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Each meeting is scheduled for 6–8 

p.m. with an open-house format, during 

which attendees are invited to speak 

one-on-one with agency and Project 

representatives. Project presentations 

will be given at 6:15 and 7:30 p.m. 

Attendees are welcome to come and go 

at their convenience throughout the 

meeting. 

The purpose of the scoping meetings 

is to provide information about the 

proposed Project, review Project maps, 

answer questions, and take written 

comments from interested parties. All 

meeting locations are handicappedaccessible. Anyone needing special 

accommodations should contact Ms. 

Barger to make arrangements. 

The public will have the opportunity 

to provide written comments at the 

public scoping meetings, or send them 

to Western by fax, e-mail, or U.S. Postal 

Service mail. To help define the scope 

of the EIS, comments should be received 

by Western no later than August 28, 

2009. 

Dated: July 15, 2009. 

Timothy J. Meeks, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E9–17700 Filed 7–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

National Nuclear Security 

Administration 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Continued Operation of the 

Department of Energy/National Nuclear 

Security Administration Nevada Test 

Site and Off-Site Locations in the State 

of Nevada 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy’s 

National Nuclear Security 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement and 

conduct public scoping meetings. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.), the Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ) and the U.S. Department 

of Energy (DOE) regulations 

implementing NEPA (40 CFR Parts 

1500–1508 and 10 CFR Part 1021, 

respectively), the National Nuclear 

Security Administration (NNSA), a 

semi-autonomous agency within DOE, 

announces its intention to prepare a 

site-wide environmental impact 

statement (SWEIS) (DOE/EIS–0426) for 

the continued operation of DOE/NNSA 

activities at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) 

and certain off-site locations (the 

Remote Sensing Laboratory at Nellis Air 

Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada, the 

DOE/NNSA campus in North Las Vegas, 

and the Nevada Test and Training Range 

(NTTR) including activities at the 

Tonopah Test Range (TTR)) in the State 

of Nevada. The purpose of this notice is 

to invite individuals, organizations, and 

government agencies and entities to 

participate in developing the scope of 

the SWEIS. 

The new SWEIS will consider a No 

Action Alternative, which is to continue 

current operations through 

implementation of the 1996 Record of 

Decision (ROD) (61 FR 65551; 12/13/ 

96), and subsequent decisions. Three 

action alternatives proposed for 

consideration in the SWEIS would be 

compared to the No Action Alternative. 

The three action alternatives would 

differ by either their type or level of ongoing operations and may include 

proposals for new operations or the 

reduction or elimination of certain 

operations. 

DATES: NNSA invites comments on the 

scope of this SWEIS. The public scoping 

period starts with the publication of this 

notice in the Federal Register and will 

continue through October 16, 2009. 

NNSA will consider all comments 

defining the scope of the SWEIS 

received or postmarked by this date. 

Comments received or postmarked after 

this date will be considered to the 

extent practicable. NNSA will conduct 

public scoping meetings in Las Vegas, 

Tonopah and Pahrump, Nevada and St. 

George, Utah scheduled as follows: 

• Thursday, September 10, 2009—2–4 

p.m. and 6–8 p.m. 

Frank H. Rogers Science & 

Technology Building, Desert 

Research Institute, 755 East 

Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV. 

• Monday, September 14, 2009—5:30– 

7:30 p.m. 

Bob Ruud Community Center, 150 

North Highway 160, Pahrump, NV. 

• Wednesday, September 16, 2009— 

5:30–7:30 p.m. 

Tonopah Convention Center, 301 

Brougher Ave., Tonopah, NV. 

• Friday, September 18, 2009—5:30– 

7:30 p.m. 

Holiday Inn Conference Center, 850 

South Bluff Street, St. George, Utah. 

These scoping meetings will provide 

the public with an opportunity to 

present comments, ask questions, and 

discuss issues with NNSA officials 

regarding the SWEIS. Preparation of the 

SWEIS will require participation of 

other Federal agencies. As bordering 

land managers, the USAF and BLM have 

an inherent interest in activities at the 

Nevada Test Site (NTS). The DHS and 

DTRA are tenant organizations with 

ongoing and future operations at the 

NTS: Therefore requests for cooperating 

agency participation will be extended to 

the DOE, Department of Defense, U.S. 

