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Description: 2009 Annual Report of 

Cash Out Activity of Cimarron River 

Pipeline, LLC. 

Filed Date: 07/14/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090714–5032. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, July 27, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: RP09–828–000. 

Applicants: Texas Gas Transmission, 

LLC. 

Description: Texas Gas Transmission, 

LLC submits Fourth Revised Sheet 99A 

to FERC Gas Tariff, Third Revised 

Volume 1. 

Filed Date: 07/14/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090714–0102. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, July 27, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: RP09–829–000. 

Applicants: Midcontinent Express 

Pipeline LLC. 

Description: Midcontinent Express 

Pipeline LLC submits two amendments 

to an existing negotiated rate 

Transportation Rate Schedule FTS 

Agreement between MEP and Newfield 

Exploration Mid-Continent Inc. 

Filed Date: 07/14/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090714–0101. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, July 27, 2009. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 

and 385.214) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. It 

is not necessary to separately intervene 

again in a subdocket related to a 

compliance filing if you have previously 

intervened in the same docket. Protests 

will be considered by the Commission 

in determining the appropriate action to 

be taken, but will not serve to make 

protestants parties to the proceeding. 

Anyone filing a motion to intervene or 

protest must serve a copy of that 

document on the Applicant. In reference 

to filings initiating a new proceeding, 

interventions or protests submitted on 

or before the comment deadline need 

not be served on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http:// 

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with Internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First St., NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above proceedings 

are accessible in the Commission’s 

eLibrary system by clicking on the 

appropriate link in the above list. They 

are also available for review in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room in 

Washington, DC. There is an 

eSubscription link on the Web site that 

enables subscribers to receive e-mail 

notification when a document is added 

to a subscribed docket(s). For assistance 

with any FERC Online service, please email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. or 

call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, 

call (202) 502–8659. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–17664 Filed 7–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Interconnection of the Grapevine 

Canyon Wind Project, Coconino 

County, AZ 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Environmental Impact Report and 

Conduct Scoping Meetings; Notice of 

Floodplain and Wetlands Involvement. 

SUMMARY: The Western Area Power 

Administration (Western), an agency of 

the DOE, intends to prepare an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

on the interconnection of the Grapevine 

Canyon Wind Project (Project) in 

Coconino County, near Flagstaff, 

Arizona. Foresight Flying M, LLC 

(Foresight) has applied to Western to 

interconnect the proposed Project to 

Western’s power transmission system 

on its Glen Canyon-Pinnacle Peak 

Transmission Line. Western is issuing 

this notice to inform the public and 

interested parties about Western’s intent 

to prepare an EIS, conduct a public 

scoping process, and invite the public to 

comment on the scope, proposed action, 

alternatives, and other issues to be 

addressed in the EIS. 

The EIS will address Western’s 

Federal action of interconnecting the 

proposed Project to Western’s 

transmission system and making any 

necessary modifications to Western 

facilities to accommodate the 

interconnection. The EIS will also 

review the potential environmental 

impacts of constructing, operating, and 

maintaining Foresight’s wind generation 

facility and associated facilities, 

including access roads, collection and 

feeder lines, step-up substation, 

communications system, transmission 

tie-line, and switchyard. 

DATES: The public scoping period begins 

with the publication of this notice and 

closes on August 28, 2009. Public 

scoping meetings will be held on 

August 10 and 11, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Please see the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

scoping meeting locations. Written 

comments on the scope of the EIS 

should be addressed to Ms. Mary Barger, 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) Document Manager, Western 

Area Power Administration, Desert 

Southwest Region, P.O. Box 6457, 615 

S. 43rd Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85005 or 

GrapevineWindEIS@wapa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Mary Barger, NEPA Document Manager, 

