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BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[USCG–2006–26009]
Calypso LNG LLC, Calypso Liquefied
Natural Gas Deepwater Port License
Application; Preparation of
Environmental Impact Statement
Maritime Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of intent; notice of public
meeting; request for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Coast Guard and the
Maritime Administration (MARAD)
announce that the Coast Guard intends
to prepare an environmental impact
statement (EIS) as part of the
environmental review of this license
application. The application describes a
project that would be located in the
Atlantic Ocean, approximately 9 miles
northeast of Port Everglades, Florida.
Publication of this notice begins a
scoping process that will help identify
and determine the scope of
environmental issues to be addressed in
the EIS. This notice requests public
participation in the scoping process and
provides information on how to
participate.
DATES: The public meeting in Fort
Lauderdale, FL will be held on
December 6, 2006. The public meeting
will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
and will be preceded by an open house
from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. The public
meeting may end earlier or later than
the stated time, depending on the
number of persons wishing to speak.
Material submitted in response to the
request for comments must reach the
Docket Management Facility by
December 21, 2006.
ADDRESSES: The public meetings will be
held at: Fort Lauderdale Marriott North,
6500 North Andrews Avenue, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida 33309; 954–771–
0440.
Address docket submissions for
USCG–2006–26009 to: Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department
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of Transportation,400 Seventh Street
SW., Washington, DC 20590–0001.
The Docket Management Facility
accepts hand-delivered submissions,
and makes docket contents available for
public inspection and copying at this
address, in room PL–401, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays. The
Facility’s telephone is 202–366–9329,
its fax is 202–493–2251, and its Web site
for electronic submissions or for
electronic access to docket contents is
https://dms.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mary K. Jager, U.S. Coast Guard,
telephone: 202–372–1454, e-mail:
mary.k.jager@uscg.mil. If you have
questions on viewing the docket, call
Renee V. Wright, Program Manager,
Docket Operations, telephone: 202–493–
0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Meeting and Open House
We invite you to learn about the
proposed deepwater port at an
informational open house, and to
comment at a public meeting on
environmental issues related to the
proposed deepwater port. Your
comments will help us identify and
refine the scope of the environmental
issues to be addressed in the EIS.
In order to allow everyone a chance
to speak at the public meeting, we may
limit speaker time, or extend the
meeting hours, or both. You must
identify yourself, and any organization
you represent, by name. Your remarks
will be recorded or transcribed for
inclusion in the public docket.
You may submit written material at
the public meeting, either in place of or
in addition to speaking. Written
material must include your name and
address, and will be included in the
public docket.
Public docket materials will be made
available to the public on the Docket
Management Facility’s Docket
Management System (DMS). See
‘‘Request for Comments’’ for
information about DMS and your rights
under the Privacy Act.
All of our public meeting locations
are wheelchair-accessible. If you plan to
attend the open house or public
meeting, and need special assistance
such as sign language interpretation or
other reasonable accommodation, please
notify the Coast Guard (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT) at least 3
business days in advance. Include your
contact information as well as
information about your specific needs.
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Request for Comments
We request public comments or other
relevant information on environmental
issues related to the proposed
deepwater port. The public meeting is
not the only opportunity you have to
comment. In addition to or in place of
attending a meeting, you can submit
comments to the Docket Management
Facility during the public comment
period (see DATES). We will consider all
comments and material received during
the comment period.
Submissions should include:
• Docket number USCG–2006–26009.
• Your name and address.
• Your reasons for making each
comment or for bringing information to
our attention.
Submit comments or material using
only one of the following methods:
• Electronic submission to DMS,
https://dms.dot.gov.
• Fax, mail, or hand delivery to the
Docket Management Facility (see
ADDRESSES). Faxed or hand delivered
submissions must be unbound, no larger
than 81⁄2 by 11 inches, and suitable for
copying and electronic scanning. If you
mail your submission and want to know
when it reaches the Facility, include a
stamped, self-addressed postcard or
envelope.
