83 FR 8255 - Brooke County Access I, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Planned Brooke County Access Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 38 (February 26, 2018)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 38 (February 26, 2018)
| Page Range | 8255-8257 | |
| FR Document | 2018-03822 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 38 (Monday, February 26, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 8255-8257] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-03822] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. PF18-2-000] Brooke County Access I, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Planned Brooke County Access Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) will prepare an environmental assessment (EA) that will discuss the environmental impacts of the Brook County Access Project involving construction and operation of facilities by Brooke County Access I, LLC (BCAI), in Washington County, Pennsylvania and Brooke County, West Virginia. The Commission will use this EA in its decision- making process to determine whether the project is in the public convenience and necessity. This notice announces the opening of the scoping process the Commission will use to gather input from the public and interested agencies on the project. You can make a difference by providing us with your specific comments or concerns about the project. Your comments should focus on the potential environmental effects, reasonable alternatives, and measures to avoid or lessen environmental impacts. Your input will help the Commission staff determine what issues they need to evaluate in the EA. To ensure that your comments are timely and properly recorded, please send your comments so that the Commission receives them in Washington, DC on or before March 22, 2018. If you sent comments on this project to the Commission before the opening of this docket on October 17, 2017, you will need to file those comments in Docket No. PF18-2-000 to ensure they are considered as part of this proceeding. This notice is being sent to the Commission's current environmental mailing list for this project. State and local government representatives should notify their constituents of this planned project and encourage them to comment on their areas of concern. If you are a landowner receiving this notice, a pipeline company representative may contact you about the acquisition of an easement to construct, operate, and maintain the planned facilities. The company would seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable agreement. However, if the Commission approves the project, that approval conveys with it the right of eminent domain. Therefore, if easement negotiations fail to produce an agreement, the pipeline company could initiate condemnation proceedings where compensation would be determined in accordance with state law. A fact sheet prepared by the FERC entitled An Interstate Natural Gas Facility On My Land? What Do I Need To Know? is available for viewing on the FERC website (www.ferc.gov). This fact sheet addresses a number of typically asked questions, including the use of eminent domain and how to participate in the Commission's proceedings. Public Participation For your convenience, there are three methods you can use to submit your comments to the Commission. The Commission encourages electronic filing of comments and has expert staff available to assist you at (202) 502-8258 or [email protected]. Please carefully follow these instructions so that your comments are properly recorded. (1) You can file your comments electronically using the eComment feature on the Commission's website (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 file your comments electronically by using the eFiling feature on the Commission's website (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. If you are filing a comment on a particular project, please select ``Comment on a Filing'' as the filing type; or (3) You can file a paper copy of your comments by mailing them to the following address. Be sure to reference the project docket number (PF18-2-000) with your submission: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Summary of the Planned Project BCAI plans to construct and operate a varying diameter natural gas transmission pipeline from interconnects with Energy Transfer Partner's Revolution Cryogenic Facility and the National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation's (National Fuel) Line N natural gas mainline in Washington County, Pennsylvania, to a proposed [[Page 8256]] combined-cycle power facility (Power Facility) in Brooke County, West Virginia. The Brooke County Access Project would provide about 130 million standard cubic feet of natural gas per day to the Power Facility. The Project includes the construction and operation of the following facilities:Approximately 16 miles of new 16- to 20-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline; bi-directional pig launcher and receiver system on each end of the new pipelines; \1\ and --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ A pig is a tool that the pipeline company inserts into and pushes through the pipeline for cleaning the pipeline, conducting internal inspections, or other purposes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- three new meter stations and mainline valve settings at milepost 0.0 at the Revolution Cryogenic Plant interconnect, milepost 2.21 at the National Fuel interconnect, and at milepost 15.57 inside the Power Facility. The general location of the project facilities is shown in appendix 1.\2\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \2\ The appendices referenced in this notice will not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of the appendices were sent to all those receiving this notice in the mail and are available at www.ferc.gov using the link called eLibrary or from the Commission's Public Reference Room, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, or call (202) 502-8371. For instructions on connecting to eLibrary, refer to the last page of this notice. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Land Requirements for Construction Construction of the planned facilities would disturb about 225 acres of land for the aboveground facilities and the pipeline. Following construction, BCAI would maintain about 105 acres for permanent operation of the projects facilities; the remaining acreage would be restored and revert to former uses. About 27 percent of the planned pipeline route parallels existing pipeline, utility, or road rights-of-way. The EA Process The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires the Commission to take into account the environmental impacts that could result from an action whenever it considers the issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. NEPA also requires us \3\ to discover and address concerns the public may have about proposals. This process is referred to as scoping. The main goal of the scoping process is to focus the analysis in the EA on the important environmental issues. By this notice, the Commission requests public comments on the scope of the issues to address in the EA. We will consider all filed comments during the preparation of the EA. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \3\ We, us, and our refer to the environmental staff of the Commission's Office of Energy Projects. