East Cheyenne Gas Storage, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Lewis Creek Amendment Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, 60190-60193 [2017-27223]
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Elmwood Park Power, LLC.
Newark Bay Cogeneration Partnership, L.P.
Lower Mount Bethel Energy, LLC.
York Generation Company LLC.
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Northern Natural Gas Company.
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Dated: December 14, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[FR Doc. 2017–27371 Filed 12–15–17; 11:15 am]
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 Lewis Creek Amendment Project
(Project). The Commission will use this
EA in its decision-making process to
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Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP18–11–000]
East Cheyenne Gas Storage, LLC;
Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Assessment for the
Proposed Lewis Creek Amendment
Project and Request for Comments on
Environmental Issues
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determine whether the project is in the
public convenience and necessity. East
Cheyenne Gas Storage, LLC (East
Cheyenne) is seeking authorization to
amend the certificate previously issued
in FERC Docket No. CP10–34–000 for
the East Cheyenne Gas Storage Project
in Logan County, Colorado. Specifically
East Cheyenne seeks authorization to
combine the working gas capacity and
cushion gas capacity for the West Peetz
and Lewis Creek Storage Fields and
utilize the same maximum bottom-hole
pressure, thus eliminating separately
certified capacities for each field. East
Cheyenne requests this amendment
because recent (updated) geologic
information shows that the West Peetz
and Lewis Creek D-sands in the storage
field are a single integrated reservoir. As
part of this consolidation, East
Cheyenne would reconfigure certain
natural gas facilities in the Lewis Creek
portion of the Project; and expand the
buffer zone of the Project.
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 January 8,
2018.
If you sent comments on this project
to the Commission before the opening of
this docket on October 27, 2017, you
will need to file those comments in
Docket No. CP18–11–000 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.
East Cheyenne 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
website (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 website
(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 website
(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 (CP18–11–
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
East Cheyenne proposes to amend its
current certificated Project by:
1. Reconfiguring the Injection/
Withdrawal (I/W) wells in the Lewis
Creek portion of the Project by
converting one existing nonjurisdictional well to an I/W well (LC–
D021) and collocating on the existing,
non-jurisdictional well pad five
directionally drilled I/W wells (LC–
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D022, LC–D023, LC–D024, LC–D025,
and LC–D026).
2. combining the certificated
maximum working gas and cushion gas
capacities of the West Peetz and Lewis
Creek Storage Fields, eliminating the
separate certificated West Peetz and
Lewis Creek working and cushion gas
capacities and reallocating cushion gas
capacity as working gas capacity;
3. decreasing the total cushion gas
capacity to 12.1 billion cubic feet and
increasing the total working gas capacity
to 22.5 billion cubic feet; 1
4. eliminating the currently
certificated maximum bottom-hole
pressure distinction between the West
Peetz Storage Field (2,353 pounds per
square inch absolute [PSIA]) and the
Lewis Creek Storage Field (1,900 PSIA)
and applying a maximum bottom-hole
pressure of 2,353 PSIA uniformly across
the single, integrated storage reservoir;
5. reconfiguring the pipelines
originally certificated for the Lewis
Creek Storage Field by:
a. Reducing the diameter of the
previously authorized 20-inch-diameter
Lewis Creek natural gas mainline
pipeline to a 16-inch-diameter pipeline;
and
b. reconfigure the 16-inch-diameter
Lewis Creek natural gas mainline and
the 6-inch-diameter water disposal
pipeline as the Lewis Creek produced
water mainline to connect directly to
the reconfigured I/W wells LC–D021
through LC–D026 on the single LC–
D021 well pad.2
6. reconfiguring the monitoring wells
originally certificated for the Lewis
Creek Storage Field. Eight monitoring
wells are currently certificated in the
Lewis Creek Storage Field: Two are
existing and in service, (LC–M001 and
LC–M002) and six are authorized but
unconstructed (LC–M003, LC–M005
through LC–M009). LC–M003 would be
relocated and installed as a new well
(LC–M003 was previously authorized to
be converted from an existing nonjurisdictional well). East Cheyenne
would install one new monitoring well,
LC–M004. There would be no change to
monitoring wells LC–M005 and LC–
M006. East Cheyenne would relocate
and convert three existing nonjurisdictional wells to monitoring wells,
LC–M007, LC–M008, LC–M009, for a
total of nine wells to monitor the DSands in the Lewis Creek Storage Field;
and
1 East Cheyenne states that there would be no
changes proposed to the injection and withdrawal
capacities for the Project.
2 East Cheyenne would no longer require the
unconstructed natural gas and produced water
laterals.
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7. Eliminating the currently
certificated, but unconstructed
produced water disposal well (LC–
W002), well pad, and appurtenant
facilities certificated for the Project.
