Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 17 / Friday, January 26, 2007 / Notices

Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 17 / Friday, January 26, 2007 / Notices

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 St. Petersburg Relay Project,

involving construction and operation of

facilities by Florida Gas Transmission

Company (FGT).1

FGT proposes to replace a total of

about 6.6 miles of its St. Petersburg 12inch-diameter lateral pipeline in eastcentral Pinellas County, Florida. Testing

of the 12-inch St. Petersburg Lateral

identified stress erosion cracking

anomalies reflective of the age and

condition of the pipeline. Replacement

of the pipeline sections and valve

assemblies described below are

necessary to comply with United States

Department of Transportation

requirements for a high consequence

Class 3 area under Title 49 CFR,

Pipeline Integrity Management, Subpart

O (Section 192). The pipeline is located

in a highly developed, urbanized area

that includes residential subdivisions,

shopping malls and existing county and

Florida Department of Transportation

(FDOT) road rights-of-way.

The sections of pipeline to be

replaced are described as follows:

• Relay #1—3.6 miles of pipeline,

• Relay #2—0.09 mile of pipeline,

• Relay #3—0.40 mile of pipeline,

• Relay #4—2.1 miles of pipeline, and

• Relay #5—0.5 mile of pipeline.

FGT also proposes to install a 12-inch

pig launcher and receiver and replace

two 8-inch block valves with 10-inch

block valves to allow passage for a

pipeline integrity tool to be run after the

segments have been replaced. The

general location of the project is shown

on the map attached as Appendix 1.2

No change in the maximum allowable

operating pressure of the pipeline

would occur as a result of the proposed

replacements. Therefore, there would be

no impact to FGT’s peak day or annual

gas deliveries.

The proposed project would disturb

up to 63.6 acres of land, 14.5 acres of

which are within FGT’s permanent

easement and 49.1 acres of which are

proposed temporary workspace and

extra temporary workspace. Temporary

workspace and extra temporary

workspace would be required at public

road and waterbody crossings,

hydrostatic test locations, crossovers,

tie-ins, staging/fabrication of pipeline

sections, and drag sections.

If you are a landowner receiving this

notice, you may be contacted by a

pipeline company representative about

the acquisition of an easement to

construct, operate, and maintain the

proposed facilities. The pipeline

company would seek to negotiate a

mutually acceptable agreement.

However, if the project is approved by

the Commission, 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 in accordance with state

law.

A fact sheet prepared by the FERC

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas

Facility on My Land? What Do I Need

to Know?’’ addresses a number of

typically asked questions, including the

use of eminent domain and how to

1 FGT’s original proposal to construct the St.

Petersburg Lateral Replacement Project was filed as

a prior notice application under Section 157.208(b)

of the Commission’s regulations. It is now being

processed as an application for construction under

Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act due to the filing

of a protest that was not resolved.

2 The appendix referenced in this notice is not

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of the

appendix (maps) are available from the

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888 First

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call (202)

502–8371. Copies of the appendix will be sent to

all those receiving this notice in the mail.

Commission, such as orders, notices,

and rulemakings.

In addition, the Commission now

offers a free service called eSubscription

which allows you to keep track of all

formal issuances and submittals in

specific dockets. This can reduce the

amount of time you spend researching

proceedings by automatically providing

you with notification of these filings,

document summaries and direct links to

the documents. Go to http://

www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm.

Finally, public meetings or site visits

will be posted on the Commission’s

calendar located at http://www.ferc.gov/

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along

with other related information.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. E7–1134 Filed 1–25–07; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP06–429–000]

Florida Gas Transmission Company;

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Assessment for the

Proposed St. Petersburg Relay

Replacement Project and Request for

Comments on Environmental Issues

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participate in the Commission’s

proceedings. It is available for viewing

on the FERC Internet Web site (http://

www.ferc.gov).

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 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 of Intent, the Commission staff

requests public comments on the scope

of the issues to address in the EA. All

comments received will be considered

during the preparation of the EA.

The Commission’s staff will prepare

an EA that will describe the potential

environmental impacts that could result

from construction and operation of the

proposed project under the general

headings:

• Water resources, wetlands, and

waterbodies.

• Vegetation and wildlife.

• Threatened and endangered

species.

• Cultural resources.

• Geology and soils.

• Land use and residences.

• Air quality and noise.

• Reliability and safety.

Our independent analysis of the

issues will be presented in the EA. We

will also evaluate possible 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.

Depending on the comments received

during the scoping process, the EA may

be published and mailed to Federal,

State, and local government agencies;

public interest groups; Native American

tribes; interested individuals; affected

landowners; newspapers; libraries; and

the Commission’s official service list for

this proceeding. A 30-day comment

period will be allotted for review if the

EA is published. We will consider all

comments submitted in any

Commission Order that is issued for the

project.

