[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 140 (Tuesday, July 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 39238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19158]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Environmental Compliance and Applicant Environmental
Report Preparation Training Courses
July 16, 1997.
The Office of Pipeline Regulation (OPR) staff is conducting three
sessions of its environmental compliance training course and the course
on preparing the applicants environmental report.
These courses are a result of the positive response to our outreach
training courses held since 1992. 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
number listed for the hotel by the reservation deadline and identify
themselves as Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seminar attendees to
receive the discounted group rate.
We also intend to have a session in Salt Lake City in October.
Information on that session (and registration forms) should be
available by the end of July through the telephone number given below
under Preregistration.
Session and Location:
September 9, Four Points Hotel, Riverwalk North, 110 Lexington
Avenue, San Antonio, Texas 78205,
September 22, Hynes Auditorium, 900 Boyleston Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02115, Information: (617) 954-2000
Reservation by: August 11.
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
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.
We also intend to have a session in Salt Lake City in October.
Information on that session (and registration forms) should be
available by the end of July through the telephone number given below
under Preregistration.
Session and Location:
September 10-11, Four Points Hotel, Riverwalk North, 110 Lexington
Avenue, San Antonio, Texas 78205, 1-800-28TEXAS
September 23-24, Hynes Auditorium, 900 Boyleston Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02115, Information: (617) 954-2000
Reservation by: August 11.
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.
Donna Connor, c/o Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation, 470
Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA 02210, Telephone or FAX (Menu driven):
(508) 384-1424.
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\1\ The preregistration forms referenced in this notice are not
being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of the forms were sent
to those receiving this notice in the mail.
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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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-19158 Filed 7-21-97; 8:45 am]
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