Regardless of the method used for
submitting comments or material, all
submissions will be posted, without
change, to the DMS Web site (https://
dms.dot.gov), and will include any
personal information you provide.
Therefore, submitting this information
makes it public. You may wish to read
the Privacy Act notice that is available
on the DMS Web site, or the Department
of Transportation Privacy Act Statement
that appeared in the Federal Register on
April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477).
You may view docket submissions at
the Docket Management Facility (see
ADDRESSES), or electronically on the
DMS Web site.
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Background
Information about deepwater ports,
the statutes and regulations governing
their licensing, and the receipt of the
current application for the proposed
Calypso deepwater port appears at 71
FR 65031, November 6, 2006. The
‘‘Summary of the Application’’ from
that publication is reprinted below for
your convenience.
Consideration of a deepwater port
license application includes review of
the proposed deepwater port’s natural
and human environmental impacts. The
Coast Guard is the lead agency for
determining the scope of this review,
and in this case the Coast Guard has
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determined that review must include
preparation of an EIS. This notice of
intent is required by 40 CFR 1501.7, and
briefly describes the proposed action
and possible alternatives and our
proposed scoping process. You can
address any questions about the
proposed action, the scoping process, or
the EIS to the Coast Guard contact
person identified in FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
Proposed Action and Alternatives
The proposed action requiring
environmental review is the Federal
licensing of the proposed deepwater
port described in ‘‘Summary of the
Application’’ below. The alternatives to
licensing the proposed port are: (1)
Licensing with conditions (including
conditions designed to mitigate
environmental impact), and (2) denying
the application, which for purposes of
environmental review is the ‘‘no-action’’
alternative.
Scoping Process
Public scoping is an early and open
process for identifying and determining
the scope of issues to be addressed in
the EIS. Scoping begins with this notice,
continues through the public comment
period (see DATES), and ends when the
Coast Guard has completed the
following actions:
• Invites the participation of Federal,
State, and local agencies, any affected
Indian tribe, the applicant, and other
interested persons;
• Determines the actions, alternatives,
and impacts described in 40 CFR
1508.25;
• Identifies and eliminates from
detailed study those issues that are not
significant or that have been covered
elsewhere;
• Allocates responsibility for
preparing EIS components;
• Indicates any related environmental
assessments or environmental impact
statements that are not part of the EIS;
• Identifies other relevant
environmental review and consultation
requirements;
• Indicates the relationship between
timing of the environmental review and
other aspects of the application process;
and
• At its discretion, exercises the
options provided in 40 CFR 1501.7 (b).
Once the scoping process is complete,
the Coast Guard will prepare a draft EIS,
and we will publish a Federal Register
notice announcing its public
availability. (If you want that notice to
be sent to you, please contact the Coast
Guard project manager identified in FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.) You
will have an opportunity to review and
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comment on the draft EIS. The Coast
Guard will consider those comments
and then prepare the final EIS. As with
the draft EIS, we will announce the
availability of the final EIS and once
again give you an opportunity for
review and comment.
Summary of the Application
Calypso LNG LLC, proposes to own,
construct, and operate a deepwater port,
named Calypso, in the Federal waters of
the Outer Continental Shelf in the OCS
NG 17–06 (Bahamas) lease area,
approximately 9 miles off the east coast
of Florida to the northeast of Port
Everglades, in a water depth of
approximately 800 to 950 feet. Calypso
would consist of a permanently moored
unloading buoy system with two (2)
submersible buoys separated by a
distance of approximately three (3)
miles. Each unloading buoy would be
permanently secured to eight or nine
mooring lines, consisting of wire rope,
chain, and buoyancy elements, each
attached to anchor points on the seabed.
Anchor points would consist of a
combination of suction piles and gravity
anchors.
