new 6,000-hp electric 

compressor and one new gas cooler at 

the existing compressor station; and 

Æ add necessary interconnecting pipe 

work to and from supply/discharge 

headers. 

• Keys Energy Interconnect (Charles 

County, Maryland) 

Æ Install two new 16-inch taps (one 

on TL–522 and one on TL–532) for 

customer delivery; 

Æ construct a metering and regulating 

(M&R) station that would feed gas from 

the new taps to the Keys Energy, LLC 

(Keys Energy) lateral line1; and 

Æ construct a dekatherm building that 

would house electronic flow control 

equipment. 

The Keys Energy Project would 

provide an additional approximately 

107,000 Dt/d of natural gas to a new 

generating station to be constructed by 

Keys Energy (Keys Energy Center, 

Prince George’s County, Maryland). 

According to DCP, the Pleasant Valley 

Compressor Station would provide 

additional compression that is required 

to deliver gas to the Keys Energy Center. 

The two new 16-inch taps would be 

required for customer delivery. 

The general locations of the project 

facilities are shown in appendix 1.1

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the proposed facilities 

for the St. Charles Transportation 

Project would disturb about 22.6 acres 

of land for the aboveground facilities. 

Following construction, DCP would 

maintain about 1.5 acres for permanent 

operation of the project’s facilities; the 

remaining acreage would be restored 

and revert to former uses. 

Construction of the proposed facilities 

for the Keys Energy Project would 

disturb about 28.5 acres of land for the 

aboveground facilities. Following 

construction, DCP would maintain 

about 2.1 acres for permanent operation 

of the project’s facilities; the remaining 

acreage would be restored and revert to 

former uses. The proposed facility 

modifications for both the St. Charles 

Transportation and Keys Energy Projects 

would occur within an agricultural 

field; existing compressor station 

property; or within existing, maintained 

DCP rights-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. 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, including 

migratory birds; 

• 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. 

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 

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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. 

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, no 

agencies have expressed an intention to 

participate as a cooperating agency in 

the preparation of the EA to satisfy its 

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 these projects 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 

projects. 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 February 

4, 2015. 

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 numbers (CP15–22–000 and/or 

CP15–24–000) 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 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. 

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 projects. 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 projects. 

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 

projects 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., 000). 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/ 

docs-filing/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: January 5, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00156 Filed 1–8–15; 8:45 am] 

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