To ensure your comments are

considered, please carefully follow the

instructions in the public participation

section below.

Public Participation

You can make a difference by

providing us with your specific

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comments or concerns about the project.

By becoming a commenter, your

concerns will be addressed in the EA

and considered by the Commission. The

more specific your comments, the more

useful they will be. Generally,

comments are submitted regarding the

potential environmental effects,

reasonable alternatives and measures to

avoid or lessen environmental impact.

This notice and request for

environmental comments is being sent

to affected landowners; Federal, State

and local government representatives

and agencies; environmental and public

interest groups; other interested parties

in this proceeding; and local libraries

and newspapers. We encourage

government representatives to notify

their constituents of this notice and to

encourage their comments concerning

this proposed project.

To ensure that your comments are

properly recorded, please mail them to

our office on or before February 19,

2007. When filing comments please:

• Send an original and two copies of

your letter to: Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First St., NE., Room

1A, Washington, DC 20426.

• Label one copy of the comments for

the attention of Gas Branch 2; DG2E;

and Reference Docket No. CP06–429–

000 on the original and both copies.

Please note that the Commission

strongly encourages the electronic filing

(‘‘eFiling’’) of comments, interventions

or protests to this proceeding.

Instructions on how to ‘‘eFile’’

comments can be found on the

Commission’s Web site at http://

www.ferc.gov under the ‘‘Documents

and Filings’’ link.

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Becoming an Intervenor

In addition to involvement in the EA

scoping process, you may want to

become an official party to the

proceeding known as an ‘‘intervenor’’.

Intervenors play a more formal role in

the process. Among other things,

intervenors have the right to receive

copies of case-related Commission

documents and filings by other

intervenors. Likewise, each intervenor

must send one electronic copy (using

the Commission’s e-Filing system) or 14

paper copies of its filings to the

Secretary of the Commission and must

send a copy of its filings to all other

parties on the Commission’s service list

for this proceeding. If you want to

become an intervenor you must file a

motion to intervene according to Rule

214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR

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right to seek rehearing of the

Commission’s decision.

Affected landowners and parties with

environmental concerns may be granted

intervenor status upon showing good

cause by stating that they have a clear

and direct interest in this proceeding

which would not be adequately

represented by any other parties. You do

not need intervenor status to have your

environmental comments considered.

Environmental Mailing List

Additional Information

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).

To access information via the FERC

Web site click on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link

then click on ‘‘General Search’’ and

enter the docket number excluding the

last three digits in the Docket Number

field. Be sure you have selected an

appropriate date range. The ‘‘eLibrary’’

link provides access to the texts of

formal documents issued by the

Commission such as orders, notices, and

rulemakings. For assistance with

‘‘eLibrary’’, please contact FERC Online

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov or call toll free at 1–866–208–

3676, or for TTY, contact (202) 502–

8659.

In addition, the Commission now

offers a free service called eSubscription

which allows you to keep track of all

formal issuances and submittals in

specific dockets. This can reduce the

amount of time you spend researching

proceedings by automatically providing

you with notification of these filings,

document summaries and direct links to

the documents. Go to http://

www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm.

Public meetings and/or site visits

along with other Project related

information will be posted on the

Commission’s calendar located at

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Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. E7–1173 Filed 1–25–07; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[ Docket No. CP07–28–000]

This notice has been sent to all known

individuals, organizations, and

government entities interested in and/or

potentially affected by the proposed

project. This includes all landowners

who are potential right-of-way grantors,

whose property may be used

temporarily for project purposes, or who

own homes within distances defined in

the Commission’s regulations of certain

aboveground facilities.

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Southern Natural Gas Company;

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Assessment for the

Proposed 2007 Alabama Abandonment

& Replacement Project and Request

for Comments on Environmental

Issues

January 17, 2007.

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 2007 Alabama Abandonment &

Replacement Project. This proposal

involves abandonment, construction,

and operation of facilities along

approximately 10 miles of Southern

Natural Gas Company’s (Southern)

existing natural gas pipeline system in

Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

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. Your input will help us (the

commission staff) determine which

issues need to be evaluated in the EA.

Please note that the scoping period will

close on February 16, 2007.

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; and local

libraries and newspapers. State and

local government representatives are

asked to 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, you may be contacted by a

pipeline company representative about

the acquisition of an easement to

construct, operate, and maintain the

proposed facilities. The pipeline

company would seek to negotiate a

mutually acceptable agreement.

However, if the project is approved by

the Commission, that approval conveys

with it the right of eminent domain.

Therefore, if easement negotiations fail

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