Air Force (USAF) and the Defense 

Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS), and the Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM.) 

ADDRESSES: To submit comments on the 

scope of the SWEIS, questions about the 

document or scoping meetings, or to be 

included on the document distribution 

list, please contact: Linda M. Cohn, 

NNSA Nevada Site Office, SWEIS 

Document Manager, P.O. Box 98518, Las 

Vegas, Nevada 89193–8518; telephone 

(702) 295–0077; fax (702) 295–5300; or 

e-mail address: nepa@nv.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general information about the DOE 

NEPA process, please contact: Carol M. 

Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA 

Policy and Compliance (GC–20), U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585; e-mail: 

askNEPA@hq.doe.gov; telephone: 202– 

586–4600, or leave a message at 1–800– 

472–2756; or fax: 202–586–7031. Please 

note that U.S. Postal Service deliveries 

to the Washington, DC office may be 

delayed by security screening. 

Additional information regarding DOE 

NEPA activities is available on the 

Internet through the NEPA Web site at 

http://www.gc.energy.gov/nepa. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The NTS occupies about 1,375 square 

miles (3,561 square kilometers) in 

southern Nevada, and is surrounded on 

three sides by the U.S. Air Force Nevada 

Test and Training Range (NTTR) 

(formerly the Nellis Air Force Range) 

and the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. 

The fourth boundary is shared with the 

Bureau of Land Management. The 

Nevada Site Office (NSO) operations are 

managed and performed for DOE/NNSA 

under contract by a management and 

operating contractor (currently National 

Security Technologies, LLC) which 

teams with personnel from Lawrence 

Livermore National Laboratory, Los 

Alamos National Laboratory, and Sandia 

National Laboratories as well as other 

governmental entities to perform NTS 

mission-related activities. NTS is a 

multi-disciplinary, multi-purpose 

facility primarily engaged in work that 

supports national security, homeland 

security initiatives, waste management, 

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and non-defense research and 

development programs (R&D) for DOE/ 

NNSA and other government entities. 

Historically, the primary DOE/NNSA 

mission work conducted at NTS was 

nuclear weapons testing. Since the 

moratorium on nuclear testing began in 

October 1992, NTS has been maintained 

in a state of readiness to conduct 

underground nuclear tests, if so directed 

by the President. It also conducts highhazard experiments involving nuclear 

material and high explosives (HE); 

provides the capability to process and 

dispose of a damaged nuclear weapon or 

improvised nuclear device; and 

conducts non-nuclear experiments, 

hydrodynamic testing, and HE testing. 

Nuclear stockpile stewardship activities 

at the NTS include conducting dynamic 

plutonium experiments that provide 

technical information to maintain the 

safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear 

weapons stockpile, and conducting 

research and training on nuclear 

safeguards, criticality safety, and 

emergency response. Special Nuclear 

Materials are also stored at the NTS. 

Also, in accordance with the amended 

1996 NTS EIS (DOE/EIS–0243) ROD, 

NNSA continues to receive low-level 

and mixed low-level radioactive waste 

for disposal at NTS. Sandia National 

Laboratories, a DOE/NNSA contractor, 

operates the Tonopah Test Range (TTR) 

near Tonopah, Nevada for flight testing 

of gravity weapons (including R&D and 

testing of nuclear weapons components 

and delivery systems) in support of 

DOE/NNSA mission requirements. 

The 1996 NTS EIS examined existing 

and potential impacts to the 

environment from ongoing and 

anticipated future DOE/NNSA 

operations conducted over 

approximately a 10-year period of time 

at NTS and at off-site locations in the 

State of Nevada, such as portions of the 

NTTR including the TTR. NSO’s 

remediation efforts have been 

completed at Project Shoal and the 

Central Nevada Test Area. 

