Document ID: FERC-2008-1417-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Proposed Jordan Cove Energy and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline Project
Posted Date: 2008-09-26T04:00Z

[Federal Register: September 26, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 188)]
[Notices]               
[Page 55831-55832]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP07-444-000; Docket No. CP07-441-000]

 
Jordan Cove Energy Project, L.P.; Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline 
Project, L.P.; Notice of Public Meetings To Take Comments on the Draft 
Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Jordan Cove Energy and 
Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline Project

September 19, 2008.
    The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or 
Commission) is issuing this notice to announce a series of public 
meetings to take comments on the draft Environmental Impact Statement 
(EIS) issued by the FERC on August 29, 2008, for the proposed Jordan 
Cove Energy liquefied natural gas (LNG) Project and Pacific Connector 
Gas Pipeline Project. The draft EIS addresses the proposal by Jordan 
Cove Energy Project, L.P. (Jordan Cove) to construct and operate an LNG 
import terminal on Coos Bay in Coos County, Oregon, in Docket No. CP07-
444-000, and the proposal by Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, L.P. to 
construct a 230-mile-long natural gas sendout pipeline that would cross 
portions of Coos, Douglas, Jackson, and Klamath Counties, Oregon, in 
Docket No. CP07-441-000. The proposed pipeline would connect the 
proposed Jordan Cove LNG terminal with existing interstate pipeline 
systems operated by Williams Northwest Pipeline Corporation, Gas 
Transmission Northwest Corporation, Tuscarora Gas Transmission Company, 
and Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and with an existing local 
distribution pipeline system operated by Avista Corporation.
    The FERC staff produced the draft EIS in cooperation with the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture Forest Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland 
Security Coast Guard, U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land 
Management and Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, and Douglas County, Oregon. The draft EIS was delivered 
to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and mailed to various 
federal, state, and local government agencies, elected officials, 
affected landowners, regional environmental organizations, Indian 
tribes, local libraries and newspapers, intervenors, and other 
interested parties.
    The issuance of the draft EIS was noticed in the Federal Register 
on September 5, 2008 (73 FR 51815). The deadline for comments on the 
draft EIS is December 4, 2008. In addition to, or in lieu of, sending 
in written comments on the draft EIS, the FERC and cooperating agencies 
invite you to attend the public comment meetings that will be held in 
the project area in October 2008, on the dates, times, and locations 
listed below.

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               Date and Time                          Location
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Monday, October 27, 2008, 6:30 p.m. to 10    North Bend Community
 p.m. (PST).                                 Center, 2222 Broadway
                                             Street, North Bend, Oregon
                                             97459. Telephone: 541-756-
                                             8500.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 6:30 p.m. to 10  Umpqua Community College,
 p.m. (PST).                                 Campus Center Dining Room/
                                             Timber Room, 1140 Umpqua
                                             College Road, Roseburg,
                                             Oregon 97470, Telephone:
                                             541-440-4600.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 6:30 p.m. to    Red Lion Inn, Rogue River
 10 p.m. (PST).                              Ballroom, 200 N. Riverside
                                             Avenue, Medford, Oregon
                                             97501, Telephone: 541-779-
                                             5811.
Thursday, October 30, 2008, 6:30 p.m. to     Oregon Institute of
 10 p.m. (PST).                              Technology, College Union
                                             Auditorium, 3201 Campus
                                             Drive, Klamath Falls,
                                             Oregon 97601, Telephone:
                                             541-885-1000, 1032.
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    These events are posted on the Commission's calendar located at 
http://www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along with other 
related information. For additional information, please contact the 
Commission's Office of External Affairs at 1-866-208-FERC.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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