[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 135 (Tuesday, July 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37903-37904]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-18482]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-202-000]


USG Pipeline Company; Notice of Availability of the Environmental 
Assessment for the Proposed USG Pipeline Project

July 9, 1997.
    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 USG Pipeline Company 
(USGPC) 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 addresses the potential environmental effects of 
construction and operation of 14.5 miles of 10-inch-diameter pipeline 
and appurtenant facilities in Marion County, Tennessee and Jackson 
County, Alabama.
    USGPC would transport up to 7,000 Dekatherms per day of natural gas 
to United States Gypsum Company (USGC) in Bridgeport, Alabama where 
USGC plans to construct and operate a gypsum wallboard manufacturing 
facility.
    The EA has been placed in the public files of the FERC. A limited 
number of copies of the EA are available for distribution and public 
inspection at: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Reference 
and Files Maintenance Branch, 888 First Street, NE., Room 2A, 
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.
    Any person wishing to comment on the EA may do so. To ensure 
consideration prior to a Commission decision on the proposal, it is 
important that we receive your comments before the date listed below. 
Please carefully follow these instructions to ensure that your comments 
are received in time and properly recorded:
     Reference Docket No. CP97-202-000.

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     Send two copies of your comments to: Office of the 
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.
     Label one copy of the comments for the attention of the 
Environmental Review and Compliance Branch, PR-11-1.
     Mail your comments so they will be received in Washington, 
DC on or before August 8, 1997.
    Comments will be considered by the Commission but will not serve to 
make the commenter 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 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-18482 Filed 7-14-97; 8:45 am]
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