Wyoming Interstate Company, Ltd.; Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Piceance Basin Expansion Project, 23862-23863 [E5-2187]

Download as PDF 23862 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 86 / Thursday, May 5, 2005 / Notices bidding and negotiated placement requirements at 18 CFR 34.2. Comment Date: 5 p.m. eastern time on May 18, 2005. Standard Paragraph 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 on or before the comment date. Anyone filing a motion to intervene or protest must serve a copy of that document on the Applicant and all parties to this proceeding. 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 FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. Linda Mitry, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. E5–2194 Filed 5–4–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 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 VerDate jul<14>2003 13:10 May 04, 2005 Jkt 205001 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. PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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 E:\FR\FM\05MYN1.SGM 05MYN1 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 86 / Thursday, May 5, 2005 / Notices 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. VerDate jul<14>2003 13:10 May 04, 2005 Jkt 205001 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. [FR Doc. E5–2187 Filed 5–4–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory 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. PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 23863 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 E:\FR\FM\05MYN1.SGM 05MYN1

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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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    \1\ Both WIC and CIG are affiliates owned by El Paso 
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \2\ Interventions may also be filed electronically via the 
Internet in lieu of paper. See the previous discussion on filing 
comments electronically.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    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.
[FR Doc. E5-2187 Filed 5-4-05; 8:45 am]
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