The four alternatives analyzed in the 

1996 NTS EIS were: (1) The No Action 

Alternative, to continue to operate at the 

level maintained in the previous 5 

years; (2) Discontinue Operations; (3) 

Expanded Use, and (4) Alternative Use 

of Withdrawn Lands. DOE’s ROD 

implemented Alternative 3, Expanded 

Use, plus the public educational 

activities of Alternative 4, Alternative 

Use of Withdrawn Lands. This ROD also 

selected the continuation of low-level 

and mixed low-level waste management 

activities as described in the No Action 

Alternative until decisions on the Waste 

Management Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Managing Treatment, Storage, and 

Disposal of Radioactive and Hazardous 

Waste (Waste Management PEIS) (DOE/ 

EIS–0200) could be made. DOE issued 

its decisions on the Waste Management 

PEIS in a February 2000 ROD that 

included an amendment to the 1996 

NTS EIS ROD. That February 2000 ROD 

announced DOE’s decision to 

implement low-level and mixed lowlevel waste management activities in 

accordance with the Expanded Use 

Alternative of the 1996 NTS EIS. 

In July 2002, DOE/NNSA completed a 

5-year review of the 1996 NTS EIS with 

the preparation of a Supplement 

Analysis (SA) (DOE/EIS–0243–SA–01), 

pursuant to DOE’s regulatory 

requirement to evaluate site-wide NEPA 

documents at least every 5 years (10 

CFR 1021.330) to determine the 

adequacy of an existing EIS. Based on 

the 2002 Supplement Analysis for the 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

for the Nevada Test Site and Off-Site 

Locations in the State of Nevada (DOE/ 

EIS–0243–SA–01), DOE/NNSA 

determined that there were no 

substantial changes to the actions or 

impacts evaluated in the NTS EIS, and 

there were no significant new 

circumstances or information relevant to 

environmental concerns. Thus, the 

existing NTS EIS was adequate and 

neither a supplemental EIS or a new EIS 

was required. 

In 2003, NNSA prepared a 

Supplement Analysis entitled 

Supplement Analysis for the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Nevada Test Site and Off-Site Locations 

in the State of Nevada to Address the 

Increase in Activities Associated with 

the National Center for Combating 

Terrorism & Counterterrorism Training 

& Related Activities (DOE–EIS–0243– 

SA–02) to determine whether an 

anticipated increase in national security 

projects after the terrorist attacks of 

September 11, 2001, required further 

NEPA analysis. This analysis covered 

military training/exercises, and testing, 

evaluation, and development of 

technology for multiple Federal 

government agencies. Based upon this 

review, DOE/NNSA determined that the 

proposed increase in activities would 

not result in substantial changes to the 

NTS EIS or the ROD, and there were no 

significant new circumstances or 

information relevant to environmental 

concerns. Thus, neither a supplemental 

EIS nor a new EIS was required. 

More recently, in 2007, DOE/NNSA 

initiated its second comprehensive 5- 

year review of the 1996 NTS EIS and 

prepared a SA entitled Draft 

Supplement Analysis for the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Nevada Test Site and Off-Site Locations 

in the State of Nevada (DOE–EIS–0243– 

SA–03) which evaluated whether the 

1996 NTS EIS continued to remain 

adequate for ongoing and reasonably 

foreseeable activities. This document 

was issued for public review and 

comment in April 2008. Based upon 

consideration of comments received on 

this draft SA regarding potential 

changes to the NTS program work 

scope, the DOE/NNSA decided to 

prepare a new SWEIS for the Continued 

Operation of the NTS and Off-Site 

Locations in the State of Nevada for the 

10-year period commencing 2010. 

Purpose and Need 

The purpose and need for agency 

action is to continue the operation of 

NTS to provide support for DOE’s core 

missions as directed by the Congress 

and the President. NTS has a long 

history of supporting national security 

objectives through the conduct of 

underground nuclear tests and other 

nuclear and non-nuclear activities. 

Since October 1992, there has been a 

moratorium on underground nuclear 

testing. Thus, the present mission of the 

DOE at NTS is to maintain a readiness 

to conduct tests. In addition, NTS 

supports DOE national security related 

research, development, and testing 

programs, and DOE’s waste 

management/disposal activities. NTS 

also provides opportunities for various 

environmental research projects. 