The buoys would be designed to moor
and unload two (2) types of LNG
vessels: a transport and regasification
vessel (TRV) of approximately 140,000
cubic meter capacity and a storage and
regasification ship (SRS) of
approximately 250,000 cubic meter
capacity. Both vessels would be
equipped to vaporize LNG cargo to
natural gas through an onboard closed
loop vaporization system, and to
odorize and meter gas for send-out by
means of the unloading buoy to
conventional subsea pipelines. The
TRVs would moor to the westernmost
buoy, and the SRS to the easternmost
buoy. The mooring buoys would be
connected through the vessels’ hulls to
specially designed turrets that would
enable the vessel to weathervane or
rotate in response to prevailing wind,
wave, and current directions. When the
vessels are not present, the buoys would
be submerged approximately 100 feet
below the sea surface.
The unloading buoys would connect
through flexible risers and two (2)
approximately 2.5 mile long 30-inch
flowlines located on the seabed that
would connect directly to the Calypso
pipeline, a Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) permitted pipeline.
Three types of vessels would be
associated with the port: The TRV
drawn from the existing and future
global fleet of specialized LNG carriers
compatible with Calypso’s unloading
buoy system; the SRS, a specialized,
purpose-built modified LNG carrier,
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designed to accept, regasify, odorize and
meter LNG from conventional LNG
carriers and deliver it to the pipeline
through Calypso’s unloading buoy
system; and conventional LNG carriers.
When empty the TRV would disconnect
from the buoy and leave the port,
followed by another full TRV that
would arrive and connect to the buoy.
The SRS would normally remain
attached to its mooring buoy. To sustain
continuous vaporization, the SRS’ cargo
tanks would be refilled approximately
every two (2) to four (4) days by
standard LNG carriers drawn from the
global fleet. The SRS would be capable
of detaching from the buoy if threatened
by a severe storm, such as a hurricane,
and move under its own power to
safety; then return and reconnect to the
buoy and continue operations once the
storm danger passed.
Calypso would be capable of
delivering natural gas in a continuous
flow by having at least one TRV or SRS
regasifying at all times. The system
would be designed so that a TRV and
SRS can be moored simultaneously for
concurrent unloading of natural gas.
Calypso would have an average
throughput capacity of approximately
1.1 billion standard cubic feet per day
and a peak delivery capacity of 1.9
Bcsfd.
No onshore pipelines or LNG storage
facilities are associated with the
proposed deepwater port application. A
shore based facility would be used to
facilitate movement of personnel,
equipment, supplies, and disposable
materials between the port and shore.
Construction of the deepwater port
would be expected to take three (3)
years; with startup of commercial
operations following construction,
should a license be issued. The
deepwater port would be designed,
constructed and operated in accordance
with applicable codes and standards
and would have an expected operating
life of approximately 25 years.
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Privacy Act
Anyone is able to search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78) or you
may visit https://dms.dot.gov.
(Authority 49 CFR 1.66)
By order of the Maritime Administrator.
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Dated: November 16, 2006.
Joel C. Richard,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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BILLING CODE 4910–81–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
Docket No. NHTSA–2006–26357
Notice of Receipt of Petition for
Decision That Nonconforming 1999–
2000 Hatty 45 Foot Double Axle
Trailers Are Eligible for Importation
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of receipt of petition for
decision that nonconforming 1999–2000
Hatty 45 foot double axle trailers are
eligible for importation.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This document announces
receipt by the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a
petition for a decision that 1999–2000
Hatty 45 foot double axle trailers that
were not originally manufactured to
comply with all applicable Federal
motor vehicle safety standards (FMVSS)
are eligible for importation into the
United States because they have safety
features that comply with, or are
capable of being altered to comply with,
all such standards.
DATES: The closing date for comments
on the petition is December 21, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to
the docket number and notice number,
and be submitted to: Docket
Management, Room PL–401, 400
Seventh St., SW., Washington, DC
20590. [Docket hours are from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m.]. Anyone is able to search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477–19478) or
you may visit https://dms.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Coleman Sachs, Office of Vehicle Safety
Compliance, NHTSA (202–366–3151).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Under 49 U.S.C. § 30141(a)(1)(B), a
motor vehicle that was not originally
manufactured to conform to all
applicable FMVSS, and that has no
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substantially similar U.S.-certified
counterpart, shall be refused admission
into the United States unless NHTSA
has decided that the motor vehicle has
safety features that comply with, or are
capable of being altered to comply with,
all applicable FMVSS based on
destructive test data or such other
evidence as NHTSA decides to be
adequate.