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the EA we will discuss impacts that could occur as a result of the construction and operation of the planned project under these general headings: Geology and soils; water resources, fisheries, and wetlands; vegetation and wildlife; endangered and threatened species; cultural resources; land use; air quality and noise; public safety; and cumulative impacts. We will also evaluate possible alternatives to the planned project or portions of the project, and make recommendations on how to lessen or avoid impacts on the various resource areas. Although no formal application has been filed, we have already initiated our NEPA review under the Commission's pre-filing process. The purpose of the pre-filing process is to encourage early involvement of interested stakeholders and to identify and resolve issues before the FERC receives an application. As part of our pre-filing review, we have begun to contact some federal and state agencies to discuss their involvement in the scoping process and the preparation of the EA. The EA will present our independent analysis of the issues. The EA will be available in the public record through eLibrary. Depending on the comments received during the scoping process, we may also publish and distribute the EA to the public for an allotted comment period. We will consider all comments on the EA before we make our recommendations to the Commission. To ensure we have the opportunity to consider and address your comments, please carefully follow the instructions in the Public Participation section, beginning on page 2. With this notice, we are asking agencies with jurisdiction by law and/or special expertise with respect to the environmental issues related to this project to formally cooperate with us in the preparation of the EA.\4\ Agencies that would like to request cooperating agency status should follow the instructions for filing comments provided under the Public Participation section of this notice. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \4\ The Council on Environmental Quality regulations addressing cooperating agency responsibilities are at Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1501.6. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Consultations Under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act In accordance with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's implementing regulations for section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, we are using this notice to initiate consultation with the applicable State Historic Preservation Office(s), and to solicit their views and those of other government agencies, interested Indian tribes, and the public on the project's potential effects on historic properties.\5\ We will define the project-specific Area of Potential Effects (APE) in consultation with the SHPO(s) as the project develops. On natural gas facility projects, the APE at a minimum encompasses all areas subject to ground disturbance (examples include construction right-of-way, contractor/pipe storage yards, compressor stations, and access roads). Our EA for this project will document our findings on the impacts on historic properties and summarize the status of consultations under section 106. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \5\ The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 800. Those regulations define historic properties as any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object included in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Environmental Mailing List The environmental mailing list includes federal, state, and local government representatives and agencies; elected officials; Native American Tribes; other interested parties; and local libraries and newspapers. This list also includes all affected landowners (as defined in the Commission's regulations) who are potential right-of-way grantors, whose property may be used temporarily for project purposes, or who own homes within certain distances of aboveground facilities, and anyone who submits comments on the project. We will update the environmental mailing list as the analysis proceeds to ensure that we send the information related to this environmental review to all individuals, organizations, and government entities interested in and/ or potentially affected by the planned project. If we publish and distribute the EA, copies will be sent to the environmental mailing list for public review and comment. If you would prefer to receive a paper copy of the document instead of the CD version or would like to remove your name from the mailing list, please return the attached Information Request (appendix 2). [[Page 8257]] Becoming an Intervenor Once BCAI files its application with the Commission, you may want to become an intervenor which is an official party to the Commission's proceeding. Intervenors play a more formal role in the process and are able to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be heard by the courts if they choose to appeal the Commission's final ruling. An intervenor formally participates in the proceeding by filing a request to intervene. Motions to intervene are more fully described at http://www.ferc.gov/resources/guides/how-to/intervene.asp. Instructions for becoming an intervenor are in the Document-less Intervention Guide under the e-filing link on the Commission's website. Please note that the Commission will not accept requests for intervenor status at this time. You must wait until the Commission receives a formal application for the project. Additional Information Additional information about the project is available from the Commission's Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208-FERC, or on the FERC website (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., PF18- 2). Be sure you have selected an appropriate date range. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at [email protected] 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. Finally, public sessions or site visits will be posted on the Commission's calendar located at www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along with other related information. Dated: February 20, 2018. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2018-03822 Filed 2-23-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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by Boyce Hydro to comply with the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY conveys with it the right of eminent
Compliance Order, we propose domain. Therefore, if easement
revocation of the project license.21 Federal Energy Regulatory negotiations fail to produce an
Commission agreement, the pipeline company could
11. The licensee may request an
[Docket No. PF18–2–000] initiate condemnation proceedings
evidentiary hearing before an
where compensation would be
Administrative Law Judge within 30
Brooke County Access I, LLC; Notice determined in accordance with state
days of this issuance date of this law.
of Intent To Prepare an Environmental
order.22 If, within 30 days, the licensee A fact sheet prepared by the FERC
Assessment for the Planned Brooke
requests a hearing, the Commission will entitled An Interstate Natural Gas
County Access Project and Request
set the matter for hearing. If the licensee for Comments on Environmental Facility On My Land? What Do I Need
does not request a hearing, the Issues To Know? is available for viewing on
Commission will decide this matter the FERC website (www.ferc.gov). This
based on the written record. Any The staff of the Federal Energy fact sheet addresses a number of
interested person may file a motion to Regulatory Commission (FERC or typically asked questions, including the
intervene in accordance with the Commission) will prepare an use of eminent domain and how to
requirements of the Commission’s Rules environmental assessment (EA) that will participate in the Commission’s
of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR discuss the environmental impacts of proceedings.
