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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP05–54–000]
Wyoming Interstate Company, Ltd.;
Notice of Availability of the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Piceance Basin Expansion Project
April 29, 2005.
The environmental staff of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC
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or Commission) has prepared a draft
environmental impact statement (EIS)
on the interstate natural gas pipeline
transmission facilities proposed by
Wyoming Interstate Company, Ltd.
(WIC) in Moffat and Rio Blanco
Counties, Colorado, and Sweetwater
County, Wyoming, in the abovereferenced docket.
The draft EIS was prepared to satisfy
the requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Its
purpose is to inform the Commission,
the public, and other permitting
agencies about the potential adverse and
beneficial environmental impacts
associated with the proposed Piceance
Basin Expansion Project (Piceance
Project) and its alternatives, and to
recommend practical, reasonable, and
appropriate mitigation measures which
would avoid or reduce any significant
adverse impacts to the maximum extent
practicable and, where feasible, to less
than significant levels. The draft EIS
concludes that the proposed project,
with appropriate mitigating measures as
recommended, would have limited
adverse environmental impact.
The U.S. Department of Interior,
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is
participating as a cooperating agency in
the preparation of the draft EIS because
the project would cross Federal lands
under BLM administration in Wyoming
and Colorado. The draft EIS will be used
by the BLM to consider the issuance of
a right-of-way (ROW) grant for the
portion of the project on federal lands.
While the conclusions and
recommendations presented in the draft
EIS were developed with input from the
BLM as a cooperating agency, the BLM
will present its own conclusions and
recommendations in its Record of
Decision for the project.
Proposed Project
The Piceance Project involves the
construction and operation of a new
interstate natural gas pipeline system
that would extend between the existing
Colorado Interstate Gas Company (CIG)
Greasewood Compressor Station in Rio
Blanco County, Colorado, and the
existing CIG Wamsutter Compressor
Station in Sweetwater County,
Wyoming.1
The draft EIS assesses the potential
environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the
following facilities in Colorado and
Wyoming:
• About 141.7 miles of 24-inchdiameter new pipeline with 89.8 miles
located in Colorado (Rio Blanco and
1 Both WIC and CIG are affiliates owned by El
Paso Corporation.
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Moffat Counties) and 51.9 miles located
in Wyoming (Sweetwater County);
• Additional compression to be
installed at the existing CIG Greasewood
Compressor Station in Colorado;
• Four meter stations at
interconnections with other pipeline
systems (two associated with the CIG
Greasewood Compressor Station, two at
the CIG Wamsutter Compressor Station);
• Three pigging facilities (one
associated with each compressor station
and a new facility at milepost 54.0 near
County Road 4 in Moffat County,
Colorado);
• Nine mainline valves (one valve at
each of the two existing compressor
stations and seven valves along the
pipeline ROW); and
• Other associated facilities, such as
access roads and communication
towers.
The proposed project would be
capable of transporting up to 350,000
dekatherms of natural gas per day (Dth/
d) from the CIG Greasewood
Compressor Station to interconnections
at Wamsutter, Wyoming with the CIG
and WIC interstate transmission
pipeline systems that serve markets east
and west of Wamsutter.
Comment Procedures and Public
Meetings
Any person wishing to comment on
the draft EIS may do so. To ensure
consideration of your comments on the
proposal in the final EIS, it is important
that we receive your comments before
the date specified below. Please follow
these instructions carefully to ensure
that your comments are received in time
and are properly recorded:
• Send an original and two copies of
your comments to: Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426;
• Reference Docket No. CP05–54–
000;
• Label one copy of your comments
for the attention of Gas Branch 1, PJ11.1;
and
• Mail your comments so that they
will be received in Washington, D.C. on
or before June 20, 2005.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing of any comments or
interventions or protests to this
proceeding. See 18 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) 385.2001(a)(1)(iii)
and the instructions on the
Commission’s Web site at https://
www.ferc.gov under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link
and the link to the User’s Guide. Prepare
your submission in the same manner as
you would if filing on paper and save
it to a file on your hard drive. Before
you can file comments, you will need to
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create a free account, which can be
created by clicking on ‘‘Login to File’’
and then ‘‘New User Account.’’