Alternatives for the SWEIS 

In accordance with applicable DOE 

and CEQ NEPA regulations, the No 

Action Alternative will be analyzed in 

the SWEIS and will form the baseline 

for the action alternatives analyzed in 

the document. In this case, the No 

Action Alternative will be the continued 

implementation of the 1996 NTS EIS 

ROD, and the amendment to the ROD 

for the NTS (65 FR 10061 at 10065) at 

DOE/NNSA sites in Nevada over the 

next 10 years. Additionally, the No 

Action Alternative will also include the 

implementation of other decisions 

supported by separate NEPA analyses 

completed since the issuance of the 

final 1996 NTS EIS, including: the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Proposed Relocation of Technical Area 

18 Capabilities and Materials at Los 

Alamos National Laboratory (DOE/EIS– 

319) and ROD (67 FR 79906); and the 

Final Complex Transformation 

Supplemental Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/ 

EIS–0235–S4) and its RODs (73 FR 

77644 and 73 FR 77656) and the Waste 

Management PEIS and ROD (65 FR 

10061). The No Action Alternative will 


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also include actions analyzed in eight 

environmental assessments and their 

associated Findings of No Significant 

Impacts, as well as actions categorically 

excluded from the need for preparation 

of either an EA or an EIS. These various 

documents are identified in the 2008 

draft SA. Copies of these documents can 

be reviewed at the DOE/NNSA Public 

Reading Rooms at 755 E. Flamingo, Las 

Vegas, Nevada, and 100 North Stewart 

Street, Carson City, Nevada, and public 

libraries in St. George, Utah; and 

Tonopah and Pahrump, Nevada; and on 

the internet at: http:// 

www.gc.energy.gov/nepa. 

Three action alternatives will be 

considered in the SWEIS: Expanded 

Operations, Reduced Operations, and 

Renewable Energy Operations. All three 

of these alternatives will be compared to 

the No Action Alternative level of 

operations. The Expanded Operations 

Alternative will consider a greater 

proportion of reasonably foreseeable 

new work from other Federal 

organizations as identified by 

cooperating agencies. This work will 

relate to nonproliferation and 

counterterrorism, experiments, research, 

development and testing. Such 

expansion could include developing test 

beds for concept testing of sensors, 

mitigation strategies and weapons 

effectiveness. The Reduced Operations 

alternative will consider an overall 

reduction in the level of operations and 

closure of specific buildings and 

structures. The Renewable Energy 

Operations Alternative will consider 

renewable energy R&D and the potential 

deployment of those technologies on the 

NTS. Any new facilities/activities, 

regardless of which alternative they are 

associated with, will be included in the 

analysis if they are reasonably 

foreseeable (i.e., proposed within the 

next 10 years). 

This SWEIS will analyze potential 

impacts resulting from reasonably 

foreseeable operations and compare 

these impacts to those projected in the 

No-Action Alternative. The SWEIS will 

analyze projected impacts anticipated 

from operating the NTS and certain offsite locations in the State of Nevada at 

the current level with some modified 

work now being proposed at certain 

facilities, such as the Radiological and 

Nuclear Test Evaluation Center and the 

Non-Proliferation Test and Evaluation 

Center. Examples of newly proposed 

actions at NTS include development of 

enhanced national security programs to 

include increased homeland security 

activities in sensor development and 

testing, and chemical and biological 

simulant releases, as well as stockpile 

stewardship activities. 

Direct and indirect, as well as 

unavoidable and irreversible and 

irretrievable impacts to the environment 

of the NTS and off-site locations in the 

State of Nevada will be identified and 

analyzed in the SWEIS. In addition, 

updated modeling and analysis will be 

conducted of potential migration of 

contaminants in the groundwater from 

historic nuclear testing on the NTS. 

Where appropriate, mitigation strategies 

will also be analyzed in the SWEIS. 

Further, an updated evaluation of NTS 

operational and transportation accident 

analyses, and a new assessment of 

cumulative impacts of DOE/NNSA 

operations in Nevada will also be 

included. DOE/NNSA plans to prepare 

the SWEIS as an unclassified document 

with a classified appendix. The 

classified information will not be 

available for public review; however, it 

will be considered in the decisionmaking process of the SWEIS. DOE/ 

NNSA intends to re-evaluate the range 

of reasonable alternatives following 

public scoping. 

