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Delivery Service Agreement with the

City of Sturgis, Indiana.

Filed Date: 5/22/2006.

Accession Number: 20060524–0195.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time

on Monday, June 12, 2006.

Any person desiring to intervene or to

protest in any of the above proceedings

must file in accordance with Rules 211

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211

and 385.214) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern

time on the specified comment date. It

is not necessary to separately intervene

again in a subdocket related to a

compliance filing if you have previously

intervened in the same docket. Protests

will be considered by the Commission

in determining the appropriate action to

be taken, but will not serve to make

protestants parties to the proceeding.

Anyone filing a motion to intervene or

protest must serve a copy of that

document on the Applicant. In reference

to filings initiating a new proceeding,

interventions or protests submitted on

or before the comment deadline need

not be served on persons other than the

Applicant.

The Commission encourages

electronic submission of protests and

interventions in lieu of paper, using the

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic

service, persons with Internet access

who will eFile a document and/or be

listed as a contact for an intervenor

must create and validate an

eRegistration account using the

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling

link to log on and submit the

intervention or protests.

Persons unable to file electronically

should submit an original and 14 copies

of the intervention or protest to the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First St., NE., Washington, DC

20426.

The filings in the above proceedings

are accessible in the Commission’s

eLibrary system by clicking on the

appropriate link in the above list. They

are also available for review in the

Commission’s Public Reference Room in

Washington, DC. There is an

eSubscription link on the Web site that

enables subscribers to receive e-mail

notification when a document is added

to a subscribed dockets(s). For

assistance with any FERC Online

service, please e-mail

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call

(202) 502–8659.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP06–85–000]

Centerpoint Energy Gas Transmission

Company; Notice of Availability of the

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

for the Proposed Carthage to Perryville

Project

May 26, 2006.

The staff of the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (FERC or

Commission) has prepared this Draft

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

for the natural gas pipeline facilities

proposed by CenterPoint Energy Gas

Transmission (CEGT) under the abovereferenced docket. CEGT’s Carthage to

Perryville Project (Project) would be

located in various counties and parishes

in eastern Texas and northern

Louisiana.

This Draft EIS was prepared to satisfy

the requirements of the National

Environmental Policy Act. The FERC

staff concludes that the proposed

Project, with the appropriate mitigation

measures as recommended, would have

limited adverse environmental impact.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

(FWS) and the U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers (COE) are Federal cooperating

agencies for the development of this

EIS. A Federal cooperating agency has

jurisdiction by law or special expertise

with respect to any environmental

impact involved with the proposal and

is involved in the NEPA analysis.

The general purpose of the proposed

Project is to facilitate the transport of up

to 1.2 billion cubic feet per day of

natural gas received from production

areas in eastern Texas, as well as

northern Louisiana, to markets in the

Midwest and Northeastern regions of

the United States that can be accessed

through interconnects with existing

pipeline infrastructure.

The Draft EIS addresses the potential

environmental effects of construction

and operation of the following facilities:

• About 171.9 miles of 42-inchdiameter natural gas pipeline in Panola

County, Texas, and Caddo, DeSoto, Red

River, Bienville, Jackson, Ouachita, and

Richland Parishes, Louisiana;

• Two new, 20,620 horsepower (hp)

gas-turbine-driven compressor stations,

the Panola and Vernon Compressor

Stations, located in Panola County,

Texas, and Jackson Parish, Louisiana,

respectively;

• Two meter and regulator stations at

receipt points with three intrastate

pipelines, including:

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—Houston Pipe Line (HPL) Meter/

Regulator (M/R) Station in Panola

County, Texas;

—Duke Energy Field Services-Enbridge

M/R Station in Panola County, Texas;

• Four new meter and regulator

stations at interconnects with existing

interstate pipelines, including:

—Texas Gas M/R Station in Ouachita

Parish, Louisiana;

—ANR M/R Station in Richland Parish,

Louisiana;

—Trunkline M/R Station in Richland

Parish, Louisiana;

—Columbia Gulf M/R Station in

Richland Parish, Louisiana;

• 11 mainline valves; and

• Four pig launcher/receiver facilities

associated with the Panola and Vernon

Compressor Stations and the HPL and

Columbia Gulf M/R Stations.

CEGT proposes to construct its

pipeline facilities in two phases.

Construction of Phase I would be

initiated in October 2006 and completed

by February 2007, at which point CEGT

would place the proposed Project inservice. Under Phase I, a single, 10,310hp turbine compressor would be

installed at each compressor station.

Under Phase II, a second compressor

would be installed to bring the total

installed compression at each facility to

20,620 hp. CEGT indicates that Phase II

facilities would be installed and

operational by October 2008.

Comment Procedures and Public

Meetings

Any person wishing to comment on

the Draft EIS may do so. To ensure that

your comments are timely and properly

recorded so that they may be considered

in the Final EIS, please carefully follow

these instructions:

• Send an original and two copies of

your comments to: Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,

Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.

• Label one copy of your comments

for the attention of Gas Branch 3, DG2E;

• Reference Docket No. CP06–85–000

on the original and both copies; and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC on

or before July 17, 2006.

To expedite the FERC’s receipt and

consideration of your comments,

electronic submission of comments is

strongly encouraged by the Commission.

