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Filed Date: 6/23/2006.

Accession Number: 20060627–0057.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. eastern time on

Friday, July 14, 2006.

Docket Numbers: ER06–1123–001.

Applicants: American Electric Power

Service Corporation.

Description: American Electric Power

Service Corp on behalf of Ohio Power

Co submits a revised Notice of

Termination of Interconnection and

Operating Agreement with Lawrence

Energy Center, LLC.

Filed Date: 6/23/2006.

Accession Number: 20060627–0055.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. eastern time on

Friday, July 14, 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

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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. PF06–29–000]

Gulfstream Natural Gas System, L.L.C.;

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Assessment for the

Proposed Gulfstream Phase IV

Expansion Project and Request for

Comments on Environmental Issues

June 28, 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

Gulfstream Natural Gas System, L.L.C.’s

(Gulfstream) planned Phase IV

Expansion Project located in Florida

and Alabama. This notice announces

the opening of the scoping process we

will use to gather input from the public

and interested agencies on the projects.

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 July 31,

2006.

This notice is being sent to affected

landowners; Federal, State, and local

government representatives and

agencies; environmental and public

interest groups; Native American tribes;

other interested parties in this

proceeding; and local libraries and

newspapers. We encourage government

representatives to notify their

constituents of this planned project and

encourage them to comment on their

areas of concern.

At this time we request that

comments be submitted in written form.

Further details on how to submit

written comments are provided in the

public participation section of this

notice. For further information and an

opportunity to provide comments, you

are invited to attend Gulfstream’s public

open house meetings that are scheduled

as follows:

Tuesday, July 11, 2006, 6–8 p.m.:

Hillsborough County Commission

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Building, 601 East Kennedy Blvd.,

18th Floor, Tampa, FL 33602.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006, 6–8 p.m.:

Weedon Island Preserve, Cultural and

Natural History Center, 1800 Weedon

Drive, St. Petersburg, FL 33702.

Thursday, July 13, 2006, 6–8 p.m.:

Manatee Civic Center, Palma Sola

Room, One Haben Blvd., Palmetto, FL

34221.

The primary purpose for the open

house sessions is to identify potential

siting issues so that they could be

appropriately addressed. At the open

houses, Gulfstream representatives will

be available to discuss the various

aspects of the project (e.g., land,

construction, environmental, design/

engineering, and operations) and will

meet individually with attendees to

outline how pipelines and related

facilities are sited, approved, built, and

operated. Aerial photography and

offshore survey maps showing route

alternatives will be made available to

encourage comments on the proposed

project. Information on the FERC

process will also be available.

In addition to the open houses,

Gulfstream has established a toll-free

phone number (888–GAS–4–FLA), an email address

(gulfstream@williams.com), and has

developed a project Web site (http://

www.gulfstreamgas.com/phase4.htm).

Information included on the project

Web site includes: The route selection

process; the regulatory overview, with

links to the FERC Web site; construction

procedures; pipeline safety; and contact

information.

Summary of the Proposed Project

Progress Energy Florida, Inc. (Progress

Energy) is scheduled to re-power its

Bartow Power Plant. The 472-megawatt

(MW) oil-fired plant is scheduled to be

re-powered with three combined cycle

gas turbines that will generate 1,100

MW of power. Progress Energy has

requested, and Gulfstream has agreed to

provide 0.155 billion cubic feet per day

of firm natural gas transportation service

to the Bartow Plant. In order to provide

the requested transportation service, it

is necessary for Gulfstream to expand its

current system, as described below.

Gulfstream is proposing to construct

approximately 17.74 miles of 20-inchdiameter offshore pipeline from a

proposed underwater hot tap with the

existing 36-inch-diameter Gulfstream

Pipeline (Line 200) in Hillsborough

County waters of Tampa Bay and

connecting to the existing Progress

Energy Bartow Power Plant (Bartow

Plant) on the east shore of St. Petersburg

in Pinellas County, Florida. The project

would also require the installation of

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45,000 horsepower (hp) of new

compression. One 15,000 hp compressor

unit would be added at Gulfstream’s

existing compressor station in Coden,

Alabama and a new compressor station

with two 15,000-hp units would be

constructed at an existing pressure

reduction station site in Manatee

County, Florida.

