Combined Notice of Filings, 48096-48097 [2015-19627]
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and comments using the Commission’s
eFiling system at https://www.ferc.gov/
docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can
submit brief comments up to 6,000
characters, without prior registration,
using the eComment system at https://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
ecomment.asp. You must include your
name and contact information at the end
of your comments. For assistance,
please contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866)
208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659
(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please
send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.
The first page of any filing should
include docket number P–12642–007.
k. Description of Request: The
licensee proposes to revise the design of
the project facilities as follows: (1)
Change the design and placement of the
intake structure to be located
approximately 900 feet north of the
existing intake tower on the north bank
of the reservoir, rather than utilizing the
existing intake tower for the
hydroelectric project; (2) change the size
and location of the penstock from the
existing discharge conduit to an 800foot-long tunnel bored through the rock
north abutment of the dam. The size of
the penstock will change from the 11
feet in diameter to 10 feet in diameter
for the sections of penstock not bored
through the rock, and reduce to 6 to 8
feet in diameter for the steel-lined rock
tunnel; (3) change the powerhouse
location from the south bank of the
existing discharge channel to the north
bank of the discharge channel; (4)
reduce the number of generating units
from two, to a single turbine and
generator, having a hydraulic capacity
of 500 cubic feet per second (cfs) and an
installed capacity of 2,000 kilowatts
(kW); (5) add a new impact basin
structure; (6) a 32-foot-long, 90-footwide tailrace; and (7) change the
transmission length from 150 feet to 500
feet. The proposed change to the
generating units would reduce the
hydraulic capacity from 800 cfs to 500
cfs and the installed capacity from 4,000
kW to 2,000 kW.
l. This filing may be viewed on the
Commission’s Web site at https://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp.
Enter the docket number excluding the
last three digits in the docket number
field to access the document. You may
also register online at https://
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related to this or other pending projects.
For assistance, call 1–866–208–3676 or
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TTY, call (202) 502–8659. A copy is also
available for inspection and
reproduction in the Commission’s
Public Reference Room located at 888
First Street NE., Room 2A, Washington,
DC 20426, or by calling (202) 502–8371.
m. Individuals desiring to be included
on the Commission’s mailing list should
so indicate by writing to the Secretary
of the Commission.
n. Comments, Protests, or Motions to
Intervene: Anyone may submit
comments, a protest, or a motion to
intervene in accordance with the
requirements of Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .212
and .214. In determining the appropriate
action to take, the Commission will
consider all protests or other comments
filed, but only those who file a motion
to intervene in accordance with the
Commission’s Rules may become a
party to the proceeding. Any comments,
protests, or motions to intervene must
be received on or before the specified
comment date for the particular
application.
o. Filing and Service of Responsive
Documents: Any filing must (1) bear in
all capital letters the title
‘‘COMMENTS’’, ‘‘PROTEST’’, or
‘‘MOTION TO INTERVENE’’ as
applicable; (2) set forth in the heading
the name of the applicant and the
project number of the application to
which the filing responds; (3) furnish
the name, address, and telephone
number of the person protesting or
intervening; and (4) otherwise comply
with the requirements of 18 CFR
385.2001 through 385.2005. All
comments, motions to intervene, or
protests must set forth their evidentiary
basis and otherwise comply with the
requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). All
comments, motions to intervene, or
protests should relate to project works
which are the subject of the license
amendment. Agencies may obtain
copies of the application directly from
the applicant. A copy of any protest or
motion to intervene must be served
upon each representative of the
applicant specified in the particular
application. If an intervener 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. A copy of all
other filings in reference to this
application must be accompanied by
proof of service on all persons listed in
the service list prepared by the
Commission in this proceeding, in
accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b) and
385.2010.
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p. A license applicant must file, no
later than 60 days following the date of
issuance of this notice: (1) A copy of the
water quality certification; (2) a copy of
the request for certification, including
proof of the date on which the certifying
agency received the request; or (3)
evidence of waiver of water quality
certification.
Dated: August 5, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Combined Notice of Filings
Take notice that the Commission has
received the following Natural Gas
Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings:
Filings Instituting Proceedings
Docket Numbers: RP15–1128–000.
