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(202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also
provides access to the texts of formal
documents issued by the Commission,
such as orders, notices, and
rulemakings.
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Public sessions or site visits will be
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Finally, Cheniere Midstream has
established toll-free telephone numbers
((888) 214–7275 for general inquiries or
(800) 305–2466 for landowner inquiries)
and an email support address
(midship@cheniere.com) so that parties
can contact them directly with
questions about the project. You may
also refer to Cheniere Midstream’s
project Web site for additional
information at https://
www.cheniere.com/pipelines/midship/.
Dated: January 27, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–02223 Filed 2–1–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
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Combined Notice of Filings #2
Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric rate
filings:
Docket Numbers: ER15–697–002.
Applicants: Tonopah Solar Energy,
LLC.
Description: Notification of Change in
Facts of Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC.
Filed Date: 1/27/17.
Accession Number: 20170127–5132.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/17/17.
Docket Numbers: ER16–2297–003;
ER16–2506–001.
Applicants: Osborn Wind Energy,
LLC, Oliver Wind III, LLC.
Description: Notice of Non-material
Change in Status of Osborn Wind
Energy, LLC, et al.
Filed Date: 1/27/17.
Accession Number: 20170127–5149.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/17/17.
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Docket Numbers: ER16–453–005.
Applicants: Northeast Transmission
Development, LLC, PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C.
Description: Compliance filing: NTD
submits revisions to Att. H–27A re:
Settlement Agreement on Nov 17, 2016
to be effective 2/1/2016.
Filed Date: 12/14/16.
Accession Number: 20161214–5228.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/6/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–864–000.
Applicants: Bayshore Solar A, LLC.
Description: Baseline eTariff Filing:
Bayshore Solar A, LLC Co-Tenancy
Agreement to be effective 1/28/2017.
Filed Date: 1/27/17.
Accession Number: 20170127–5128.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/17/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–865–000.
Applicants: Bayshore Solar B, LLC.
Description: Baseline eTariff Filing:
Bayshore Solar B, LLC Co-Tenancy
Agreement to be effective 1/28/2017.
Filed Date: 1/27/17.
Accession Number: 20170127–5134.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/17/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–866–000.
Applicants: Bayshore Solar C, LLC.
Description: Baseline eTariff Filing:
Bayshore Solar C, LLC Co-Tenancy
Agreement to be effective 1/28/2017.
Filed Date: 1/27/17.
Accession Number: 20170127–5137.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/17/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–868–000.
Applicants: California Independent
System Operator Corporation.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
2017–01–27 EIM Implementation
Agreement for City of Seattle to be
effective 4/1/2017.
Filed Date: 1/27/17.
Accession Number: 20170127–5179.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/17/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–869–000.
Applicants: Essential Power Rock
Springs, LLC.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
2017–01–27 EIM Implementation
Agreement for City of Seattle to be
effective 4/1/2017.
Filed Date: 1/27/17.
Accession Number: 20170127–5183.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/17/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–870–000.
Applicants: Essential Power OPP,
LLC.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
2017–01–27 EIM Implementation
Agreement for City of Seattle to be
effective 4/1/2017.
Filed Date: 1/27/17.
Accession Number: 20170127–5191.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/17/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–871–000.
Applicants: Wisconsin Public Service
Corporation.
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Description: Tariff Cancellation:
Cancellation of WPSC—Alger Delta
Agreement to be effective 1/27/2017.
Filed Date: 1/27/17.
Accession Number: 20170127–5192.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/17/17.
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
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: January 27, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–02226 Filed 2–1–17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP17–19–000]
Valley Crossing Pipeline, LLC; Notice
of Intent To Prepare an Environmental
Assessment for the Proposed Border
Crossing Project, and Request for
Comments on Environmental Issues
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) will prepare an
environmental assessment (EA) that will
discuss the impacts of constructing and
operating Valley Crossing Pipeline,
LLC’s (Valley Crossing) proposed Border
Crossing Project located in Texas state
waters approximately 30 miles east of
Brownsville, Texas. The Commission
will use this EA in its decision-making
process to determine whether the
project is consistent with the public
interest.
