Equitrans, L.P.; Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Swarts Complex Abandonment Project Amendment, 55421-55422 [2022-19470]
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2022. As described further in Rule 214,
your motion to intervene must state, to
the extent known, your position
regarding the proceeding, as well as
your interest in the proceeding. For an
individual, this could include your
status as a landowner, ratepayer,
resident of an impacted community, or
recreationist. You do not need to have
property directly impacted by the
project in order to intervene. For more
information about motions to intervene,
refer to the FERC website at https://
www.ferc.gov/resources/guides/how-to/
intervene.asp.
All timely, unopposed motions to
intervene are automatically granted by
operation of Rule 214(c)(1). Motions to
intervene that are filed after the
intervention deadline are untimely and
may be denied. Any late-filed motion to
intervene must show good cause for
being late and must explain why the
time limitation should be waived and
provide justification by reference to
factors set forth in Rule 214(d) of the
Commission’s Rules and Regulations. A
person obtaining party status will be
placed on the service list maintained by
the Secretary of the Commission and
will receive copies (paper or electronic)
of all documents filed by the applicant
and by all other parties.
Comments
Any person wishing to comment on
the project may do so. The Commission
considers all comments received about
the project in determining the
appropriate action to be taken. To
ensure that your comments are timely
and properly recorded, please submit
your comments on or before November
1, 2022. The filing of a comment alone
will not serve to make the filer a party
to the proceeding. To become a party,
you must intervene in the proceeding.
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How To File Protests, Interventions,
and Comments
There are two ways to submit
protests, motions to intervene, and
comments. In both instances, please
reference the Project docket number
CP22–504–000 in your submission.
(1) You may file your protest, motion
to intervene, and comments by using the
Commission’s eFiling feature, which is
located on the Commission’s website
(www.ferc.gov) under the link to
Documents and Filings. New eFiling
users must first create an account by
clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be
asked to select the type of filing you are
making; first select General’’ and then
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select ‘‘Protest’’, ‘‘Intervention’’, or
‘‘Comment on a Filing’’; or 7
(2) You can file a paper copy of your
submission by mailing it to the address
below. Your submission must reference
the Project docket number CP22–504–
000.
To mail via USPS, use the following
address: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE, Washington, DC
20426.
To mail via any other courier, use the
following address: Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue,
Rockville, Maryland 20852.
The Commission encourages
electronic filing of submissions (option
1 above) and has eFiling staff available
to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or
FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov.
Protests and motions to intervene
must be served on the applicant either
by mail or email (with a link to the
document) at: Lori Myerchin, Director,
Regulatory Affairs and Transportation
Services, WBI Energy Transmission,
Inc., 1250 West Century Avenue,
Bismarck, North Dakota 58503 or
lori.myerchin@wbienergy.com.
Any subsequent submissions by an
intervenor must be served on the
applicant and all other parties to the
proceeding. Contact information for
parties can be downloaded from the
service list at the eService link on FERC
Online.
Tracking the Proceeding
Throughout the proceeding,
additional information about the project
will be 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
as described above. The eLibrary link
also provides access to the texts of all
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. For more information and to
7 Additionally, you may file your comments
electronically by using the eComment feature,
which is located on the Commission’s website at
www.ferc.gov under the link to Documents and
Filings. Using eComment is an easy method for
interested persons to submit brief, text-only
comments on a project.
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Dated: September 2, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP22–162–000; CP18–549–001]
Equitrans, L.P.; Notice of Availability of
the Environmental Assessment for the
Proposed Swarts Complex
Abandonment Project Amendment
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared an
environmental assessment (EA) for the
Swarts Complex Abandonment Project
Amendment (Project), proposed by
Equitrans, L.P. (Equitrans) in the abovereferenced docket. Equitrans requests
authorization for an amendment to an
existing abandonment authorization
issued by FERC on March 20, 2019 in
Docket No. CP18–549–000 (2019 Order)
to enable Equitrans to plug and abandon
five existing active natural gas injection/
withdrawal (I/W) wells in Equitrans’
Swarts Storage Field in Greene County,
Pennsylvania. The 2019 Order
authorized the abandonment-by-sale of
eighteen I/W wells and associated well
lines and appurtenances to the CONSOL
mining companies, which operate an
underground coal mine adjacent to the
Swarts Storage Field. Equitrans now
requests authorization to abandon five
of the eighteen I/W wells that were not
abandoned by the CONSOL mining
companies.
The EA assesses the potential
environmental effects of the
abandonment activities of the Project in
accordance with the requirements of the
National Environmental Policy Act. The
FERC staff concludes that approval of
the proposed Project, with appropriate
mitigating measures, would not
constitute a major federal action
significantly affecting the quality of the
human environment.
