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Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,

Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.

• Label one copy of the comments for

the attention of Gas Branch 1;

• Reference Docket No. PF07–12–000;

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC on

or before September 28, 2007.

Please note that the Commission

strongly encourages electronic filing of

comments. See 18 Code of Federal

Regulations (CFR) 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.’’

The public scoping meeting (date,

time, and location is listed above) is

designed to provide state and local

agencies, interested groups, affected

landowners, and the general public with

another opportunity to offer your

comments on the project. Interested

groups and individuals are encouraged

to attend the meetings and to present

comments on the environmental issues

they believe should be addressed in the

EA. A transcript of each meeting will be

made so that your comments will be

accurately recorded.

All public meetings will be posted on

the Commission’s calendar located at

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

EventsList.aspx along with other related

information.

Once Dominion formally files its

application with the Commission, you

may want to become an official party to

the proceeding known as an

‘‘intervenor.’’ 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 a

Commission proceeding by filing a

request to intervene. Instructions for

becoming an intervenor are included in

the User’s Guide under the ‘‘e-filing’’

link on the Commission’s Web site.

Please note that you may not request

intervenor status at this time. You must

wait until a formal application is filed

with the Commission.

Site Visit

On September 18, 2007, the OEP staff

will conduct a pre-certification site visit

of the proposed Storage Factory Project.

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We will view Dominion’s proposed

pipeline route, route variations, and

aboveground facilities that are being

considered for the proposed project.

Staff will tour the proposed project area

by automobile and on foot.

Representatives of Dominion will

accompany the OEP staff.

All interested parties may attend the

site visit. Those planning to attend must

provide their own transportation. If you

are interested in attending the site visit,

please meet us at 1 p.m. in the parking

lot of the Lawrenceville Fire Department

at 9–11 Mechanic St., Lawrenceville, PA

16901.

For additional information, please

contact the Commission’s Office of

External Affairs at 1–866–208–FERC

(3372).

Environmental Mailing List

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 are potential right-ofway 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. If you

do not return the attached form

(Appendix B), you will be removed from

the Commission’s environmental

mailing list. All individuals who

provide written comments, attend the

scoping meeting, or return the

Information Request will remain on our

environmental mailing list for this

project.

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). Using the ‘‘eLibrary’’

link, select ‘‘General Search’’ from the

eLibrary menu, enter the selected date

range and ‘‘Docket Number’’ excluding

the last three digits (i.e., PF07–12), and

follow the instructions. For assistance

with access to eLibrary, the helpline can

be reached at 1–866–208–3676, TTY

(202) 502–8659, or at

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. 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 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

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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, Dominion has established an

Internet Web site for this project at

http://www.dom.com/about/gastransmission/storage/index.jsp. The

Web site includes a project overview,

status, and answers to frequently asked

questions. You can also request

additional information by calling

Dominion at 1–880–882–5055.

Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP07–430–000]

Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas

Transmission LLC; Notice of Intent To

Prepare an Environmental Assessment

for the Proposed Colorado Lateral

Expansion Project and Request for

Comments on Environmental Issues

August 29, 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 Colorado Lateral Expansion Project,

involving construction and operation of

natural gas facilities by Kinder Morgan

Interstate Gas Transmission LLC (Kinder

Morgan) in Weld County, Colorado. 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 period that will be used to

gather environmental input from the

public and interested agencies on the

project. Your input will help the

Commission staff determine which

issues need to be evaluated in the EA.

Please note that the scoping period will

close on October 1, 2007. Details on

how to submit comments are provided

in the Public Participation section of

this notice.

If you are a landowner receiving this

notice, you may be contacted by a

Kinder Morgan representative about the

acquisition of an easement to construct,

operate, and maintain the proposed

project facilities. The pipeline company

would seek to negotiate a mutually

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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, Kinder Morgan could initiate

condemnation proceedings in

accordance with Colorado 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

participate in the Commission’s

proceedings. It is available for viewing

on the FERC Internet Web site (http://

www.ferc.gov).

With this notice, we 1 are asking other

federal, state, local, and tribal agencies

with jurisdiction and/or special

expertise with respect to environmental

issues to cooperate with us in the

preparation of the EA. Agencies that

would like to request cooperating status

should follow the instructions for filing

comments provided below.

Summary of the Proposed Project

Kinder Morgan seeks authorization to

install about 41.4 miles of 12-inchdiameter natural gas pipeline from the

existing Rockport Cheyenne Hub to a

point on the west side of the City of

Greeley, Colorado. All construction

would be within Weld County,

Colorado. The project would create

about 55,000 decatherms per day of

pipeline capacity from Kinder Morgan’s

Cheyenne Hub to distribution points in

the Greeley market area. Kinder Morgan

would construct four new meter stations

(ranging in size from 0.18 acre to 0.92

acre) to distribute the natural gas to this

market area. Further, a 12-inch-diamater

pig launcher and pig receiver 2 would be

located within the existing Rockport

Compressor Station and the proposed

Greeley South Meter Station,

respectively.

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Non-Jurisdictional Facilities

On behalf of a non-jurisdictional

company, Atmos Energy Corporation (a

local distribution company), Kinder

Morgan would construct five lateral

distribution pipelines of various

diameters (ranging from 6 to 12 inches)

totaling about 10.8 miles, and eight

regulator facilities located within

Kinder Morgan’s proposed meter

stations. The owner and operator of

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

environmental staff of the FERC’s Office of Energy

Projects.

2 A pipeline ‘‘pig’’ is a device used to clean or

inspect the pipeline. A pig launcher or receiver is

an aboveground facility where pigs are inserted or

retrieved from the pipeline.

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these laterals and regulator facilities

would be Atmos Energy Corporation.