Applicants: Columbia Gas
Transmission, LLC.
Description: Columbia Gas
Transmission, LLC submits Off System
Capacity Request.
Filed Date: 7/23/15.
Accession Number: 20150723–5037.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/15.
Docket Numbers: RP15–1129–000
Applicants: Equitrans, L.P.
Description: Request of Equitrans, L.P.
for Partial Tariff Waiver.
Filed Date: 7/23/15.
Accession Number: 20150723–5038.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/15.
Docket Numbers: RP15–1130–000.
Applicants: WestGas InterState, Inc.
Description: Compliance filing
20150723_WGI Order 801 Compliance
System Map to be effective 8/24/2015.
Filed Date: 7/23/15.
Accession Number: 20150723–5068.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/15.
Docket Numbers: RP15–1131–000.
Applicants: Equitrans, L.P.
Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing:
Negotiated Capacity Release
Agreements—07/24/2015 to be effective
7/24/2015.
Filed Date: 7/24/15.
Accession Number: 20150724–5048.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/5/15.
The filings are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system by
clicking on the links or querying the
docket number.
Any person desiring to intervene or
protest in any of the above proceedings
must file in accordance with Rules 211
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and 214 of the Commission’s
Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and
§ 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time on the specified comment date.
Protests may be considered, but
intervention is necessary to become a
party to the proceeding.
eFiling is encouraged. More detailed
information relating to filing
requirements, interventions, protests,
service, and qualifying facilities filings
can be found at: https://www.ferc.gov/
docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For
other information, call (866) 208–3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.
Dated: July 27, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket Nos. CP09–6–001; CP09–7–001;
Docket No. CP13–507–000]
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LNG Development Company, LLC;
Oregon Pipeline Company, LLC;
Northwest Pipeline LLC; Notice of
Availability of the Draft Environmental
Impact Statement for the Proposed
Oregon LNG Terminal and Pipeline
Project and Washington Expansion
Project
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared a draft
environmental impact statement (EIS)
for the Oregon LNG Terminal and
Pipeline Project (Oregon LNG Project)
proposed by LNG Development
Company, LLC and Oregon Pipeline
Company, LLC (collectively referred to
as Oregon LNG) and the Washington
Expansion Project proposed by
Northwest Pipeline LLC (Northwest) in
the above-referenced dockets. Oregon
LNG requests authorization under
Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA)
to site, construct, and operate an
import/export liquefied natural gas
(LNG) terminal in Warrenton, Oregon.
Oregon LNG also requests a Certificate
of Public Convenience and Necessity
(Certificate) pursuant to Section 7(c) of
the NGA to construct and operate a
natural gas pipeline from the proposed
LNG terminal to an interconnect with
the interstate transmission system of
Northwest near Woodland, Washington.
Northwest requests a Certificate
pursuant to Section 7(c) of the NGA to
expand the capacity of its existing
natural gas transmission facilities
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between Woodland and Sumas,
Washington. The primary purpose of the
projects is to export an equivalent of
about 456 billion cubic feet per year of
natural gas to foreign markets.
The draft EIS assesses the potential
environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the
Oregon LNG and Washington Expansion
Projects in accordance with the
requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The
FERC staff concludes that approval of
the proposed projects would result in
some adverse environmental impacts;
however, most of these impacts would
be reduced to less-than-significant
levels with the implementation of
Oregon LNG’s and Northwest’s
proposed mitigation and the additional
measures recommended in the draft EIS.
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S.
Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Energy,
and U.S. Department of Transportation’s
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration participated as
cooperating agencies in the preparation
of the EIS. Cooperating agencies have
jurisdiction by law or special expertise
with respect to resources potentially
affected by the proposal and participate
in the NEPA analysis. Although the
cooperating agencies provided input to
the conclusions and recommendations
presented in the draft EIS, the agencies
will present their own conclusions and
recommendations in their respective
records of decision or determinations
for the projects.