In addition to or in lieu of sending
written comments, the Commission
invites you to attend a public comment
meeting in the project area. Meetings are
scheduled as shown below.
SCHEDULE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT
MEETINGS
Date and time
Tuesday, June 7,
2005 at 7 p.m.
(MST).
Wednesday, June 8,
2005 at 7 p.m.
(MST).
Thursday, June 9,
2005 at 7 p.m.
(MST).
Location
Moffat County Extension Office—CSU
539 Barclay Street,
Craig, CO 81625.
Desert School 235
Bugas, Wamsutter,
WY 82336.
Fairfield Center 200
Main Street, Meeker, CO 81641.
Interested groups and individuals are
encouraged to attend and present oral
comments on the draft EIS. Transcripts
of the meetings will be prepared.
After these comments are reviewed
and considered, modifications will be
made to the draft EIS and it will be
published and distributed as a final EIS.
The final EIS will contain responses to
timely comments filed on the draft EIS.
Comments will be considered by the
Commission but will not serve to make
the commentor a party to the
proceeding. Any person seeking to
become a party to the proceeding must
file a motion to intervene pursuant to
Rule 214 of the Commission’s Rules of
Practice and Procedure (18 CFR
385.214). Only intervenors have the
right to seek rehearing of the
Commission’s decision.
Anyone may intervene in this
proceeding based on the draft EIS. You
must file your request to intervene as
specified above.2 You do not need
intervenor status to have your
comments considered.
The draft EIS has been placed in the
public files of the FERC and is available
for public inspection at: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Public
Reference Room, 888 First Street, NE.,
Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426. (202)
502–8371.
A limited number of copies are
available from the FERC’s Public
Reference Room identified above. In
addition, copies of the draft EIS have
been mailed to federal, state, and local
agencies; public interest groups;
individuals and affected landowners;
2 Interventions may also be filed electronically via
the Internet in lieu of paper. See the previous
discussion on filing comments electronically.
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libraries; newspapers; and parties to this
proceeding.
Additional information about the
proposed project is available from the
Commission’s Office of External Affairs,
at 1–866–208–FERC or on the FERC
Internet Web site (https://www.ferc.gov)
using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Click on the
eLibrary link, click on ‘‘General Search’’
and enter the docket number excluding
the last three digits (CP05–54) in the
Docket Number field. Be sure you have
selected an appropriate date range. For
assistance, please contact FERC Online
Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll
free at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY,
contact (202) 502–8659. The eLibrary
link on the FERC Internet Web site also
provides access to the texts of formal
documents issued by the Commission,
such as orders, notices, and
rulemakings.
In addition, the Commission now
offers a free service called eSubscription
which allows you to keep track of all
formal issuances and submittals in
specific dockets. This can reduce the
amount of time you spend researching
proceedings by automatically providing
you with notification of these filings,
document summaries and direct links to
the documents. Go to the eSubscription
link on the FERC Internet Web site.
Information concerning the
involvement of the BLM is available
from Tom Hurshman, BLM Project
Manager, at (970) 240–5345.
Linda Mitry,
Deputy Secretary.
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Commission
Notice of Application Tendered for
Filing With the Commission, Soliciting
Additional Study Requests, and
Establishing Procedural Schedule for
Relicensing and a Deadline for
Submission of Final Amendments
April 29, 2005.
Take notice that the following
hydroelectric application has been filed
with the Commission and is available
for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: New major
license.
b. Project No.: 2170–029.
c. Date Filed: April 22, 2005.
d. Applicant: Chugach Electric
Association.
e. Name of Project: Cooper Lake
Hydroelectric Project.
