Environmental statements; availability, etc.: ANR Pipeline Co.,

[Federal Register: July 16, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 136)]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP97-765-000]

ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Wisconsin Loop Expansion Project

July 10, 1998.

The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) on the natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by ANR Pipeline Company (ANR) in the above-referenced docket.

The EA was prepared to satisfy the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. The 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 EA assesses the potential environmental effects of the construction and operation of the proposed Wisconsin Loop Expansion Project facilities including:

‹bullet› About 11.7 miles of 30-inch-diameter pipeline loop on ANR's existing Wisconsin mainline in Waukesha County, Wisconsin;

‹bullet› The relocation of an existing pig receiver from ANR's existing Milwaukee Tap and Meter Station No. 10 to a parcel of land adjacent to ANR's existing mainline Station No. 12 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin;

‹bullet› A valve station at milepost 7.7 along the proposed 30- inch-diameter pipeline loop; and

‹bullet› A new meter station (Somers Meter Station) at milepost 12.19 along ANR's existing Racine lateral in Kenosha County, Wisconsin.

ANR would transport an additional 116 million cubic feet of natural gas per day to shippers in the Chicago hub markets.

The EA has been placed in the public files of the FERC. A limited number of copies of the EA are available for distribution and public inspection at: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Reference and Files Maintenance Branch, 888 First Street, N.E., Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208-1371.

Copies of the EA have been mailed to Federal, state and local agencies, public interest groups, interested individuals, newspapers, and parties to this proceeding.

Any person wishing to comment on the EA may do so. To ensure consideration prior to a Commission decision on the proposal, it is important that we receive your comments before the date specified below. Please carefully follow these instructions to ensure that your comments are received in time and properly recorded:

‹bullet› Send two copies of your comments to: Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First St., N.E., Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426;

‹bullet› Label one copy of the comments for the attention of the Environmental Review and Compliance Branch, PR-11.1.

‹bullet› Reference Docket No. CP97-765-000; and

‹bullet› Mail your comments so that they will be received in Washington, DC on or before August 7, 1998.

Comments will be considered by the Commission but will not serve to make the commentor a party to the proceeding. 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).

The date for filing timely motions to intervene in this proceeding has passed. Therefore, parties now seeking to file late interventions must show good cause, as required by Section 385.214(b)(3), why this time limitation should be waived. Environmental issues have been viewed as good cause for late intervention. You do not need intervenor status to have your comments considered. David P. Boergers, Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98-18919Filed7-15-98; 8:45 am]

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