Western Area Power Administration, 

Desert Southwest Region, P.O. Box 

6457, 615 S. 43rd Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 

85005, telephone (602) 605–2524, fax 

(602) 605–2630, or e-mail 

GrapevineWindEIS@wapa.gov. For 

general information on DOE’s NEPA 

review procedures or status of a NEPA 

review, contact Ms. Carol M. Borgstrom, 

Director of NEPA Policy and 

Compliance, GC–20, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585, telephone 

(202) 586–4600 or (800) 472–2756. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Western, 

an agency within DOE, markets Federal 

hydroelectric power to preference 

customers, as specified by law. These 

customers include municipalities, 

cooperatives, irrigation districts, Federal 

and State agencies, and Native 

American tribes. Western’s service 

territory covers 15 western states, 

including Arizona. Western owns and 

operates more than 17,000 miles of 

high-voltage transmission lines. 

Foresight has applied to Western to 

interconnect the proposed Project at a 

new switchyard on Western’s Glen 

Canyon-Pinnacle Peak Transmission 

Line. Western offers capacity on its 

transmission system to deliver 

electricity, when such capacity is 

available, under Western’s Open Access 

Transmission Service Tariff. 

Foresight also has applied to the U.S. 

Forest Service for a permit to build, 

operate, and maintain a portion of the 

proposed project on Coconino National 

Forest land. Additionally, Foresight is 

subject to State and local approvals 

prior to building the proposed Project, 

including the following: a Certificate of 


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Environmental Compatibility from the 

Arizona Corporate Commission, right of 

way from the Arizona State Land 

Department, and a Conditional Use 

Permit from Coconino County. 

Project Description 

Foresight proposes to construct a 

wind energy generation project up to 

500 megawatts (MW). It would occupy 

approximately 55 square miles in 

Coconino County, Arizona. The wind 

generation component of the proposed 

Project would be located about 22 miles 

southeast of Flagstaff and about18 miles 

south of the Twin Arrows Interstate-40 

interchange. It would be located within 

the Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Ecozone 

of the Colorado Plateau Semi-Desert 

Province in the northeastern quarter of 

Arizona. The area has primarily pinyonjuniper and desert scrub vegetation 

types. The current land use is 

agricultural, primarily livestock grazing. 

Each wind turbine would involve the 

disturbance of about 1.0 to 1.6 acres. 

The wind generation component of 

the proposed Project would be 

constructed on private lands and land 

administered by the Arizona State Land 

Department. The proposed Project 

would generate electricity from wind 

turbine generators rated at 1.5 to 3.0 

MW. Final turbine selection and size is 

subject to further wind analysis, and 

will determine the number of turbines. 

Each turbine would have three blades 

that would revolve at less than 

approximately 18 revolutions per 

minute. Each blade would measure 125 

to 185 feet long. The single pole 

structures supporting each of the 

turbines would be up to 325 feet high 

and approximately 20 feet in diameter at 

the base. Each turbine structure would 

be up to approximately 500 feet high, 

when a blade is in the 12 o’clock 

position. Each would be installed on a 

concrete base, and would have a padmounted transformer near the base. 

Lighting would be in accordance with 

Federal Aviation Administration 

requirements. 

There would be an all-weather service 

road constructed to each turbine 

location. The wind turbines would be 

connected by an electrical collection 

system, power collection circuits, and a 

communications network. This 

collection system would be buried, 

where feasible, in areas without major 

subsurface obstructions. Foresight 

would site the wind turbine generators 

to optimize wind and land resources in 

the area while minimizing 

environmental impacts to the extent 

practicable. Foresight would comply 

with local zoning requirements, 

including setbacks from residences, 

roads, and existing transmission and 

distribution lines. Foresight would 

begin construction on the proposed 

Project approximately fall 2010. The life 

of the proposed Project is anticipated to 

be a minimum of 30 years. 

