96-11701. Notice of Environmental Compliance and Applicant Environmental Report Preparation Training Courses  

  • [Federal Register Volume 61, Number 92 (Friday, May 10, 1996)]
    [Notices]
    [Pages 21455-21459]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 96-11701]
    
    
    
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    DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
    
    Notice of Environmental Compliance and Applicant Environmental 
    Report Preparation Training Courses
    
    May 6, 1996.
        The Office of Pipeline Regulation (OPR) staff is conducting three 
    sessions of its environmental compliance training course and the course 
    on preparing the applicant's environmental report.
        These courses are a result of the positive response to our outreach 
    training courses held from 1992 through 1995. We encourage interested 
    organizations and the public to take advantage of the courses to gain 
    an understanding of the requirements and objectives of the Commission 
    in ensuring compliance with all environmental certificate conditions 
    and meeting its responsibilities under the National Environmental 
    Policy Act and other laws and regulations.
    
    Environmental Report Preparation Course
    
        The environmental report preparation course presentation and the 
    manual focus primarily on Section 7 filings. However, the course manual 
    will address the following topics:
    
    A. What types of projects require environmental filings.
        1. Natural Gas Act section 7
        2. Natural Gas Policy Act filings
        3. Section 2.55 replacements
    B. What filings are required of each type of filing.
    C. What to include in each filing.
    D. Potential time saving procedures.
        1. Applicant-prepared DEA
        2. Third-party EA or EIS
    
        The staff intends the manual to be a cookbook for preparing 
    environmental filings under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
        If you have specific questions related to the subject matter of 
    this course, or if you would like the course to address a particular 
    item, please call Mr. John Leiss at (202) 208-1106.
        The one-day environmental report preparation course will be held on 
    the dates and at the locations shown below. Attendees must call the 
    numbers listed for the hotels by the reservation deadline and identify 
    themselves as FERC seminar attendees to receive the discounted group 
    rate. Hotel information for Houston and Denver will be available after 
    May 15 through the telephone number given below under Preregistration.
    
    Session and Location: June 25, Dupont Plaza Hotel, 1500 New Hampshire 
    Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20036, (202) 483-6000; July 30, Houston; 
    August 13, Denver.
    Hotel Reservation Deadline: June 10.
    
    Environmental Compliance Training Course
    
        The two-day environmental compliance training course will include 
    the following topics:
    
    A. Postcertificate clearance filings;
    B. Environmental inspection as it relates to:
        1. Right-of-way preparation;
        2. Temporary erosion control;
        3. Cultural resources/Paleontology;
        4. Waterbody crossings;
        5. Wetland construction;
        6. Residential area construction;
        7. Right-of-way restoration; and
        8. techniques for environmental compliance.
    
        The environmental compliance training course will be held on the 
    dates and at the locations shown below. Attendees must call the numbers 
    listed for the hotels by the reservation deadline and identify 
    themselves as FERC seminar attendees to receive the discounted group 
    rate. Hotel information for Houston and Denver will be available after 
    May 15 through the telephone number given below under Preregistration.
    
    Session and Location: June 26-27, Dupont Plaza Hotel, 1500 New 
    Hampshire Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20036, (202) 483-6000; July 31-
    August/1, Houston; August 14-15, Denver.
    Hotel Reservation Deadline: June 10.
    
    Preregistration
    
        The OPR staff and Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation, the 
    Commission's environmental support contractor for natural gas projects, 
    will conduct the training. There is no fee for the courses, but you 
    must preregister because space is limited.
        If you would like to attend either of these courses, please call 
    the telephone number listed below to obtain a preregistration 
    form.1 Note: If you plan to attend both the environmental report 
    preparation session and the subsequent environmental compliance 
    training session, you must preregister separately for each (only one 
    form is needed). Attendance will be limited to the first 150 people to 
    preregister in each course. Call or FAX requests for preregistration 
    forms to: Ms. Sarah Adam, Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation, 470 
    Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA 02210, Telephone: (617) 542-8805, FAX: 
    (617) 695-1587.
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        You will receive confirmation of preregistration and additional 
    information before the training course(s).
        Additional training will be offered in the future. Please indicate 
    whether you would like these courses to be offered again, or if you are 
    interested in any other courses with different topics or audiences. 
    Please indicate your preferences for location and time of year. 
    Suggestions on format are welcome.
    Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
    Acting Secretary.
    
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Document Information

Published:
05/10/1996
Department:
Energy Department
Entry Type:
Notice
Document Number:
96-11701
Pages:
21455-21459 (5 pages)
PDF File:
96-11701.pdf