[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65-66]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-31532]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket Nos. CP95-668-000 and CP95-668-001]
CNG Transmission Corporation and Texas Eastern Transmission
Corporation; Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment for
the Proposed South Oakford Project
December 26, 1995.
The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) on the
natural gas facilities proposed by CNG Transmission Corporation (CNG)
and Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation (Texas Eastern) in the
above-referenced dockets.
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 the South Oakford Project. The proposed
facilities include:
10,000 hp of electric motor-driven compression and related
facilities at the South Oakford Compressor Station in Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania;
A pig receiver and barrel drip at the Earhart Gate;
3,158 feet of 30-inch-diameter storage suction pipeline
(Line JP-296) between the South Oakford Compressor Station and the
South Oakford Gate;
3,158 feet of 16-inch-diameter storage discharge pipeline
(Line JP-297) between the South Oakford Compressor Station and the
South Oakford Gate;
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A drip on the new suction pipeline; and
Facilities to interconnect new Lines JP-296 and JP-297 to
existing Lines JP-250 and JP-40, respectively, at the South Oakford
Gate.
The EA also addresses the potential environmental effects of the
proposed abandonment of facilities including:
All buildings, parking lots, driveways, equipment, piping,
and 7,980 horsepower (hp) of compression at the Jeannette Compressor
Station;
A pig receiver and barrel drip at the Huff Gate near the
Jeannette Compressor Station (to be removed and installed at Earhart
Gate);
75 feet of Line JP-40 within the Earhart Gate; and
A 20-inch mainline gate setting (250-IM) for Line JP-250
at the Earhart Gate.
The purpose of the proposed facilities would be to improve safety,
reliability, and flexibility in the operation of the Oakford Storage
Field. There would be no increase in the amount of gas stored in the
Oakford Storage Field as a result of construction of the proposed
facilities. Presently, the Jeannette Compressor Station delivers gas
out of the Oakford Storage Field, recovers migrating gas, and re-
injects recovered gas into the storage pool. With the addition of the
proposed compression and related facilities at the existing South
Oakford Compressor Station, the recovery operation performed by the
Jeannette Compressor Station would continue with facilities
consolidated at one location.
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, 888 First
Street NE., 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: Ms.
Jennifer Goggin, Environmental Project Manager, Environmental Review
and Compliance Branch II, Office of Pipeline Regulation, 888 First
Street NE., PR 11.2, Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208-2226.
Any person wishing to comment on the EA may do so. Written comments
must reference Docket No. CP95-668-000 and be addressed to: Office of
the Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE., Washington, DC 20426.
Comments should be filed as soon as possible, but must be received
no later than January 26, 1996, to ensure consideration prior to a
Commission decision on this proposal. A copy of any comments should
also be sent to Ms. Jennifer Goggin, 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 viewed
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 Ms.
Jennifer Goggin, Environmental Project Manager.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-31532 Filed 12-29-95; 8:45 am]
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