This notice announces the opening of
a public comment period also known as
a scoping period. During this period, the
Commission will gather input from the
public and interested agencies on the
project. You can make a difference by
providing us with your specific
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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.
Your input will help the Commission
staff determine what issues it will
evaluate in the EA. To ensure that your
comments are timely and properly
recorded, please send them so that the
Commission receives them in
Washington, DC on or before February
27, 2017.
If you sent comments on this project
to the Commission before the opening of
this docket on November 21, 2016, you
will need to file those comments in
Docket No. CP17–19–000 to ensure they
are considered as part of this
proceeding.
This notice is being sent to the
Commission’s current environmental
mailing list for this project. State and
local government representatives should
notify their constituents of this
proposed project and encourage them to
comment on their areas of concern.
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Public Participation
For your convenience, there are three
methods you can use to submit your
comments to the Commission. The
Commission encourages electronic filing
of comments and has expert staff
available to assist you at (202) 502–8258
or efiling@ferc.gov. Please carefully
follow these instructions so that your
comments are properly recorded.
(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,
please select ‘‘Comment on a Filing’’ as
the filing type; or
(3) You can file a paper copy of your
comments by mailing them to the
following address. Be sure to reference
the project docket number (CP17–19–
000) with your submission: Kimberly D.
Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE., Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.
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Summary of the Proposed Project
Valley Crossing proposes to construct
and operate an approximately 1,000foot-long, 42-inch-diameter, natural gas
transmission pipeline across the
international boundary between the
United States of America and the United
Mexican States (Mexico). The Border
Crossing Project would connect the nonjurisdictional Valley Crossing System
with the Mexican Marina Pipeline. The
Border Crossing Project would deliver/
export up to 2.6 billion cubic feet per
day of natural gas to Mexico to serve
electrical generation plants. As stated
above, this international boundary
crossing would occur in Texas state
waters in the Gulf of Mexico and would
affect approximately 1.5 acres of
seafloor.
The general location of the proposed
pipeline is shown in appendix 1.1
Non-Jurisdictional Facilities
As discussed above, Valley Crossing
would also construct and operate a 165mile-long, 42-inch-diameter, natural gas
transmission pipeline system from
Nueces County, Texas to the Border
Crossing Project facilities. The proposed
Valley Crossing System would be
regulated by the Railroad Commission
of Texas and does not fall under the
jurisdiction of the FERC. Although these
facilities are not part of the proposed
action analyzed in the EA, we will
include a description of these facilities
and any available environmental impact
information to inform stakeholders and
decision-makers.
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 an
Authorization. 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
comments on the scope of the issues to
address in the EA. We note that many
comments were filed prior to this
notice. We want to assure those
1 The
appendices referenced in this notice will
not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of the
appendices were sent to all those receiving this
notice in the mail and are available at www.ferc.gov
or from the Commission’s Public Reference Room,
888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call
(202) 502–8371.
2 ‘‘Us’’, ‘‘we’’, and ‘‘our’’ refer to the
environmental staff of the Commission’s Office of
Energy Projects.
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commentors that their concerns will be
considered in the scope of our
environmental review; you do not need
to resubmit comments. We will consider
all filed comments during the
preparation of the EA.
In the EA we will discuss the
potential impacts on the marine
environment that could occur as a result
of construction and operation of the
proposed project. 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.
The EA will present our independent
analysis of the issues. The EA will be
available in the Commission’s publicly
accessible administrative record,
commonly referred to as eLibrary. We
may also publish and distribute the EA
to the public for an allotted comment
period. We will consider all comments
on the EA before making our
recommendations to the Commission.
To ensure we have the opportunity to
consider and address your comments,
please carefully follow the instructions
in the Public Participation section
beginning on page 2.
With this notice, we are asking
agencies with jurisdiction by law and/
or special expertise with respect to the
environmental issues of this project to
formally cooperate with us in the
preparation of the EA.3 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.
Consultations Under Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act
In accordance with the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation’s
implementing regulations for section
106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act, we are using this
notice to initiate consultation with the
applicable State Historic Preservation
Office (SHPO), and to solicit their views
and those of other government agencies,
interested Indian tribes, and the public
on the project’s potential effects on
historic properties.4 We will define the
project-specific Area of Potential Effects
(APE) in consultation with the SHPO as
3 The Council on Environmental Quality
regulations addressing cooperating agency
responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 1501.6.
