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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
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associated with the Commission’s
environmental review process.
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Commission) and will not have the right
to seek court review of the
Commission’s final order.
Protests and interventions may be
filed electronically via the Internet in
lieu of paper; see, 18 CFR
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions
on the Commission’s Web site under the
‘‘e-Filing’’ link. The Commission
strongly encourages electronic filings.
Comment Date: February 24, 2010.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 2354–10]
Chandra Coffee and Rabun Boatworks,
Complainants v. Georgia Power
Company, Respondent; Notice of
Complaint
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February 3, 2010.
Take notice that on December 14,
2009, as amended on January 8, 2010,
Chandra Coffee and Rabun Boatworks
(Complainants) filed with the Federal
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) a complaint against Georgia
Power Company (Respondent), licensee
of the North Georgia Hydroelectric
Project No. 2354. Complainants own
and operate a storage and boat rental
business approximately one mile from
Lake Rabun. Complainants, after
contracting with boating customers offsite, place boats in the water, assist in
loading and unloading boaters, and
facilitate retrieval of boats from the
water at the Lake Rabun Recreation
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Area. Complainants allege that
Respondent has impermissibly denied
them access to the public boat ramp at
the Lake Rabun Recreation Area, part of
the Respondent’s North Georgia Project.
Complainants request that the
Commission investigate and assert that
Respondent has not complied with its
FERC license.
Complainants certify that a copy of
the complaint was served on counsel for
Georgia Power Company.
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, 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. The Respondent’s answer
and all interventions, or protests must
be filed on or before the comment date.
The Respondent’s answer, motions to
intervene, and protests must be served
on the Complainants.
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.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time
on February 23, 2010.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 2232–566]
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Notice of
Availability of Environmental
Assessment
February 3, 2010.
In accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as
amended, and the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission’s (Commission)
regulations, (18 CFR Part 380),
Commission staff has prepared an
environmental assessment (EA)
regarding Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC’s
(Duke), licensee for the CatawbaWateree Project, request for approval of
an agreement between the Town of
Mooresville, North Carolina
(Mooresville) and Duke, authorizing
Mooresville to operate and maintain
expanded water intake facilities and
withdraw water from Lake Norman. The
Catawba-Wateree Project (FERC No.
2232) is located on the Catawba and
Wateree Rivers, in nine counties in
North Carolina and five counties in
South Carolina. Lake Norman is the fifth
reservoir in the series of reservoirs used
by the project, and is located on the
Catawba River.
In its application, Duke proposes to
grant an expansion of Mooresville’s
water intake facilities and increase
Mooresville’s water withdrawal rate
from Lake Norman. The existing water
intake structure would be expanded by
connecting a new pipe to the existing
water intake structure and the existing
pumping plant located on Mooresvilleowned property within the project
boundary. Mooresville has requested
that the expanded facility have a gross
maximum allowable water withdrawal
rate of 18 million gallons per day
(MGD), a 6 MGD increase from the
current approved maximum withdrawal
rate of 12 MGD, as approved by the
Commission on August 23, 2005. The
water intake and pump facility are
located in Iredell County, North
Carolina.
The EA is attached to a Commission
order titled, ‘‘Order Modifying and
Approving Non-Project Use of Project
Lands and Waters,’’ which was issued
February 3, 2010, and is available for
review at the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, or it may be viewed on
the Commission’s Web site at https://
www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link.
Enter the docket number (P–2232) in the
docket number field to access the
document. For assistance with eLibrary,
contact FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or
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Summary of the Proposed Project
toll-free at (866) 208–3676; for TTY,
contact (202) 502–8659.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP10–36–000]
Southern Natural Gas Company;
Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Assessment for the
Proposed 2011/2012 Abandonment and
Replacement Project and Request for
Comments on Environmental Issues
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February 5, 2010.
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) will prepare an
environmental assessment (EA) that will
discuss the environmental impacts of
the Southern 2011/2012 Abandonment
and Replacement Project, involving the
abandonment and replacement of
facilities by Southern Natural Gas
Company (Southern) in Louisiana and
Mississippi. This EA will be used by the
Commission in its decision-making
process to determine whether the
project is in the public convenience and
necessity.
This notice announces the opening of
the scoping process the Commission
will use to gather input from the public
and interested agencies on the project.
Your input will help the Commission
staff determine what issues need to be
evaluated in the EA. Please note that the
scoping period will close on March 8,
2010.
This notice is being sent to the
Commission’s current environmental
mailing for this project. State and local
government representatives are asked to
notify their constituents of this
proposed project and encourage them to
comment on their areas of concern.
A fact sheet prepared by the FERC
entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas
Facility On My Land? What Do I Need
To Know?’’ was attached to the project
notice Southern provided to
landowners. This fact sheet addresses a
number of typically-asked questions,
including the use of eminent domain
and how to participate in the
Commission’s proceedings. It is also
available for viewing on the FERC Web
site (https://www.ferc.gov).
