80_FR_58426 80 FR 58239 - Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application

80 FR 58239 - Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 187 (September 28, 2015)

Page Range58239-58240
FR Document2015-24533

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 187 (Monday, September 28, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 187 (Monday, September 28, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58239-58240]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-24533]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP15-552-000]


Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application

    Take notice that on September 9, 2015, Northern Natural Gas Company 
(Northern) pursuant to section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), the 
Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission's (FERC) regulations under and 
18 CFR part 157 filed in Docket No. CP15-552-000, an application for 
certification and all authorizations necessary to construct and operate 
new natural gas transportation facilities in Gaines County, Texas, as 
more fully set forth in the application which is on file with the 
Commission and open for public inspection. The filing may also be 
viewed on the web 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, contact FERC at 
[email protected] or call toll-free, (866) 208-3676 or TTY, 
(202) 502-8659.
    Any questions concerning this application may be directed to: 
Michael T. Loeffler, Senior Director Certificates and External Affairs, 
Northern Natural Gas Company, P.O. Box 3330, Omaha, Nebraska 68103-
0330, Phone: (402) 398-7103, FAX: (402) 398-7592, Email: 
[email protected] (402) 398-7103, or Bret Fritch, Senior 
Regulatory Analyst, at (402) 398-7140.
    Specifically, Northern proposes to construct and operate a 
greenfield

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compressor station in Section 125, Block G, Gaines County, Texas. Plans 
include installation of two units: (1) Solar Taurus 70-10802S with 
approximately 11,152 horsepower (HP); and (2) Solar Taurus 60-7302S 
with approximately 6,937 HP. The combined units have an ISO rating of 
18,089 HP. The suction side of the compressor station will be connected 
to the 30- inch-diameter Spraberry to Plains pipeline. The station will 
discharge to the 30-inch diameter Kermit to Beaver pipeline. The 
proposed Project includes the installation of a station suction 
scrubber, a station recycle control valve, lube-oil coolers, a 
discharge gas cooler, blowdown silencers, unit inlet air filters and 
exhaust systems, a backup generator, fuel gas heating skids, a fire/gas 
detection system, an air compressor and dryer system, two compressor 
buildings, a control building, an auxiliary building, a septic system 
and associated above-grade and below-grade piping, valves and 
instrumentation. The compressor buildings will contain noise-
attenuating panels, insulation and air inlet/exhaust hoods. A new six-
foot tall fence, topped by three rows of barbed wire, will surround the 
perimeter of the new compressor station yard. Facilities will provide 
for incremental peak-day firm service of 210,000 dekatherms per day 
(Dth/d). Northern will acquire an approximately 20-acre site for the 
new compressor station. Northern also requests herein approval for 
rolled-in rate treatment of the expansion costs. The estimated capital 
cost of the facilities proposed is $40,692,877.
    Pursuant to section 157.9 of the Commission's rules, 18 CFR 157.9, 
within 90 days of this Notice the Commission staff will either: 
Complete its environmental assessment (EA) and place it into the 
Commission's public record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or issue a 
Notice of Schedule for Environmental Review. If a Notice of Schedule 
for Environmental Review is issued, it will indicate, among other 
milestones, the anticipated date for the Commission staff's issuance of 
the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) or EA for this 
proposal. The filing of the EA in the Commission's public record for 
this proceeding or the issuance of a Notice of Schedule for 
Environmental Review will serve to notify federal and state agencies of 
the timing for the completion of all necessary reviews, and the 
subsequent need to complete all federal authorizations within 90 days 
of the date of issuance of the Commission staff's FEIS or EA.
    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 stated 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 seven copies of filings made in the proceeding with the 
Commission and must mail a copy to the applicant and to every other 
party. 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 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 (www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-Filing'' link. Persons unable to file 
electronically should submit an original and 5 copies of the protest or 
intervention to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First 
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.
    Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on October 13, 2015.