The proposed offshore pipeline would

head north-northeast from the proposed

hot tap location and would cross Port

Manatee channel, cross Cut ‘‘C’’ of

Tampa Bay channel, turn in a northnorthwest direction, cross Cut ‘‘G’’ of

Tampa Bay channel and Cut ‘‘K’’ of

Tampa Bay channel, enter Pinellas

County waters, turn almost due west,

cross the Bartow Channel and enter the

south side of the Bartow Plant. The

pipeline would be buried to maintain a

minimum of 3 feet of cover between the

top of the pipeline and the natural bay

bottom, in accordance with U.S.

Department of Transportation

regulations. The four channel crossings

would be installed by horizontal

directional drills (HDD) under each

channel and would be buried with a

cover of 10 or more feet below the

design bottom of each channel. The

shore approach to the Bartow Plant

would also be installed by HDD and

would start at the Bartow Channel,

thereby avoiding sensitive nearshore

habitats.

In order to meet the in-service dates

requested by Progress Energy,

Gulfstream intends to place the

proposed pipeline in service by

September 1, 2008, and the compression

in service by January 1, 2009.

Location maps depicting Gulfstream’s

proposed facilities are provided in

Appendix 1.1

Currently Identified Environmental

Issues

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At this time no formal application has

been filed with the FERC. For this

project, the FERC staff has initiated its

NEPA review prior to receiving the

application. The purpose of our PreFiling Process is to involve interested

stakeholders early in project planning

and to identify and resolve issues before

an application is filed with the FERC.

We have already identified several

issues that we think deserve attention

based on a preliminary review of the

1 The appendices referenced in this notice are not

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies are

available on the Commission’s Web site (excluding

maps) at the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link or from the

Commission’s Public Reference Room or call (202)

502–8371. For instructions on connecting to

eLibrary refer to the end of this notice. Copies of

the appendices were sent to all those receiving this

notice in the mail.

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proposed facilities, environmental

information provided by Gulfstream,

and comments provided by other

agencies. This preliminary list of issues

may be changed based on your

comments and our analysis.;

• Potential indirect impacts (e.g.,

turbidity and sedimentation) to

submerged aquatic vegetation;

• Safety and noise concerns for the

new compressor station facilities;

• Potential conflicts with future ship

channel improvements;

• Potential impacts to aquatic

preserves;

• Net benefits to air quality;

• Potential impacts to manatees, sea

turtles, and sawfish.

The EA Process

The FERC will use the EA to consider

the environmental impact that could

result if it issues Gulfstream a Certificate

of Public Convenience and Necessity.

This notice formally announces our

preparation of the EA and the beginning

of the process referred to as ‘‘scoping.’’

We 2 are soliciting input from the public

and interested agencies to help us focus

the analysis in the EA on the potentially

significant environmental issues related

to the proposed action.

Our independent analysis of the

issues will be included in an EA that

will be prepared for the project. Our

evaluation will also include possible

alternatives to the proposed project or

portions of the project, and we will

make recommendations on how to

lessen or avoid impacts on the various

resource areas of concern.

The EA will be mailed to Federal,

State, and local government agencies;

elected officials; environmental and

public interest groups; Native American

tribes; affected landowners; other

interested parties; local libraries and

newspapers; and the FERC’s official

service list for this proceeding. A 30-day

comment period will be allotted for

review of the EA. We will consider all

comments submitted on the EA in any

Commission Order that is issued for the

project.

We are currently involved in

discussions with other jurisdictional

agencies to identify their issues and

concerns. These agencies include the

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National

Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service, Florida Department of

Environmental Protection, and the U.S.

Department of Transportation. By this

notice, we are asking these and other

Federal, State, and local agencies with

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

environmental staff of the Office of Energy Projects.

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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

should follow the instructions for filing

comments provided below.

Public Participation

You can make a difference by

providing us with your specific

comments or concerns about the

proposals. Your comments should focus

on the potential environmental effects,

reasonable alternatives and measures to

avoid or lessen environmental impact.

The more specific your comments, the

more useful they will be. To ensure that

your comments are timely and properly

recorded, please mail your comments so

that they will be received in

Washington, DC on or before July 31,

2006 and carefully follow these

instructions:

• 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 3, DG2E;

and

• Reference Docket No. PF06–29–000

on the original and both copies.

