[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 13718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6179]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket Nos. CP94-682-000 and CP94-682-001]


Southern Natural Gas Company; Availability of the Environmental 
Assessment for the Proposed Cleveland Branch Line Project

March 8, 1995.
    The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or 
Commission) has prepared this environmental assessment (EA) on the 
natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by Southern Natural Gas 
Company (Southern) in the above dockets.
    The EA was prepared to satisfy the requirements of the Natural 
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 Southern's proposed Cleveland Branch Line 
Project, which includes the following facilities:
     About 20.2 miles of 12-inch-diameter pipeline in Catoosa 
and Whitfield Counties, Georgia, and Hamilton and Bradley Counties, 
Tennessee. This pipeline, referred to as the ``Cleveland Branch Line'', 
would extend from milepost 101.44 on Southern's existing 12-inch 
Chattanooga Branch Line in Catoosa County, Georgia, to a proposed 
interconnection owned by East Tennessee Natural Gas Company in Bradley 
County, Tennessee;
     One new meter station in Bradley County. The meter station 
would consist of two 6-inch meter runs, pressure regulators, flow 
control values, about 125 feet of miscellaneous buried piping, and an 
8-foot by 10-foot instrumentation building; and
     One 1,452-horsepower turbine compressor unit and other 
facilities at Southern's existing McConnells Compressor Station in 
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
    Southern indicates that proposed facilities would deliver a total 
firm and interruptible transportation service to nine municipal gas 
districts and two distribution companies in eastern Tennessee. These 
customers would receive about 11,350 thousand cubic feet per day of 
firm transportation from Southern.
    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, 941 North 
Capitol Street, N.E., Room 3104, Washington, D.C. 20426, (202) 208-
1371.
    Copies of this EA have been mailed to Federal, state and local 
agencies, public interest groups, interested individuals, newspapers, 
and parties to this proceeding.
    A limited number of copies of the EA are available from: Ms. Alisa 
Lykens, Environmental Project Manager, Environmental Review and 
Compliance Branch I, Office of Pipeline Regulation, Room 7312, 825 
North Capitol Street NE., Washington, D.C. 20426, (202) 208-0766.
    Any person wishing to comment on the EA may do so. Written comments 
must reference Docket Nos. CP94-682-000 and CP94-682-001. Comments 
should be addressed to: Office of the Secretary, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 825 North Capitol Street, NE., Washington, D.C. 
20426.
    Comments should be filed as soon as possible, but must be received 
no later than April 10, 1995, to ensure consideration prior to a 
Commission decision on this proposal. A copy of any comments should be 
sent to Ms. Alisa Lykens, Environmental Project Manager, 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 
Procedure (18 CFR 385.214).
    The date for filing timely motions to intervene in this proceeding 
has passed. Therefore, parties now seeking to file late interventions 
must show good cause, as required by Sec. 385.214(b)(3), why this time 
limitation should be waived. Environmental issues have been reviewed as 
good cause for late intervention. You do not need intervener status to 
have your comments considered.
    Additional information about this project is available from Ms. 
Alisa Lykens, Environmental Review and Compliance Branch I, Office of 
Pipeline Regulation, at (202) 208-0766.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-6179 Filed 3-13-95; 8:45 am]
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