[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 34 (Friday, February 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 8633]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-4265]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-526-000]


Southern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Availability of the 
Environmental Assessment For The Proposed East Tennessee Expansion 
Project

February 13, 1998.
    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 Southern Natural Gas 
Company 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 the proposed natural gas expansion 
facilities including:
     East Tennessee Lateral--2.81 miles of 8-inch-diameter 
pipeline in Catoosa County, Georgia and Hamilton County, Alabama;
     Ocmulgee-Atlanta Loop--8.03 miles of 30-inch-diameter 
pipeline in Spalding and Henry Counties, Georgia;
     2nd North Main Loop--2.81 miles of 24-inch-diameter 
pipeline in Pickens County, Alabama;
     South Main 3rd Loop--4.63 miles of 30-inch-diameter 
pipeline in Perry County, Alabama;
     Macon Branch Loop--10.73 miles of 16-inch-diameter 
pipeline replacing an existing 12-inch-diameter Pipeline in Fulton and 
Clayton Counties, Georgia;
     Rome Compressor Station--3,755 horsepower (hp) installed 
at a new compressor station in Floyd County, Georgia;
     Bell Mills Compressor Station--1,415 hp added to an 
existing compressor station in Cleborne County, Alabama;
     Auburn Compressor Station--5,320 hp increased by 
modifications to two units at an existing compressor station in Lee 
County, Alabama;
     York Compressor Station--5,320 hp increased by 
modifications to two units at an existing compressor station in Sumter 
County, Alabama;
     East Tennessee Meter Station--new meter station at the 
terminus of the proposed East Tennessee Lateral in Hamilton County, 
Tennessee;
     Cleveland Branch Meter Station--expansion of an existing 
meter station in Bradley County, Tennessee; and
     Cartersville Gate Regulator Station--new regulator station 
in Floyd County, Georgia.
    The purpose of the proposed facilities would be to provide about 
64,911 thousand cubic feet of natural gas per day in new firm 
transportation services between 1998 and the year 2000 to 15 different 
shippers.
    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, N.E., 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, newspaper, 
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 specified 
below. Please carefully follow these instructions to ensure that your 
comments are received in time and properly recorded:
     Send two copies of your comments to: Secretary, Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First St., N.E., Room 1A, Washington, 
DC 20426;
     Label one copy of the comments for the attention of the 
Environmental Review and Compliance Branch, PR-11.1
     Reference Docket No. CP97-526-000; and
     Mail your comments so that they will be received in 
Washington, DC on or before March 13, 1998.
    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 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.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-4265 Filed 2-19-98; 8:45 am]
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