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National Palace Museum, Taipei,’’
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2016, at the Museum of Fine Arts,
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Mark Taplin,
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Department of State.
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Culturally Significant Objects Imported
for Exhibition Determinations:
‘‘Emperors’ Treasures: Chinese Art
From the National Palace Museum,
Taipei’’ Exhibition
Notice is hereby given of the
following determinations: Pursuant to
the authority vested in me by the Act of
October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C.
2459), E.O. 12047 of March 27, 1978, the
Foreign Affairs Reform and
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2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et
seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of
October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority
No. 236–3 of August 28, 2000 (and, as
appropriate, Delegation of Authority No.
257–1 of December 11, 2015), I hereby
determine that the objects to be
included in the exhibition ‘‘Emperors’
Treasures: Chinese Art from the
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Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Upland Pipeline in
Williams, Mountrail, and Burke
Counties, North Dakota and Conduct a
Public Scoping Meeting
Department of State.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The U.S. Department of State
(Department) is issuing this Notice of
Intent (NOI) to inform the public that it
will prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS), consistent with the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) of 1969 (as implemented by the
Council on Environmental Quality
regulations found at 40 CFR parts 1500–
1508), to evaluate potential impacts
from the construction, connection,
operation, and maintenance of a
proposed new 20-inch diameter
pipeline and associated infrastructure in
North Dakota that would export crude
oil from the United States to Canada.
SUMMARY:
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The Upland Pipeline EIS will address
potential direct, indirect, and
cumulative environmental impacts from
the proposed action and will evaluate a
range of reasonable alternatives,
including a no action alternative.
The Department also plans to host a
public scoping meeting on Tuesday,
May 10, 2016 from 4:00–7:00 p.m. at the
Farm Festival Building in Tioga, North
Dakota to solicit public comments for
consideration in establishing the scope
of the EIS.
DATES: The Department invites the
public, governmental agencies, tribal
governments, and all other interested
parties to comment on the scope of the
EIS. All such comments should be
provided within the 45-day public
scoping period, which starts with the
publication of this Notice in the Federal
Register on April 15, 2016 and will
continue until May 31, 2016. Written,
electronic, and oral comments will be
given equal weight and the Department
will consider all comments received or
postmarked by May 30, 2016. Comments
received or postmarked after that date
may be considered to the extent
practicable.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
submitted at www.regulations.gov by
entering the title of this Notice into the
search field and following the prompts.
Comments may also be submitted by
mail, addressed to: Upland Project
Manager, Office of Environmental
Quality and Transboundary Issues,
Room 2726, U.S. Department of State,
2201 C Street NW., Washington, DC
20520. All comments from agencies or
organizations should indicate a contact
person for the agency or organization.
Comments may also be submitted at
the public scoping meeting on Tuesday,
May 10, 2016 from 4:00–7:00 p.m. at the
following address: Farm Festival
Building, 640 6th Street North, Tioga,
North Dakota.
FURTHER INFORMATION: For information
contact the Upland Project Manager at
the address listed in ADDRESSES, by
email at UplandReview@state.gov, or by
fax at (202) 647–5947. Information on
the proposed project details,
Presidential Permit application, status
of the environmental review, etc. may
be found at: https://www.state.gov/e/enr/
applicant/applicants/uplandpipeline/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Project Description
On April 22, 2015, Upland Pipeline,
LLC (Upland), which is a subsidiary of
TransCanada Pipeline Limited,
submitted an application for a new
Presidential Permit under E. O. 13337 of
April 30, 2004 (69 FR 25299) to
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authorize the construction, connection,
operation, and maintenance of pipeline
facilities for the export of crude oil,
which would be located at the border of
the United States and Canada. Upland
amended the application on July 8, 2015
to make it compliant with Section 508
of the Rehabilitation Act and added
other required clarifications. The
Upland project is designed to transport
crude oil from the Williston Basin
region in North Dakota into Canada.
The proposed pipeline would have
the capacity to transport approximately
300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude
oil. The requested Presidential Permit, if
granted, would cover the border
segment of pipeline between the
northernmost mainline shutoff valve in
the United States (Upland plans
indicate this will be near milepost 108
of the proposed project route in Burke
County, North Dakota) and the United
States-Canada border.
