Florida Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Proposed Changes in FERC Gas Tariff, 11959-11960 [E5-1005]
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certificate of public convenience and
necessity authorizing Dominion South
to construct and operate natural gas
pipeline facilities (Dominion South
Pipeline) connecting Transcontinental
Gas Pipe Line and Florida Gas
Transmission in Matagorda County,
Texas; (2) a blanket certificate pursuant
to Part 157, Subpart F, authorizing
Dominion South to construct, acquire,
operate and abandon facilities; and (3)
a blanket certificate pursuant to Subpart
G of Part 284 authorizing Dominion
South to provide open-access firm and
interruptible interstate natural gas
services and the associated pre-granted
abandonment authorization, as more
fully set forth in the application which
is open to public inspection. This filing
may be also 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, please contact FERCOnline
Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll
free at (866) 208–3676, or TTY, contact
(202) 502–8659.
Dominion South proposes to
construct and operate approximately 5
feet of 12-inch diameter pipeline to
serve as an interconnecting pipeline
between Florida Gas Transmission
Company’s (FGT) and Transcontinental
Gas Pipe Line Corp.’s (Transco)
currently segregated pipelines in
Matagorda County, Texas. Dominion
South would receive natural gas
volumes from Transco and deliver to
FGT up to 200,000 Dekatherm
equivalent of natural gas per day on
behalf of Dominion Field Services, Inc.
Dominion South estimates that it would
cost $2,256,123 to construct the
proposed interconnecting pipeline.
Any questions regarding this
application should be directed to Anne
E. Bomar, Managing Director,
Transmission Rates and Regulation,
Dominion Resources, Inc., 120 Tredegar
Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or via
telephone at (804) 819–2134.
There are two ways to become
involved in the Commission’s review of
this project. First, any person wishing to
obtain legal status by becoming a party
to the proceedings for this project
should, on or before the comment date
stated below, file with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426,
a motion to intervene in accordance
with the requirements of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211)
and the Regulations under the NGA (18
CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party
status will be placed on the service list
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maintained by the Secretary of the
Commission and will receive copies of
all documents filed by the applicant and
by all other parties. A party must submit
14 copies of filings made with the
Commission and must mail a copy to
the applicant and to every other party in
the proceeding. Only parties to the
proceeding can ask for court review of
Commission orders in the proceeding.
However, a person does not have to
intervene in order to have comments
considered. The second way to
participate is by filing with the
Secretary of the Commission, as soon as
possible, an original and two copies of
comments in support of or in opposition
to this project. The Commission will
consider these comments in
determining the appropriate action to be
taken, but the filing of a comment alone
will not serve to make the filer a party
to the proceeding. The Commission’s
rules require that persons filing
comments in opposition to the project
provide copies of their protests only to
the party or parties directly involved in
the protest.
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 commenters
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 via the Internet in lieu
of paper. See, 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii)
and the instructions on the
Commission’s Web site (https://
www.ferc.gov) under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link.
Comment Date: March 23, 2005.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
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FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. RP05–203–000]
Florida Gas Transmission Company;
Notice of Proposed Changes in FERC
Gas Tariff
March 3, 2005.
Take notice that on February 28, 2005,
Florida Gas Transmission Company
(FGT) tendered for filing to become part
of its FERC Gas Tariff, Third Revised
Volume No. 1, the following tariff
sheets, to become effective April 1,
2005:
Sixty-Ninth Revised Sheet No. 8A
Sixty-First Revised Sheet No. 8A.01
Sixty-First Revised Sheet No. 8A.02
Twenty-First Revised Sheet No. 8A.04
Sixty-Fourth Revised Sheet No. 8B
Fifty-Seventh Revised Sheet No. 8B.01
Thirteenth Revised Sheet No. 8B.02
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing 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). 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 notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed in accordance
with the provisions of section 154.210
of the Commission’s regulations (18 CFR
154.210). Anyone filing an intervention
or protest must serve a copy of that
document on the Applicant. Anyone
filing an intervention or protest on or
before the intervention or protest date
need not serve motions to intervene or
protests on persons other than the
Applicant.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at https://www.ferc.gov.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 14 copies
of the protest or intervention to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426.