For information on electronically filing

comments, please see the instructions

on the Commission’s Web site at http://

www.ferc.gov under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link

and the link to the User’s Guide, as well

as information in 18 CFR

385.2001(a)(1)(iii). Before you can

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submit comments you will need to

create a free account, which can be

created on-line by clicking on ‘‘Sign-up’’

under ‘‘New User.’’ You will also be

asked to select the type of filing you are

making. This filing is consisdered a

‘‘Comment on Filing.’’

public scoping meetings for the East

Texas Expansion Project (FERC Docket

No. PF06–17–000), which we are

currently evaluating under our PreFiling Process. All meetings will begin

at 7 p.m. (CDT), and are scheduled as

follows:

Date and time

Location

Wednesday, June 21, 2006 ................................

Quitman High School Auditorium, 181 Wolverine Drive, Quitman, LA 71268, Telephone: (318)

259–2698.

Delhi High School Auditorium, 413 Main Street, Delhi, LA 71232, Telephone: (318) 878–2235.

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In lieu of or in addition to sending

written comments, we invite you to

attend the public comment meetings the

FERC will conduct in the project area to

receive comments on the Draft EIS. The

public comment meetings on the Draft

EIS for the Carthage to Perryville Project

will be conducted jointly with the

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The public comment meetings will be

posted on the FERC’s calendar located

at http://www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/

EventsList.aspx. Interested groups and

individuals are encouraged to attend

and present oral comments on the Draft

EIS. Transcripts of the meetings will be

prepared.

After the comments received are

reviewed, any significant new issues are

investigated, and modifications are

made to the Draft EIS, a Final EIS will

be published and distributed by the

FERC staff. The Final EIS will contain

the staff’s responses to timely comments

received on the Draft EIS.

Comments will be considered by the

Commission but will not serve to make

the commentor a party to the

proceeding. Any person seeking to

become a party to the proceeding must

file a motion to intervene pursuant to

Rule 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedures (18 CFR

385.214). Anyone may intervene in this

proceeding based on this Draft EIS. You

must file your request to intervene as

specified above.1 You do not need

intervenor status to have your

comments considered.

The Draft EIS has been placed in the

public files of the FERC and is available

for public inspection at: Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, Public

Reference Room, 888 First Street N.E.,

Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, (202)

502–8371.

A limited number of copies of the

Draft EIS are available from the Public

Reference Room identified above. In

addition, CD copies of the Draft EIS

have been mailed to affected

landowners; various Federal, state, and

local government agencies; elected

officials; environmental and public

interest groups; Native American tribes;

local libraries and newspapers;

intervenors; and other individuals that

expressed an interest in the proposed

1 Interventions may also be filed electronically via

the Internet in lieu of paper. See the previous

discussion on filing comments electronically.

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Project. Hard-copies of the Draft EIS

have also been mailed to those who

requested that format during the scoping

period for the proposed Project.

To reduce printing and mailing costs

for the Final EIS, the FERC will be

issuing that document in both CD and

hard-copy formats. In a separate

mailing, the parties on the current

mailing list for the Draft EIS will be sent

a postcard providing an opportunity to

select the format of the Final EIS that

they wish to receive. The FERC is

strongly encouraging the use of the CD

format in their publication of large

documents.

Additional information about the

project is available from the

Commission’s Office of External Affairs,

at 1–866–208–FERC (3372) or on the

FERC Internet Web site (http://

www.ferc.gov). Using the ‘‘eLibrary

link,’’ select ‘‘General Search’’ and enter

the project docket number excluding the

last three digits (i.e., CP06–85) in the

‘‘Docket Number’’ field. Be sure you

have selected an appropriate date range.

For assistance, please contact FERC

Online Support at

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll

free at 1–866–208–3676, or TTY (202)

502–8659. The eLibrary link on the

FERC Internet Web site also provides

access to the texts of formal documents

issued by the Commission, such as

orders, notices, and rule makings.

In addition, the FERC now offers a

free service called eSubscription that

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. To register for this service,

go to http://www.ferc.gov/

esubscribenow.htm.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP06–143–000]

Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC;

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Assessment for the

Proposed Algonquin Cape Cod

Project; Request for Comments on

Environmental Issues and Notice of

Site Visit

May 26, 2006.

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 Algonquin Cape Cod Project

(Project) involving construction, and

operation of facilities by Algonquin Gas

Transmission, LLC (Algonquin) in

Barnstable County, Massachusetts. The

project would provide firm

transportation service for new deliveries

of natural gas to KeySpan Energy

Delivery Services Company of New

England (Keyspan) to ensure reliability

and meet future demand. The project

would provide up to 38,000 dekatherms

per day (dth/d) of transportation

capacity. In general, the project consists

of about 3.5 miles of new pipeline and

other auxiliary facilities.

This notice announces the opening of

the scoping period that will be used to

gather environmental input from the

public and interested agencies on the

project. Please note that the scoping

period will close on June 26, 2006.

This notice is being sent to potentially

affected landowners; Federal, State, and

local government agencies; elected

officials; environmental and public

interest groups; Native American Tribes,

other interested parties; local libraries

and newspapers. State and local

government representatives are asked to

notify their constituents of this planned

project and encourage them to comment

on their areas of concern.

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