385.214). A person does not have to the Brook County Access Project
involving construction and operation of Public Participation
intervene in order to have comments
facilities by Brooke County Access I, For your convenience, there are three
considered. Any person may file with
LLC (BCAI), in Washington County, methods you can use to submit your
the Secretary of the Commission, Pennsylvania and Brooke County, West comments to the Commission. The
comments in support of or in opposition Virginia. The Commission will use this Commission encourages electronic filing
to the proposed revocation. The EA in its decision-making process to of comments and has expert staff
Commission will consider these determine whether the project is in the available to assist you at (202) 502–8258
comments in determining the public convenience and necessity. or FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. Please
appropriate action to be taken, but the This notice announces the opening of carefully follow these instructions so
filing of a comment alone will not serve the scoping process the Commission that your comments are properly
to make the filer a party to the will use to gather input from the public recorded.
proceeding. and interested agencies on the project. (1) You can file your comments
You can make a difference by providing electronically using the eComment
The Commission Orders us with your specific comments or feature on the Commission’s website
(A) Pursuant to section 31(b) of the concerns about the project. Your (www.ferc.gov) under the link to
FPA, 16 U.S.C. 823b(b) (2012), the comments should focus on the potential Documents and Filings. This is an easy
Commission proposes to revoke the environmental effects, reasonable method for submitting brief, text-only
license for the Edenville Project No. alternatives, and measures to avoid or comments on a project;
10808. lessen environmental impacts. Your (2) You can file your comments
input will help the Commission staff electronically by using the eFiling
(B) Boyce Hydro may request an determine what issues they need to feature on the Commission’s website
evidentiary hearing within 30 days of evaluate in the EA. To ensure that your (www.ferc.gov) under the link to
the issuance date of this order. comments are timely and properly Documents and Filings. With eFiling,
By the Commission. recorded, please send your comments so you can provide comments in a variety
Issued February 15, 2018. that the Commission receives them in of formats by attaching them as a file
Washington, DC on or before March 22, with your submission. New eFiling
Kimberly D. Bose,
2018. users must first create an account by
Secretary. If you sent comments on this project clicking on eRegister. If you are filing a
[FR Doc. 2018–03821 Filed 2–23–18; 8:45 am] to the Commission before the opening of comment on a particular project, please
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P this docket on October 17, 2017, you select ‘‘Comment on a Filing’’ as the
will need to file those comments in filing type; or
Docket No. PF18–2–000 to ensure they (3) You can file a paper copy of your
are considered as part of this comments by mailing them to the
regulate dam safety and other issues related to the proceeding. following address. Be sure to reference
dam and impoundment would transfer to the state). This notice is being sent to the
21 Revocation of the Edenville Project license does
the project docket number (PF18–2–000)
Commission’s current environmental with your submission: Kimberly D.
not mandate removal or any modification of the
mailing list for this project. State and Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy
dam. While, the Commission has broad authority to
fashion appropriate remedies to further the goals of
local government representatives should Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
the FPA in a manner that is necessary and notify their constituents of this planned NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.
appropriate to carry out the revocation of this project and encourage them to comment
license, as a general rule, we do not condition the on their areas of concern. Summary of the Planned Project
effectiveness of a license revocation by imposing If you are a landowner receiving this BCAI plans to construct and operate
additional requirements on a licensee that has notice, a pipeline company a varying diameter natural gas
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES
shown its unwillingness to comply with other representative may contact you about transmission pipeline from
Commission orders. Eastern Hydroelectric Corp.,
the acquisition of an easement to interconnects with Energy Transfer
149 FERC 61,036 at P 33 (declining request to order
removal of all project facilities including the dam
construct, operate, and maintain the Partner’s Revolution Cryogenic Facility
and instead only requiring licensee to disable all of planned facilities. The company would and the National Fuel Gas Supply
the project’s generating equipment to prevent seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable Corporation’s (National Fuel) Line N
operation of the project). agreement. However, if the Commission natural gas mainline in Washington
22 See 16 U.S.C. 823b(b) (2012). approves the project, that approval County, Pennsylvania, to a proposed
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Becoming an Intervenor DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Online service, please email
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call
Once BCAI files its application with Federal Energy Regulatory (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call
the Commission, you may want to Commission (202) 502–8659.
become an intervenor which is an Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
official party to the Commission’s [Docket No. EL18–61–000]
Time on March 12, 2018.
proceeding. Intervenors play a more Public Citizen, Inc. v. PJM
formal role in the process and are able Dated: February 20, 2018.
