24838 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 26, 2009 / Notices 

to seek court review of the 

Commission’s final order. 

Motions to intervene, protests and 

comments may be filed electronically 

via the Internet in lieu of paper; see, 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. The 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings. 

Comment Date: May 29, 2009. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–12078 Filed 5–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 12775–001] 

City of Spearfish, South Dakota; Notice 

of Application Ready for 

Environmental Analysis and Soliciting 

Comments, Recommendations, Terms 

and Conditions, and Prescriptions 

May 18, 2009. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Major Project. 

b. Project No.: 12775–001. 

c. Date Filed: September 10, 2008. 

d. Applicant: City of Spearfish, South 

Dakota. 

e. Name of Project: Spearfish 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On Spearfish Creek in 

Lawrence County, South Dakota. The 

project occupies about 57.3 acres of 

United States lands within the Black 

Hills National Forest administered by 

the U.S. Forest Service. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Ms. Cheryl 

Johnson, Public Works Administrator, 

City of Spearfish, 625 Fifth Street, 

Spearfish, SD 57783; (605) 642–1333; or 

e-mail at cherylj@city.spearfish.sd.us. 

i. FERC Contact: Steve Hocking at 

(202) 502–8753 or 

steve.hocking@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and prescriptions is 60 days 

from the issuance of this notice; reply 

comments are due 105 days from the 

issuance date of this notice. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

require all intervenors filing documents 

with the Commission to serve a copy of 

that document on each person on the 

official service list for the project. 

Further, if an intervenor files comments 

or documents with the Commission 

relating to the merits of an issue that 

may affect the responsibilities of a 

particular resource agency, they must 

also serve a copy of the document on 

that resource agency. 

Comments, recommendations, terms 

and conditions, and prescriptions may 

be filed electronically via the Internet in 

lieu of paper. The Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filings. See 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

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

ferconline.asp) under the ‘‘e-filing’’ link. 

For a simpler method of submitting text 

only comments, click on ‘‘Quick 

Comment.’’ 

k. This application has been accepted 

and is now ready for environmental 

analysis. 

l. The existing Spearfish Project 

consists of: (1) A 130-foot-long gravity 

dam with an effective height of 4 feet; 

(2) a 0.32-acre reservoir; (3) a gatehouse 

next to the dam that contains four 2- 

foot-high, 4-foot-wide steel intake gates; 

(4) a 4.5-mile-long, 6.5-foot-wide, 9-foothigh concrete-lined aqueduct; (5) a 

forebay pond; (6) two 1,200-foot-long, 

48-inch diameter, wood stave pipelines; 

(7) four 36-inch-diameter, 54-foot-high 

standpipe surge towers; (8) two 5,250- 

foot-long, 30- to 34-inch diameter steel 

penstocks; (9) a reinforced concrete 

powerhouse containing two Pelton 

turbines and two 2,000-kilowatt (kW) 

generators; and (10) appurtenant 

facilities. 

m. A copy of the application is 

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 in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, (202) 

502–8659. A copy is also available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

address in item h above. 

All filings must (1) bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS,’’ ‘‘REPLY 

COMMENTS,’’ 

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS,’’ ‘‘TERMS 

AND CONDITIONS,’’ or 

‘‘PRESCRIPTIONS;’’ (2) set forth in the 

heading the name of the applicant and 

the project number of the application to 

which the filing responds; (3) furnish 

the name, address, and telephone 

number of the person submitting the 

filing; and (4) otherwise comply with 

the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 

through 385.2005. All comments, 

recommendations, terms and conditions 

or prescriptions must set forth their 

evidentiary basis and otherwise comply 

with the requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). 

Agencies may obtain copies of the 

application directly from the applicant. 

Each filing must be accompanied by 

proof of service on all persons listed on 

the service list prepared by the 

Commission in this proceeding, in 

accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b) and 

385.2010. 

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 FERC Online 

Support. 

n. Public notice of the filing of the 

initial development application, which 

has already been given, established the 

due date for filing competing 

applications or notices of intent. Under 

the Commission’s regulations, any 

competing development application 

must be filed in response to and in 

compliance with public notice of the 

initial development application. No 

competing applications or notices of 

intent may be filed in response to this 

notice. 

o. A license applicant must file no 

later than 60 days following the date of 

issuance of this notice: (1) A copy of the 

water quality certification; (2) a copy of 

the request for certification, including 

proof of the date on which the certifying 

agency received the request; or (3) 

evidence of waiver of water quality 

certification. 

p. Procedural Schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following revised Hydro 

Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the 

schedule will be made as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

All stakeholders: recommendations, terms, and conditions due ............................................................................................. July 17, 2009. 