The proposed Project includes the
following activities:
• plug and abandon I/W Wells 3791,
3792, 3793, 3795, and 3797;
• abandon by removal the
aboveground appurtenances at each
wellhead;
• abandon-in-place about 2,400 feet
of associated 6- to 12-inch-diameter well
line/pipeline; and
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• remove all surface connections and
cut and cap the pipeline ends.
The Commission mailed a copy of the
Notice of Availability of the EA to
federal, state, and local government
representatives and agencies; elected
officials; environmental and public
interest groups; Native American tribes;
potentially affected landowners and
other interested individuals and groups;
and libraries in the Project area. The EA
is only available in electronic format. It
may be viewed and downloaded from
the FERC’s website (www.ferc.gov), on
the natural gas environmental
documents page (https://www.ferc.gov/
industries-data/natural-gas/
environment/environmentaldocuments). In addition, the EA may be
accessed by using the eLibrary link on
the FERC’s website. Click on the
eLibrary link (https://elibrary.ferc.gov/
eLibrary/search), select ‘‘General
Search’’ and enter the docket number in
the ‘‘Docket Number’’ field (i.e., CP22–
162 or CP18–549). 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 EA is not a decision document.
It presents Commission staff’s
independent analysis of the
environmental issues for the
Commission to consider when
addressing the merits of all issues in
this proceeding. Any person wishing to
comment on the EA may do so. Your
comments should focus on the EA’s
disclosure and discussion of potential
environmental effects, reasonable
alternatives, and measures to avoid or
lessen environmental impacts. The more
specific your comments, the more useful
they will be. To ensure that the
Commission has the opportunity to
consider your comments prior to
making its decision on this Project, it is
important that we receive your
comments in Washington, DC on or
before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
October 3, 2022.
For your convenience, there are three
methods you can use to file your
comments with the Commission. The
Commission encourages electronic filing
of comments and has staff available to
assist you at (866) 208–3676 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 FERC
Online. This is an easy method for
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submitting brief, text-only comments on
a project;
(2) You can also file your comments
electronically using the eFiling feature
on the Commission’s website
(www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC
Online. 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.’’ You must select the type of
filing you are making. If you are filing
a comment on a particular project,
please select ‘‘Comment on a Filing’’; or
(3) You can file a paper copy of your
comments by mailing them to the
Commission. Be sure to reference the
Project docket number (CP22–42–000)
on your letter. Submissions sent via the
U.S. Postal Service must be addressed
to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington,
DC 20426. Submissions sent via any
other carrier must be addressed to:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225
Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland
20852.
Filing environmental comments will
not give you intervenor status, but you
do not need intervenor status to have
your comments considered. Only
intervenors have the right to seek
rehearing or judicial review of the
Commission’s decision. At this point in
this proceeding, the timeframe for filing
timely intervention requests has
expired. Any person seeking to become
a party to the proceeding must file a
motion to intervene out-of-time
pursuant to Rule 214(b)(3) and (d) of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedures (18 CFR 385.214(b)(3) and
(d)) and show good cause why the time
limitation should be waived. Motions to
intervene are more fully described at
https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/ferconline/how-guides.
Additional information about the
Project is available from the
Commission’s Office of External Affairs,
at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC
website (www.ferc.gov) using the
eLibrary link. The eLibrary link also
provides access to the texts of all 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
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documents. Go to https://www.ferc.gov/
ferc-online/overview to register for
eSubscription.
Dated: September 2, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RD22–2–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–725A, FERC–725D,
FERC–725G, FERC–725M and FERC–
725Z)
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of information collection
and request for comments.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC) is soliciting
public comment on a renewal of
currently approved information
collection, (FERC–725A, FERC–725D,
FERC–725G, FERC–725M and FERC–
725Z) the proposed retirement of FAC–
010–3, the proposed FAC–011–4, FAC–
014–3, IRO–008–3, TOP–001–6 and
proposed corresponding revisions to
FAC–003–5, PRC–002–3, PRC–023–5
and PRC–026–2 Reliability Standards,
which will be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review. No Comments were received for
the 60-day notice published on April 14,
2022.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due October 11, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments on
(FERC–725A, FERC–725D, FERC–725G,
FERC–725M and FERC–725Z) the
proposed retirement of FAC–010–3, the
proposed FAC–011–4, FAC–014–3,
IRO–008–3, TOP–001–6 and proposed
corresponding revisions to FAC–003–5,
PRC–002–3, PRC–023–5 and PRC–026–
2 to OMB through www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Attention: Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission Desk
Officer. Please identify the OMB Control
Number(s) in the subject line of your
comments: 1902–0244 (FERC–725A),
1902–0247 (FERC–725D), 1902–0252
(FERC–725G), 1902–0263 (FERC–725M)
and 1902–0276 (FERC–725Z) in the
subject line of your comments.
