80_FR_53680 80 FR 53508 - Rockies Express Pipeline LLC; Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Zone 3 Capacity Enhancement Project

80 FR 53508 - Rockies Express Pipeline LLC; Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Zone 3 Capacity Enhancement Project

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 172 (September 4, 2015)

Page Range53508-53509
FR Document2015-21988

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 172 (Friday, September 4, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 172 (Friday, September 4, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53508-53509]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-21988]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP15-137-000]


Rockies Express Pipeline LLC; Notice of Availability of the 
Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Zone 3 Capacity Enhancement 
Project

    The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or 
Commission) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) for the Zone 
3 Capacity Enhancement Project, proposed by Rockies Express Pipeline 
LLC (REX) in the above-referenced docket. REX requests authorization to 
construct and operate natural gas compression facilities in Fayette, 
Pickaway, Muskingum, and Warren Counties, Ohio and Decatur County, 
Indiana. The REX Zone 3 Capacity Enhancement Project would provide an 
additional 800 million cubic feet per day of east-to-west 
transportation service.
    The EA assesses the potential environmental effects of the 
construction and operation of the Zone 3 Capacity Enhancement Project 
in accordance with the requirements of the National Environmental 
Policy Act. The FERC staff concludes that approval of the proposed 
project, with appropriate mitigating measures, would not constitute a 
major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human 
environment.
    The proposed REX Zone 3 Capacity Enhancement Project includes the 
following facilities:
     One new 49,428 horsepower (hp) compressor station in 
Pickaway County, Ohio (Columbus Compressor Station);
     one new 31,791 hp compressor station in Fayette County, 
Ohio (Washington Court House Compressor Station);
     one new 37,038 hp compressor station in Decatur County, 
Indiana (St. Paul Compressor Station);
     an additional 38,400 hp of compression, gas cooling 
facilities, and a new power and control building at the existing 
Chandlersville Compressor Station in Muskingum County, Ohio; and
     gas cooling facilities and a new power and control 
building at the existing Hamilton Compressor Station in Warren County, 
Ohio.
    The FERC staff mailed copies of the EA to federal, state, and local 
government representatives and agencies; elected officials; 
environmental and public interest groups; Native American tribes; 
potentially affected landowners and other interested individuals and 
groups; newspapers and libraries in the project area; and parties to 
this proceeding. In addition, the EA is available for public viewing on 
the FERC's Web site (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary link. A limited 
number of copies of the EA are available for distribution and public 
inspection at: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Reference 
Room, 888 First Street NE., Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-
8371.
    Any person wishing to comment on the EA may do so. Your comments 
should focus on the potential environmental effects, reasonable 
alternatives, and measures to avoid or lessen environmental impacts. 
The more specific your comments, the more useful they will be. To 
ensure that the Commission has the opportunity to consider your 
comments prior to making its decision on this project, it is important 
that we receive your

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comments in Washington, DC on or before September 30, 2015.
    For your convenience, there are three methods you can use to file 
your comments to the Commission. In all instances, please reference the 
project docket number (CP15-137-000) with your submission. The 
Commission encourages electronic filing of comments and has expert 
staff available to assist you at (202) 502-8258 or efiling@ferc.gov.
    (1) You can file your comments electronically using the eComment 
feature on the Commission's Web site (www.ferc.gov) under the link to 
Documents and Filings. This is an easy method for submitting brief, 
text-only comments on a project;
    (2) You can also file your comments electronically using the 
eFiling feature on the Commission's Web site (www.ferc.gov) under the 
link to Documents and Filings. With eFiling, you can provide comments 
in a variety of formats by attaching them as a file with your 
submission. New eFiling users must first create an account by clicking 
on ``eRegister.'' You must select the type of filing you are making. If 
you are filing a comment on a particular project, please select 
``Comment on a Filing''; or
    (3) You can file a paper copy of your comments by mailing them to 
the following address: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Room 1A, Washington, DC 
20426.
    Any person seeking to become a party to the proceeding must file a 
motion to intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedures (18 CFR 385.214).\1\ Only intervenors have the 
right to seek rehearing of the Commission's decision. The Commission 
grants affected landowners and others with environmental concerns 
intervenor status upon showing good cause by stating that they have a 
clear and direct interest in this proceeding which no other party can 
adequately represent. Simply filing environmental comments will not 
give you intervenor status, but you do not need intervenor status to 
have your comments considered.
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    Additional information about the project is available from the 
Commission's Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208-FERC, or on the 
FERC Web site (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary link. Click on the 
eLibrary link, click on ``General Search,'' and enter the docket number 
excluding the last three digits in the Docket Number field (i.e., CP15-
137). Be sure you have selected an appropriate date range. For 
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at (866) 208-3676, or for TTY, 
contact (202) 502-8659. The eLibrary link also provides access to the 
texts of formal documents issued by the Commission, such as orders, 
notices, and rulemakings.
    In addition, the Commission offers a free service called 
eSubscription which allows you to keep track of all formal issuances 
and submittals in specific dockets. This can reduce the amount of time 
you spend researching proceedings by automatically providing you with 
notification of these filings, document summaries, and direct links to 
the documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp.

