[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 180 (Monday, September 17, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48037-48038]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-23141]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP01-440-000]


Dominion Transmission, Inc.; Notice of Application

September 10, 2001.
    Take notice that on August 31, 2001, Dominion Transmission, Inc. 
(DTI), 445 West Main Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia, 26301, filed an 
application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act, as 
amended, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity, 
authorizing DTI to construct and operate a new storage well within the 
existing limits of DTI's Racket-Newberne Storage Reservoir (Racket) in 
Gilmer County, West Virginia. The application is on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection. This filing may be viewed on 
the web at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``RIMS'' link, select ``Docket 
#'' and follow the instructions (please call (202) 208-2222 for 
assistance).
    The well DTI seeks to construct and operate will be in the Racket 
reservoir in southern Troy District, Gilmer County, West Virginia, and 
is a replacement well for well 5003, which was plugged and abandoned in 
1996. The well is expected to replace the deliverability lost from the 
abandonment of well 5003. Project costs are estimated to be $572,534.
    DTI also seeks specific and explicit certification of the existing 
Racket operations and facilities in order to remove any potential 
uncertainty due to the ``grandfathered'' status of this long existing 
storage field. The Racket reservoir was converted to storage operations 
in 1947.
    Any questions regarding the application are to be directed to Sean 
R. Sleigh, Certificates Manager, Dominion Transmission, Inc., 445 West 
Main Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia 26301, at (304) 627-3462 or fax 
(304) 627-3305.
    There are two ways to become involved in the Commission's review of 
this project. First, any person wishing to obtain legal status by 
becoming a party to the proceedings for this project should, on or 
before October 1, 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 commenters will 
not receive copies of all documents filed by other parties or issued by 
the Commission (except for the mailing of

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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 
community and landowner impacts from this proposal, it is important 
either to file comments or to intervene as early in the process as 
possible.
    Comments, protests, and interventions 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 under the ``e-Filing'' 
link.
    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.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-23141 Filed 9-14-01; 8:45 am]
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