    Dated: September 22, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-24533 Filed 9-25-15; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 187 / Monday, September 28, 2015 / Notices 58239 specific conditions in the GAN. The at risk of disability include other documents of this Department GAN also incorporates your approved developmental outcomes for infants and published in the Federal Register in text application as part of your binding toddlers (birth to age three) with or at or Adobe Portable Document Format commitments under the grant. risk for a disability pertaining to (PDF). To use PDF you must have 3. Grant Administration: Applicants cognitive, communicative, linguistic, Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is should budget for an annual two-day social, emotional, adaptive, functional, available free at this site. meeting for project directors to be held or physical development; and You may also access documents of the in Washington, DC. developmental and functional outcomes Department published in the Federal 4. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a that improve education outcomes, Register by using the article search grant under these competitions, you transition to employment, independent feature at: www.federalregister.gov. must ensure that you have in place the living, and postsecondary education for Specifically, through the advanced necessary processes and systems to students with disabilities. search feature at this site, you can limit comply with the reporting requirements 6. Continuation Awards: In making a your search to documents published by in 2 CFR part 170 should you receive continuation award under 34 CFR the Department. funding under the competition. This 75.253, the Secretary considers, among Dated: September 22, 2015. does not apply if you have an exception other things: Whether a grantee has under 2 CFR 170.110(b). made substantial progress in meeting Ruth Neild, (b) At the end of your project period, the goals and objectives of the project; Deputy Director for Policy and Research, you must submit a final performance whether the grantee has expended funds Delegated Duties of the Director, Institute of report, including financial information, Education Sciences. in a manner that is consistent with its as directed by the Secretary. If you approved application and budget; and, [FR Doc. 2015–24511 Filed 9–25–15; 8:45 am] receive a multi-year award, you must if the Secretary has established BILLING CODE 4000–01–P submit an annual performance report performance measurement that provides the most current requirements, whether the grantee has performance and financial expenditure met the performance targets in the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY information as directed by the Secretary grantee’s approved application. In under 34 CFR 75.118. The Secretary making a continuation grant, the Federal Energy Regulatory may also require more frequent Secretary also considers whether the Commission performance reports under 34 CFR grantee is operating in compliance with [Docket No. CP15–552–000] 75.720(c). For specific requirements on the assurances in its approved reporting, please go to www.ed.gov/ application, including those applicable Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice fund/grant/apply/appforms/ to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit of Application appforms.html. discrimination in programs or activities 5. Performance Measures: To evaluate receiving Federal financial assistance Take notice that on September 9, the overall success of its education from the Department (34 CFR 100.4, 2015, Northern Natural Gas Company research and special education research 104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). (Northern) pursuant to section 7(c) of grant programs, the Institute annually the Natural Gas Act (NGA), the Federal assesses the percentage of projects that VII. Agency Contact Energy and Regulatory Commission’s result in peer-reviewed publications, the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (FERC) regulations under and 18 CFR number of newly developed or modified Regarding CFDA number 84.305L—Dr. part 157 filed in Docket No. CP15–552– interventions with evidence of promise Phill Gagne at Phill.Gagne@ed.gov, or 000, an application for certification and for improving student education Dr. Allen Ruby at Allen.Ruby@ed.gov. all authorizations necessary to construct outcomes, and the number of Institute- Regarding CFDA number 84.324L—Dr. and operate new natural gas supported interventions with evidence Robert Ochsendorf at transportation facilities in Gaines of efficacy in improving student Robert.Ochsendorf@ed.gov. County, Texas, as more fully set forth in outcomes, including school readiness If you use a telecommunications the application which is on file with the outcomes for young children and device for the deaf (TDD) or a text Commission and open for public student academic outcomes and social telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay inspection. The filing may also be and behavioral competencies for school- Service, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. viewed on the web at http:// age students. School readiness outcomes www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. include pre-reading, reading, pre- VIII. Other Information Enter the docket number excluding the writing, early mathematics, early Accessible Format: Individuals with last three digits in the docket number science, and social-emotional skills that disabilities can obtain this document field to access the document. For prepare young children for school. and a copy of the RFA in an accessible assistance, contact FERC at Student academic outcomes include format (e.g., braille, large print, FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call learning and achievement in core audiotape, or compact disc) on request toll-free, (866) 208–3676 or TTY, (202) academic content areas (reading, to the appropriate program contact 502–8659. writing, math, and science) and person listed under FOR FURTHER Any questions concerning this outcomes that reflect students’ INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII of application may be directed to: Michael successful progression through the this notice. T. Loeffler, Senior Director Certificates education system (e.g., course and grade Electronic Access to This Document: and External Affairs, Northern Natural completion; high school graduation; The official version of this document is Gas Company, P.O. Box 3330, Omaha, tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES postsecondary enrollment, progress, and the document published in the Federal Nebraska 68103–0330, Phone: (402) completion). Social and behavioral Register. Free Internet access to the 398–7103, FAX: (402) 398–7592, Email: competencies include social skills, official edition of the Federal Register mike.loeffler@nngco.com (402) 398– attitudes, and behaviors that may be and the Code of Federal Regulations is 7103, or Bret Fritch, Senior Regulatory important to student’s academic and available via the Federal Digital System Analyst, at (402) 398–7140. post-academic success. Additional at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you Specifically, Northern proposes to education outcomes for students with or can view this document, as well as all construct and operate a greenfield VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:19 Sep 25, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\28SEN1.SGM 28SEN1

