Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 40 / Wednesday, February 28, 2001 / Notices 12773

1Petal’s application under section 7(c) of the

Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of the Commission’s

regulations was filed on January 23, 2001.

Comment date: March 9, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

14. Lake Worth Generation L.L.C.

[Docket No. ER01–1251–000]

Take notice that on February 16, 2001,

Lake Worth Generation L.L.C.

(Applicant), 245 Winter Street, Suite

300, Watham, MA 02154, tendered for

filing with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission a notice of

cancellation of its FERC Electric Tariff,

Original Volume No. 1, Original Sheet

No. 1—Market Based Rate Tariff.

The tariff will not become effective

until service commences and no service

agreements have been executed under it.

Copies were filed upon the Florida

Public Service Commission.

Comment date: March 9, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

15. Southern Company Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER01–1252–000]

Take notice that on February 16, 2001,

Southern Company Services, Inc. (SCS),

acting on behalf of Alabama Power

Company, Georgia Power Company,

Gulf Power Company, Mississippi

Power Company, and Savannah Electric

and Power Company (collectively

referred to as Southern Company),

tendered for filing seven (7) long term

firm point-to-point transmission service

agreements between Southern Company

and Carolina Power and Light Company,

Duke Power Company, The Energy

Authority, Entergy Services Inc., as

agent for the Entergy operating

companies, Oglethorpe Power

Corporation, Sempra Energy Trading

Corp. (Sempra) (for OASIS Request

191679); and Sempra (for OASIS

Request 191684); three (3) umbrella

agreements for short-term firm point-topoint transmission service between

Southern Company and Amerada Hess

Corporation (Amerada), DTE Energy

Trading, Inc. (DTE), and North Carolina

Municipal Power Agency Number 1

(NCMPA); and three (3) umbrella

agreements for non-firm point-to-point

transmission service between Southern

Company and Amerada, DTE, and

NCMPA under the Open Access

Transmission Tariff of Southern

Company (FERC Electric Tariff, Fourth

Revised Volume No. 5).

Comment date: March 9, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

16. Commonwealth Edison Company

[Docket No. ER01–1254–000]

Take notice that on February 16, 2001,

Commonwealth Edison Company

(ComEd), tendered for filing two ShortTerm Firm Transmission Service

Agreements and two Non-Firm

Transmission Service Agreements with

Otter Tail Power Company (Otter Tail)

and Exelon Generation Company, LLC

(Exelon) under the terms of ComEd’s

Open Access Transmission Tariff

(OATT).

ComEd requests an effective date of

January 26, 2001, for the Agreements

with Otter Tail and an effective date of

January 19, 2001 for the Agreements

with Exelon, and accordingly, seeks

waiver of the Commission’s notice

requirements.

Comment date: March 9, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

17. Maine Public Service Company

[Docket No. ER01–1253–000]

Take notice that on February 16, 2001,

Maine Public Service Company (Maine

Public) tendered for filing an executed

Service Agreement for Network

Integration Transmission Service under

Maine Public’s open access

transmission tariff with Houlton Water

Company.

Comment date: March 9, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

18. The Detroit Edison Company

[Docket No. ER01–1255–000]

Take notice that on February 16, 2001,

The Detroit Edison Company (Detroit

Edison), tendered for filing amended

electric supply agreements for

wholesale power sales transactions

under Detroit Edison’s Wholesale Power

Sales Tariff (WPS–1), FERC Electric

Tariff, Original Vol. No. 4 (the WPS–1

Tariff) between Detroit Edison and the

City Croswell, Michigan; Detroit Edison

and the Village of Sebewaing, Michigan;

and Detroit Edison and Thumb Electric

Cooperative.

Comment date: March 9, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs

E. Any person desiring to be heard or

to protest such filing should file a

motion to intervene or protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC

20426, in accordance with Rules 211

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211

and 385.214). All such motions or

protests should be filed on or before the

comment date. 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.