This filing is accessible on-line at
https://www.ferc.gov, using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is 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 e-mail
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FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call
(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call
(202) 502–8659.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. PF05–5–000]
Gulf LNG Energy LLC; Notice of
Environmental Review and Scoping for
the Proposed Lng Clean Energy
Project and Request for Comments on
Environmental Issues
March 3, 2005.
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) will prepare an
environmental impact statement (EIS)
that will discuss the environmental
impacts of the LNG Clean Energy Project
involving construction and operation of
facilities by Gulf LNG Energy LLC (Gulf
LNG) in Port of Pascagoula, on
Mississippi lands in Bayou Casotte that
are owned or controlled by the Jackson
County Port Authority. The proposed
facilities would consist of a liquefied
natural gas (LNG) import terminal and
one interconnecting pipeline. The
Commission will use this EIS in its
decision-making process to determine
whether or not the project is in the
public convenience and necessity.
The LNG Clean Energy Project is
currently in the preliminary design
stage. At this time no formal application
has been filed with the FERC. For this
project, the FERC staff is initiating its
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) review prior to receiving the
application. This will allow interested
stakeholders to be involved early in
project planning and to identify and
resolve issues before an application is
filed with the FERC. A docket number
(PF05–5–000) has been established to
place information filed by Gulf LNG and
related documents issued by the
Commission, into the public record.1
Once a formal application is filed with
the FERC, a new docket number will be
established.
This notice is being sent to residents
within 0.5 mile of the proposed LNG
terminal site; landowners along the
pipeline route under consideration;
federal, state, and local government
1 To view information in the docket, follow the
instructions for using the eLibrary link at the end
of this notice.
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agencies; elected officials;
environmental and public interest
groups; Native American tribes; and
local libraries and newspapers.
With this notice, we 2 are asking these
and other Federal, State, and local
agencies with jurisdiction and/or
special expertise with respect to
environmental issues to formally
cooperate with us in the preparation of
the EIS. These agencies may choose to
participate once they have evaluated the
proposal relative to their
responsibilities. Agencies which would
like to request cooperating status should
follow the instructions for filing
comments described later in this notice.
We encourage government
representatives to notify their
constituents of this planned project and
encourage them to comment on their
areas of concern.
Some affected landowners may be
contacted by a project representative
about the acquisition of an easement to
construct, operate, and maintain the
proposed pipeline. If so, the company
should seek to negotiate a mutually
acceptable agreement. In the event that
the project is certificated by the
Commission, that approval conveys the
right of eminent domain for securing
easements for the pipeline. Therefore, if
easement negotiations fail to produce an
agreement, the company could initiate
condemnation proceedings in
accordance with state law.
Summary of the Proposed Project
The facility location would be in
Bayou Casotte (East) Harbor, Port of
Pascagoula, Jackson County,
Mississippi, approximately 14 nautical
miles from the sea buoy in the Gulf of
Mexico and 10 nautical miles from the
barrier islands that separate the Gulf of
Mexico from the Mississippi Sound.
The LNG site would be accessible from
the Bayou Casotte Ship Channel which
is 42 feet deep and 350 feet wide. The
facilities would consist of an LNG
import terminal that would unload LNG
from ships and transfer it to two 160,000
cubic meter containment LNG storage
tanks on shore. The facility would have
the capacity to process an average of one
billion cubic feet of LNG per day. In
addition, up to about five miles of 36inch-diameter pipeline would be
constructed from the LNG terminal to
transport the natural gas to Destin
Pipeline Company. The project would
consist of the following facilities:
• An LNG terminal consisting of a
berth and unloading dock and jetty to
accommodate one LNG carrier. The
2 ‘‘We,’’ ‘‘us,’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to the
environmental staff of the Office of Energy Projects.