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f. Location: On Cooper Lake,
approximately 4.8 river miles from the
mouth of Cooper Creek in south central
Alaska, 55 miles south of Anchorage.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Burke Wick,
Chugach Electric Association, 5601
Minnesota Drive, Anchorage, Alaska,
99519. (907) 762–4779.
i. FERC Contact: David Turner (202)
502–6091 or david.turner@FERC.gov.
j. Cooperating Agencies: 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
environmental document. Agencies who
would like to request cooperating status
should follow the instructions for filing
comments described in item l below.
k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18
CFR of the Commission’s regulations, if
any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or
person believes that an additional
scientific study should be conducted in
order to form an adequate factual basis
for a complete analysis of the
application on its merit, the resource
agency, Indian Tribe, or person must file
a request for a study with the
Commission not later than 60 days from
the date of filing of the application, and
serve a copy of the request on the
applicant.
l. Deadline for filing additional study
requests and requests for cooperating
agency status: June 21, 2005.
All documents (original and eight
copies) should be filed with: Magalie R.
Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First
Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
The Commission’s Rules of Practice
require all intervenors filing documents
with the Commission to serve a copy of
that document on each person on the
official service list for the project.
Further, if an intervenor files comments
or documents with the Commission
relating to the merits of an issue that
may affect the responsibilities of a
particular resource agency, they must
also serve a copy of the document on
that resource agency.
Additional study requests and
requests for cooperating agency status
may be filed electronically via the
Internet in lieu of paper. The
Commission strongly encourages
electronic filings. 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.
m. This application is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
n. The existing project consists of: (1)
The Cooper Lake Dam, a 52-foot-high
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP05-54-000]
Wyoming Interstate Company, Ltd.; Notice of Availability of the
Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Piceance Basin Expansion
Project
April 29, 2005.
The environmental staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC or Commission) has prepared a draft environmental impact
statement (EIS) on the interstate natural gas pipeline transmission
facilities proposed by Wyoming Interstate Company, Ltd. (WIC) in Moffat
and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado, and Sweetwater County, Wyoming, in
the above-referenced docket.
The draft EIS was prepared to satisfy the requirements of the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Its purpose is to inform the
Commission, the public, and other permitting agencies about the
potential adverse and beneficial environmental impacts associated with
the proposed Piceance Basin Expansion Project (Piceance Project) and
its alternatives, and to recommend practical, reasonable, and
appropriate mitigation measures which would avoid or reduce any
significant adverse impacts to the maximum extent practicable and,
where feasible, to less than significant levels. The draft EIS
concludes that the proposed project, with appropriate mitigating
measures as recommended, would have limited adverse environmental
impact.
The U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is
participating as a cooperating agency in the preparation of the draft
EIS because the project would cross Federal lands under BLM
administration in Wyoming and Colorado. The draft EIS will be used by
the BLM to consider the issuance of a right-of-way (ROW) grant for the
portion of the project on federal lands. While the conclusions and
recommendations presented in the draft EIS were developed with input
from the BLM as a cooperating agency, the BLM will present its own
conclusions and recommendations in its Record of Decision for the
project.
Proposed Project
The Piceance Project involves the construction and operation of a
new interstate natural gas pipeline system that would extend between
the existing Colorado Interstate Gas Company (CIG) Greasewood
Compressor Station in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, and the existing CIG
Wamsutter Compressor Station in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.\1\
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Corporation.
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The draft EIS assesses the potential environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the following facilities in Colorado and
Wyoming:
About 141.7 miles of 24-inch-diameter new pipeline with
89.8 miles located in Colorado (Rio Blanco and Moffat Counties) and
51.9 miles located in Wyoming (Sweetwater County);
Additional compression to be installed at the existing CIG
Greasewood Compressor Station in Colorado;
Four meter stations at interconnections with other
pipeline systems (two associated with the CIG Greasewood Compressor
Station, two at the CIG Wamsutter Compressor Station);
Three pigging facilities (one associated with each
compressor station and a new facility at milepost 54.0 near County Road
4 in Moffat County, Colorado);
Nine mainline valves (one valve at each of the two
existing compressor stations and seven valves along the pipeline ROW);
and
Other associated facilities, such as access roads and
communication towers.