Comments should be sent within 30
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP22-162-000; CP18-549-001]
Equitrans, L.P.; Notice of Availability of the Environmental
Assessment for the Proposed Swarts Complex Abandonment Project
Amendment
The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) for the
Swarts Complex Abandonment Project Amendment (Project), proposed by
Equitrans, L.P. (Equitrans) in the above-referenced docket. Equitrans
requests authorization for an amendment to an existing abandonment
authorization issued by FERC on March 20, 2019 in Docket No. CP18-549-
000 (2019 Order) to enable Equitrans to plug and abandon five existing
active natural gas injection/withdrawal (I/W) wells in Equitrans'
Swarts Storage Field in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The 2019 Order
authorized the abandonment-by-sale of eighteen I/W wells and associated
well lines and appurtenances to the CONSOL mining companies, which
operate an underground coal mine adjacent to the Swarts Storage Field.
Equitrans now requests authorization to abandon five of the eighteen I/
W wells that were not abandoned by the CONSOL mining companies.
The EA assesses the potential environmental effects of the
abandonment activities of the Project in accordance with the
requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. The FERC staff
concludes that approval of the proposed Project, with appropriate
mitigating measures, would not constitute a major federal action
significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.
The proposed Project includes the following activities:
plug and abandon I/W Wells 3791, 3792, 3793, 3795, and
3797;
abandon by removal the aboveground appurtenances at each
wellhead;
abandon-in-place about 2,400 feet of associated 6- to 12-
inch-diameter well line/pipeline; and
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remove all surface connections and cut and cap the
pipeline ends.
The Commission mailed a copy of the Notice of Availability of the
EA to federal, state, and local government representatives and
agencies; elected officials; environmental and public interest groups;
Native American tribes; potentially affected landowners and other
interested individuals and groups; and libraries in the Project area.
The EA is only available in electronic format. It may be viewed and
downloaded from the FERC's website (www.ferc.gov), on the natural gas
environmental documents page (https://www.ferc.gov/industries-data/natural-gas/environment/environmental-documents). In addition, the EA
may be accessed by using the eLibrary link on the FERC's website. Click
on the eLibrary link (https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/search),
select ``General Search'' and enter the docket number in the ``Docket
Number'' field (i.e., CP22-162 or CP18-549). 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 EA is not a decision document. It presents Commission staff's
independent analysis of the environmental issues for the Commission to
consider when addressing the merits of all issues in this proceeding.
Any person wishing to comment on the EA may do so. Your comments should
focus on the EA's disclosure and discussion of potential environmental
effects, reasonable alternatives, and measures to avoid or lessen
environmental impacts. The more specific your comments, the more useful
they will be. To ensure that the Commission has the opportunity to
consider your comments prior to making its decision on this Project, it
is important that we receive your comments in Washington, DC on or
before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on October 3, 2022.
For your convenience, there are three methods you can use to file
your comments with the Commission. The Commission encourages electronic
filing of comments and has staff available to assist you at (866) 208-
3676 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
FERC Online. This is an easy method for submitting brief, text-only
comments on a project;
(2) You can also file your comments electronically using the
eFiling feature on the Commission's website (www.ferc.gov) under the
link to FERC Online. 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.'' You must select the type of filing you are making. If
you are filing a comment on a particular project, please select
``Comment on a Filing''; or
(3) You can file a paper copy of your comments by mailing them to
the Commission. Be sure to reference the Project docket number (CP22-
42-000) on your letter. Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service
must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC
20426. Submissions sent via any other carrier must be addressed to:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
Filing environmental comments will not give you intervenor status,
but you do not need intervenor status to have your comments considered.
Only intervenors have the right to seek rehearing or judicial review of
the Commission's decision. At this point in this proceeding, the
timeframe for filing timely intervention requests has expired. Any
person seeking to become a party to the proceeding must file a motion
to intervene out-of-time pursuant to Rule 214(b)(3) and (d) of the
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedures (18 CFR 385.214(b)(3) and
(d)) and show good cause why the time limitation should be waived.
Motions to intervene are more fully described at https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/ferc-online/how-guides.
Additional information about the Project is available from the
Commission's Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208-FERC, or on the
FERC website (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary link. The eLibrary link
also provides access to the texts of all 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 https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/overview to
register for eSubscription.
Dated: September 2, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-19470 Filed 9-8-22; 8:45 am]
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