[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 3 (Thursday, January 4, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 784-785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-168]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP00-232-001]


Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.; Notice of Amendment

December 28, 2000.
    Take notice that on December 15, 2000, Iroquois Gas Transmission 
System, L.P. (Iroquois), One Corporate Drive, Suite 600, Shelton, 
Connecticut 06484, tendered for filing in docket No. CP00-232-001 an 
amendment to its original application filed on April 28, 2000 to modify 
the proposed terminus of its Eastchester Expansion Project, all as more 
fully set forth in the application which is on file with the Commission 
and open to public inspection. The filing may be viewed at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).
    Specifically, Iroquois now seeks to alter the route of its 
Eastchester Expansion Project so that the terminus will now be at a 
proposed interconnection with Consolidated Edison Company of New York, 
Inc. (Con Ed) near Lafayette Boulevard in the Throgs Neck area of the 
Bronx section of New York City. Originally, Iroquois had proposed that 
its Eastchester Expansion Project would terminate at a proposed 
interconnection with Con Ed near the intersection of Steenwick and 
Hollers Avenues in the Bronx section of New York City. The modified 
cost of the Eastchester Expansion Project is approximately $173.9 
million.
    Any questions regarding the application should be directed to 
Jeffrey A. Bruner, Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary for 
Iroquois, One Corporate Drive, Suite 600, Shelton, Connecticut 06484 at 
203-925-7200, or Beth L. Webb, attorney for Iroquois, Dickstein Shapiro 
Morin & Oshinsky, LLP, 2101 L Street, NW., Washington, DC 20037 at 202-
785-9700.
    There are two ways to become involved in the Commission's review of 
this project. First, any person wishing to obtain legal status be 
becoming a party to the proceedings for this project should, on or 
before January 18, 2001, file with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, a motion to 
intervene in accordance with the requirements of the Commission's Rules 
of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) and the 
Regulations under the NGA (18 CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 
status will be placed on the service list maintained by the Secretary 
of the Commission and will receive copies of all documents filed by the 
applicant and by all other parties. A party must submit 14 copies of 
filings made with the Commission and must mail a copy to the applicant 
and to every other party in the proceeding. Only parties to the 
proceeding can ask for court review of Commission orders in the 
proceeding.
    However, a person does not have to intervene in order to have 
comments considered. The second way to participate is by filing with 
the Secretary of the Commission, as soon as possible, an original and 
two copies of comments in support of or in opposition to this project. 
The Commission will consider these comments in determining the 
appropriate action to be taken, but the filing of a comment alone will 
not serve to make the filer a party to the proceeding. The Commission's 
rules require that persons filing comments in opposition to the project 
provide copies of their protests only to the party or parties directly 
involved in the protest.
    Persons who wish to comment only on the environmental review of 
this project should submit an original and two copies of their comments 
to the Secretary of the Commission. Environmental commenters will be 
placed on the Commission's environmental mailing list, will receive 
copies of the environmental documents, and will be notified of meetings 
associated with the Commission's environmental review process. 
Environmental commenters will not be required to serve copies of filed 
documents on all other parties. However, the non-party commmenters will 
not receive copies of all documents filed by other parties or issued by 
the Commission (except for the mailing of environmental documents 
issued by the Commission) and will not have the right to seek court 
review of the Commission's final order.
    The Commission may issue a preliminary determination on non-
environmental issues prior to the completion of its review of the 
environmental aspects of the project. This preliminary determination 
typically considers such issues as the need for the project and its 
economic effect on existing customers of the applicant, on other 
pipelines in the area, and on landowners and communities. For example, 
the Commission considers the extent to which the applicant may need to 
exercise eminent domain to obtain rights-of-way for the proposed 
project and balances that against the non-environmental benefits to be 
provided by the project. Therefore, if a person has comments on 
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and landowner impacts from this proposal, it is important either to 
file comments or to intervene as early in the process as possible.
    Comments and protests may be filed electronically via the internet 
in lieu of paper. See, 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 
on the Commission's web site at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.
    If the Commission decides to set the application for a formal 
hearing before an Administrative Law Judge, the Commission will issue 
another notice describing that process. At the end of the Commission's 
review process, a final Commission order approving or denying a 
certificate will be issued.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
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