58240 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 187 / Monday, September 28, 2015 / Notices compressor station in Section 125, this project. First, any person wishing to and the instructions on the Block G, Gaines County, Texas. Plans obtain legal status by becoming a party Commission’s Web site (www.ferc.gov) include installation of two units: (1) to the proceedings for this project under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. Persons Solar Taurus 70–10802S with should, on or before the comment date unable to file electronically should approximately 11,152 horsepower (HP); stated below file with the Federal submit an original and 5 copies of the and (2) Solar Taurus 60–7302S with Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 protest or intervention to the Federal approximately 6,937 HP. The combined First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 units have an ISO rating of 18,089 HP. a motion to intervene in accordance First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. The suction side of the compressor with the requirements of the Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern station will be connected to the 30- Commission’s Rules of Practice and Time on October 13, 2015. inch-diameter Spraberry to Plains Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) Dated: September 22, 2015. pipeline. The station will discharge to and the Regulations under the NGA (18 Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., the 30-inch diameter Kermit to Beaver CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party pipeline. The proposed Project includes status will be placed on the service list Deputy Secretary. the installation of a station suction maintained by the Secretary of the [FR Doc. 2015–24533 Filed 9–25–15; 8:45 am] scrubber, a station recycle control valve, Commission and will receive copies of BILLING CODE 6717–01–P lube-oil coolers, a discharge gas cooler, all documents filed by the applicant and blowdown silencers, unit inlet air filters by all other parties. A party must submit and exhaust systems, a backup seven copies of filings made in the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY generator, fuel gas heating skids, a fire/ proceeding with the Commission and Federal Energy Regulatory gas detection system, an air compressor must mail a copy to the applicant and Commission and dryer system, two compressor to every other party. Only parties to the buildings, a control building, an proceeding can ask for court review of [Docket No. ER15–2668–000] auxiliary building, a septic system and Commission orders in the proceeding. associated above-grade and below-grade However, a person does not have to Land of the Sky MT, LLC; piping, valves and instrumentation. The intervene in order to have comments Supplemental Notice That Initial compressor buildings will contain considered. The second way to Market-Based Rate Filing Includes noise-attenuating panels, insulation and participate is by filing with the Request for Blanket Section 204 air inlet/exhaust hoods. A new six-foot Secretary of the Commission, as soon as Authorization tall fence, topped by three rows of possible, an original and two copies of comments in support of or in opposition This is a supplemental notice in the barbed wire, will surround the to this project. The Commission will above-referenced proceeding of Land of perimeter of the new compressor station consider these comments in the Sky MT, LLC’s application for yard. Facilities will provide for determining the appropriate action to be market-based rate authority, with an incremental peak-day firm service of taken, but the filing of a comment alone accompanying rate tariff, noting that 210,000 dekatherms per day (Dth/d). will not serve to make the filer a party such application includes a request for Northern will acquire an approximately 20-acre site for the new compressor to the proceeding. The Commission’s blanket authorization, under 18 CFR station. Northern also requests herein rules require that persons filing part 34, of future issuances of securities approval for rolled-in rate treatment of comments in opposition to the project and assumptions of liability. the expansion costs. The estimated provide copies of their protests only to Any person desiring to intervene or to capital cost of the facilities proposed is the party or parties directly involved in protest should file with the Federal $40,692,877. the protest. Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 Pursuant to section 157.9 of the Persons who wish to comment only First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, Commission’s rules, 18 CFR 157.9, on the environmental review of this in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 within 90 days of this Notice the project should submit an original and of the Commission’s Rules of Practice Commission staff will either: Complete two copies of their comments to the and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and its environmental assessment (EA) and Secretary of the Commission. 385.214). Anyone filing a motion to place it into the Commission’s public Environmental commenters will be intervene or protest must serve a copy record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or placed on the Commission’s of that document on the Applicant. issue a Notice of Schedule for environmental mailing list, will receive Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Review. If a Notice of copies of the environmental documents, deadline for filing protests with regard Schedule for Environmental Review is and will be notified of meetings to the applicant’s request for blanket issued, it will indicate, among other associated with the Commission’s authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of milestones, the anticipated date for the environmental review process. future issuances of securities and Commission staff’s issuance of the final Environmental commenters will not be assumptions of liability, is October 13, environmental impact statement (FEIS) required to serve copies of filed 2015. or EA for this proposal. The filing of the documents on all other parties. The Commission encourages EA in the Commission’s public record However, the non-party commenters electronic submission of protests and for this proceeding or the issuance of a will not receive copies of all documents interventions in lieu of paper, using the Notice of Schedule for Environmental filed by other parties or issued by the FERC Online links at http:// Review will serve to notify federal and Commission (except for the mailing of www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic state agencies of the timing for the environmental documents issued by the service, persons with Internet access tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES completion of all necessary reviews, and Commission) and will not have the right who will eFile a document and/or be the subsequent need to complete all to seek court review of the listed as a contact for an intervenor federal authorizations within 90 days of Commission’s final order. must create and validate an the date of issuance of the Commission The Commission strongly encourages eRegistration account using the staff’s FEIS or EA. electronic filings of comments, protests, eRegistration link. Select the eFiling There are two ways to become and interventions via the internet in lieu link to log on and submit the involved in the Commission’s review of of paper. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a) (1) (iii) intervention or protests. 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Dates5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on October 13, 2015.
FR Citation80 FR 58239 
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