[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 156 (Monday, August 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 41886]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-19961]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP94-763-000]
Northern Natural Gas Co.; Notice of Availability of the
Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Peoples/L.S. Power-Cottage
Grove Project
August 8, 1995.
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 Northern Natural Gas
Company (Northern) in the above-referenced docket.
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 Northern's proposed Peoples/L.S. Power-
Cottage Grove Project, which includes the following facilities:
about 1.42 miles of 30-inch-diameter pipeline to loop its
existing 24-inch-diameter pipeline (MNM 86501) in Washington County,
Minnesota;
a new L.S. Power-Cottage Grove Town Border Station in
Washington County, Minnesota; and
a 1,250-horsepower electric-motor driven compressor at
Northern's existing Farmington Compressor Station in Dakota County,
Minnesota.
Northern indicates the proposed facilities would deliver an
additional firm transportation capacity of 29,120 thousand cubic feet
per day of natural gas to Peoples Natural Gas Company and L.S. Power-
Cottage Grove Limited Partnership (L.S. Power-Cottage Grove) for the
L.S. Power-Cottage Grove cogneration Plant.
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 NE., Room 3104,
Washington, DC 20426 (202) 208-1371.
Copies of the 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:
Mr. Hugh Thomas, Environmental Project Manager, Environmental Review
and Compliance Branch I, Office of Pipeline Regulation, Room 7312,
825 North Capitol Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208-0980.
Any person wishing to comment on the EA may do so. Written comments
must reference Docket No. CP94-763-000. 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 September 7, 1995, to ensure consideration prior to a
Commission decision on this proposal. A copy of any comments should
also be sent to Mr. Hugh Thomas, 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 Section 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
intervenor status to have your comments considered.
Additional information about this project is available from Mr.
Hugh Thomas, Environmental Review and Compliance Branch I, Office of
Pipeline Regulation, at (202) 208-0980.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-19961 Filed 8-11-95; 8:45 am]
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