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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP17–481–000]
DCP Operating Company, LP; Notice of
Intent To Prepare an Environmental
Assessment for the Proposed
Mewbourn 3 Residue East Pipeline,
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 environmental impacts of
the Mewbourn 3 Residue East Pipeline
involving construction and operation of
facilities by DCP Operating Company,
LP (DCP) in Weld County, Colorado.
The Commission will use this EA 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.
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. Your
input will help the Commission staff
determine what issues they need to
evaluate in the EA. To ensure that your
comments are timely and properly
recorded, please send your comments so
that the Commission receives them in
Washington, DC on or before October 6,
2017.
If you sent comments on this project
to the Commission before the opening of
this docket on August 2, 2017, you will
need to file those comments in Docket
No. CP17–481–000 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.
If you are a landowner receiving this
notice, a pipeline company
representative may contact you about
the acquisition of an easement to
construct, operate, and maintain the
proposed facilities. The company would
seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable
agreement. However, if the Commission
approves the project, that approval
conveys with it the right of eminent
domain. Therefore, if easement
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negotiations fail to produce an
agreement, the pipeline company could
initiate condemnation proceedings
where compensation would be
determined in accordance with state
law.
DCP provided landowners with a fact
sheet prepared by the FERC entitled
‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas Facility On
My Land? What Do I Need To Know?’’
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
(www.ferc.gov).
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 FercOnlineSupport@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 (CP17–481–
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
DCP proposes to construct and
operate 8.4 miles of new 20-inchdiameter pipeline in Weld County,
Colorado. The Mewbourn 3 Residue
East Pipeline Project would provide
about 253,000 dekatherms of natural gas
per day to an interconnect with
Colorado Interstate Gas Company
L.L.C.’s High Plains System. According
to DCP, its project would transport
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natural gas from DCP’s Mewbourne
Processing Plant Complex to support
further transportation and market needs
in Colorado and other states in the
region.
The Mewbourn 3 Residue East
Pipeline Project would consist of the
following facilities:
• 8.4 miles of new 20-inch-diameter
pipeline; and
• pig launcher and receiver
assembly,1 cathodic protection rectifier
unit, three mainline valves, and a
metering station.
The general location of the project
facilities is shown in appendix 1.2
Land Requirements for Construction
Construction of the proposed facilities
would disturb about 87.4 acres of land
for the aboveground facilities and the
pipeline. Following construction, DCP
would maintain about 32.3 acres for
permanent operation of the project’s
facilities; the remaining acreage would
be restored and revert to former uses.
The EA Process
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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 3 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 will consider all
filed comments during the preparation
of the EA.
In the EA we will discuss impacts that
could occur as a result of the
construction and operation of the
proposed project under these general
headings:
• Geology and soils;
• land use;
• water resources, fisheries, and
wetlands;
1 A pig is a tool that the pipeline company inserts
into and pushes through the pipeline for cleaning
the pipeline, conducting internal inspections, or
other purposes.
2 The appendices referenced in this notice will
not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of
appendices were sent to all those receiving this
notice in the mail and are available at 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.
3 We, us, and our refer to the environmental staff
of the Commission’s Office of Energy Projects.
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• cultural resources;
• vegetation and wildlife;
• air quality and noise;
• endangered and threatened species;
• public safety; and
• cumulative impacts.
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 public record through
eLibrary. Depending on the comments
received during the scoping process, 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.4 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
Colorado State Historic Preservation
Office (SHPO), and to solicit its views
and those of other government agencies,
interested Indian tribes, and the public
on the project’s potential effects on
historic properties.5 We will define the
project-specific Area of Potential Effects
(APE) in consultation with the SHPO as
the project develops. On natural gas
facility projects, the APE at a minimum
encompasses all areas subject to ground
disturbance (examples include
4 The Council on Environmental Quality
regulations addressing cooperating agency
responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 1501.6.
5 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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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.
Environmental Mailing List
The environmental mailing list
includes federal, state, and local
government representatives and
agencies; elected officials;
environmental and public interest
groups; Native American Tribes; other
interested parties; and local libraries
and newspapers. 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 of the EA 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
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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–
481). 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 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/docsfiling/esubscription.asp.
Finally, public sessions or site visits
will be posted on the Commission’s
calendar located at www.ferc.gov/
EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along
with other related information.
NYISO Operating Committee Meeting
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
September 15, 2017, 10:00 a.m.–4:00
p.m. (EST)
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Dated: September 6, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
September 27, 2017, 10:00 a.m.–4:00
p.m. (EST)
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Notice of Commission Staff
Attendance
The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (Commission) hereby gives
notice that members of the
Commission’s staff may attend the
following meetings related to the
transmission planning activities of the
New York Independent System
Operator, Inc. (NYISO):
NYISO Business Issues Committee
Meeting
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September 12, 2017, 10:00 a.m.–4:00
p.m. (EST)
The above-referenced meeting will be
via web conference and teleconference.
The above-referenced meeting is open
to stakeholders.
Further information may be found at:
https://www.nyiso.com/public/
committees/documents
.jsp?com=bic&directory=2017-09-12.
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The above-referenced meeting will be
via web conference and teleconference.
The above-referenced meeting is open
to stakeholders.
Further information may be found at:
https://www.nyiso.com/public/
committees/documents.
jsp?com=oc&directory=2017-09-15.
NYISO Electric System Planning
Working Group Meeting
September 26, 2017, 10:00 a.m.–4:00
p.m. (EST)
The above-referenced meeting will be
via web conference and teleconference.
The above-referenced meeting is open
to stakeholders.
Further information may be found at:
https://www.nyiso.com/public/
committees/documents.jsp?com=bic_
espwg&directory=2017-09-26.