The general location of the project
facilities is shown in appendix 1.3
Land Requirements for Construction
The changes along with the pipelines,
wells, well pads, and access roads that
East Cheyenne no longer requires as a
result of the reconfiguration of the
Lewis Creek portion of the certificated
Project, would result in a reduction in
the overall land requirements for the
Project on the order of 55 acres
associated with construction and 35
acres for operation. Land requirements
for the amended Project would include
land to be used temporarily for
construction and land to be retained
during operations as aboveground
facility sites in the Lewis Creek storage
field (well pads and access roads). The
current land requirements for the
amended Project is on the order of 53
acres for construction and 14 acres for
operation.
• cultural resources;
• land use;
• air quality and noise;
• 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.5 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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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 4 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;
• water resources, fisheries, and
wetlands;
• vegetation and wildlife;
• endangered and threatened species;
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.6 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/
3 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.
4 We, us, and our refer to the environmental staff
of the Commission’s Office of Energy Projects.
5 The Council on Environmental Quality
regulations addressing cooperating agency
responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 1501.6.
6 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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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; 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 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 website.
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
website 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
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digits in the Docket Number field (i.e.,
CP18–11). 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.
Dated: December 8, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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received the following electric rate
filings:
Docket Numbers: ER17–1561–001.
Applicants: New York Independent
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Description: Compliance filing:
Compliance Order No. 831 Offer Caps to
be effective 12/31/9998.
Filed Date: 12/8/17.
Accession Number: 20171208–5056.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/29/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1871–001.
Applicants: Bayshore Solar B, LLC.
Description: Compliance filing:
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effective 8/20/2017.
Filed Date: 12/8/17.
Accession Number: 20171208–5084.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/29/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–2471–001.
Applicants: ORNI 43 LLC.
Description: Second Amendment to
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filing.
Filed Date: 12/7/17.
Accession Number: 20171207–5127.
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Docket Numbers: ER18–414–000.
Applicants: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
2017–12–08_SA 3067 ATC–UMERC GIA
(J703) to be effective 11/30/2017.
Filed Date: 12/8/17.
Accession Number: 20171208–5074.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/29/17.
Docket Numbers: ER18–415–000.
Applicants: El Paso Electric Company.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: Rate
Schedule No. 113 Agreement on Cost
Responsibility for Wire Interconnection
to be effective 12/9/2017.
Filed Date: 12/8/17.
Accession Number: 20171208–5113.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/29/17.
Docket Numbers: ER18–416–000.
Applicants: San Diego Gas & Electric
Company.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 2018
SDGE TACBAA update to Transmission
Owner Tariff Filing to be effective 1/1/
2018.
Filed Date: 12/8/17.
Accession Number: 20171208–5117.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/29/17.
Docket Numbers: ER18–417–000.
Applicants: Wisconsin Public Service
Corporation.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
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Agreement w/CWP to be effective 1/1/
2018.
Filed Date: 12/8/17.
Accession Number: 20171208–5121.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/29/17.
The filings are accessible in the
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clicking on the links or querying the
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Any person desiring to intervene or
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time on the specified comment date.
Protests may be considered, but
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eFiling is encouraged. More detailed
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other information, call (866) 208–3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.
Dated: December 8, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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Docket Numbers: ER10–1946–014.
Applicants: Broad River Energy LLC.
Description: Updated Market Power
Analysis for the Southeast Region of
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Filed Date: 12/7/17.
Accession Number: 20171207–5139.
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Docket Numbers: ER17–1769–001.
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Filed Date: 12/7/17.
Accession Number: 20171207–5123.
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Applicants: Pacific Gas and Electric
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Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
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Filed Date: 12/7/17.
Accession Number: 20171207–5125.
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Power Project to be effective 2/8/2018.
Filed Date: 12/8/17.
Accession Number: 20171208–5000.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/29/17.
Docket Numbers: ER18–410–000.
Applicants: Southern California
Edison Company.
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Filed Date: 12/8/17.
Accession Number: 20171208–5001.
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Docket Numbers: ER18–411–000.
Applicants: Southern California
Edison Company.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
LGIA for Peak Valley Solar Farm Project
SA No. 198 to be effective 2/8/2018.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP18-11-000]
East Cheyenne Gas Storage, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Lewis Creek Amendment 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 environmental impacts of the Lewis Creek Amendment Project
(Project). The Commission will use this EA in its decision-making
process to
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determine whether the project is in the public convenience and
necessity. East Cheyenne Gas Storage, LLC (East Cheyenne) is seeking
authorization to amend the certificate previously issued in FERC Docket
No. CP10-34-000 for the East Cheyenne Gas Storage Project in Logan
County, Colorado. Specifically East Cheyenne seeks authorization to
combine the working gas capacity and cushion gas capacity for the West
Peetz and Lewis Creek Storage Fields and utilize the same maximum
bottom-hole pressure, thus eliminating separately certified capacities
for each field. East Cheyenne requests this amendment because recent
(updated) geologic information shows that the West Peetz and Lewis
Creek D-sands in the storage field are a single integrated reservoir.