The proposed Upland project would
consist of approximately 124 miles of
new 20-inch diameter pipeline located
in Williams, Mountrail, and Burke
counties, North Dakota. The proposed
pipeline would have 15 mainline valves
(MLV), one at each of the five oil receipt
facilities and ten located along the
pipeline route. The proposed project
would include five new aboveground
receipt facilities, three of which would
also include a pump station at each.
Four of the new receipt facilities (near
Aune, Epping, Beaver Lodge, and Tioga)
would be located on approximately 25acre sites and each would have one
storage tank with a design capacity of
100,000 barrels (bbl). One of the new
receipt facilities (Trenton) would be
located on an approximately 52-acre site
and include one 300,000 bbl oil storage
tank. Each of the five receipt facilities
would include associated pumps,
valves, truck unloading facilities, and
support equipment and facilities.
Temporary construction facilities would
include three pipe yards, four rail
sidings, and one contractor yard. Fuel
storage would be established at the
contractor yard and pipe yards. Access
roads would be constructed to provide
adequate access to the construction sites
and to the receipt facilities and MLVs.
The proposed project would also
include the establishment of one
temporary workforce camp, in Williams
County, North Dakota, if needed to meet
the housing needs of the construction
workforce during construction. In
addition to the project facilities, electric
power lines and associated facility
upgrades would be constructed, as
required, by local electric power
providers to supply power to the receipt
facilities and the MLVs. The facility
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upgrades would include the
construction and installation of new
substations and transformers to meet the
power demands of the receipt facilities.
The Canadian portion of the Upland
Pipeline system would include a 20inch diameter pipeline that would
extend from the United States-Canada
border near Northgate, Saskatchewan to
Moosomin, Saskatchewan or Cromer,
Manitoba. Review and approval of the
proposed Canadian facilities will be
subject to the jurisdiction of the
Canadian National Energy Board as well
as various local, municipal, and
provincial authorities.
The EIS Process
After due consideration of the nature
and extent of the proposed project,
including evaluation of the
‘‘Environmental Review’’ section of the
Presidential Permit application, and
comments received from the public in a
previous FR notice published July 31,
2015 (80 FR 45697), the Department,
consistent with NEPA, determined that
the appropriate level of NEPA review
for this project is an EIS. The
Department will use the EIS to assess
the environmental impacts that could
result if Upland is granted a Presidential
Permit. The Department will prepare the
EIS with the assistance of a third-party
contractor and invite cooperating
agencies to participate in the
development of the EIS.
The EIS will evaluate potential
environmental, social, cultural, and
economic impacts in the United States
from the construction, connection,
operation, and maintenance of the
proposed pipeline facilities. This Notice
is intended to inform agencies and the
public of the proposed project, and to
solicit comments and suggestions for the
Department’s consideration in its
preparation of the EIS.
The Department intends to analyze
impacts across a number of resource
areas, including:
• Air quality (including climate
change and greenhouse gas emissions);
• Water resources, including
wetlands, floodplains, waterways, water
supplies and drainage;
• Geography, geology, and soils;
• Land use;
• Threatened and endangered
species, special status species, and
related sensitive resources;
• Public health and safety;
• Noise;
• Hazardous materials;
• Accidental spills and intentional
destructive acts;
• Cultural and historical resources;
• Socioeconomic impacts,
community services and infrastructure;
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• Environmental justice
considerations (disproportionately high
and adverse impacts to minority and
low income populations); and
• Cumulative impacts (past, present,
and reasonably foreseeable future
actions).
This list is not intended to be all
inclusive or to imply any
predetermination of impacts. The
Department invites interested parties to
suggest specific issues within these
general categories, or other issues not
included above, to be considered in the
EIS. While the President has delegated
authority to the Department to issue
permits for pipeline facilities at the
borders of the United States, the
environmental review will analyze
impacts along the length of the
proposed project in the United States
that are dependent upon Permit
issuance.
The scoping meeting will be held on
May 10, 2016 as detailed in the
ADDRESSES section. The meeting will
provide interested parties the
opportunity to view proposed project
exhibits and make comments.
Department employees will be available
to answer questions and provide
additional information to attendees to
the extent that additional information is
available at this early stage of the
environmental review. Persons who do
not wish to submit comments or
suggestions at this time but who would
like to receive status updates on the EIS
process, including a notification when
the Draft EIS is available for review and
comment, should notify the Upland
Project Manager, as provided in
ADDRESSES or go to https://
www.state.gov/e/enr/applicant/
applicants/uplandpipeline/ to register
to be on the mailing list.