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berth and dock would be designed to
service LNG carriers ranging in capacity
from 87,000 cubic meters (m3) to
138,000 m3. The anticipated level of
traffic at full terminal capacity would be
115 ships per year.
• Two 160,000 cubic meter full
containment LNG storage tanks on
shore; and
• About five miles of 36-inchdiamenter send-out pipeline that would
connect with Destin Pipeline near
Pascagoula, Mississippi.
A map depicting the proposed
terminal site and the proposed pipeline
route is provided in appendix 1.3 4
Land Requirements
The proposed LNG terminal would be
located within approximately 40 acres
of land within a 259-acre property
under control of the Port of Pascagoula
at the entrance to Bayou Casotte and
accessible via the Pascagoula Ship
Channel. The project would require
dredging of a turning basin and berth to
achieve the required size and depth to
accommodate the LNG tanker ships. The
terminal site contains about eight acres
of wetlands, but the current conceptual
facility layout would avoid placement of
equipment and facilities within the
wetland area, except for the pipeline.
The send-out pipeline would parallel
the outer perimeter of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers dredged material
disposal area to its tie-in with Destin
Pipeline. A right-of-way width was not
specified in Gulf LNG’s proposal.
The EIS Process
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, or an import authorization
under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act.
NEPA also requires us to discover and
address issues and concerns the public
may have about proposals. This process
is referred to as ‘‘scoping.’’ The main
goal of the scoping process is to focus
3 The appendices referenced in this notice are not
being printed in the Federal Register. Copies are
available on the Commission’s Internet Web site
(https://www.ferc.gov) at the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link or from
the Commission’s Public Reference and Files
Maintenance Branch at (202) 502–8371. For
instructions on connecting to eLibrary refer to the
last page of this notice.
4 Requests for detailed maps of the facilities may
be made to the company directly. Write, call, or email: Neil Carter, Project Director, Gulf LNG Energy,
LLC, 600 Travis, Suite 6800, Houston, Texas 77002;
telephone No. 1–866–Gulf–LNG) (e-mail
NOI@gulflngenergy.com); second contact: Erik
Swenson, King & Spalding, 191 Peachtree Street,
Atlanta, GA 30303; telephone No. (404) 572–3540,
(ESwenson@KSLAW.com). Be as specific as you can
about the location(s) of your area(s) of interest.
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FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. RP05-203-000]
Florida Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Proposed Changes in
FERC Gas Tariff
March 3, 2005.
Take notice that on February 28, 2005, Florida Gas Transmission
Company (FGT) tendered for filing to become part of its FERC Gas
Tariff, Third Revised Volume No. 1, the following tariff sheets, to
become effective April 1, 2005:
Sixty-Ninth Revised Sheet No. 8A
Sixty-First Revised Sheet No. 8A.01
Sixty-First Revised Sheet No. 8A.02
Twenty-First Revised Sheet No. 8A.04
Sixty-Fourth Revised Sheet No. 8B
Fifty-Seventh Revised Sheet No. 8B.01
Thirteenth Revised Sheet No. 8B.02
Any person desiring to intervene or to protest this filing 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). 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 notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as appropriate. Such notices,
motions, or protests must be filed in accordance with the provisions of
section 154.210 of the Commission's regulations (18 CFR 154.210).
Anyone filing an intervention or protest must serve a copy of that
document on the Applicant. Anyone filing an intervention or protest on
or before the intervention or protest date need not serve motions to
intervene or protests on persons other than the Applicant.
The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the ``eFiling'' link at https://
www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should submit an
original and 14 copies of the protest or intervention to the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426.
This filing is accessible on-line at https://www.ferc.gov, using the
``eLibrary'' link and is 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 e-mail
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FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (866) 208-3676 (toll free). For
TTY, call (202) 502-8659.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
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