Any person wishing to become a party

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of these filings are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection. This filing may also be

viewed on the Internet at http://

www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call

202–208–2222 for assistance).

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–4812 Filed 2–27–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP01–69–000]

Petal Gas Storage, L.L.C.; Notice of

Intent To Prepare an Environmental

Assessment for the Proposed Petal

Pipeline Project, and Request for

Comments on Environmental Issues

February 22, 2001.

The staff of the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (FERC or

Commission) will prepare an

environmental assessment (EA) that will

discuss the environmental impacts of

Petal Gas Storage, L.L.C.’s (Petal)

proposed Phase II Pipeline Project in

Forrest, Jones, Jasper, and Clarke

Counties, Mississippi.1 The project

would involve the construction and

operation of about 59 miles of 36-inchdiameter pipeline, a new 9,000-

horsepower (hp) compressor station,

and appurtenance facilities. This EA

will be used by the Commission in its

decision-making process to determine

whether the project is in the public

convenience and necessity.

If you are a landowner receiving this

notice, you may be contacted by a Petal

representative about the acquisition of

an easement to construct, operate, and

maintain the proposed facilities. The

pipeline company would seek to

negotiate a mutually acceptable

agreement. However, if the project is

approved by the Commission, 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 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?’’ should have been attached

to the project notice Petal provided to

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2The appendices referenced in this notice are not

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies are

available on the Commission’s website at the

‘‘RIMS’’ link or from the Commission’s Public

Reference and Files Maintenance Branch, 888 First

Street, NE, Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, or call

(202) 208–1371. For instructions on connecting to

RIMS refer to the last page of this notice. Copies of

the appendices were sent to all those receiving this

notice in the mail.

3 ‘‘Us,’’ ‘‘we,’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to the

environmental staff of the FERC’s Office of Energy

Projects.

landowners. 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

available for viewing on the FERC

Internet website (www.ferc.fed.us).

This Notice of Intent (NOI) is being

sent to landowners along Petal’s

proposed route; Federal, state, and local

government agencies; national elected

officials; regional environmental and

public interest groups; Indian tribes that

might attach religious and cultural

significance to historic properties in the

area of potential effects; local libraries

and newspapers; and the Commission’s

list of parties to the proceeding.

Government representatives are

encouraged to notify their constituents

of this proposed action and encourage

them to comment on their areas of

concern. Additionally, with this NOI we

are asking Federal, state, local, and

tribal agencies with jurisdiction and/or

special expertise with respect to

environmental issues to cooperate with

us in the preparation of the EA. These

agencies may choose to participate once

they have evaluated Petal’s proposal

relative to their agencies’

responsibilities. Agencies who would

like to request cooperating status should

follow the instructions for filing

comments described below.

Summary of the Proposed Project

Petal’s proposed action would consist

of the construction and operation of:

• About 58.7 miles of 36-inch-diameter

bi-directional pipeline (Petal 100

Line), from Petal’s existing storage

header and Tennessee Gas Pipeline

Company (Tennessee) Meter Station

in Forrest County, Mississippi, north

through Jones and Jasper Counties to

a site near Southern Natural Gas

Company’s (SNG) existing Enterprise

Compressor Station in Clarke County,

Mississippi. Petal’s proposed 100 Line

would be adjacent to Tennessee’s

existing 500 Line for about 56.2 miles,

and then adjacent to existing SNG and

Destin Pipeline Company (Destin)

pipelines for the remaining 2.5 miles;

• A new 9,000 hp compressor station

consisting of two gas driven

compressor units, near Heidelberg in

Jasper County, Mississippi;

• About 0.3 mile of 36-inch-diameter bidirectional pipeline (Transco Lateral),

extending from the proposed

Heidelberg Compressor Station to an

interconnection with existing

facilities of Transcontinental Gas Pipe

Line Corporation (Transco) in Jasper

County, Mississippi;

• Three new meter stations at the

proposed interconnections with

Transco, SNG, and Destin;

• A bi-directional pig launcher/receiver

trap at the proposed Destin Meter

Station in Clarke County, Mississippi;

and

• Six mainline block valves along the

proposed Petal 100 Line.