To support delivery of the power 

generated by the Project, Foresight 

proposes to build a new 345-kV 

transmission tie-line, approximately 9 

miles in length, to a new 345-kV 

switchyard, located immediately 

adjacent to Western’s existing Glen 

Canyon-Pinnacle Peak Transmission 

Line. The transmission tie-line would 

cross lands administered by Coconino 

National Forest. The right-of-way for the 

transmission line would be about 8.5 

miles in length by 200 feet wide, for a 

total disturbance area of about 206 

acres. The physical area affected by the 

new switchyard would be about 10 

acres. The proposed Project area would 

be accessed by an existing road about 18 

miles in length that would require some 

realignment for construction activities. 

Proposed Agency Action and 

Alternatives 

Western’s proposed action is to 

interconnect the proposed Project to 

Western’s transmission system. The U.S. 

Forest Service’s proposed action is to 

grant a permit for the transmission line 

to cross Federal lands and for associated 

road improvements. Any additional 

action alternatives identified will be 

analyzed in the EIS. 

Western will also consider the noaction alternative in the EIS. Under the 

no-action alternative Western would not 

interconnect and/or the U.S. Forest 

Service would not issue a permit. 

Agency Responsibilities 

Because interconnection of the 

proposed Project would incorporate a 

major new generation resource into 

Western’s power transmission system, 

Western has determined that an EIS is 

required under DOE NEPA 

implementing procedures, 10 CFR part 

1021, subpart D, Appendix D, class of 

action D6. Western will be the lead 

Federal agency for preparing the EIS, as 

defined at 40 CFR 1501.5. The proposed 

Project includes construction of a tieline across Coconino National Forest 

land, for which the U.S. Forest Service 

has jurisdiction and has agreed to be a 

cooperating agency for preparation of 

the EIS. Western will invite other 

Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies 

with jurisdiction by law or special 

expertise with respect to environmental 

issues to be cooperating agencies on the 

EIS, as defined at 40 CFR 1501.6. Such 

agencies may also make a request to 

Western to be a cooperating agency by 

contacting Ms. Barger at the address 

listed above in the ADDRESSES section. 

The proposed Project may affect 

floodplains or wetlands. This notice 

also serves as notice of proposed 

floodplain or wetland action, in 

accordance with 10 CFR part 1022. 

Environmental Issues 

This notice is to inform agencies and 

the public of Western’s intent to prepare 

an EIS and solicit comments and 

suggestions for consideration in the EIS. 

To help the public frame its comments, 

the following list contains potential 

environmental issues preliminarily 

identified for analysis in the EIS: 

1. Impacts on protected, threatened, 

endangered, or sensitive species of 

animals or plants. 

2. Impacts on avian and bat species. 

3. Impacts on land use, recreation, 

and transportation. 

4. Impacts on cultural or historic 

resources and tribal values. 

5. Impacts on human health and 

safety. 

6. Impacts on air, soil, and water 

resources (including air quality and 

surface water impacts). 

7. Visual impacts. 

8. Socioeconomic impacts and 

disproportionately high and adverse 

impacts to minority and low-income 

populations. 

This list is not intended to be allinclusive or to imply any 

predetermination of impacts. Western 

invites interested parties to suggest 

specific issues within these general 

categories, or other issues not included 

above, to be considered in the EIS. 

Public Participation 

The EIS process includes a public 

scoping period; public review and 

hearings on the draft EIS; publication of 

a final EIS; and publication of a record 

of decision (ROD). The public scoping 

period begins with publication of this 

notice and closes August 28, 2009. At 

the conclusion of the NEPA process, 

Western and the U.S. Forest Service will 

each prepare a ROD. Persons interested 

in receiving future notices, Project 

information, copies of the EIS, and other 

information on the NEPA review 

process should contact Ms. Barger at the 

address listed above in the ADDRESSES

section. 

Western will hold public scoping 

meetings as follows: 

1. August 10, 2009, Mormon Lake Fire 

Station, 43 Mormon Lake Road, 

Mormon Lake, AZ 86038. 

2. August 11, 2009, Northern Arizona 

Center for Emerging Technologies 

(NACET), 2225 N. Gemini Drive, 

Flagstaff, AZ 86001. 


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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, 

environmental restoration, and defense 


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