Interconnection LLC; Notice of Kimberly D. Bose,
to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be Complaint
heard by the courts if they choose to Secretary.
appeal the Commission’s final ruling. Take notice that on February 20, 2018, [FR Doc. 2018–03820 Filed 2–23–18; 8:45 am]
An intervenor formally participates in pursuant to section 206 of the Federal BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
the proceeding by filing a request to Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 824e and 825d and
intervene. Motions to intervene are Rule 206 of the Federal Energy
more fully described at http:// Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
www.ferc.gov/resources/guides/how-to/ Commission) Rules of Practice and
intervene.asp. Instructions for becoming Procedure, 18 CFR 385.206, Public Federal Energy Regulatory
an intervenor are in the Document-less Citizen, Inc. (Complainant) filed a Commission
Intervention Guide under the e-filing formal complaint against PJM
Interconnection LLC (PJM or Combined Notice of Filings
link on the Commission’s website.
Please note that the Commission will Respondent) alleging that PJM failed to Take notice that the Commission has
not accept requests for intervenor status disclose millions of dollars in electoral received the following Natural Gas
at this time. You must wait until the campaign contributions and lobbying Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings:
Commission receives a formal expenditures to its stakeholders or to
application for the project. FERC, in violation of Commission Filings Instituting Proceedings
precedent and potential violation of just Docket Numbers: CP18–83–000.
Additional Information and reasonable rates, all as more fully Applicants: Gulf Crossing Pipeline
Additional information about the explained in the complaint. Company LLC.
The Complainant certifies that a copy
project is available from the Description: Gulf Crossing Pipeline
of the complaint has been served on the
Commission’s Office of External Affairs, Company LLC and Enable Oklahoma
Respondent.
at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Intrastate Transmission, LLC—
Any person desiring to intervene or to
website (www.ferc.gov) using the Abbreviated Joint Application for
protest this filing must file in
eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary link, Authorization to Abandon a Lease of
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
click on ‘‘General Search’’ and enter the Capacity.
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
docket number, excluding the last three Filed Date: 2/09/18.
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214).
digits in the Docket Number field (i.e., Accession Number: 20180209–5226.
Protests will be considered by the
PF18–2). Be sure you have selected an Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/21/18.
Commission in determining the
appropriate date range. For assistance,
appropriate action to be taken, but will Docket Numbers: RP18–437–000.
please contact FERC Online Support at
not serve to make protestants parties to Applicants: Guardian Pipeline, L.L.C.
FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free
the proceeding. Any person wishing to Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing:
at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact
become a party must file a notice of Revisions to OSS/LBS Statement of
(202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also
intervention or motion to intervene, as Rates to be effective 4/1/2018.
provides access to the texts of formal
appropriate. The Respondent’s answer Filed Date: 2/12/18.
documents issued by the Commission,
and all interventions, or protests must Accession Number: 20180212–5061.
such as orders, notices, and
be filed on or before the comment date.
rulemakings. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/26/18.
The Respondent’s answer, motions to
In addition, the Commission offers a intervene, and protests must be served The filings are accessible in the
free service called eSubscription which on the Complainants. Commission’s eLibrary system by
allows you to keep track of all formal The Commission encourages clicking on the links or querying the
issuances and submittals in specific electronic submission of protests and docket number.
dockets. This can reduce the amount of interventions in lieu of paper using the Any person desiring to intervene or
time you spend researching proceedings ‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. protest in any of the above proceedings
by automatically providing you with Persons unable to file electronically must file in accordance with Rules 211
notification of these filings, document should submit an original and 5 copies and 214 of the Commission’s
summaries, and direct links to the of the protest or intervention to the Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and
documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docs- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
filing/esubscription.asp. 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC time on the specified comment date.
Finally, public sessions or site visits 20426. Protests may be considered, but
will be posted on the Commission’s This filing is accessible on-line at intervention is necessary to become a
calendar located at www.ferc.gov/ http://www.ferc.gov, using the eLibrary party to the proceeding.
EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along link and is available for electronic eFiling is encouraged. More detailed
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES
with other related information. review in the Commission’s Public information relating to filing
Reference Room in Washington, DC requirements, interventions, protests,
Dated: February 20, 2018. There is an eSubscription link on the service, and qualifying facilities filings
Kimberly D. Bose, website that enables subscribers to can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/
Secretary. receive email notification when a docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For
[FR Doc. 2018–03822 Filed 2–23–18; 8:45 am] document is added to a subscribed other information, call (866) 208–3676
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P docket(s). For assistance with any FERC (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.
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