[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 46 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9158-9159]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-5335]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket Nos. CP96-10-000 and CP96-10-001; Docket No. CP96-60-000]


Transwestern Pipeline Company, et al.; Notice of Availability of 
the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed San Juan Expansion 
Project

March 1, 1996.
    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 Transwestern Pipeline 
Company (Transwestern) 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 following facilities:
     Construct a 10,000-horsepower (hp) electric driven Bisti 
Compressor Station (C.S.) in San Juan County, New Mexico;
     Add a 7,000-hp electric driven compressor to the existing 
Bloomfield C.S. in San Juan County, New Mexico; and
     Operate an existing 4,132-hp gas compressor at the 
Bloomfield C.S. originally certificated as a back-up compressor;
    The purpose of the proposed facilities would be to increase 
capacity on Transwestern's San Juan Lateral up to a peak day capacity 
of 795,000 decatherms.
    The City of Farmington, New Mexico and the Public Service Company 
of New Mexico would construct electrical facilities to power the 
compressor stations to operate the electrical driven compressors.
    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, N.E., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208-1371.
    Copies of the EA have been mailed to Federal, state and local 
agencies, public interest groups, interested individuals,

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newspapers, and parties to this proceeding.
    A limited number of copies of the EA are available from: Mr. Herman 
Der, Environmental Project Manager, Environmental Review and Compliance 
Branch I, Office of Pipeline Regulation, PR-11.1, 888 First Street, 
N.E., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208-0896.
    Any person wishing to comment on the EA may do so. Written comments 
must reference Docket No. CP96-10-000, and be addressed to: Office of 
the Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, 
N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426.
    Comments should be filed as soon as possible, but must be received 
no later than April 8, 1996, to ensure consideration prior to a 
Commission decision on this proposal. A copy of any comments should 
also be sent to Mr. Herman Der, Environmental Project Manager, PR-11.1, 
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 
Procedures (18 CFR 385.214).
    The date for filing time 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), by 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 Mr. 
Herman Der, Environmental Project Manager.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-5335 Filed 3-6-96; 8:45 am]
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