[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 22 (Tuesday, February 3, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 5513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2536]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Environmental Compliance and Applicant Environmental 
Report Preparation Training Courses

January 28, 1998.
    The Office of Pipeline Regulation (OPR) staff will conduct two 
sessions of its Environmental Compliance Training Course and the 
Environmental Report Training Course in March and May of this year.
    These courses are a result of the positive response to our outreach 
training courses held since 1992. We encourage interested organizations 
and the public to take advantage of the courses to gain an 
understanding of the requirements and objectives of the Commission in 
ensuring compliance with all environmental certificate conditions and 
meeting its responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy 
Act and other laws and regulations. We also encourage feedback, either 
at the courses or in reply to this notice, on how we can improve the 
courses.

Environmental Report Preparation Course

    The Environmental Report Preparation Course presentation and the 
manual focus primarily on Section 7 filings. However, the course manual 
will address the following topics:

A. The types of projects that require environmental filings.
    1. Natural Gas Act section 7
    2, Natural Gas Policy Act filings
    3. Section 2.55 replacements
B. The filings required for each type of project.
C. Information to include in each filing.
D. Potential time saving procedures.
    1. Applicant-prepared DEA
    2. Third-party EA or EIS

    The staff intends the manual to be a sourcebook for preparing 
environmental filings under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
    If you have specific questions related to the subject matter of 
this course, or if you would like the course to address a particular 
item, please call Mr. John Leiss at (202) 208-1106.
    This one-day Environmental Report Preparation Course will be held 
on the dates and at the locations shown below. Attendees must call the 
number listed for the hotel by the reservation deadline and identify 
themselves as Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seminar attendees to 
receive the discounted group rate.

Session: March 24
Location: Sheraton North, Shore Inn, 933 Skokie Blvd., Northbrook, 
Illinois 60062, 1-800-325-3535, (847) 498-6500
Reservations by: March 2
May 12
Crown Plaza, 4255 South Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
1-800-HOLIDAY, (702) 369-4400, April 11

Environmental Compliance Training Course

    The two-day Environmental Compliance Training Course will include 
the following topics:

A. Post-certificate clearance filings.
B. Environmental inspection as it relates to:
    1. Right-of-way preparation;
    2. Temporary erosion control;
    3. Cultural resources;
    4. Waterbody crossings;
    5. Wetland construction;
    6. Residential area construction;
    7. Right-of-way restoration; and
    8. Techniques for environmental compliance.

    The Environmental Compliance Training Course will be held on the 
dates and at the locations shown below. Attendees must call the numbers 
listed for the hotels by the reservation deadline and identify 
themselves as FERC seminar attendees to receive the discounted group 
rate.

Session: March 25-26
Location: Sheraton North, Shore Inn, 933 Skokie Blvd., Northbrook, 
Illinois 60062, 1-800-325-3535, (847) 498-6500
Reservations by: March 2
May 13-14
Crown Plaza, 4255 South Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
1-800-HOLIDAY, (702) 369-4400, April 11

Pre-Registration

    The OPR staff and Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation, the 
Commission's environmental support contractor for natural gas projects, 
will conduct the training. There is no fee for the courses, but you 
must pre-register because space is limited.
    If you would like to attend either of these courses, please call 
the telephone number listed below to obtain a pre-registration form.\1\
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    \1\ The pre-registration forms referenced in this notice are not 
being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of the forms were sent 
to those receiving this notice in the mail.

    Note: If you plan to attend both the environmental report 
preparation session and the subsequent environmental compliance 
training session, you must pre-register separately for each (only 
one form is needed per location). Attendance will be limited to the 
first 150 people to pre-register in each course. Call or FAX 
requests for pre-registration forms to: Ms. Donna Connor, c/o Foster 
Wheeler Environmental Corporation, 470 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA 
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02210, Telephone or FAX (Menu driven): (508) 384-1424.

    You will receive confirmation of pre-registration and additional 
information before the training course(s).
    Additional training may be offered in the future. Please indicate 
whether you would like these courses to be offered again, or if you are 
interested in any other courses with different topics or audiences. 
Please indicate your preferences for location and time of year. 
Suggestions on format are welcome.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-2536 Filed 2-2-98; 8:45 am]
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