    Dated: August 31, 2015.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-21988 Filed 9-3-15; 8:45 am]
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53508 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 172 / Friday, September 4, 2015 / Notices Applicants: The Dayton Power and Filed Date: 8/28/15. additional 800 million cubic feet per Light Company. Accession Number: 20150828–5221. day of east-to-west transportation Description: Compliance filing: FERC Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/18/15. service. Rate Schedule No. 304, Village of Docket Numbers: ER15–2563–000. The EA assesses the potential Mendon to be effective 1/1/2015. Applicants: PJM Interconnection, environmental effects of the Filed Date: 8/28/15. L.L.C. construction and operation of the Zone Accession Number: 20150828–5184. Description: Section 205(d) Rate 3 Capacity Enhancement Project in Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/18/15. Filing: Revisions to OATT Schedule 12- accordance with the requirements of the Docket Numbers: ER15–37–001. Appdx A–RTEP Artificial Island National Environmental Policy Act. The Applicants: The Dayton Power and Projects July 2015 to be effective 11/26/ FERC staff concludes that approval of Light Company. 2015. the proposed project, with appropriate Description: Compliance filing: FERC Filed Date: 8/28/15. mitigating measures, would not Rate Schedule No. 305, Village of Accession Number: 20150828–5243. constitute a major federal action Waynesfield to be effective 1/1/2015. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/18/15. significantly affecting the quality of the Filed Date: 8/28/15. The filings are accessible in the human environment. Accession Number: 20150828–5186. Commission’s eLibrary system by The proposed REX Zone 3 Capacity Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/18/15. clicking on the links or querying the Enhancement Project includes the Docket Numbers: ER15–38–001. docket number. following facilities: Applicants: The Dayton Power and Any person desiring to intervene or • One new 49,428 horsepower (hp) Light Company. protest in any of the above proceedings compressor station in Pickaway County, Description: Compliance filing: FERC must file in accordance with Rules 211 Ohio (Columbus Compressor Station); Rate Schedule No. 306, Village of • one new 31,791 hp compressor and 214 of the Commission’s Yellow Springs to be effective 1/1/2015. station in Fayette County, Ohio Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and Filed Date: 8/28/15. (Washington Court House Compressor 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Accession Number: 20150828–5187. Station); time on the specified comment date. • one new 37,038 hp compressor Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/18/15. Protests may be considered, but station in Decatur County, Indiana (St. Docket Numbers: ER15–40–001. intervention is necessary to become a Paul Compressor Station); Applicants: The Dayton Power and party to the proceeding. • an additional 38,400 hp of Light Company. eFiling is encouraged. More detailed compression, gas cooling facilities, and Description: Compliance filing: FERC information relating to filing a new power and control building at the Rate Schedule No. 301, Village of requirements, interventions, protests, existing Chandlersville Compressor Arcanum to be effective 1/1/2015. service, and qualifying facilities filings Station in Muskingum County, Ohio; Filed Date: 8/28/15. can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ and Accession Number: 20150828–5189. docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For • gas cooling facilities and a new Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/18/15. other information, call (866) 208–3676 power and control building at the Docket Numbers: ER15–41–001. (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. existing Hamilton Compressor Station Applicants: The Dayton Power and Dated: August 28, 2015. in Warren County, Ohio. Light Company. Kimberly D. Bose, The FERC staff mailed copies of the Description: Compliance filing: FERC EA to federal, state, and local Secretary. Rate Schedule No. 302, Village of government representatives and [FR Doc. 2015–21982 Filed 9–3–15; 8:45 am] Eldorado to be effective 1/1/2015. agencies; elected officials; Filed Date: 8/28/15. BILLING CODE 6717–01–P environmental and public interest Accession Number: 20150828–5193. groups; Native American tribes; Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/18/15. potentially affected landowners and DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Docket Numbers: ER15–2560–000. other interested individuals and groups; Applicants: Southwest Power Pool, Federal Energy Regulatory newspapers and libraries in the project Inc. Commission area; and parties to this proceeding. In Description: Section 205(d) Rate addition, the EA is available