Petitions for eligibility decisions may
be submitted by either manufacturers or
importers who have registered with
NHTSA pursuant to 49 CFR Part 592. As
specified in 49 CFR 593.7, NHTSA
publishes notice in the Federal Register
of each petition that it receives, and
affords interested persons an
opportunity to comment on the petition.
At the close of the comment period,
NHTSA decides, on the basis of the
petition and any comments that it has
received, whether the vehicle is eligible
for importation. The agency then
publishes this decision in the Federal
Register.
Barry Taylor Enterprises of
Richmond, California
(‘‘BTE’’)(Registered Importer 01–280)
has petitioned NHTSA to decide
whether 1999–2000 Hatty 45 foot
double axle trailers that were not
originally manufactured to conform to
all applicable FMVSS are eligible for
importation into the United States. BTE
contends that these vehicles are eligible
for importation under 49 U.S.C.
§ 30141(a)(1)(B) because they have
safety features that comply with, or are
capable of being altered to comply with,
all applicable FMVSS. BTE submitted
information with its petition intended to
demonstrate that 1999–2000 Hatty 45
foot double axle trailers, as originally
manufactured, comply with many
applicable FMVSS and are capable of
being modified to comply with all other
applicable standards to which they were
not originally manufactured to conform.
Specifically, the petitioner claims that
1999–2000 Hatty 45 foot double axle
trailers have safety features that comply
with Standard Nos. 106 Brake Hoses,
119 New Pneumatic Tires for Vehicles
Other than Passenger Cars, 121 Air
Brake Systems, 223 Rear Impact Guards
and 224 Rear Impact Protection.
Petitioner also contends that the
vehicles are capable of being altered to
meet the following standards, in the
manner indicated:
Standard No. 108 Lamps, Reflective
Devices and Associated Equipment:
installation of rear mounted
identification lamps, front side-mounted
amber clearance lamps, brake lamps,
and rear turn signal lamps.
Standard No. 120 Tire Selection and
Rims for Motor Vehicles Other than
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[USCG-2006-26009]
Calypso LNG LLC, Calypso Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port
License Application; Preparation of Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of intent; notice of public meeting; request for
comments.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration (MARAD)
announce that the Coast Guard intends to prepare an environmental
impact statement (EIS) as part of the environmental review of this
license application. The application describes a project that would be
located in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 9 miles northeast of Port
Everglades, Florida. Publication of this notice begins a scoping
process that will help identify and determine the scope of
environmental issues to be addressed in the EIS. This notice requests
public participation in the scoping process and provides information on
how to participate.
DATES: The public meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL will be held on
December 6, 2006. The public meeting will be held from 6:30 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. and will be preceded by an open house from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The public meeting may end earlier or later than the stated time,
depending on the number of persons wishing to speak. Material submitted
in response to the request for comments must reach the Docket
Management Facility by December 21, 2006.
ADDRESSES: The public meetings will be held at: Fort Lauderdale
Marriott North, 6500 North Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
33309; 954-771-0440.
Address docket submissions for USCG-2006-26009 to: Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation,400 Seventh
Street SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001.
The Docket Management Facility accepts hand-delivered submissions,
and makes docket contents available for public inspection and copying
at this address, in room PL-401, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays. The Facility's telephone is
202-366-9329, its fax is 202-493-2251, and its Web site for electronic
submissions or for electronic access to docket contents is https://
dms.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary K. Jager, U.S. Coast Guard,
telephone: 202-372-1454, e-mail: mary.k.jager@uscg.mil. If you have
questions on viewing the docket, call Renee V. Wright, Program Manager,
Docket Operations, telephone: 202-493-0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Meeting and Open House
We invite you to learn about the proposed deepwater port at an
informational open house, and to comment at a public meeting on
environmental issues related to the proposed deepwater port. Your
comments will help us identify and refine the scope of the
environmental issues to be addressed in the EIS.
