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Commission, 888 First St., NE., Room

1A, Washington, DC 20426;

• Label one copy of the comments for

the attention of Gas Branch 2, PJ–11.2;

• Reference Docket No. CP08–14–

000; and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC on

or before January 11, 2008.

The Commission encourages

electronic filing of comments. See 18

Code of Federal Regulations

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions

on the Commission’s Internet Web site

at http://www.ferc.gov under the

‘‘eFiling’’ link and the link to the User’s

Guide. Prepare your submission in the

same manner as you would if filing on

paper and save it to a file on your hard

drive. Before you can file comments you

will need to create an account by

clicking on ‘‘Login to File’’ and then

‘‘New User Account.’’ You will be asked

to select the type of filing you are

making. This filing is considered a

‘‘Comment on Filing.’’

We will mail the EA for public

comment. If you are interested in

receiving it, please return the

Information Request (Appendix 2). If

you do not return the Information

Request, you will be taken off the

mailing list.

Becoming an Intervenor

In addition to involvement in the EA

scoping process, you may want to

become an official party to the

proceeding, or ‘‘intervenor’’. 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 385.214). Intervenors

have the right to seek rehearing of the

Commission’s decision. Motions to

Intervene should be electronically

submitted using the Commission’s

eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov.

Persons without Internet access should

send an original and 14 copies of their

motion to the Secretary of the

Commission at the address indicated

previously. Persons filing Motions to

Intervene on or before the comment

deadline indicated above must send a

copy of the motion to the Applicant. All

filings, including late interventions,

submitted after the comment deadline

must be served on the Applicant and all

other intervenors identified on the

Commission’s service list for this

proceeding. Persons on the service list

with email addresses may be served

electronically; others must be served a

hard copy of the filing.

Affected landowners and parties with

environmental concerns may be granted

intervenor status upon showing good

cause by stating that they have a clear

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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.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Environmental Mailing List

Leaf River Energy Center LLC; Notice

of Intent To Prepare an Environmental

Assessment for the Proposed Leaf

River Storage Project and Request for

Comments on Environmental Issues

An effort is being made to send this

notice to all individuals, organizations,

and government entities interested in

and/or potentially affected by the

proposed project. This includes all

landowners who own homes within

distances defined in the Commission’s

regulations of certain aboveground

facilities.

Additional Information

Additional information about the

project is available from the

Commission’s Office of External Affairs,

at 1–866–208–FERC or on the FERC

Internet Web site (http://www.ferc.gov)

using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Click on the

eLibrary link, then 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. For

assistance, please contact FERC Online

Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov

or toll free at 1–866–208–3676, 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 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.

Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.

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December 11, 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 Leaf River Storage Project involving

construction and operation of

underground natural gas storage and

pipeline header facilities by Leaf River

Energy Center LLC (Leaf River) in

Smith, Jasper, and Clarke Counties,

Mississippi. The EA will be used by the

Commission 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.

Your input will help determine which

issues need to be evaluated in the EA.

Please note that the scoping period will

close on January 10, 2008. Details on

how to submit comments are provided

in the Public Participation section of

this notice.

This notice is being sent to affected

landowners; federal, state, and local

government agencies; elected officials;

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 to encourage them to comment on

their areas of concern.

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

participate in the Commission’s

proceedings. It is available for viewing

on the FERC Internet Web site (http://

www.ferc.gov).

Summary of the Proposed Project

Leaf River proposes to:

• Construct four storage wells and

caverns with a total working gas

capacity of 32 billion cubic feet (Bcf);

• Install seven 4,800 horsepower gas

driven reciprocating compressor units at

its proposed compressor station/gas

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handling facility along with gas

dehydration equipment in Smith

County, Mississippi;

• Drill four water supply wells and

four deep injection disposal wells and

construct a 16-inch-diameter water

supply pipeline and a 16-inch-diameter

brine disposal pipeline;

• Construct 6.6 miles of dual bidirectional 24-inch-diameter natural gas

pipelines called the Dome Lateral;

• Construct a single 6.9 mile 24-inchdiameter natural gas pipeline to the

west of the junction with the Dome

Lateral and 30.4 miles of dual 24-inchdiameter natural gas pipelines to the

east of the junction called the West East

Lateral which would follow the corridor

to be occupied by Gulf South Pipeline

Company, LP’s proposed Southeast

Expansion Project;

• Install a fiber optic cable along the

header system to transmit signals from

the gas handling facility and the

interconnect sites; and

• Construct four meter and regulator

stations and 5 interconnects.

The purpose of the project is to

provide additional gas storage that will

be capable of withdrawing and

delivering gas at a rate of up to 2.5 Bcf

per day and of receiving and injecting

gas at a rate of up to 1.0 Bcf per day.

Leaf River proposes that the Project will

include a natural gas pipeline header

system to interconnections with five

interstate gas transmission pipelines.

The general location of the proposed

facilities is shown in Appendix 1. 1

The EA Process

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We 2 are preparing this EA to comply

with the National Environmental Policy

Act (NEPA) which requires the

Commission to take into account the

environmental impact that could result

if it authorizes Leaf River’s proposal. By

this notice, we are also asking federal,

state, and local agencies with

jurisdiction and/or special expertise

with respect to environmental issues to

formally cooperate with us in the

preparation of the EA. Agencies that

would like to request cooperating status

1 The appendices referenced in this notice are not

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of all

appendices are available on the Commission’s

website at the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link 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 ‘‘Additional Information’’

section of this notice. Copies of the appendices

were sent to all those receiving this notice in the

mail. Requests for detailed maps of the proposed

facilities should be made directly to Leaf River.