Preliminary Identification of 

Environmental Issues 

DOE/NNSA proposes to address the 

issues listed below when considering 

the potential impacts of each 

alternative. This list is presented to 

facilitate public comment during the 

scoping period and will be revisited as 

DOE/NNSA considers all scoping 

comments. It is not intended to be 

comprehensive, nor to imply any 

predetermination of impacts. 

• Potential effects on the public 

health from exposure to hazardous 

materials under routine and credible 

accident scenarios; 

• Impacts on surface and 

groundwater, and on water use and 

quality; 

• Impacts on air quality and noise; 

• Impacts on plants and animals, and 

their habitats, including species that are 

Federal- or state-listed as threatened or 

endangered, or of special concern; 

• Impacts on geology and soil; 

• Impacts on cultural resources such 

as Native American sites, historic 

mining and ranching, and Cold War 

structures; 

• Socioeconomic impacts on 

potentially affected communities and 

disproportionately high and adverse 

impacts to minority and low-income 

populations; 

• Potential impacts on land use. 

• Pollution prevention and waste 

management practices and activities; 

• Unavoidable adverse impacts and 

irreversible and irretrievable 

commitments of resources; 

• Potential cumulative environmental 

effects of past, present, and reasonably 

foreseeable future actions; 

• Potential impacts of intentional 

destructive acts, including sabotage and 

terrorism. 

SWEIS Process and Invitation To 

Comment 

The SWEIS scoping process provides 

an opportunity for the public to assist 

the DOE/NNSA in determining issues. 

Four public scoping meetings will be 

held as noted under DATES in this 

Notice. The purpose of scoping 

meetings is to provide attendees an 

opportunity to present comments, ask 

questions, and discuss concerns 

regarding the SWEIS with DOE/NNSA 

officials. Comments and 

recommendations can also be mailed to 

Linda M. Cohn as noted in this Notice 

under ADDRESSES. The SWEIS scoping 

meetings will use a format to facilitate 

dialogue between DOE/NNSA and the 

public and will provide individuals the 

opportunity to give written or oral 

statements. DOE/NNSA welcomes 

specific comments or suggestions on the 

SWEIS process. The SWEIS will 

describe the potential environmental 

impacts of each alternative by using 

available data where possible and 

obtaining additional data where 

necessary. Copies of written comments 

and transcripts of oral comments 

provided to DOE/NNSA during the 

scoping period will be available at the 

DOE Public Reading Room at 755 E. 

Flamingo, Las Vegas, Nevada, and 

public libraries in St. George, Utah; 

Tonopah and Pahrump, Nevada; and on 

the Internet at http://www.nv.doe.gov/ 

library/publications/environmental. 

After the close of the public scoping 

period, DOE/NNSA will begin 

developing the draft SWEIS. DOE/ 

NNSA expects to issue the draft SWEIS 

for public review in mid-2010. Public 

comments on the draft SWEIS will be 

received for at least 60 days following 

publication of the Environmental 

Protection Agency’s Notice of 

Availability in the Federal Register. The 

Notice of Availability, along with 

notices placed in local newspapers, will 

provide dates and locations for public 

hearings on the draft SWEIS and the 

deadline for comments on the draft 

document. Persons who submit 

comments with a mailing address 

during the scoping process will receive 

a copy of the draft SWEIS. Other 

persons who would like to receive a 

copy of the document for review when 

it is issued should notify Linda M. Cohn 

at one of the addresses provided 

previously. DOE/NNSA will include all 

comments received on the draft SWEIS, 


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1 Interventions may also be filed electronically via 

the Internet in lieu of paper. See the previous 

discussion on filing comments electronically. 

and responses to those comments in the 

final SWEIS. Issuance of the final 

SWEIS is currently scheduled for mid2011. 

Issued in Washington, DC, this 21st day of 

July 2009. 