for public Filing: 2198R19 Kansas Power Pool [Docket No. CP15–137–000] viewing on the FERC’s Web site NITSA NOA to be effective 8/1/2015. (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary link. Filed Date: 8/28/15. Rockies Express Pipeline LLC; Notice of Availability of the Environmental A limited number of copies of the EA Accession Number: 20150828–5181. are available for distribution and public Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/18/15. Assessment for the Proposed Zone 3 Capacity Enhancement Project inspection at: Federal Energy Regulatory Docket Numbers: ER15–2561–000. Commission, Public Reference Room, Applicants: DB Energy Trading LLC. The staff of the Federal Energy 888 First Street NE., Room 2A, Description: Tariff Cancellation: Regulatory Commission (FERC or Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502–8371. Notice of Cancellation of Market-Based Commission) has prepared an Any person wishing to comment on Rate Tariff to be effective 10/27/2015. environmental assessment (EA) for the the EA may do so. Your comments Filed Date: 8/28/15. Zone 3 Capacity Enhancement Project, should focus on the potential Accession Number: 20150828–5211. proposed by Rockies Express Pipeline environmental effects, reasonable Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/18/15. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES LLC (REX) in the above-referenced alternatives, and measures to avoid or Docket Numbers: ER15–2562–000. docket. REX requests authorization to lessen environmental impacts. The more Applicants: PJM Interconnection, construct and operate natural gas specific your comments, the more useful L.L.C. compression facilities in Fayette, they will be. To ensure that the Description: Section 205(d) Rate Pickaway, Muskingum, and Warren Commission has the opportunity to Filing: Revisions to OATT Schedule 12- Counties, Ohio and Decatur County, consider your comments prior to Appdx A- RTEP approved by PJM Board Indiana. The REX Zone 3 Capacity making its decision on this project, it is in July 2015 to be effective 11/26/2015. Enhancement Project would provide an important that we receive your VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:57 Sep 03, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\04SEN1.SGM 04SEN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 172 / Friday, September 4, 2015 / Notices 53509 comments in Washington, DC on or 137). Be sure you have selected an upon lands or waters owned by others before September 30, 2015. appropriate date range. For assistance, without the owners’ express permission. For your convenience, there are three please contact FERC Online Support at On December 19, 2014, the methods you can use to file your FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free Commission asked Reclamation to comments to the Commission. In all at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact confirm that non-federal development is instances, please reference the project (202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also authorized at the Anderson Ranch site. docket number (CP15–137–000) with provides access to the texts of formal On January 30, 2015, Reclamation your submission. The Commission documents issued by the Commission, responded stating that it retains encourages electronic filing of such as orders, notices, and jurisdiction over hydropower comments and has expert staff available rulemakings. development at the Anderson Ranch to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or In addition, the Commission offers a dam, reservoir, and powerhouse, which efiling@ferc.gov. free service called eSubscription which are part of Reclamation’s Boise Project. (1) You can file your comments allows you to keep track of all formal On June 8, 2015, the Commission electronically using the eComment issuances and submittals in specific responded and agreed with feature on the Commission’s Web site dockets. This can reduce the amount of Reclamation’s jurisdictional decision (www.ferc.gov) under the link to time you spend researching proceedings over hydropower development at the Documents and Filings. This is an easy by automatically providing you with Boise Project’s Anderson Ranch dam, method for submitting brief, text-only notification of these filings, document powerhouse, and reservoir. However, comments on a project; summaries, and direct links to the the Commission would retain (2) You can also file your comments documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docs- jurisdiction for hydropower facilities electronically using the eFiling feature filing/esubscription.asp. that would be located outside of on the Commission’s Web site Reclamation’s development. Thus, an (www.ferc.gov) under the link to Dated: August 31, 2015. Kimberly D. Bose, entity seeking to build a hydropower Documents and Filings. With eFiling, project that would use