The proposed facilities would allow

Petal to make deliveries of up to 700,000

decatherms per day (Dth/d), and take

receipts of up to 350,000 Dth/d. The

facilities would be used for

transportation services to and from

Petal’s existing natural gas storage

facilities in Forrest County, Mississippi.

The general location of Petal’s

proposed facilities is shown on the map

attached as appendix 1.2

Land Requirements for Construction

Construction of Petal’s proposed

facilities would affect a total of about

965 acres of land. Following

construction, about 222 acres would be

retained as permanent right-of-way. The

remaining 743 acres of temporary work

space would be restored and allowed to

revert to its former use.

The nominal construction right-ofway for both Petal’s proposed 100 Line

and the Transco Lateral would be 100

feet wide, with 30 feet retained as

permanent right-of-way for Petal’s 100

Line and 25 feet of new permanent

easement for the Transco Lateral. About

98 percent of the route of the pipelines

would overlap existing easements. For

about 1.26 miles Petal’s 100 Line would

deviate away from existing rights-of-way

for certain road or railroad crossings, to

avoid existing utility facilities, and to

avoid impacts on sensitive

environmental areas, such as a pond or

creek. The use of 66 access roads during

construction would temporarily affect

about 50 acres. Also, Petal would

temporarily use 11 pipe storage and

contractor yards, covering a total of

about 175 acres, during construction.

The proposed aboveground facilities

would consist of a new compressor

station, three new meter stations, and

six mainline block valves. The proposed

Heidelberg compressor station would

cover about 8 acres, of which only 6

acres would be used for operation. The

proposed Transco Meter Station would

occupy 0.1 acre within the new

Heidelberg Compressor Station.

Although Petal would acquire a 9-acre

tract for the SNG and Destin Meter

Stations, near SNG’s existing Enterprise

Compressor Station, the construction

and operation of these two new adjacent

meter stations would affect a total of

about 1 acre. The six mainline valves

would disturb a total of about 2 acres

within the pipeline construction rightof-way, and would permanently occupy

about 0.2 acre combined within the

pipeline’s permanent operation

easement.

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. We

call this ‘‘scoping.’’ The main goal of the

scoping process is to focus the analysis

in the EA on the important

environmental issues. By this NOI, the

Commission requests public comments

on the scope of the issues it will address

in the EA. All comments received are

considered during the preparation of the

EA.

Our independent analysis of the

issues will be in the EA. Depending on

the comments received during the

scoping process, the EA may be

published and mailed to Federal, state,

and local agencies, elected officials,

affected landowners, regional public

interest groups, Indian tribes, local

newspapers and libraries, and the

Commission’s official service list for

this proceeding. A comment period will

be allotted for review if the EA is

published. We will consider all

comments on the EA before we make

our recommendations to the

Commission.

Currently Identified Environmental

Issues

The EA will discuss impacts that

could occur as a result of construction

and operation of the proposed project.

We have already identified a number of

issues that we think deserve attention

based on a preliminary review of the

proposed facilities and the

environmental information provided by

Petal. This preliminary list of issues

may be changed based on your

comments and our analysis.

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• Geology and Soils

—Crossing about 20 miles of prime

farm land.

—Crossing about 15 miles of erosion

prone soils.

•Water Resources and Wetlands

—Crossing 103 perennial and 113

intermittent streams, and 2 ponds.

—Crossing 276 wetlands, including

81 acres of forested wetlands.

• Vegetation and Wildlife

—Crossing about 34.3 miles of upland

forest.

—Potential impacts on federally listed

threatened gopher tortoise.

• Cultural Resources

—Potential impacts on 30 cultural

resources.

