Department of Energy EPACT Sections 1813

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Department of Energy -EPACT Sections 1813 368

• Julia Souder
• Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy
  Reliability
• U.S. Department of Energy
• API Pipeline Roundtable
• November 30, 2006

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EPACT 1813 Update Indian Land Rights-of-Ways

• Draft published August 2006
• New draft will be published soon and there will
  be at least a 30-day comment period.
• Final drafting stages now between the agencies.
• http//www.oe.energy.gov/574.htm
• POC David Meyer 202-586-1411

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EPACT Sec. 368 Identification of Energy
Corridors on Federal Lands

• DOE, Agriculture, Interior, Commerce and DOD
  shall
• Designate corridors for oil, gas and hydrogen
  pipelines and electricity transmission
  distribution facilities on federal land in the
  eleven contiguous Western states by Aug 2007
  same by Aug 2009 for federal land in East, AK,
  and HI.
• The draft programmatic EIS required for
  designation of the western corridors will be
  published in early 2007.
• Energy corridors in the West will be integrated
  into agency land use and resource management
  plans by the end of 2007.
• Extensive discussions with states, tribes,
  agencies, and industry continue as part of the
  PEIS preparation. Preliminary corridor map
  issued June 2006. Eastern study not yet begun.
• POC Julia Souder, 202-586-1411
• www.corridoreis.anl.gov

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June 2006 DRAFT EPACT 368 Preliminary Energy
Corridors