Gas Transmission Northwest LLC submits FERC Form 3Q Quarterly financial report of electric utilities, licensees, and natural gas companies for 2015/Q3.

June 26, 2013 Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First Street, N.E. Washington D.C. 20426 RE: Response to Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Assessment and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues Transcontinental Leidy Southeast Expansion Project (Docket No. PF13-5). Dear Secretary Bose: The Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) submits the following comments on the scope of the Environmental Assessment (EA) to be prepared by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) with respect to the Leidy Southeast Expansion Project (the "Project" or LSE) proposed by Transcontinental Pipeline Company (Transco). Transco is requesting to construct and operate the LSE in order to provide 469,000 dekatherms per day (dt/day) of natural gas from receipt points on Transcos Leidy Line in Pennsylvania to various delivery points along Transcos Mainline and Leidy systems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Transco proposes that in order to transport this volume of natural gas it must construct approximately 28.36 miles of 42-inch diameter pipeline looping, adding of 92,700 horsepower (hp) at four existing compressor stations, and modifying of various other aboveground facilities. I. Environmental Impacts from Pipeline Construction Activity A brief survey of published environmental studies suggests that pipeline construction activities result in four primary impacts to groundcover affecting water resources, including: erosion and sedimentation, loss of riparian vegetation, forest and habitat loss and fragmentation, and cumulative impacts. Each one of these four major impacts must be thoroughly addressed in the Environmental Assessment for the Project. Studies documenting the effects of stream crossing construction on aquatic ecosystems identify sediment as the primary stressor for construction on river and stream ecosystems. 1 During the pipeline stream crossings construction, discrete peaks of high suspended sediment concentration occur during activities such as blasting, trench excavation, and backfilling.2 The excavation of streambeds can generate persistent plumes of sediment concentration and turbidity.3 This sedimentation has serious consequences for the benthic invertebrates and fish species whose vitality is crucial for healthy aquatic ecosystems. There have been documented reductions in benthic invertebrate densities, changes to the structure of aquatic communities, changes in fish foraging behavior, reductions in the availability of food, and increases in fish egg mortality rates.4 In addition to the stream crossing construction activity itself, the associated new road construction increases the risk of erosion and sedimentation.5 Transco should be required to accumulate baseline surveys of benthic invertebrates at all stream crossings to ensure that post- construction conditions are substantially similar to ...