In order to allow everyone a chance to speak at the public meeting,
we may limit speaker time, or extend the meeting hours, or both. You
must identify yourself, and any organization you represent, by name.
Your remarks will be recorded or transcribed for inclusion in the
public docket.
You may submit written material at the public meeting, either in
place of or in addition to speaking. Written material must include your
name and address, and will be included in the public docket.
Public docket materials will be made available to the public on the
Docket Management Facility's Docket Management System (DMS). See
``Request for Comments'' for information about DMS and your rights
under the Privacy Act.
All of our public meeting locations are wheelchair-accessible. If
you plan to attend the open house or public meeting, and need special
assistance such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable
accommodation, please notify the Coast Guard (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT) at least 3 business days in advance. Include your
contact information as well as information about your specific needs.
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Request for Comments
We request public comments or other relevant information on
environmental issues related to the proposed deepwater port. The public
meeting is not the only opportunity you have to comment. In addition to
or in place of attending a meeting, you can submit comments to the
Docket Management Facility during the public comment period (see
DATES). We will consider all comments and material received during the
comment period.
Submissions should include:
Docket number USCG-2006-26009.
Your name and address.
Your reasons for making each comment or for bringing
information to our attention.
Submit comments or material using only one of the following
methods:
Electronic submission to DMS, https://dms.dot.gov.
Fax, mail, or hand delivery to the Docket Management
Facility (see ADDRESSES). Faxed or hand delivered submissions must be
unbound, no larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, and suitable for copying
and electronic scanning. If you mail your submission and want to know
when it reaches the Facility, include a stamped, self-addressed
postcard or envelope.
Regardless of the method used for submitting comments or material,
all submissions will be posted, without change, to the DMS Web site
(https://dms.dot.gov), and will include any personal information you
provide. Therefore, submitting this information makes it public. You
may wish to read the Privacy Act notice that is available on the DMS
Web site, or the Department of Transportation Privacy Act Statement
that appeared in the Federal Register on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477).
You may view docket submissions at the Docket Management Facility
(see ADDRESSES), or electronically on the DMS Web site.
Background
Information about deepwater ports, the statutes and regulations
governing their licensing, and the receipt of the current application
for the proposed Calypso deepwater port appears at 71 FR 65031,
November 6, 2006. The ``Summary of the Application'' from that
publication is reprinted below for your convenience.
Consideration of a deepwater port license application includes
review of the proposed deepwater port's natural and human environmental
impacts. The Coast Guard is the lead agency for determining the scope
of this review, and in this case the Coast Guard has determined that
review must include preparation of an EIS. This notice of intent is
required by 40 CFR 1501.7, and briefly describes the proposed action
and possible alternatives and our proposed scoping process. You can
address any questions about the proposed action, the scoping process,
or the EIS to the Coast Guard contact person identified in FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
Proposed Action and Alternatives
The proposed action requiring environmental review is the Federal
licensing of the proposed deepwater port described in ``Summary of the
Application'' below. The alternatives to licensing the proposed port
are: (1) Licensing with conditions (including conditions designed to
mitigate environmental impact), and (2) denying the application, which
for purposes of environmental review is the ``no-action'' alternative.
Scoping Process
Public scoping is an early and open process for identifying and
determining the scope of issues to be addressed in the EIS. Scoping
begins with this notice, continues through the public comment period
(see DATES), and ends when the Coast Guard has completed the following
actions:
Invites the participation of Federal, State, and local
agencies, any affected Indian tribe, the applicant, and other
interested persons;
Determines the actions, alternatives, and impacts
described in 40 CFR 1508.25;
Identifies and eliminates from detailed study those issues
that are not significant or that have been covered elsewhere;
Allocates responsibility for preparing EIS components;
Indicates any related environmental assessments or
environmental impact statements that are not part of the EIS;
Identifies other relevant environmental review and
consultation requirements;
Indicates the relationship between timing of the
environmental review and other aspects of the application process; and
At its discretion, exercises the options provided in 40
CFR 1501.7 (b).