4 The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s
regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 800. Those regulations define
historic properties as any prehistoric or historic
district, site, building, structure, or object included
in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register
of Historic Places.
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the project develops. On natural gas
facility projects, the APE at a minimum
encompasses all areas subject to ground
disturbance (examples include
construction right-of-way, contractor/
pipe storage yards, compressor stations,
and access roads). Our EA for this
project will document our findings on
the impacts on historic properties and
summarize the status of consultations
under section 106.
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Environmental Mailing List
The environmental mailing list
includes: Federal, State, and local
government representatives and
agencies; elected officials;
environmental and public interest
groups; concerned citizens; and other
interested parties. This list also includes
all affected landowners (as defined in
the Commission’s regulations) who are
potential right-of-way grantors, whose
property may be used temporarily for
project purposes, or who own homes
within certain distances of aboveground
facilities, and anyone who submits
comments on the project. We will
update the environmental mailing list as
the analysis proceeds to ensure that we
send the information related to this
environmental review to all individuals,
organizations, and government entities
interested in and/or potentially affected
by the proposed project.
If we publish and distribute the EA,
copies will be sent to the environmental
mailing list for public review and
comment. If you would prefer to receive
a paper copy of the document instead of
the CD version or would like to remove
your name from the mailing list, please
return the attached Information Request
(appendix 2).
Becoming an Intervenor
In addition to involvement in the EA
scoping process, you may want to
become an ‘‘intervenor’’ which is an
official party to the Commission’s
proceeding. Intervenors play a more
formal role in the process and are able
to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be
heard by the courts if they choose to
appeal the Commission’s final ruling.
An intervenor formally participates in
the proceeding by filing a request to
intervene. Instructions for becoming an
intervenor are in the ‘‘Document-less
Intervention Guide’’ under the ‘‘e-filing’’
link on the Commission’s Web site.
Motions to intervene are more fully
described at https://www.ferc.gov/
resources/guides/how-to/intervene.asp.
Additional Information
Additional information about the
project is available from the
Commission’s Office of External Affairs,
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at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web
site at 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 in the Docket Number
field (i.e., CP17–19). Be sure you have
selected an appropriate date range. For
assistance, please contact FERC Online
Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov
or toll free at (866) 208–3676, or for
TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. The
eLibrary link 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 www.ferc.gov/
docs-filing/esubscription.asp.
Finally, public meetings or site visits
will be posted on the Commission’s
calendar located at www.ferc.gov/
EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along
with other related information.
Dated: January 27, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
[CG Docket No. 17–22; DA 17–60]
Termination of Dormant Proceedings
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In this document, the
Commission, via the Consumer and
Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB),
seeks comment on whether certain
docketed Commission proceedings
should be terminated as dormant. The
Commission’s procedural rules, which
were revised to streamline and improve
the agency’s docket management
practices, delegate authority to the
Chief, CGB to periodically review all
open dockets and, in consultation with
the responsible Bureaus or Offices, to
identify those dockets that appear to be
candidates for termination.
DATES: Comments are due on or before
March 6, 2017, and reply comments are
due on or before March 20, 2017.
SUMMARY:
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Interested parties may
submit comments, identified by CG
Docket No. 17–22, by any of the
following methods:
D Electronic Filers: Comments may be
filed electronically using the Internet by
accessing the Commission’s Electronic
Comment Filing System (ECFS) at
https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/. Filers
should follow the instructions provided
on the Web site for submitting
comments. In completing the transmittal
screen, ECFS filers should include their
full name, U.S. Postal Service mailing
address, and the applicable docket or
rulemaking number, which in this
instance is CG Docket No. 17–22.
D Paper Filers: Parties who choose to
file by paper must file an original and
one copy of each filing. Filings can be
sent by hand or messenger delivery, by
commercial overnight courier, or by
first-class or overnight U.S. Postal
Service mail. All filings must be
addressed to the Commission’s
Secretary, Office of the Secretary,
Federal Communications Commission.