All stakeholders: reply comments due .................................................................................................................................... August 31, 2009. 

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

environmental staff of the FERC’s Office of Energy 

Projects. 

Milestone Target date 

FERC issues draft environmental assess (EA) ....................................................................................................................... November 3, 2009. 

All stakeholders: draft EA comments due ............................................................................................................................... December 3, 2009. 

All stakeholders: modified terms and conditions due .............................................................................................................. February 1, 2010. 

FERC issues final EA .............................................................................................................................................................. March 30, 2010. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–12088 Filed 5–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF09–9–000] 

ETC Tiger Pipeline, LLC; Notice of 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Tiger 

Pipeline Project, Request for 

Comments on Environmental Issues 

and Notice of Public Scoping Meetings 

May 15, 2009. 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) is in the process of 

preparing an environmental assessment 

(EA) that will discuss the environmental 

impacts that could result from the 

construction and operation of the Tiger 

Pipeline Project. The project is planned 

by ETC Tiger Pipeline, LLC (ETC Tiger) 

to transport natural gas from the 

Haynesville and Barnett Shale 

production areas to markets in the 

Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast. 

This Notice of Intent (NOI) initiates 

the scoping process that will be used to 

gather input from the public and 

interested agencies on the project. Your 

input will help determine which issues 

will be evaluated in the EA. The staff 

will also use the scoping process to 

determine whether preparation of an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) is 

more appropriate for this project based 

upon the anticipated level of impacts. 

Please note that the scoping period for 

this project will close on June 29, 2009. 

Comments may be submitted in 

written or verbal form. Further details 

on how to submit written comments are 

provided in the Public Participation 

section of this notice. In lieu of or in 

addition to sending written comments, 

the Commission Staff invites you to 

attend the public scoping meetings 

scheduled as follows. 

Date and time Location 

Monday, June 8, 2009, 7 p.m. (CDT) ...................................................... Delhi Civic Center, 232 Denver Street, Delhi, Louisiana 71232. 

Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 7 p.m. (CDT) ..................................................... Jackson Parish Community Center, 182 Industrial Drive, Jonesboro, 

Louisiana 71251. 

Thursday, June 11, 2009, 7 p.m. (CDT) .................................................. Texas Country Music Hall of Fame, 300 West Panola Street, Carthage, 

Texas 75633. 

Interested groups and individuals are 

encouraged to attend the meetings and 

to present comments on the 

environmental issues they believe 

should be addressed in the EA. A 

transcript of the meetings will be 

generated so that your comments will be 

accurately recorded. 

The FERC will be the lead Federal 

agency in the preparation of an EA or 

EIS that will satisfy the requirements of 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) and will be used by the FERC 

to consider the environmental impacts 

that could result if the Commission 

issues ETC Tiger a Certificate of Public 

Convenience and Necessity (Certificate) 

under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act. 

This NOI is being sent to Federal, 

State, and local government agencies; 

elected officials; affected landowners; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Indian Tribes and regional 

Native American organizations; 

commentors and other interested 

parties; and local libraries and 

newspapers. We 1 encourage 

government representatives to 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, you may be contacted by an ETC 

Tiger representative about the 

acquisition of an easement to construct, 

operate, and maintain the proposed 

facilities. ETC Tiger would seek to 

negotiate a mutually acceptable 

agreement. However, if the project is 

approved by the FERC, that approval 

conveys with it the right of eminent 

domain. Therefore, if easement 

negotiations fail to produce an 

agreement, ETC Tiger could initiate 

condemnation proceedings 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 Internet Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov/for-citizens/citizenguides.asp). This fact sheet addresses a 

number of typically asked questions, 

including the use of eminent domain 

and how to participate in FERC’s 

proceedings. 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

ETC Tiger has announced its proposal 

to construct and operate a new natural 

gas pipeline and associated structures 

with a flow capacity of 2.0 billion cubic 

feet per day (Bcf/d). The project would 

consist of an approximate 174-mile, 42- 

inch-diameter pipeline running from the 

Carthage Hub in Panola County, Texas 

to the Perryville Hub in Richland 

Parish, Louisiana. ETC Tiger states that 

the Tiger Pipeline would transport 

natural gas from the growing 

Haynesville Shale production area to 

Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast 

markets through seven interconnects 

with other major interstate natural gas 

pipelines and one bi-directional 

interconnect with an existing intrastate 

pipeline at the Carthage Hub. In 

addition, the Tiger Pipeline would 

transport gas from the Barnett shale 

production area through its