Thomas P. D’Agostino, 

Administrator, National Nuclear Security 

Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP09–110–000] 

Mississippi Hub, LLC; Notice of 

Availability of the Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed 

Mississippi Hub Expansion Project 

July 17, 2009. 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared an 

environmental assessment (EA) of the 

Mississippi Hub, LLC (MS HUB) 

Expansion Project, proposed in the 

above referenced docket. MS HUB 

requests authorization to modify its 

previously-authorized salt cavern 

natural gas storage facility in Simpson 

County, Mississippi and construct and 

operate new natural gas pipeline 

facilities in Simpson, Jefferson Davis, 

and Covington Counties, Mississippi. 

The EA was prepared to satisfy the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act. 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 EA assesses the potential 

environmental effects of the MS HUB 

Expansion Project (project), involving 

the following construction activities: 

• Increasing the working natural gas 

storage capacity of two previouslyauthorized solution-mined salt storage 

caverns from 6.0 billion cubic feet (Bcf) 

to 7.5 Bcf in each cavern; 

• Equipment modifications at the 

Natural Gas Handling Facility Site, 

including installation of 15,800 

horsepower of additional compression; 

• Construction of 22.6 miles of 30- 

inch-diameter pipeline and 14.2 miles 

of 24-inch-diameter pipeline, collocated 

in a single pipeline corridor; 

• Aboveground tie-in and metering 

facilities at proposed pipeline 

interconnects with the Southeast 

Supply Header (SESH) pipeline and the 

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 

Corporation (Transco) pipeline; and 

• Various ancillary facilities. 

The purpose of the project is to 

expand MS HUB’s high deliverability 

natural gas storage facility and create 

new interconnects with the SESH and 

Transco pipeline systems. The MS HUB 

Expansion Project would increase the 

total working gas capacity of the facility 

from 12 Bcf to 15 Bcf, and increase MS 

HUB’s natural gas withdrawal and 

injection capabilities. 

The EA has been placed in the public 

files of the FERC. 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. 

Copies of the EA have been mailed to 

federal, state, and local agencies; 

interested groups and individuals; 

newspapers and libraries in the project 

area; and parties to this proceeding. 

Any person wishing to comment on 

the EA may do so. To ensure 

consideration prior to a Commission 

decision on the proposal, it is important 

that we receive your comments before 

the date specified below. 

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 in your comments 

so that they will be received in 

Washington, DC on or before August 17, 

2009. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods in which you can use to submit 

your comments to the Commission. In 

all instances please reference the project 

docket number (CP09–110–000) with 

your submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has dedicated eFiling 

expert staff available to assist you at 

202–502–8258 or efiling@ferc.gov. 

(1) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the Quick 

Comment feature, which is located on 

the Commission’s internet Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov under the link to 

Documents and Filings. A Quick 

Comment is an easy method for 

interested persons to submit text-only 

comments on a project; 

(2) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eFiling 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s internet Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov under the link to 

Documents and Filings. eFiling involves 

preparing your submission in the same 

manner as you would if filing on paper, 

and then saving the file on your 

computer’s hard drive. You will attach 

that file as your submission. New 

eFiling users must first create an 

account by clicking on ‘‘Sign up’’ or 

‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be asked to select 

the type of filing you are making. A 

comment on a particular project is 

considered a ‘‘Comment on a Filing;’’ or 

(3) You may file your comments via 

mail to the Commission by sending an 

original and two copies of your letter to: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

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

20426; 

Label one copy of the comments for 

the attention of Gas Branch 3, PJ11.3. 

Mail your comments promptly, so that 

they will be received in Washington, DC 

on or before August 17, 2009. 

Comments will be considered by the 

Commission but will not serve to make 

the commentor a party to the 

proceeding. 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 Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) 385.214)1. 

Only intervenors have the right to seek 

rehearing of the Commission’s decision. 

Affected landowners and parties with 

environmental concerns may be granted 

intervenor status upon showing good 

cause by stating that they have a clear 

and direct interest in this proceeding 

which would not be adequately 

represented by any other parties. 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 1–866–208–FERC (3372) or on the 

FERC Internet Web site (http:// 

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. CP09– 

110). Be sure you have selected an 

appropriate date range. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free 

at 1–866–208–3676, 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 


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