D All hand-delivered or messengerdelivered paper filings for the
Commission’s Secretary must be
delivered to FCC Headquarters at 445
12th Street SW., Room TW–A325,
Washington, DC 20554. The filing hours
are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. All hand deliveries
must be held together with rubber bands
or fasteners. Any envelopes and boxes
must be disposed of before entering the
building.
D Commercial overnight mail (other
than U.S. Postal Service Express mail
and Priority mail) must be sent to 9300
East Hampton Drive, Capitol Heights,
MD 20743. U.S. Postal Service first
class, Express, and Priority mail must be
addressed to 445 12th Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20554.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lauren Wilson, Consumer and
Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202)
418–1607 or by email at lauren.wilson@
fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a
synopsis of the Commission’s Public
Notice, Consumer and Governmental
Affairs Bureau Seeks Comment on
Termination of Certain Proceedings as
Dormant, document DA 17–60, released
on January 13, 2017, in CG Docket No.
17–22.
The full text of document DA 17–60
and copies of any subsequently filed
documents in this matter will be
available for public inspection and
copying via ECFS, and during regular
business hours at the FCC Reference
Information Center, Portals II, 445 12th
Street SW., Room CY–A257,
Washington, DC 20554. Document DA
ADDRESSES:
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP17-19-000]
Valley Crossing Pipeline, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Border Crossing Project, and
Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) will prepare an environmental assessment (EA) that will
discuss the impacts of constructing and operating Valley Crossing
Pipeline, LLC's (Valley Crossing) proposed Border Crossing Project
located in Texas state waters approximately 30 miles east of
Brownsville, Texas. The Commission will use this EA in its decision-
making process to determine whether the project is consistent with the
public interest.
This notice announces the opening of a public comment period also
known as a scoping period. During this period, the Commission will
gather input from the public and interested agencies on the project.
You can make a difference by providing us with your specific
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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. Your input will help
the Commission staff determine what issues it will evaluate in the EA.
To ensure that your comments are timely and properly recorded, please
send them so that the Commission receives them in Washington, DC on or
before February 27, 2017.
If you sent comments on this project to the Commission before the
opening of this docket on November 21, 2016, you will need to file
those comments in Docket No. CP17-19-000 to ensure they are considered
as part of this proceeding.
This notice is being sent to the Commission's current environmental
mailing list for this project. State and local government
representatives should notify their constituents of this proposed
project and encourage them to comment on their areas of concern.
Public Participation
For your convenience, there are three methods you can use to submit
your comments to the Commission. The Commission encourages electronic
filing of comments and has expert staff available to assist you at
(202) 502-8258 or efiling@ferc.gov. Please carefully follow these
instructions so that your comments are properly recorded.
(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,
please select ``Comment on a Filing'' as the filing type; or
(3) You can file a paper copy of your comments by mailing them to
the following address. Be sure to reference the project docket number
(CP17-19-000) with your submission: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Room 1A,
Washington, DC 20426.
Summary of the Proposed Project
Valley Crossing proposes to construct and operate an approximately
1,000-foot-long, 42-inch-diameter, natural gas transmission pipeline
across the international boundary between the United States of America
and the United Mexican States (Mexico). The Border Crossing Project
would connect the non-jurisdictional Valley Crossing System with the
Mexican Marina Pipeline. The Border Crossing Project would deliver/
export up to 2.6 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas to Mexico to
serve electrical generation plants. As stated above, this international
boundary crossing would occur in Texas state waters in the Gulf of
Mexico and would affect approximately 1.5 acres of seafloor.
The general location of the proposed pipeline is shown in appendix
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\1\ The appendices referenced in this notice will not appear in
the Federal Register. Copies of the appendices were sent to all
those receiving this notice in the mail and are available at
www.ferc.gov or from the Commission's Public Reference Room, 888
First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call (202) 502-8371.
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Non-Jurisdictional Facilities
As discussed above, Valley Crossing would also construct and
operate a 165-mile-long, 42-inch-diameter, natural gas transmission
pipeline system from Nueces County, Texas to the Border Crossing
Project facilities. The proposed Valley Crossing System would be
regulated by the Railroad Commission of Texas and does not fall under
the jurisdiction of the FERC. Although these facilities are not part of
the proposed action analyzed in the EA, we will include a description
of these facilities and any available environmental impact information
to inform stakeholders and decision-makers.