All comments received during the
scoping period may be made public, no
matter how initially submitted.
Comments are not private and will not
be edited to remove identifying or
contact information. Commenters are
cautioned against including any
information that they would not want
publicly disclosed. Any party soliciting
or aggregating comments from other
persons is further requested to direct
those persons not to include any
identifying or contact information, or
information they would not want
publicly disclosed, in their comments.
Deborah Klepp,
Director, Office of Environmental Quality and
Transboundary Issues, Department of State.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 9516]
Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Upland Pipeline in Williams, Mountrail, and Burke
Counties, North Dakota and Conduct a Public Scoping Meeting
AGENCY: Department of State.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of State (Department) is issuing this
Notice of Intent (NOI) to inform the public that it will prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), consistent with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (as implemented by the Council
on Environmental Quality regulations found at 40 CFR parts 1500-1508),
to evaluate potential impacts from the construction, connection,
operation, and maintenance of a proposed new 20-inch diameter pipeline
and associated infrastructure in North Dakota that would export crude
oil from the United States to Canada. The Upland Pipeline EIS will
address potential direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental
impacts from the proposed action and will evaluate a range of
reasonable alternatives, including a no action alternative.
The Department also plans to host a public scoping meeting on
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. at the Farm Festival Building
in Tioga, North Dakota to solicit public comments for consideration in
establishing the scope of the EIS.
DATES: The Department invites the public, governmental agencies, tribal
governments, and all other interested parties to comment on the scope
of the EIS. All such comments should be provided within the 45-day
public scoping period, which starts with the publication of this Notice
in the Federal Register on April 15, 2016 and will continue until May
31, 2016. Written, electronic, and oral comments will be given equal
weight and the Department will consider all comments received or
postmarked by May 30, 2016. Comments received or postmarked after that
date may be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be submitted at www.regulations.gov by
entering the title of this Notice into the search field and following
the prompts. Comments may also be submitted by mail, addressed to:
Upland Project Manager, Office of Environmental Quality and
Transboundary Issues, Room 2726, U.S. Department of State, 2201 C
Street NW., Washington, DC 20520. All comments from agencies or
organizations should indicate a contact person for the agency or
organization.
Comments may also be submitted at the public scoping meeting on
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. at the following address:
Farm Festival Building, 640 6th Street North, Tioga, North Dakota.
FURTHER INFORMATION: For information contact the Upland Project Manager
at the address listed in ADDRESSES, by email at UplandReview@state.gov,
or by fax at (202) 647-5947. Information on the proposed project
details, Presidential Permit application, status of the environmental
review, etc. may be found at: https://www.state.gov/e/enr/applicant/applicants/uplandpipeline/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Project Description
On April 22, 2015, Upland Pipeline, LLC (Upland), which is a
subsidiary of TransCanada Pipeline Limited, submitted an application
for a new Presidential Permit under E. O. 13337 of April 30, 2004 (69
FR 25299) to
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authorize the construction, connection, operation, and maintenance of
pipeline facilities for the export of crude oil, which would be located
at the border of the United States and Canada. Upland amended the
application on July 8, 2015 to make it compliant with Section 508 of
the Rehabilitation Act and added other required clarifications. The
Upland project is designed to transport crude oil from the Williston
Basin region in North Dakota into Canada.
The proposed pipeline would have the capacity to transport
approximately 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil. The requested
Presidential Permit, if granted, would cover the border segment of
pipeline between the northernmost mainline shutoff valve in the United
States (Upland plans indicate this will be near milepost 108 of the
proposed project route in Burke County, North Dakota) and the United
States-Canada border.