—Portion of the project would be

adjacent to the Mississippi Band of

Choctaw Indians Reservation.

• Land use

—Crossing about 8.5 miles of

agricultural land, including one

pecan plantation;

—Crossing two Conservation Reserve

Program parcels, and one private

hunting ranch.

• Air and Noise Quality

—Impacts on local quality and noise

environment as a result of the new

compressor station.

Public Participation

You can make a difference by

providing us with your specific

comments or concerns about the project.

By becoming a commentor, your

concerns will be addressed in the EA

and considered by the Commission. You

should focus on the potential

environmental effects of the proposal,

alternatives to the proposal (including

alternative locations or routes), and

measures to avoid or lessen

environmental impact. The more

specific your comments, the more useful

they will be. Please carefully follow

these instructions to ensure that your

comments are received in time and

properly recorded:

• Send an original and two copies of

your letter to: David P. Boergers,

Secretary Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First St., NE., Room

1A Washington, DC 20426;

• Label one copy of the comments for

the attention of the Gas/Hydro Group,

PJ–11.3;

• Reference Docket No. CP01–69–000;

and

• Mail your comments so that they will

be received in Washington, DC on or

before March 30, 2001.

Comments and protests 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 at http://

www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.

[If you do not want to send comments

at this time but still want to remain on

our mailing list, please return the

Information Request (appendix 3). If you

do not return the Information Request,

you will be removed from the

environmental mailing list.]

Becoming an Intervenor

In addition to involvement in the EA

scoping process, you may want to

become an official party to the

proceeding known as an ‘‘intervenor.’’

Intervenors play a more formal role in

the process. Among other things,

intervenors have the right to receive

copies of case-related Commission

documents and filings by other

intervenors. Likewise, each intervenor

must provide 14 copies of its filings to

the Secretary of the Commission and

must send a copy of its filings to all

other parties on the Commission’s

service list for this proceeding. If you

want to become an intervenor you must

file a motion to intervene according to

Rule 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR

385.214) (see appendix 2). 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

environmental comments considered.

Additional information about the

proposed project is available from the

Commission’s Office of External Affairs

at (202) 208–0004 or on the FERC

website (www.ferc.fed.us) using the

‘‘RIMS’’ link to information in this

docket number. Click on the ‘‘RIMS’’

link, select ‘‘Docket #’’ from the RIMS

menu, and follow the instructions. For

assistance with access to RIMS, the

RIMS helpline can be reached at (202)

208–2222.

Similarly, the ‘‘CIPS’’ link on the

FERC Internet website provides access

to the texts of formal documents issued

by the Commission, such as orders,

notices, and rulemakings. From the

FERC Internet website, click on the

‘‘CIPS’’ link, select ‘‘Docket #’’ from the

CIPS menu, and follow the instructions.

For assistance with access to CIPS, the

CIPS helpline can be reached at (202)

208–2474.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–4815 Filed 2–27–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6948–1]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request, Air

Emission Standards for Tanks, Surface

Impoundments and Containers, RCRA

Subpart CC

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this document announces

that the following Information

Collection Request (ICR) has been

forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and

approval: Title: Air Emission Standards

for Tanks, Surface Impoundments and

Containers, RCRA subpart CC; OMB

number 2060–0318; expiration date

February 28, 2001. The ICR describes

the nature of the information collection

and its expected burden and cost; where

appropriate, it includes the actual data

collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before March 30, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referencing

EPA ICR No. 1593.05 and OMB Control

No. 2060–0318, to the following

addresses: Sandy Farmer, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Collection Strategies Division (Mail

Code 2822), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20460; and to

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer

for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

a copy of the ICR contact Sandy Farmer

at EPA by phone at (202) 260–2740, by

E-Mail at

Farmer.Sandy@epamail.epa.gov or

download off the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR

No. 1593.05. For technical questions

about the ICR contact Everett Bishop at

202–564–7032 or by E-mail at

bishop.everett@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: