[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 230 (Friday, November 29, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71160-71161]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-30277]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP02-1-003]


Southern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Amendment

November 22, 2002.
    Take notice that on November 18, 2002, Southern Natural Gas Company 
(Southern), Post Office Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563, filed 
in the above referenced docket, an application pursuant to Section 7(c) 
of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and part 157 of the Commission's Rules and 
Regulations, to amend its Order Issuing Certificate and Approving 
Abandonment (Certificate Order) issued in this proceeding on September 
20, 2002 (Southern Natural Gas Company, 100 FERC Sec.  61,281 (2002)). 
Southern seeks approval of a change in the construction schedule of 
certain of the expansion facilities to accommodate the restructuring of 
the transportation services of one of the shippers participating in the 
expansion project and of a change in ownership of certain measurement 
facilities authorized by the Certificate Order. This application is on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection. This filing is 
available for review at the Commission in the Public Reference Room or 
may be viewed on the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov using 
the ``FERRIS'' link. Enter the docket number excluding the last three 
digits in the docket number field to access the document. For 
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected] or call toll free (866) 208-3676 or for TTY, 
(202) 502-8659.
    Southern states that one of the shippers participating in the South 
System Expansion II Project, Southern Company Services, Inc. (SCS), has 
advised Southern that it will not need to have its Transportation 
Demand available until November 1, 2003, and has requested to amend its 
Firm Transportation Service Agreement to revise the initial target date 
for service to commence thereunder. Accordingly, Southern proposes to 
shift the construction of certain of the Phase 1 facilities from the 
2002-2003 winter spring construction season to the 2003 summer 
construction season. In addition, Southern and SCG Pipeline, Inc. (SCG) 
have agreed to the terms and conditions under which they will share 
ownership of the proposed Port Wentworth Meter Station. Therefore, 
Southern is requesting an amendment to the Certificate Order to reflect 
that it will have a thirty-eight and nine-tenths percent (38.9%) 
ownership interest in that facility.
    Southern states further that the proposed changes will not 
materially modify the nature, scope, or impact of the project. Southern 
assures that the amount of capacity to be added to Southern's pipeline 
system and the shippers subscribing to that capacity remain the same. 
Southern also states that the environmental impact of the project will 
remain essentially the same, and that due to summer construction rather 
than the winter-spring construction, may reduce the effects of 
construction on the environment and should facilitate the construction 
process. Additionally, Southern states that it does not anticipate that 
the change in the construction schedule will result in a change in the 
total cost of the project, and consequently the project will still 
provide a substantial financial benefit to its system.
    Any questions regarding this application should be directed to R. 
David Hendrickson, Associate General Counsel, at (205) 325-7114, 
Southern Natural Gas Company, Post Office Box

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2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563.
    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 December 13, 2002, 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 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.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings of comments, 
protests, and interventions 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.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-30277 Filed 11-27-02; 8:45 am]
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