[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 92 (Friday, May 10, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21455-21459]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-11701]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Environmental Compliance and Applicant Environmental
Report Preparation Training Courses
May 6, 1996.
The Office of Pipeline Regulation (OPR) staff is conducting three
sessions of its environmental compliance training course and the course
on preparing the applicant's environmental report.
These courses are a result of the positive response to our outreach
training courses held from 1992 through 1995. We encourage interested
organizations and the public to take advantage of the courses to gain
an understanding of the requirements and objectives of the Commission
in ensuring compliance with all environmental certificate conditions
and meeting its responsibilities under the National Environmental
Policy Act and other laws and regulations.
Environmental Report Preparation Course
The environmental report preparation course presentation and the
manual focus primarily on Section 7 filings. However, the course manual
will address the following topics:
A. What types of projects require environmental filings.
1. Natural Gas Act section 7
2. Natural Gas Policy Act filings
3. Section 2.55 replacements
B. What filings are required of each type of filing.
C. What to include in each filing.
D. Potential time saving procedures.
1. Applicant-prepared DEA
2. Third-party EA or EIS
The staff intends the manual to be a cookbook for preparing
environmental filings under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
If you have specific questions related to the subject matter of
this course, or if you would like the course to address a particular
item, please call Mr. John Leiss at (202) 208-1106.
The one-day environmental report preparation course will be held on
the dates and at the locations shown below. Attendees must call the
numbers listed for the hotels by the reservation deadline and identify
themselves as FERC seminar attendees to receive the discounted group
rate. Hotel information for Houston and Denver will be available after
May 15 through the telephone number given below under Preregistration.
Session and Location: June 25, Dupont Plaza Hotel, 1500 New Hampshire
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20036, (202) 483-6000; July 30, Houston;
August 13, Denver.
Hotel Reservation Deadline: June 10.
Environmental Compliance Training Course
The two-day environmental compliance training course will include
the following topics:
A. Postcertificate clearance filings;
B. Environmental inspection as it relates to:
1. Right-of-way preparation;
2. Temporary erosion control;
3. Cultural resources/Paleontology;
4. Waterbody crossings;
5. Wetland construction;
6. Residential area construction;
7. Right-of-way restoration; and
8. techniques for environmental compliance.
The environmental compliance training course will be held on the
dates and at the locations shown below. Attendees must call the numbers
listed for the hotels by the reservation deadline and identify
themselves as FERC seminar attendees to receive the discounted group
rate. Hotel information for Houston and Denver will be available after
May 15 through the telephone number given below under Preregistration.
Session and Location: June 26-27, Dupont Plaza Hotel, 1500 New
Hampshire Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20036, (202) 483-6000; July 31-
August/1, Houston; August 14-15, Denver.
Hotel Reservation Deadline: June 10.
Preregistration
The OPR staff and Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation, the
Commission's environmental support contractor for natural gas projects,
will conduct the training. There is no fee for the courses, but you
must preregister because space is limited.
If you would like to attend either of these courses, please call
the telephone number listed below to obtain a preregistration
form.1 Note: If you plan to attend both the environmental report
preparation session and the subsequent environmental compliance
training session, you must preregister separately for each (only one
form is needed). Attendance will be limited to the first 150 people to
preregister in each course. Call or FAX requests for preregistration
forms to: Ms. Sarah Adam, Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation, 470
Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA 02210, Telephone: (617) 542-8805, FAX:
(617) 695-1587.
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You will receive confirmation of preregistration and additional
information before the training course(s).
Additional training will be offered in the future. Please indicate
whether you would like these courses to be offered again, or if you are
interested in any other courses with different topics or audiences.
Please indicate your preferences for location and time of year.
Suggestions on format are welcome.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
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