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 an
Authorization. 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 comments on the scope of the
issues to address in the EA. We note that many comments were filed
prior to this notice. We want to assure those commentors that their
concerns will be considered in the scope of our environmental review;
you do not need to resubmit comments. We will consider all filed
comments during the preparation of the EA.
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\2\ ``Us'', ``we'', and ``our'' refer to the environmental staff
of the Commission's Office of Energy Projects.
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In the EA we will discuss the potential impacts on the marine
environment that could occur as a result of construction and operation
of the proposed project. 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.
The EA will present our independent analysis of the issues. The EA
will be available in the Commission's publicly accessible
administrative record, commonly referred to as eLibrary. We may also
publish and distribute the EA to the public for an allotted comment
period. We will consider all comments on the EA before making our
recommendations to the Commission. To ensure we have the opportunity to
consider and address your comments, please carefully follow the
instructions in the Public Participation section beginning on page 2.
With this notice, we are asking agencies with jurisdiction by law
and/or special expertise with respect to the environmental issues of
this project to formally cooperate with us in the preparation of the
EA.\3\ 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.
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\3\ The Council on Environmental Quality regulations addressing
cooperating agency responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 1501.6.
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Consultations Under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation
Act
In accordance with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's
implementing regulations for section 106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act, we are using this notice to initiate consultation
with the applicable State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), and to
solicit their views and those of other government agencies, interested
Indian tribes, and the public on the project's potential effects on
historic properties.\4\ We will define the project-specific Area of
Potential Effects (APE) in consultation with the SHPO as
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the project develops. On natural gas facility projects, the APE at a
minimum encompasses all areas subject to ground disturbance (examples
include construction right-of-way, contractor/pipe storage yards,
compressor stations, and access roads). Our EA for this project will
document our findings on the impacts on historic properties and
summarize the status of consultations under section 106.
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\4\ The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's regulations
are at Title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 800. Those
regulations define historic properties as any prehistoric or
historic district, site, building, structure, or object included in
or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic
Places.
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Environmental Mailing List
The environmental mailing list includes: Federal, State, and local
government representatives and agencies; elected officials;
environmental and public interest groups; concerned citizens; and other
interested parties. This list also includes all affected landowners (as
defined in the Commission's regulations) who are potential right-of-way
grantors, whose property may be used temporarily for project purposes,
or who own homes within certain distances of aboveground facilities,
and anyone who submits comments on the project. We will update the
environmental mailing list as the analysis proceeds to ensure that we
send the information related to this environmental review to all
individuals, organizations, and government entities interested in and/
or potentially affected by the proposed project.
If we publish and distribute the EA, copies will be sent to the
environmental mailing list for public review and comment. If you would
prefer to receive a paper copy of the document instead of the CD
version or would like to remove your name from the mailing list, please
return the attached Information Request (appendix 2).
Becoming an Intervenor
In addition to involvement in the EA scoping process, you may want
to become an ``intervenor'' which is an official party to the
Commission's proceeding. Intervenors play a more formal role in the
process and are able to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be heard
by the courts if they choose to appeal the Commission's final ruling.
An intervenor formally participates in the proceeding by filing a
request to intervene. Instructions for becoming an intervenor are in
the ``Document-less Intervention Guide'' under the ``e-filing'' link on
the Commission's Web site. Motions to intervene are more fully
described at https://www.ferc.gov/resources/guides/how-to/intervene.asp.
Additional Information
Additional information about the project is available from the
Commission's Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208-FERC, or on the
FERC Web site at 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 in the Docket Number field (i.e., CP17-
19). Be sure you have selected an appropriate date range. For
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at
FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at (866) 208-3676, or for TTY,
contact (202) 502-8659. The eLibrary link 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 www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp.
Finally, public meetings or site visits will be posted on the
Commission's calendar located at www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along with other related information.
Dated: January 27, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-02222 Filed 2-1-17; 8:45 am]
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