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Southern proposes to abandon,
replace, and modify certain pipeline
facilities located within East Carroll and
West Carroll Parishes, Louisiana, and
Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo, Madison,
Attala, and Winston Counties,
Mississippi. Specifically, Southern
proposes to abandon in place 68.5 miles
(in five segments) of its North Main
Loop Line, consisting of 16- to 24-inchdiameter pipeline. To adjust for the
abandonment, Southern would also
replace and/or modify small segments of
its North Main and North Main Loop
pipelines. These pipeline segments were
installed using a mechanical coupling
technology in the late 1930s and early
1940s. The pipeline, consisting of 18- to
to 24-inch-diameter pipe, would be cut,
cleaned, sealed, and abandoned in
place.
Overall, the project would involve 29
separate areas of disturbance along
Southern’s system in Louisiana and
Mississippi. The general location of the
project facilities is shown in appendix
1.1
Land Requirements for Construction
The proposed project would
temporarily disturb about 6.91 acres of
land for the abandonment and
modification of the facilities.
Afterwards, all areas of disturbance
would be revegetated and return to its
previous use. All pipeline abandonment
activities would be conducted within
the existing right-of-way and
compressor station areas. No new access
roads would be required to facilitate the
abandonment of the pipeline facilities.
The EA Process
The National Environmental Policy
Act (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. NEPA also requires us 2 to
discover and address concerns the
public may have about proposals. This
process is referred to as ‘‘scoping.’’ The
main goal of the scoping process is to
focus the analysis in the EA on the
important environmental issues. By this
notice, the Commission requests public
1 The appendices referenced in this notice are not
being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of
appendices were sent to all those receiving this
notice in the mail and are available at https://
www.ferc.gov using the link called ‘‘eLibrary’’ or
from the Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call
(202) 502–8371. For instructions on connecting to
eLibrary, refer to the last page of this notice.
2 ‘‘We,’’ ‘‘us,’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to the environmental
staff of the Commission’s Office of Energy Projects.
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comments on the scope of the issues to
address in the EA. All comments
received will be considered during the
preparation of the EA.
In the EA we will discuss impacts that
could occur as a result of the proposed
project under these general headings:
• Geology and soils;
• Land use;
• Water resources, fisheries, and
wetlands;
• Cultural resources;
• Vegetation and wildlife;
• Air quality and noise;
• Endangered and threatened species;
and
• Public safety.
We will also evaluate reasonable
alternatives to the proposed project or
portions of the project, and make
recommendations on how to lessen or
avoid impacts on the various resource
areas.
Our independent analysis of the
issues will be presented in the EA. The
EA will be placed into the public record
and, depending on the comments
received during the scoping process, the
EA may be published and distributed to
the public. A comment period will be
allotted if the EA is published for
review. We will consider all comments
on the EA before we make our
recommendations to the Commission.
To ensure your comments are
considered, please carefully follow the
instructions in the Public Participation
section below.
With this notice, we are asking
agencies with jurisdiction and/or
special expertise with respect to
environmental issues to formally
cooperate with us in the preparation of
the EA. These agencies may choose to
participate once they have evaluated the
proposal relative to their
responsibilities. Agencies that would
like to request cooperating agency status
should follow the instructions for filing
comments provided under the Public
Participation section of this notice.
Public Participation
You can make a difference by
providing us with your specific
comments or concerns about the project.
Your comments should focus on the
potential environmental effects,
reasonable alternatives, and measures to
avoid or lessen environmental impacts.
The more specific your comments, the
more useful they will be. To ensure that
your comments are timely and properly
recorded, please send in your comments
so that they will be received in
Washington, DC on or before March 8,
2010.
For your convenience, there are three
methods which you can use to submit
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2232-566]
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Notice of Availability of
Environmental Assessment
February 3, 2010.
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969,
as amended, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission)
regulations, (18 CFR Part 380), Commission staff has prepared an
environmental assessment (EA) regarding Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC's
(Duke), licensee for the Catawba-Wateree Project, request for approval
of an agreement between the Town of Mooresville, North Carolina
(Mooresville) and Duke, authorizing Mooresville to operate and maintain
expanded water intake facilities and withdraw water from Lake Norman.
The Catawba-Wateree Project (FERC No. 2232) is located on the Catawba
and Wateree Rivers, in nine counties in North Carolina and five
counties in South Carolina. Lake Norman is the fifth reservoir in the
series of reservoirs used by the project, and is located on the Catawba
River.
In its application, Duke proposes to grant an expansion of
Mooresville's water intake facilities and increase Mooresville's water
withdrawal rate from Lake Norman. The existing water intake structure
would be expanded by connecting a new pipe to the existing water intake
structure and the existing pumping plant located on Mooresville-owned
property within the project boundary. Mooresville has requested that
the expanded facility have a gross maximum allowable water withdrawal
rate of 18 million gallons per day (MGD), a 6 MGD increase from the
current approved maximum withdrawal rate of 12 MGD, as approved by the
Commission on August 23, 2005. The water intake and pump facility are
located in Iredell County, North Carolina.
The EA is attached to a Commission order titled, ``Order Modifying
and Approving Non-Project Use of Project Lands and Waters,'' which was
issued February 3, 2010, and is available for review at the
Commission's Public Reference Room, or it may be viewed on the
Commission's Web site at https://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary''
link. Enter the docket number (P-2232) in the docket number field to
access the document. For assistance with eLibrary, contact
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or
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toll-free at (866) 208-3676; for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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