Figure 1 in Appendix A is a detailed

map identifying all facilities associated

with this project.3

Land Requirements for Construction

Construction of the proposed

Colorado Lateral Expansion Project

would affect a total of about 501.6 acres

during construction. Following

construction, about 246.1 acres would

be allowed to revert to its previous

conditions. Disturbance associated with

aboveground facilities would

permanently disturb 4.6 acres of land.

Kinder Morgan would construct its

12-inch-diameter pipeline in a 90-footwide construction right-of-way and

laterals within a 40-foot-wide

construction right-of-way. Kinder

Morgan would maintain a 50-foot-wide

permanent right-of-way for operation

and maintenance of its mainline and

Atmos Energy Corporation would

maintain a 20-foot-wide permanent

right-of-way. Kinder Morgan’s proposed

mainline would overlap existing rightsof-way for about 94 percent of the

route.4

The EA Process

We are preparing the EA to comply

with the National Environmental Policy

Act (NEPA) which 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, we are requesting

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 EA will discuss impacts that

could occur as a result of the

construction and operation of the

3 The appendices referenced in this notice are not

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies are

available on the Commission’s Internet Web site

(http://www.ferc.gov) at the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link or from

the Commission’s Public Reference Room at (202)

502–8371. For instructions on connecting to

eLibrary, refer to the ‘‘Additional Information’’ at

the end 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 Kinder Morgan.

4 Construction of the Colorado Lateral would

follow and overlap an existing Public Service

Company of Colorado pipeline, a SUNCOR Energy

Inc. pipeline, and a Colorado Interstate Gas

proposed pipeline.

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proposed project under these general

headings:

• Geology and soils.

• Water resources.

• Wetlands.

• Land use and visual quality.

• Cultural resources.

• Vegetation, fisheries, 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, 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 for distribution and mailed to

federal, state, and local agencies; public

interest groups; interested individuals;

affected landowners; newspapers and

libraries in the project area; 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.

Public Participation

You can make a difference by

providing us with your specific

comments or concerns about the project.

By becoming a commenter, your

concerns will be addressed in the EA

and considered by the Commission.

Your comments should focus on the

potential environmental effects of the

proposal, reasonable alternatives to the

proposal (including alternative locations

and routes), 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

comments are received in time and

properly recorded:

• Send an original and two copies of

your letter to:

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., Room 1A, Washington,

DC 20426.

• Label one copy of the comments for

the attention of Gas Branch 1;

• Reference Docket No. CP07–430–

000;

• Mail your comments so that they

will be received in Washington, DC, on

or before October 1, 2007.

Please note that the Commission

strongly encourages electronic filing of

comments. See 18 Code of Federal

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Regulations (CFR) 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.’’

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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 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 B).5 Only

intervenors have 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.

Environmental Mailing List

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 are potential right-ofway 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. We

encourage government representatives

to notify their constituents of this

5 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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proposed project and encourage them to

comment on their areas of concern. If

you do not return the attached form

(Appendix C), you will be removed from

the Commission’s 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). Using the ‘‘eLibrary’’

link, select ‘‘General Search’’ from the

eLibrary menu, enter the selected date

range and ‘‘Docket Number’’ excluding

the last three digits (i.e., CP07–430), and

follow the instructions. For assistance

with access to eLibrary, the helpline can

be reached at 1–866–208–3676, TTY

(202) 502–8659, or at

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. 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 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. You can

also request additional information by

calling Kinder Morgan at (303) 914–

7715.

Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 2197–077]

Alcoa Power Generating Incorporated;

Notice of Application for Temporary

Amendment of License and Soliciting

Comments, Motions To Intervene, and

Protests

August 30, 2007.

Take notice that the following

hydroelectric application has been filed

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with the Commission and is available

for public inspection:

a. Type of Application: Request for

temporary variance of minimum flow

release and reservoir drawdown limit.

b. Project No.: 2197–077.

c. Date Filed: August 23, 2007.

d. Applicant: Alcoa Power Generating

Incorporated.

e. Name of Project: Yadkin.

f. Location: On the Yadkin/Pee Dee

River, in Montgomery, Stanley,

Davidson, Rowan, and Davie Counties,

North Carolina.

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791a–825r.

h. Applicant Contact: Marshall Olson,

Alcoa Power Generating Inc., 293 NC

740 Highway, P.O. Box 576, Badin, NC

28009–0576, (704) 422–5622.

i. FERC Contact: Thomas LoVullo,

(202) 502–8900; e-mail:

thomas.lovullo@ferc.gov.

j. Deadline for filing comments,

motions to intervene and protests:

September 28, 2007.

Please include the project number (P–

2197) on any comments or motions

filed. All documents (original and eight

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

Comments, protests, and

interventions may be filed electronically

via the Internet in lieu of paper, see 18

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

instructions on the Commission’s Web

site under the ‘‘e-filing’’ link. The

Commission strongly encourages

electronic filings.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure require all intervenors

filing documents with the Commission

to serve a copy of that document on

each person whose name appears on the

official service list for the project.

Further, if an intervenor files comments

or documents with the Commission

relating to the merits of an issue that

may affect the responsibilities of a

particular resource agency, they must

also serve a copy of the document on

that resource agency. A copy of any

motion to intervene must also be served

upon each representative of the

Applicant specified in the particular

application.

k. Description of Request: Alcoa

Power Generating, Inc. is requesting a

temporary variance of the minimum

flow release requirement under license

article 33 for the Yadkin Project.

Because of persistent and worsening

drought conditions in the project area

and the need to conserve water, Alcoa

requests that it be allowed to reduce the

weekly average discharge flow of 1,400

cubic feet per second (cfs) to a weekly

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