Please note that 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.’’

When Gulfstream submits its

application for authorization to

construct and operate the Phase IV

Expansion Project, the Commission will

publish a Notice of Application in the

Federal Register and will establish a

deadline for interested persons to

intervene in the proceeding. Because the

Commission’s Pre-filing Process occurs

before an application to begin a

proceeding is officially filed, petitions

to intervene during this process are

premature and will not be accepted by

the Commission.

Environmental Mailing List

If you wish to remain on the

environmental mailing list, please

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return the Mailing List Retention Form

included in Appendix 2. If you do not

return this form, you will be taken off

our mailing list.

Availability of 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’’ (i.e., PF06–

29–000), and follow the instructions.

Searches may also be done using the

phrase ‘‘Gulfstream Phase IV

Expansion’’ in the ‘‘Text Search’’ field.

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 rulemakings.

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.

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. As

indicated previously, Gulfstream has

established an Internet Web site for its

project at http://

www.gulfstreamgas.com/phase4.htm.

The Web site includes a project

overview, contact information,

regulatory overview, and construction

procedures.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP06–365–000; Docket No.

RP06–231–002]

Columbia Gas Transmission

Corporation; Norstar Operating, LLC v.

Columbia Gas Transmission

Corporation; Notice of Technical

Conference

June 29, 2006.

Take notice that the Commission will

convene a technical conference in

reference to the above-captioned

proceeding on Tuesday, July 25, 2006, at

9 a.m. (EDT), in a room to be designated

at the offices of the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

The Commission’s June 21, 2006

order in this proceeding directed that a

technical conference be held to address

the technical, engineering and

operational issues raised by Columbia

Gas Transmission Corporation’s

(Columbia) proposed gas quality

specifications filed in Docket No. RP06–

365–000.1 The order also found that

Columbia’s filing in Docket No. RP06–

231–002 revising section 25.5(e) of its

General Terms and Conditions should

be addressed at the technical

conference.

FERC 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

(866) 208–3372 (voice) or 202–502–8659

(TTY), or send a fax to 202–208–2106

with the required accommodations.

All interested persons are permitted

to attend. For further information please

contact David Faerberg at (202) 502–

8275 or e-mail david.faerberg@ferc.gov.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

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Secretary.

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Notice of Comment Meeting

June 28, 2006.

Millennium Pipeline L.L.C. (Docket

Nos. CP98–150–006, CP98–150–007, and

CP98–150–008); Columbia Gas

Transmission Corporation (Docket Nos.

CP98–151–003, CP98–151–004, and

CP05–19–000); Empire State Pipeline

and Empire Pipeline, Inc. ( Docket Nos.

CP06–5–000, CP06–6–000, and CP06–7–

000); Algonquin Gas Transmission

System ( Docket No. CP06–76–000); and

Iroquois Gas Transmission System

(Docket No. CP02–31–002)

On July 18, 2006, the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission staff will

conduct comment meeting for the

purpose of hearing comments on the

draft supplemental environmental

impact statement (DSEIS) for the

Northeast (NE)–07 Project which was

issued on June 15, 2006 and which you

should have received. The NE–07

Project would involve the construction

and operation of natural gas facilities as

proposed and described in the abovereferenced dockets in the states of New

York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and

would include:

• The Millennium Pipeline Project—

Phase I proposed by Millennium

Pipeline L.L.C. and Columbia Gas

Transmission Corporation (Columbia);

• The Line A–5 Replacement Project

proposed by Columbia;

• The Empire Connector Project

proposed by Empire State Pipeline and

Empire Pipeline, Inc.;

• The Ramapo Expansion Project

proposed by Algonquin Gas

Transmission System; and

• The MarketAccess Project proposed

by Iroquois Gas Transmission System.

The SDEIS comment meeting will be

on July 18, 2006, and will begin at 6

p.m. and will end no later than 9 p.m.

(EST). The meeting will be held at:

Brookfield High School Auditorium, 45

Longmeadow Hill Road, Brookfield,

Connecticut.

Additional information about the

project and the comment meeting is

available from the Commission’s Office

of External Affairs, at 1–866–208–FERC.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

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