[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 122 (Thursday, June 25, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 34647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16884]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP96-153-004]
Southern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Availability of the Draft
Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statements for the
Proposed Amended North Alabama Pipeline Project
June 19, 1998.
The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared this Draft Supplement to the Final
Environmental Impact Statement (Supplement) for the North Alabama
Pipeline Project and it addresses the environmental impact of the
amended natural gas pipeline project proposed by Southern Natural Gas
Company (Southern) in the above-referenced docket.
The staff prepared the Supplement to satisfy the requirements of
the National Environmental Policy Act. The staff concludes that the
Amended North Alabama Pipeline Project would result in limited adverse
environmental impact if it is constructed as planned and with the
additional mitigation recommended in this Supplement. This document
supplements the North Alabama Pipeline Project Final Environmental
Impact Statement (FEIS) that was noticed by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency in the Federal Register on May 30, 1997. The
Supplement only examines the route changes north of milepost 95.25
(about milepost 91.2 of the route previously studied in the FEIS).
There are no changes in the facilities south of milepost 95.25.
The Supplement assesses the potential environmental effects of
construction and operation of the following Southern facilities:
About 27.1 miles of interstate natural gas pipeline (26.9
miles of 16-inch-diameter pipeline and 0.2 mile of 12-inch-diameter
pipeline); and
Two new meter stations, and related facilities.
Facilities required by two local distribution companies to receive
natural gas from Southern are also examined.
The purpose of Southern's proposed facilities would be to transport
a total of 69,000 thousand cubic feet per day of natural gas to one
existing and two new customers in northern Alabama.
Comment Procedure
Written Comments
Any person wishing to comment on the Supplement may do so. Please
carefully follow these instructions to ensure that your comments are
received in time and properly recorded:
Reference Docket No. CP96-153-004;
Send two copies of your comments to: Office of the
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street,
N.E., Room 1A, Washington, D.C. 20426.
Label one copy of the comments for the attention of the
Environmental Review and Compliance Branch II, PR 11.2; and
Mail your comments so that they will be received in
Washington, D.C. on or before August 10, 1998.
Public Meeting Schedule
A public meeting to receive comments on the Supplement will be held
on July 30, 1998 at 7:00 p.m. at the: Hartselle Civic Center, 406
Nanceford Road, Hartselle, AL 35640.
Interested groups and individuals are encouraged to attend and
present oral comments on the environmental impacts described in the
Supplement. Anyone who would like to speak at the public meeting may
get on the speakers list by signing up at the public meeting. Priority
will be given to persons representing groups. A transcript will be made
of the meeting.
After these comments are reviewed, any significant new issues are
investigate, and modifications are made to the draft Supplement, a
final Supplement will contain the staff's responses to timely comments
received on the draft Supplement.
The Supplement 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., Room 2A, Washington, D.C. 20426, (202) 208-1371.
A limited number of copies are available at this location.
Copies of the Supplement have been mailed to Federal, state, and
local agencies, public interest groups, interested individuals,
newspapers, and parties to this proceeding. Comments will be considered
by the Commission but will not serve to make the commentor a party to
the proceeding. Any person may file a timely motion to intervene during
the comment period on the basis of the Commission staff's draft
Supplement (see 18 CFR 380.106 and 385.214). You do not need intervenor
status to have your comments considered.
Additional information about the proposed project is available from
Paul McKee in the Commission's Office of External Affairs, at (202)
208-1088.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-16884 Filed 6-24-98; 8:45 am]
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