NYISO Management Committee
Meeting
The above-referenced meeting will be
via web conference and teleconference.
The above-referenced meeting is open
to stakeholders.
Further information may be found at:
https://www.nyiso.com/public/
committees/
documents.jsp?com=mc&directory
=2017-09-27.
The discussions at the meetings
described above may address matters at
issue in the following proceedings:
New York Independent System
Operator, Inc., Docket No. ER13–102.
New York Independent System
Operator, Inc., Docket No. ER15–2059.
New York Transco, LLC, Docket No.
ER15–572.
For more information, contact James
Eason, Office of Energy Market
Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission at (202) 502–8622 or
James.Eason@ferc.gov.
Dated: September 5, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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[Project No. P–13407–004]
Clean River Power MR–2, LLC; Notice
of Application Accepted for Filing and
Soliciting Comments, Motions To
Intervene and Protest
Take notice that the following
hydroelectric applications have been
filed with the Commission and are
available for public inspection.
a. Type of Applications: Amendment
of License.
b. Project No.: 13407–004.
c. Date filed: May 23, 2017.
d. Applicant: Clean River Power MR–
2, LLC, a subsidiary of Free Flow Power
Corporation.
e. Name of Project: Lowell Lock and
Dam Water Power Project.
f. Location: The proposed project
would be located at the existing Lowell
Lock and Dam on the Muskingum River
in Washington County, West of the City
of Lowell, Ohio. The lock and dam was
formally owned and operated by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but is
currently owned and operated by the
Ohio Department of Natural Resources,
Division of Parks and Recreation.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act 16 U.S.C. 791a–825r.
h. Applicant Contacts: Ramya
Swaminathan, Chief Operating Officer,
Free Flow Power Corporation, 239
Causeway Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA
02114; (978) 283–2822, or by email at:
Ramya@ryedevelopment.com.
i. FERC Contact: M. Joseph Fayyad
(202) 502–8759, or by email at
mo.fayyad@ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing comments,
motions to intervene and protests is 30
days from the issuance of this notice by
the Commission. The Commission
strongly encourages electronic filing.
Please file comments, motions to
intervene, and protests 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/doc-sfiling/
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.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP17-481-000]
DCP Operating Company, LP; Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Mewbourn 3 Residue East
Pipeline, 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 environmental impacts of the Mewbourn 3 Residue East
Pipeline involving construction and operation of facilities by DCP
Operating Company, LP (DCP) in Weld County, Colorado. The Commission
will use this EA 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. 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.
Your input will help the Commission staff determine what issues they
need to evaluate in the EA. To ensure that your comments are timely and
properly recorded, please send your comments so that the Commission
receives them in Washington, DC on or before October 6, 2017.
If you sent comments on this project to the Commission before the
opening of this docket on August 2, 2017, you will need to file those
comments in Docket No. CP17-481-000 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.
If you are a landowner receiving this notice, a pipeline company
representative may contact you about the acquisition of an easement to
construct, operate, and maintain the proposed facilities. The company
would seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable agreement. However, if
the Commission approves the project, that approval conveys with it the
right of eminent domain. Therefore, if easement negotiations fail to
produce an agreement, the pipeline company could initiate condemnation
proceedings where compensation would be determined in accordance with
state law.
DCP provided landowners with a fact sheet prepared by the FERC
entitled ``An Interstate Natural Gas Facility On My Land? What Do I
Need To Know?'' 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 (www.ferc.gov).
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 FercOnlineSupport@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
(CP17-481-000) 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
DCP proposes to construct and operate 8.4 miles of new 20-inch-
diameter pipeline in Weld County, Colorado. The Mewbourn 3 Residue East
Pipeline Project would provide about 253,000 dekatherms of natural gas
per day to an interconnect with Colorado Interstate Gas Company
L.L.C.'s High Plains System. According to DCP, its project would
transport
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natural gas from DCP's Mewbourne Processing Plant Complex to support
further transportation and market needs in Colorado and other states in
the region.
The Mewbourn 3 Residue East Pipeline Project would consist of the
following facilities:
8.4 miles of new 20-inch-diameter pipeline; and
pig launcher and receiver assembly,\1\ cathodic protection
rectifier unit, three mainline valves, and a metering station.
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\1\ A pig is a tool that the pipeline company inserts into and
pushes through the pipeline for cleaning the pipeline, conducting
internal inspections, or other purposes.
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The general location of the project facilities is shown in appendix
1.\2\
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\2\ The appendices referenced in this notice will not appear in
the Federal Register. Copies of appendices were sent to all those
receiving this notice in the mail and are available at 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.
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Land Requirements for Construction
Construction of the proposed facilities would disturb about 87.4
acres of land for the aboveground facilities and the pipeline.
Following construction, DCP would maintain about 32.3 acres for
permanent operation of the project's facilities; the remaining acreage
would be restored and revert to former uses.
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
\3\ 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 will
consider all filed comments during the preparation of the EA.
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\3\ We, us, 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 impacts that could occur as a result of
the construction and operation 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;
public safety; and
cumulative impacts.
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 public record through eLibrary. Depending on
the comments received during the scoping process, 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.\4\ 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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\4\ The Council on Environmental Quality regulations addressing
cooperating agency responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal
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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 Colorado State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), and to
solicit its views and those of other government agencies, interested
Indian tribes, and the public on the project's potential effects on
historic properties.\5\ We will define the project-specific Area of
Potential Effects (APE) in consultation with the SHPO as 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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\5\ 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; Native American Tribes; other
interested parties; and local libraries and newspapers. 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 of the EA 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
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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., CP17-481). 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 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 sessions 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: September 6, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-19561 Filed 9-14-17; 8:45 am]
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