The proposed Upland project would consist of approximately 124
miles of new 20-inch diameter pipeline located in Williams, Mountrail,
and Burke counties, North Dakota. The proposed pipeline would have 15
mainline valves (MLV), one at each of the five oil receipt facilities
and ten located along the pipeline route. The proposed project would
include five new aboveground receipt facilities, three of which would
also include a pump station at each. Four of the new receipt facilities
(near Aune, Epping, Beaver Lodge, and Tioga) would be located on
approximately 25-acre sites and each would have one storage tank with a
design capacity of 100,000 barrels (bbl). One of the new receipt
facilities (Trenton) would be located on an approximately 52-acre site
and include one 300,000 bbl oil storage tank. Each of the five receipt
facilities would include associated pumps, valves, truck unloading
facilities, and support equipment and facilities. Temporary
construction facilities would include three pipe yards, four rail
sidings, and one contractor yard. Fuel storage would be established at
the contractor yard and pipe yards. Access roads would be constructed
to provide adequate access to the construction sites and to the receipt
facilities and MLVs. The proposed project would also include the
establishment of one temporary workforce camp, in Williams County,
North Dakota, if needed to meet the housing needs of the construction
workforce during construction. In addition to the project facilities,
electric power lines and associated facility upgrades would be
constructed, as required, by local electric power providers to supply
power to the receipt facilities and the MLVs. The facility upgrades
would include the construction and installation of new substations and
transformers to meet the power demands of the receipt facilities.
The Canadian portion of the Upland Pipeline system would include a
20-inch diameter pipeline that would extend from the United States-
Canada border near Northgate, Saskatchewan to Moosomin, Saskatchewan or
Cromer, Manitoba. Review and approval of the proposed Canadian
facilities will be subject to the jurisdiction of the Canadian National
Energy Board as well as various local, municipal, and provincial
authorities.
The EIS Process
After due consideration of the nature and extent of the proposed
project, including evaluation of the ``Environmental Review'' section
of the Presidential Permit application, and comments received from the
public in a previous FR notice published July 31, 2015 (80 FR 45697),
the Department, consistent with NEPA, determined that the appropriate
level of NEPA review for this project is an EIS. The Department will
use the EIS to assess the environmental impacts that could result if
Upland is granted a Presidential Permit. The Department will prepare
the EIS with the assistance of a third-party contractor and invite
cooperating agencies to participate in the development of the EIS.
The EIS will evaluate potential environmental, social, cultural,
and economic impacts in the United States from the construction,
connection, operation, and maintenance of the proposed pipeline
facilities. This Notice is intended to inform agencies and the public
of the proposed project, and to solicit comments and suggestions for
the Department's consideration in its preparation of the EIS.
The Department intends to analyze impacts across a number of
resource areas, including:
Air quality (including climate change and greenhouse gas
emissions);
Water resources, including wetlands, floodplains,
waterways, water supplies and drainage;
Geography, geology, and soils;
Land use;
Threatened and endangered species, special status species,
and related sensitive resources;
Public health and safety;
Noise;
Hazardous materials;
Accidental spills and intentional destructive acts;
Cultural and historical resources;
Socioeconomic impacts, community services and
infrastructure;
Environmental justice considerations (disproportionately
high and adverse impacts to minority and low income populations); and
Cumulative impacts (past, present, and reasonably
foreseeable future actions).
This list is not intended to be all inclusive or to imply any
predetermination of impacts. The Department invites interested parties
to suggest specific issues within these general categories, or other
issues not included above, to be considered in the EIS. While the
President has delegated authority to the Department to issue permits
for pipeline facilities at the borders of the United States, the
environmental review will analyze impacts along the length of the
proposed project in the United States that are dependent upon Permit
issuance.
The scoping meeting will be held on May 10, 2016 as detailed in the
ADDRESSES section. The meeting will provide interested parties the
opportunity to view proposed project exhibits and make comments.
Department employees will be available to answer questions and provide
additional information to attendees to the extent that additional
information is available at this early stage of the environmental
review. Persons who do not wish to submit comments or suggestions at
this time but who would like to receive status updates on the EIS
process, including a notification when the Draft EIS is available for
review and comment, should notify the Upland Project Manager, as
provided in ADDRESSES or go to https://www.state.gov/e/enr/applicant/applicants/uplandpipeline/ to register to be on the mailing list.
All comments received during the scoping period may be made public,
no matter how initially submitted. Comments are not private and will
not be edited to remove identifying or contact information. Commenters
are cautioned against including any information that they would not
want publicly disclosed. Any party soliciting or aggregating comments
from other persons is further requested to direct those persons not to
include any identifying or contact information, or information they
would not want publicly disclosed, in their comments.
Deborah Klepp,
Director, Office of Environmental Quality and Transboundary Issues,
Department of State.
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