As part of this consolidation, East Cheyenne would reconfigure certain
natural gas facilities in the Lewis Creek portion of the Project; and
expand the buffer zone of the Project.
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 January 8, 2018.
If you sent comments on this project to the Commission before the
opening of this docket on October 27, 2017, you will need to file those
comments in Docket No. CP18-11-000 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.
East Cheyenne 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 website (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 [email protected]. 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 website (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 website (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
(CP18-11-000) 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
East Cheyenne proposes to amend its current certificated Project
by:
1. Reconfiguring the Injection/Withdrawal (I/W) wells in the Lewis
Creek portion of the Project by converting one existing non-
jurisdictional well to an I/W well (LC-D021) and collocating on the
existing, non-jurisdictional well pad five directionally drilled I/W
wells (LC-D022, LC-D023, LC-D024, LC-D025, and LC-D026).
2. combining the certificated maximum working gas and cushion gas
capacities of the West Peetz and Lewis Creek Storage Fields,
eliminating the separate certificated West Peetz and Lewis Creek
working and cushion gas capacities and reallocating cushion gas
capacity as working gas capacity;
3. decreasing the total cushion gas capacity to 12.1 billion cubic
feet and increasing the total working gas capacity to 22.5 billion
cubic feet; \1\
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4. eliminating the currently certificated maximum bottom-hole
pressure distinction between the West Peetz Storage Field (2,353 pounds
per square inch absolute [PSIA]) and the Lewis Creek Storage Field
(1,900 PSIA) and applying a maximum bottom-hole pressure of 2,353 PSIA
uniformly across the single, integrated storage reservoir;
5. reconfiguring the pipelines originally certificated for the
Lewis Creek Storage Field by:
a. Reducing the diameter of the previously authorized 20-inch-
diameter Lewis Creek natural gas mainline pipeline to a 16-inch-
diameter pipeline; and
b. reconfigure the 16-inch-diameter Lewis Creek natural gas
mainline and the 6-inch-diameter water disposal pipeline as the Lewis
Creek produced water mainline to connect directly to the reconfigured
I/W wells LC-D021 through LC-D026 on the single LC-D021 well pad.\2\
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\2\ East Cheyenne would no longer require the unconstructed
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6. reconfiguring the monitoring wells originally certificated for
the Lewis Creek Storage Field. Eight monitoring wells are currently
certificated in the Lewis Creek Storage Field: Two are existing and in
service, (LC-M001 and LC-M002) and six are authorized but unconstructed
(LC-M003, LC-M005 through LC-M009). LC-M003 would be relocated and
installed as a new well (LC-M003 was previously authorized to be
converted from an existing non-jurisdictional well). East Cheyenne
would install one new monitoring well, LC-M004. There would be no
change to monitoring wells LC-M005 and LC-M006. East Cheyenne would
relocate and convert three existing non-jurisdictional wells to
monitoring wells, LC-M007, LC-M008, LC-M009, for a total of nine wells
to monitor the D-Sands in the Lewis Creek Storage Field; and
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7. Eliminating the currently certificated, but unconstructed
produced water disposal well (LC-W002), well pad, and appurtenant
facilities certificated for the Project.
The general location of the project facilities is shown in appendix
1.\3\
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\3\ 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
The changes along with the pipelines, wells, well pads, and access
roads that East Cheyenne no longer requires as a result of the
reconfiguration of the Lewis Creek portion of the certificated Project,
would result in a reduction in the overall land requirements for the
Project on the order of 55 acres associated with construction and 35
acres for operation. Land requirements for the amended Project would
include land to be used temporarily for construction and land to be
retained during operations as aboveground facility sites in the Lewis
Creek storage field (well pads and access roads). The current land
requirements for the amended Project is on the order of 53 acres for
construction and 14 acres for operation.
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
\4\ 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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\4\ We, us, and our refer to the environmental staff of the
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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;
water resources, fisheries, and wetlands;
vegetation and wildlife;
endangered and threatened species;
cultural resources;
land use;
air quality and noise;
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.\5\ 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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\5\ 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.\6\ 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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\6\ 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; 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 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 website. 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 website 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
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digits in the Docket Number field (i.e., CP18-11). Be sure you have
selected an appropriate date range. For assistance, please contact FERC
Online Support at [email protected] 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: December 8, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-27223 Filed 12-18-17; 8:45 am]
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