Once the scoping process is complete, the Coast Guard will prepare
a draft EIS, and we will publish a Federal Register notice announcing
its public availability. (If you want that notice to be sent to you,
please contact the Coast Guard project manager identified in FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.) You will have an opportunity to review
and comment on the draft EIS. The Coast Guard will consider those
comments and then prepare the final EIS. As with the draft EIS, we will
announce the availability of the final EIS and once again give you an
opportunity for review and comment.
Summary of the Application
Calypso LNG LLC, proposes to own, construct, and operate a
deepwater port, named Calypso, in the Federal waters of the Outer
Continental Shelf in the OCS NG 17-06 (Bahamas) lease area,
approximately 9 miles off the east coast of Florida to the northeast of
Port Everglades, in a water depth of approximately 800 to 950 feet.
Calypso would consist of a permanently moored unloading buoy system
with two (2) submersible buoys separated by a distance of approximately
three (3) miles. Each unloading buoy would be permanently secured to
eight or nine mooring lines, consisting of wire rope, chain, and
buoyancy elements, each attached to anchor points on the seabed. Anchor
points would consist of a combination of suction piles and gravity
anchors.
The buoys would be designed to moor and unload two (2) types of LNG
vessels: a transport and regasification vessel (TRV) of approximately
140,000 cubic meter capacity and a storage and regasification ship
(SRS) of approximately 250,000 cubic meter capacity. Both vessels would
be equipped to vaporize LNG cargo to natural gas through an onboard
closed loop vaporization system, and to odorize and meter gas for send-
out by means of the unloading buoy to conventional subsea pipelines.
The TRVs would moor to the westernmost buoy, and the SRS to the
easternmost buoy. The mooring buoys would be connected through the
vessels' hulls to specially designed turrets that would enable the
vessel to weathervane or rotate in response to prevailing wind, wave,
and current directions. When the vessels are not present, the buoys
would be submerged approximately 100 feet below the sea surface.
The unloading buoys would connect through flexible risers and two
(2) approximately 2.5 mile long 30-inch flowlines located on the seabed
that would connect directly to the Calypso pipeline, a Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) permitted pipeline.
Three types of vessels would be associated with the port: The TRV
drawn from the existing and future global fleet of specialized LNG
carriers compatible with Calypso's unloading buoy system; the SRS, a
specialized, purpose-built modified LNG carrier,
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designed to accept, regasify, odorize and meter LNG from conventional
LNG carriers and deliver it to the pipeline through Calypso's unloading
buoy system; and conventional LNG carriers. When empty the TRV would
disconnect from the buoy and leave the port, followed by another full
TRV that would arrive and connect to the buoy. The SRS would normally
remain attached to its mooring buoy. To sustain continuous
vaporization, the SRS' cargo tanks would be refilled approximately
every two (2) to four (4) days by standard LNG carriers drawn from the
global fleet. The SRS would be capable of detaching from the buoy if
threatened by a severe storm, such as a hurricane, and move under its
own power to safety; then return and reconnect to the buoy and continue
operations once the storm danger passed.
Calypso would be capable of delivering natural gas in a continuous
flow by having at least one TRV or SRS regasifying at all times. The
system would be designed so that a TRV and SRS can be moored
simultaneously for concurrent unloading of natural gas. Calypso would
have an average throughput capacity of approximately 1.1 billion
standard cubic feet per day and a peak delivery capacity of 1.9 Bcsfd.
No onshore pipelines or LNG storage facilities are associated with
the proposed deepwater port application. A shore based facility would
be used to facilitate movement of personnel, equipment, supplies, and
disposable materials between the port and shore.
Construction of the deepwater port would be expected to take three
(3) years; with startup of commercial operations following
construction, should a license be issued. The deepwater port would be
designed, constructed and operated in accordance with applicable codes
and standards and would have an expected operating life of
approximately 25 years.
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By order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: November 16, 2006.
Joel C. Richard,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-19659 Filed 11-20-06; 8:45 am]
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