Document ID: FERC-2017-1604-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Requests under Blanket Authorizations: Dominion Energy Questar Pipeline, LLC
Posted Date: 2017-12-28T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 248 (Thursday, December 28, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61558-61559]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-28087]

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP18-31-000]

Dominion Energy Questar Pipeline, LLC; Notice of Request Under 
Blanket Authorization

    Take notice that on December 15, 2017, Dominion Energy Questar 
Pipeline, LLC (Dominion Energy), 333 South State Street, Salt Lake 
City, Utah 84111, filed a prior notice application pursuant to sections 
157.205, 157.208(c) and 157.213(b) of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission's (Commission) regulations under the Natural Gas Act (NGA), 
and Dominion Energy's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-
491-000,\1\ to modify existing facilities and install surface and 
subsurface facilities located at its existing Clay Basin storage 
facility, in Daggett County, Utah (the Clay Basin Delivery Project), 
all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection. The filing may also be 
viewed on the web 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 at 
[email protected] or call toll-free, (866) 208-3676 or TTY, 
(202) 502-8659.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \1\ Mountain Fuel Resources, Inc., 20 FERC 62,580 (1982).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Specifically, Dominion Energy proposes to modify two previously 
certificated storage injection/withdrawal wells (an existing 
operational storage-injection well and an existing inactive storage-
injection/withdrawal well), and to install limited surface and 
subsurface facilities within the previously disturbed (non-vegetated) 
well-pad sites to restore functional service of the wells. Dominion 
Energy states that the project will enable it to convert 1.1 billion 
cubic feet (Bcf) of the existing 2.7 Bcf of interruptible storage 
capacity into firm storage capacity, with an associated

[[Page 61559]]

increase of 9.2 million cubic feet per day in the minimum required 
deliverability (MRD) without increasing the overall storage capacity of 
the field. Dominion Energy states that the project will not affect the 
contracted firm capacity and MRD rights held by existing firm storage 
customers at Clay Basin. Dominion Energy estimates that the cost of the 
proposed project is approximately $3.6 million.
    Any questions regarding this application should be directed L. 
Bradley Burton, Director-Regulatory, Rates, Certificates and Tariffs 
Dominion Energy Questar Corporation, 333 South State Street, P.O. Box 
45360, Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-0360, by telephone at (801) 324-2459, 
by fax at (801) 324-2905, or by email at 
[email protected].
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 60 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to 
intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to Section 157.205 of 
the regulations under the NGA (18 CFR 157.205), a protest to the 
request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefore, the 
proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized effective the day 
after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is filed and 
not withdrawn within 30 days after the allowed time for filing a 
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for 
authorization pursuant to section 7 of the NGA.
    Pursuant to section 157.9 of the Commission's rules, 18 CFR 157.9, 
within 90 days of this Notice the Commission staff will either: 
complete its environmental assessment (EA) and place it into the 
Commission's public record (eLibrary) for this proceeding, or issue a 
Notice of Schedule for Environmental Review. If a Notice of Schedule 
for Environmental Review is issued, it will indicate, among other 
milestones, the anticipated date for the Commission staff's issuance of 
the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) or EA for this 
proposal. The filing of the EA in the Commission's public record for 
this proceeding or the issuance of a Notice of Schedule for 
Environmental Review will serve to notify federal and state agencies of 
the timing for the completion of all necessary reviews, and the 
subsequent need to complete all federal authorizations within 90 days 
of the date of issuance of the Commission staff's FEIS or EA.
    Persons who wish to comment only on the environmental review of 
this project should submit an original and two copies of their comments 
to the Secretary of the Commission. Environmental commenters will be 
placed on the Commission's environmental mailing list, will receive 
copies of the environmental documents, and will be notified of meetings 
associated with the Commission's environmental review process. 
Environmental commenters will not be required to serve copies of filed 
documents on all other parties. However, the non-party commenter will 
not receive copies of all documents filed by other parties or issued by 
the Commission (except for the mailing of environmental documents 
issued by the Commission) and will not have the right to seek court 
review of the Commission's final order.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings of comments, 
protests and interventions in lieu of paper using the eFiling link at 
http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should 
submit an original and 5 copies of the protest or intervention to the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, 
DC 20426.

    Dated: December 21, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-28087 Filed 12-27-17; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 6717-01-P