FERC Meeting: Notice of Third Interstate Natural Gas Facility-Planning Seminar:

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Office of Energy Projects will hold the third in a series of public meetings around the country for the purposes of exploring and enhancing strategies for constructive public participation in the earliest stages of natural gas facility planning. This meeting will be held in Tampa, Florida on Thursday, February 15, 2001. FERC is inviting interstate natural gas companies; Federal, state and local agencies; landowners and non-governmental organizations with an interest in developing a new way of doing business to join in this effort.

Participants will discuss the facility planning process, not the merits of any pending or planned pipeline projects. The staff of the Commission's Office of Energy Projects will give a briefing on the results of our first two seminars in Albany, NY and Chicago, IL, including problems that were identified and potential solutions that were offered in the seminars.

The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn City Centre, located in Tampa, Florida. The meeting is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. and finish at 4 p.m. If you plan to attend, please email gasoutreach@ferc.fed.us by February 6, 2001. Or, you can respond via facsimile to Pennie Lewis-Partee at 202-208-0353. Please include in the response the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all attendees from your organization. FERC will send an acknowledgment of your request. Please consider issues and/or questions you would like to have addressed at the meetings and email them to FERC.