The proposed project would be capable of transporting up to 350,000
dekatherms of natural gas per day (Dth/d) from the CIG Greasewood
Compressor Station to interconnections at Wamsutter, Wyoming with the
CIG and WIC interstate transmission pipeline systems that serve markets
east and west of Wamsutter.
Comment Procedures and Public Meetings
Any person wishing to comment on the draft EIS may do so. To ensure
consideration of your comments on the proposal in the final EIS, it is
important that we receive your comments before the date specified
below. Please follow these instructions carefully to ensure that your
comments are received in time and are properly recorded:
Send an original and two copies of your comments to:
Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426;
Reference Docket No. CP05-54-000;
Label one copy of your comments for the attention of Gas
Branch 1, PJ11.1; and
Mail your comments so that they will be received in
Washington, D.C. on or before June 20, 2005.
The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing of any
comments or interventions or protests to this proceeding. See 18 Code
of Federal Regulations (CFR) 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions
on the Commission's Web site at https://www.ferc.gov under the ``e-
Filing'' link and the link to the User's Guide. Prepare your submission
in the same manner as you would if filing on paper and save it to a
file on your hard drive. Before you can file comments, you will need to
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create a free account, which can be created by clicking on ``Login to
File'' and then ``New User Account.''
In addition to or in lieu of sending written comments, the
Commission invites you to attend a public comment meeting in the
project area. Meetings are scheduled as shown below.
Schedule for Public Comment Meetings
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Date and time Location
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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 7 p.m. (MST)..... Moffat County Extension
Office--CSU 539 Barclay
Street, Craig, CO 81625.
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 at 7 p.m. (MST)... Desert School 235 Bugas,
Wamsutter, WY 82336.
Thursday, June 9, 2005 at 7 p.m. (MST).... Fairfield Center 200 Main
Street, Meeker, CO 81641.
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Interested groups and individuals are encouraged to attend and
present oral comments on the draft EIS. Transcripts of the meetings
will be prepared.
After these comments are reviewed and considered, modifications
will be made to the draft EIS and it will be published and distributed
as a final EIS. The final EIS will contain responses to timely comments
filed on the draft EIS.
Comments will be considered by the Commission but will not serve to
make the commentor a party to the proceeding. Any person seeking to
become a party to the proceeding must file a motion to intervene
pursuant to Rule 214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.214). Only intervenors have the right to seek
rehearing of the Commission's decision.
Anyone may intervene in this proceeding based on the draft EIS. You
must file your request to intervene as specified above.\2\ You do not
need intervenor status to have your comments considered.
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\2\ Interventions may also be filed electronically via the
Internet in lieu of paper. See the previous discussion on filing
comments electronically.
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The draft EIS has been placed in the public files of the FERC and
is available for public inspection at: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Public Reference Room, 888 First Street, NE., Room 2A,
Washington, DC 20426. (202) 502-8371.
A limited number of copies are available from the FERC's Public
Reference Room identified above. In addition, copies of the draft EIS
have been mailed to federal, state, and local agencies; public interest
groups; individuals and affected landowners; libraries; newspapers; and
parties to this proceeding.
Additional information about the proposed project is available from
the Commission's Office of External Affairs, at 1-866-208-FERC or on
the FERC Internet Web site (https://www.ferc.gov) using the ``eLibrary''
link. Click on the eLibrary link, click on ``General Search'' and enter
the docket number excluding the last three digits (CP05-54) in the
Docket Number field. Be sure you have selected an appropriate date
range. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at 1-866-208-3676, or for TTY,
contact (202) 502-8659. The eLibrary link on the FERC Internet Web site
also provides access to the texts of formal documents issued by the
Commission, such as orders, notices, and rulemakings.
In addition, the Commission now offers a free service called
eSubscription which allows you to keep track of all formal issuances
and submittals in specific dockets. This can reduce the amount of time
you spend researching proceedings by automatically providing you with
notification of these filings, document summaries and direct links to
the documents. Go to the eSubscription link on the FERC Internet Web
site.
Information concerning the involvement of the BLM is available from
Tom Hurshman, BLM Project Manager, at (970) 240-5345.
Linda Mitry,
Deputy Secretary.
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