The draft EIS addresses the potential
environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the
following facilities associated with the
Oregon LNG Project:
• One marine terminal with a ship
berth for one LNG marine carrier;
• two full-containment storage tanks,
each designed to store 160,000 cubic
meters of LNG;
• natural gas pretreatment facilities;
• two liquefaction process trains,
regasification facilities, and other
related terminal support structures and
systems;
• an 86.8-mile-long, 36-inch-diameter
bidirectional pipeline; and
• one 40-megawatt (MW), 48,000horsepower (hp) electrically driven gas
compressor station.
For the Washington Expansion
Project, the draft EIS addresses the
potential environmental effects of the
construction and operation of:
• 140.6 miles of 36-inch-diameter
pipeline loop 1 along Northwest’s
1 A pipeline loop is a segment of pipe constructed
parallel to an existing pipeline to increase capacity.
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existing pipeline in 10 noncontiguous
segments;
• ancillary pipeline facilities; and
• 96,000 hp of additional
compression at five existing compressor
stations.
Northwest’s project would also
include abandonment and removal of
existing pipeline and aboveground
facilities.
The FERC staff mailed copies of the
draft EIS to federal, state, and local
government representatives and
agencies; elected officials;
environmental and public interest
groups; Native American tribes;
potentially affected landowners; other
interested individuals and
nongovernmental organizations;
newspapers and libraries in the project
area; and parties to these proceedings.
Paper copy versions of this EIS were
mailed to those specifically requesting
them; all others received a compact disk
version. In addition, the draft EIS is
available for public viewing on the
FERC’s Web site (www.ferc.gov) using
the eLibrary link. A limited number of
hardcopies are available for distribution
and public inspection at: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Public
Reference Room, 888 First Street NE.,
Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, (202)
502–8371.
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 the Commission receive your
comments on or before October 6, 2015.
For your convenience, there are four
methods you can use to submit your
comments to the Commission. In all
instances, please reference the project
docket numbers (CP09–6–001, CP09–7–
001, and CP13–507–000) with your
submission. The Commission
encourages electronic filing of
comments and has expert staff available
to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or
efiling@ferc.gov.
(1) You can file your comments
electronically using the eComment
feature on the Commission’s Web site
(www.ferc.gov) under the link to
Documents and Filings. This is an easy
method for submitting brief, text-only
comments on a project.
(2) You can file your comments
electronically by using the eFiling
feature on the Commission’s Web site
(www.ferc.gov) under the link to
Documents and Filings. With eFiling,
you can provide comments in a variety
of formats by attaching them as a file
with your submission. New eFiling
users must first create an account by
clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ If you are filing
a comment on a particular project,
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings
Take notice that the Commission has received the following Natural
Gas Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings:
Filings Instituting Proceedings
Docket Numbers: RP15-1128-000.
Applicants: Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC.
Description: Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC submits Off System
Capacity Request.
Filed Date: 7/23/15.
Accession Number: 20150723-5037.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/15.
Docket Numbers: RP15-1129-000
Applicants: Equitrans, L.P.
Description: Request of Equitrans, L.P. for Partial Tariff Waiver.
Filed Date: 7/23/15.
Accession Number: 20150723-5038.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/15.
Docket Numbers: RP15-1130-000.
Applicants: WestGas InterState, Inc.
Description: Compliance filing 20150723_WGI Order 801 Compliance
System Map to be effective 8/24/2015.
Filed Date: 7/23/15.
Accession Number: 20150723-5068.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/15.
Docket Numbers: RP15-1131-000.
Applicants: Equitrans, L.P.
Description: Sec. 4(d) Rate Filing: Negotiated Capacity Release
Agreements--07/24/2015 to be effective 7/24/2015.
Filed Date: 7/24/15.
Accession Number: 20150724-5048.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/5/15.
The filings are accessible in the Commission's eLibrary system by
clicking on the links or querying the docket number.
Any person desiring to intervene or protest in any of the above
proceedings must file in accordance with Rules 211
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and 214 of the Commission's Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and Sec.
385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the specified comment
date. Protests may be considered, but intervention is necessary to
become a party to the proceeding.
eFiling is encouraged. More detailed information relating to filing
requirements, interventions, protests, service, and qualifying
facilities filings can be found at: https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For other information, call (866) 208-3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502-8659.
Dated: July 27, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-19627 Filed 8-10-15; 8:45 am]
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