[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 91 (Thursday, May 12, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25026-25027]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-2312]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. CP05-144-000; CP05-150-000; CP05-151-000, CP05-152-000]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation and Hardy Storage Company, 
LLC; Notice of Application

May 5, 2005.
    Take notice that on April 25, 2005, Hardy Storage Company, LLC 
(Hardy Storage), 12801 Fair Lakes Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia 22033, and 
Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation (Columbia), 1700 MacCorkle 
Avenue, SE., Charleston, West Virginia 25314, filed with the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) applications under Section 
7(b) and (c) of the Natural Gas Act to develop a new underground 
natural gas storage facility situated in Hardy and Hampshire Counties, 
West Virginia, as well as abandon certain transmission assets, and to 
construct approximately 33.1 miles of 24-inch pipeline loop in 
Shenandoah, Rockingham, Page, Greene and Louisa Counties, Virginia to 
provide transportation service for certain Hardy Storage customers. The 
storage facilities will have a working gas capacity of 12.4 MMDth with 
a maximum deliverability of 176,000 Dth/d. The storage and pipeline 
facilities will include among other things, a new natural gas fired 
compressor station, natural gas pipelines and storage wells, all as 
more fully detailed in the applications.
    Hardy Storage also requests the Commission to authorize blanket 
certificates pursuant to subpart G of 18 CFR, part 284, and subpart F 
of 18 CFR, part 157 of the Commission's regulations, and to approve the 
initial rates and pro forma FERC Gas Tariff included in their 
application.
    These applications are on file with the Commission and open to 
public inspection. These filings are 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 ``eLibrary'' 
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 toll free 
at (866) 208-3676, or for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. Any questions 
regarding this application should be directed to counsel for Columbia 
and Hardy Storage, Fredric J. George, Senior Attorney, Columbia Gas 
Transmission Corporation, P.O. Box 1273, Charleston, West Virginia 
25325-1273; telephone (304) 357-2359, fax (304) 357-3206.
    On August 2, 2004 the Commission staff granted Hardy Storage's and 
Columbia's request to utilize the National Environmental Policy Act 
(NEPA) Pre-Filing Process and jointly assigned Docket No. PF04-14-000 
to staff activities involving the Hardy Storage and Columbia projects. 
Now, as of the filing of Hardy Storage's and Columbia's applications on 
April 25, 2005, the NEPA Pre-Filing Process for those projects has 
ended. From this time forward, Hardy Storage's and Columbia's 
proceeding will be conducted in Docket Nos. CP05-144-000, et al., as 
noted in the caption of this Notice.
    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 the comment date listed below, 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 this filing and all subsequent filings made with 
the Commission and must mail a copy of all filing 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, other persons do 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 this 
project provide copies of their protests only to the party or parties 
directly involved in the protest.
    Persons may also wish to comment further only on the environmental 
review of this project. Environmental commenters will be placed on the 
Commission's environmental mailing

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list, will receive copies of environmental documents issued by the 
Commission, and will be notified of meetings associated with the 
Commission's environmental review process. Those persons, 
organizations, and agencies who submitted comments during the NEPA Pre-
Filing Process in Docket No. PF04-14-000 are already on the Commission 
staff's environmental mailing list for the proceeding in the above 
dockets and may file additional comments on or before the below listed 
comment date. Environmental commentors will not be required to serve 
copies of filed documents on all other parties. However, environmental 
commentors are also not parties to the proceeding and will not receive 
copies of all documents filed by other parties or non-environmental 
documents issued by the Commission. Further, they will not have the 
right to seek court review of any final order by Commission in this 
proceeding.
    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 (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-Filing'' link.
    Comment Date: May 26, 2005.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E5-2312 Filed 5-11-05; 8:45 am]
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