Reclamation’s you can provide comments in a variety Secretary. Boise Project facilities would need to of formats by attaching them as a file [FR Doc. 2015–21988 Filed 9–3–15; 8:45 am] obtain a lease of power privilege from with your submission. New eFiling BILLING CODE 6717–01–P Reclamation, but it also would need to users must first create an account by obtain a license from the Commission clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You must select for those facilities of the hydropower the type of filing you are making. If you DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY project that are not under Reclamation’s are filing a comment on a particular jurisdiction. project, please select ‘‘Comment on a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission On August 21, 2015, Cat Creek filed Filing’’; or minor revisions to the original Cat Creek (3) You can file a paper copy of your [Project No. 14655–000] project permit application. The revised comments by mailing them to the Cat Creek project would use the existing following address: Kimberly D. Bose, Cat Creek Energy, LLC; Notice of Anderson Ranch reservoir, and would Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Preliminary Permit Application consist of the following new facilities: Commission, 888 First Street NE., Room Accepted for Filing and Soliciting (1) A 3.4-mile-long, 80-foot-high earthen 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Comments, Motions To Intervene, and dam; (2) a 38,000-acre-foot Any person seeking to become a party Competing Applications impoundment as an upper reservoir; (3) to the proceeding must file a motion to two, 5,600-foot-long, 22-foot-diameter intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the On December 12, 2014, Cat Creek steel penstocks; (4) two, 100-foot- Commission’s Rules of Practice and Energy, LLC (Cat Creek) filed an diameter concrete silos; (5) two, 200- Procedures (18 CFR 385.214).1 Only application for a preliminary permit, megawatt vertical Francis turbines/ intervenors have the right to seek pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal generators; (6) an 8.0-mile-long, 230- rehearing of the Commission’s decision. Power Act, proposing to study the kilovolt transmission line The Commission grants affected feasibility of the Cat Creek Energy interconnecting with the existing landowners and others with Generation Facility Pumped Storage Bonneville Power Administration Dixie environmental concerns intervenor Hydroelectric Project (Cat Creek Substation; (7) an approximately 3.6- status upon showing good cause by project). The project would be located at mile-long access road; and (8) stating that they have a clear and direct the US Bureau of Reclamation’s appurtenant facilities. The estimated interest in this proceeding which no (Reclamation) Anderson Ranch annual generation of the Cat Creek other party can adequately represent. reservoir 1 on the South Fork of the project would be 1,401.6 gigawatt-hours. Simply filing environmental comments will not give you intervenor status, but Boise River near Mountain Home in Applicant Contact for the Cat Creek you do not need intervenor status to Elmore County, Idaho. project: Nicholas Josten, Cat Creek have your comments considered. The sole purpose of a preliminary Energy, LLC, 1989 South 1875 East, Additional information about the permit, if issued, is to grant the permit Gooding, ID 83330; phone: (208) 954– project is available from the holder priority to file a license 5090. Commission’s Office of External Affairs, application during the permit term. A FERC Contact: Karen Sughrue; phone: at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web preliminary permit does not authorize (202) 502–8556. the permit holder to perform any land- mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES site (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary Deadline for filing comments, motions link. Click on the eLibrary link, click on disturbing activities or otherwise enter to intervene, competing applications ‘‘General Search,’’ and enter the docket (without notices of intent), or notices of number excluding the last three digits in 1 On November 24, 2014, Owyhee Hydro, LLC intent to file competing applications: 60 also filed a preliminary permit to use the Anderson days from the issuance of this notice. the Docket Number field (i.e., CP15– Ranch reservoir as a lower reservoir for the Anderson Ranch Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Competing applications and notices of 1 See the previous discussion on the methods for Project (P–14648), and thus may be competing for intent must meet the requirements of 18 filing comments. the same water resource. CFR 4.36. VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:57 Sep 03, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\04SEN1.SGM 04SEN1


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