[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 12, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63851-63852]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-26889]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP19-21-000]
Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC; Notice of Request Under Blanket
Authorization
Take notice that on November 27, 2018, Columbia Gas Transmission,
LLC (Columbia) 700 Louisiana Street, Suite 700, Houston, Texas 77002-
2700, filed in Docket No. CP19-21-000 a prior notice request pursuant
to sections 157.205 and 157.213 of the Commission's regulations under
the Natural Gas Act (NGA), and Columbia's blanket certificate issued in
Docket No. CP83-76-000, to construct and operate its Artemas A Storage
Field New Wells Project (Project). The Project consists of three new
directional storage wells and related pipelines and appurtenances at
Columbia's Artemas A Storage Field, located in Bedford County,
Pennsylvania.
Columbia states that the Project is part of the efforts to improve
storage deliverability of the Artemas A Storage Field, as part of the
Modernization II Settlement that it entered with its shippers. The
Artemas A Storage Field currently consists of 17 active wells and is
operated with a total capacity of 14.457 billion cubic feet (Bcf)
consisting of 13.70 Bcf of certificated base and working gas, and
approximately 0.757 Bcf of residual native gas. Columbia asserts that
the Project could provide 58 to 79 Million cubic feet per day of
restored deliverability to the Columbia storage system. Columbia avers
that the proposed three new wells will be drilled at three of four
potential well sites that are currently under evaluation and that the
selection will depend upon which combination of sites will provide the
desired restored deliverability with the least risk. Columbia states
that it will notify the Commission of the three well sites selected for
the Project prior commencement of construction. Columbia estimates the
cost of the Project to be between $25.4 million to $28.2 million,
depending upon which three of the four potential well sites are
selected, all as more fully set forth in the application which is on
file with the Commission and open to 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, please
contact FERC Online Support at [email protected] or toll free
at (866) 208-3676, or TTY, contact (202) 502-8659.
Any questions concerning this application may be directed to Linda
Farquhar, Manager, Project Determinations & Regulatory Administration,
Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC, 700 Louisiana Street, Suite 700,
Houston, Texas, 77002-2700, by telephone at (832) 320-5685, by
facsimile at (832) 320-6685, or by email at
[email protected].
Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 60 days after
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule
214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to
intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to section 157.205 of
the regulations under the NGA (18 CFR 157.205), a protest to the
request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefore, the
proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized effective the day
after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is filed and
not withdrawn within 30 days after the allowed time for filing a
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for
authorization pursuant to section 7 of the NGA.
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 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 EA.
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.
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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 in lieu of paper using the eFiling link at
http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should
submit an original and seven copies of the protest or intervention to
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE,
Washington, DC 20426.
Dated: December 6, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-26889 Filed 12-11-18; 8:45 am]
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