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Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.; Notice of Technical and Scoping Meetings for the Proposed Eastchester Project, as Amended

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 [Federal Register: January 29, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 19)]
[Notices]
[Page 8107]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP00-232-001]


Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.; Notice of Technical and
Scoping Meetings for the Proposed Eastchester Project, as Amended

January 23, 2001.
    On December 15, 2000, Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.
(Iroquois), filed an amendment to the application for the Eastchester
Project. Iroquois proposes to construct a natural gas pipeline from
Long Island to the Bronx, New York. The amendment includes a new
preferred route through the Bronx, three additional routing
alternatives, as well as alternative interconnection locations with
Consolidated Edison Company of New York's facilities. The amendment was
noticed on December 28, 2000.
    Iroquois's preferred alternative would traverse long Island Sound
with landfall at Locust point. Through a combination of underground
horizontal drilling and open-trench construction, the pipeline would
cross the Throgs Neck Expressway, follow the Throgs Neck Expressway
Extension to Lafayette Avenue and follow Lafayette Avenue to an
interconnection site located just south of the intersection of
Lafayette and Brush avenues on the east bank of Westchester Creek.
    In a letter dated January 5, 2001, Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey
requested a meeting be held to inform elected officials and the public
about the pipeline certification process, Iroquois' amendment, and
other viable route options. A technical meeting will be held to discuss
these issues and to exchange information among state and federal
agencies and U.S., state, and community representatives. The location
and time for the technical meeting are listed below:
    Date and Time: February 2, 2001, 10 a.m.
    Location: Community Board 10, 3165 E. Tremont Avenue, Bronx, NY
10461.
    Phone: (718) 892-1161.
    While the public is welcome to attend the technical meeting, public
comments will be received at the scoping meeting listed below:
    Date and Time: February 15, 2001, 7 a.m.
    Location: St. Francis de Chantal School, 2962 Harding Avenue,
Bronx, NY 10465.
    Phone: (718) 792-5500.
    Comments received at the scoping meeting will assist Commission
staff to determine the issues to be evaluated in the environmental
impact statement and will be included in the Commission's record for
this proceeding. Additional information may be obtained from John
Schnagl, at (202) 219-2661.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-2431 Filed 1-26-01; 8:45 am]
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