[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 46 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9158-9159]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-5335]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket Nos. CP96-10-000 and CP96-10-001; Docket No. CP96-60-000]
Transwestern Pipeline Company, et al.; Notice of Availability of
the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed San Juan Expansion
Project
March 1, 1996.
The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) on the
natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by Transwestern Pipeline
Company (Transwestern) in the above-referenced dockets.
The EA was prepared to satisfy the requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act. The staff concludes that approval of the
proposed project, with appropriate mitigating measures, would not
constitute a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality
of the human environment.
The EA assesses the potential environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the following facilities:
Construct a 10,000-horsepower (hp) electric driven Bisti
Compressor Station (C.S.) in San Juan County, New Mexico;
Add a 7,000-hp electric driven compressor to the existing
Bloomfield C.S. in San Juan County, New Mexico; and
Operate an existing 4,132-hp gas compressor at the
Bloomfield C.S. originally certificated as a back-up compressor;
The purpose of the proposed facilities would be to increase
capacity on Transwestern's San Juan Lateral up to a peak day capacity
of 795,000 decatherms.
The City of Farmington, New Mexico and the Public Service Company
of New Mexico would construct electrical facilities to power the
compressor stations to operate the electrical driven compressors.
The EA has been placed in the public files of the FERC and is
available for public inspection at: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Public Reference and Files Maintenance Branch, 888 First
Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208-1371.
Copies of the EA have been mailed to Federal, state and local
agencies, public interest groups, interested individuals,
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newspapers, and parties to this proceeding.
A limited number of copies of the EA are available from: Mr. Herman
Der, Environmental Project Manager, Environmental Review and Compliance
Branch I, Office of Pipeline Regulation, PR-11.1, 888 First Street,
N.E., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208-0896.
Any person wishing to comment on the EA may do so. Written comments
must reference Docket No. CP96-10-000, and be addressed to: Office of
the Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street,
N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426.
Comments should be filed as soon as possible, but must be received
no later than April 8, 1996, to ensure consideration prior to a
Commission decision on this proposal. A copy of any comments should
also be sent to Mr. Herman Der, Environmental Project Manager, PR-11.1,
at the above address.
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).
The date for filing time motions to intervene in this proceeding
has passed. Therefore, parties now seeking to file late interventions
must show good cause, as required by section 385.214(b)(3), by this
time limitation should be waived. Environmental issues have been viewed
as good cause for late intervention. You do not need intervenor status
to have your comments considered.
Additional information about this project is available from Mr.
Herman Der, Environmental Project Manager.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-5335 Filed 3-6-96; 8:45 am]
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