[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 19 (Monday, January 29, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 8107]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2431]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP00-232-001]


Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.; Notice of Technical and 
Scoping Meetings for the Proposed Eastchester Project, as Amended

January 23, 2001.
    On December 15, 2000, Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P. 
(Iroquois), filed an amendment to the application for the Eastchester 
Project. Iroquois proposes to construct a natural gas pipeline from 
Long Island to the Bronx, New York. The amendment includes a new 
preferred route through the Bronx, three additional routing 
alternatives, as well as alternative interconnection locations with 
Consolidated Edison Company of New York's facilities. The amendment was 
noticed on December 28, 2000.
    Iroquois's preferred alternative would traverse long Island Sound 
with landfall at Locust point. Through a combination of underground 
horizontal drilling and open-trench construction, the pipeline would 
cross the Throgs Neck Expressway, follow the Throgs Neck Expressway 
Extension to Lafayette Avenue and follow Lafayette Avenue to an 
interconnection site located just south of the intersection of 
Lafayette and Brush avenues on the east bank of Westchester Creek.
    In a letter dated January 5, 2001, Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey 
requested a meeting be held to inform elected officials and the public 
about the pipeline certification process, Iroquois' amendment, and 
other viable route options. A technical meeting will be held to discuss 
these issues and to exchange information among state and federal 
agencies and U.S., state, and community representatives. The location 
and time for the technical meeting are listed below:
    Date and Time: February 2, 2001, 10 a.m.
    Location: Community Board 10, 3165 E. Tremont Avenue, Bronx, NY 
10461.
    Phone: (718) 892-1161.
    While the public is welcome to attend the technical meeting, public 
comments will be received at the scoping meeting listed below:
    Date and Time: February 15, 2001, 7 a.m.
    Location: St. Francis de Chantal School, 2962 Harding Avenue, 
Bronx, NY 10465.
    Phone: (718) 792-5500.
    Comments received at the scoping meeting will assist Commission 
staff to determine the issues to be evaluated in the environmental 
impact statement and will be included in the Commission's record for 
this proceeding. Additional information may be obtained from John 
Schnagl, at (202) 219-2661.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
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