2 ‘‘We,’’ ‘‘us,’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to the

environmental staff of the FERC’s Office of Energy

Projects.

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should follow the instructions for filing

comments provided below.

NEPA also requires the FERC 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, we are requesting

public comments on the scope of the

issues to address in the EA. All

comments received are considered

during the preparation of the EA.

The EA 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 and visual quality.

• Cultural resources.

• Vegetation and wildlife (including

threatened and endangered species).

• Air quality and noise.

• Reliability and safety.

We will also evaluate possible

alternatives to the proposed project or

portions of the project, where necessary,

and make recommendations on how to

lessen or avoid impacts on the various

resource areas.

Our independent analysis of the

issues will be in the EA. Depending on

the comments received during the

scoping process, the EA may be

published and mailed to federal, state,

and local agencies, public interest

groups, interested individuals, affected

landowners, newspapers, libraries, and

the Commission’s official service list for

this proceeding. A comment period will

be allotted for review if the EA is

published. We will consider all

comments on the EA before we make

our recommendations to the

Commission.

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

comments or concerns about the project.

By becoming a commentor, your

concerns will be addressed in the EA

and considered by the Commission. You

should focus on the potential

environmental effects of the proposal,

alternatives to the proposal including

alternative compressor station sites, and

measures to avoid or lessen

environmental impact. The more

specific your comments, the more useful

they will be. Please carefully follow

these instructions to ensure that your

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comments are received in time and

properly recorded:

• Send an original and two copies of

your letter to: Kimberley D. Bose,

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 1, PJ–11.1;

• Reference Docket No. CP08–8–000;

and

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC on

or before January 10, 2008.

The Commission encourages

electronic filing of comments. See 18

Code of Federal Regulations

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions

on the Commission’s Internet Web site

at http://www.ferc.gov under the

‘‘eFiling’’ link and the link to the User’s

Guide. Prepare your submission in the

same manner as you would if filing on

paper and save it to a file on your hard

drive. Before you can file comments you

will need to create an account by

clicking on ‘‘Login to File’’ and then

‘‘New User Account.’’ You will be asked

to select the type of filing you are

making. This filing is considered a

‘‘Comment on Filing.’’

As described above, we may mail the

EA for comment. If you are interested in

receiving an EA for review and/or

comment, please return the Information

Request (Appendix 3). If you do not

return the Information Request, you will

be taken off the mailing list.

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 eFiling 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 385.214) (see

Appendix 2). 3 Only intervenors have

3 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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the 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.

Additional Information

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along

with other related information.

Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP07–208–000]

Additional information about the

project is available from the

Commission’s Office of External Affairs,

at 1–866–208–FERC or on the FERC

Internet Web site (http://www.ferc.gov)

using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Click on the

eLibrary link, then 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. For

assistance, please contact FERC Online

Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov

or toll free at 1–866–208–3676, 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 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/

Commission’s Office of External Affairs

at (202) 502–8004 or toll free at 1–866–

208–FERC (208–3372).

Rockies Express Pipeline LLC; Notice

of Technical Conference

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice

December 11, 2007.

The following notice of meeting is

published pursuant to section 3(a) of the

government in the Sunshine Act (Pub.

L. No. 94–409), 5 U.S.C. 552b:

On December 19, 2007, staff of the

Office of Energy Projects (OEP) will

hold a technical conference concerning

issues raised by Rockies Express

Pipeline LLC (Rockies Express) with

two environmental recommendations in

the draft Environmental Impact

Statement for the REX East Project. In

particular, the two environmental

recommendations deal with the colocation of the proposed Rockies

Express right-of-way with the existing

Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company

right-of-way and the centering of the

Rockies Express pipeline within the

permanent right-of-way.

The technical conference will be held

on Wednesday, December 19 at 10 a.m.

(EST), in Room 3M–3 at the

Commission Headquarters in

Washington, DC.

Commission conferences are

accessible under section 508 of the

Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For

accessibility accommodations please

send an e-mail to accessibility@ferc.gov

or call toll free 1–866–208–3372 (voice)

or 202–208–8659 (TTY), or send a fax to

202–208–2106 with the required

accommodations.

Information concerning any changes

to the above may be obtained from the

December 13, 2007.

AGENCY HOLDING MEETING: Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission.

DATE AND TIME: December 20, 2007. 10

a.m.

PLACE: Room 2C, 888 First Street, NE.,

Washington, DC 20426.

STATUS: Open.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Agenda.

* NOTE—Items listed on the agenda

may be deleted without further notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Telephone

(202) 502–8400.

For a recorded message listing items

struck from or added to the meeting, call

(202) 502–8627.

This is a list of matters to be

considered by the Commission. It does

not include a listing of all documents

relevant to the items on the agenda. All

public documents, however, may be

viewed on-line at the Commission’s

Web site at http://www.ferc.gov using

the eLibrary link, or may be examined

in the Commission’s Public Reference

Room.

927TH—MEETING; REGULAR MEETING

[December 20, 2007, 10 a.m.]

Item No.

Docket No.

Company

ADMINISTRATIVE

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A–2 ........

A–3 ........

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Agency Administrative Matters.

Customer Matters, Reliability, Security and Market Operations.

Energy Market Update.

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E–1 ........

E–2 ........

E–3 ........

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RM05–17–002.

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RM05–25–002.

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