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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Notice of Availability of the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Bradwood Landing LNG
Terminal and Pipeline Project
August 17, 2007.
Bradwood Landing LLC (Docket No.
CP06–365–000); NorthernStar Energy
LLC (Docket Nos. CP06–366–000, CP06–
376–000, and CP06–377–000)
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared this draft
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import
terminal proposed by Bradwood
Landing LLC and the associated natural
gas sendout pipeline facilities proposed
by NorthernStar Energy LLC in the
above-referenced dockets. The LNG
import terminal would be located at
Bradwood, about 38 miles up the
Columbia River from its mouth, in
Clatsop County, Oregon, and the
sendout pipeline would be located in
Clatsop and Columbia Counties, Oregon,
and Cowlitz County, Washington.
The draft EIS was prepared to satisfy
the requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE),
U.S. Coast Guard (Coast Guard), and the
U.S. Department of Transportation
(DOT) are federal cooperating agencies
for the development of this EIS. A
federal cooperating agency has
jurisdiction by law or special expertise
with respect to any environmental
impact involved with the proposal and
is involved in the NEPA analysis.
The COE is responsible for issuing
permits under section 10 of the Rivers
and Harbor Act and section 404 of the
Clean Water Act. The Coast Guard is
responsible for the safety and security of
port areas and navigable waterways, and
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would issue a Letter of
Recommendation indicating if the
Columbia River waterway to the
proposed LNG terminal is suitable for
LNG marine traffic. The DOT is
responsible for enforcing safety
regulations and standards for the LNG
terminal and the design and operation
of the natural gas sendout pipeline.
The FERC is the lead federal agency
for compliance with the NEPA, and for
authorization of the Project under
sections 3 and 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
The Commission will use the EIS to
consider the environmental impacts that
would result if it decides to authorize
the Project. The cooperating agencies
and the FERC staff conclude that the
proposed Project, with the appropriate
mitigation measures as recommended,
would have limited adverse
environmental impact.
The general purpose of the proposed
Project is to provide a new source of
natural gas to the Pacific Northwest
through the importation of LNG. LNG is
natural gas that has been cooled to about
¥260 degrees Fahrenheit, reducing its
volume about 600 times from a gas to a
liquid, allowing for its transport over
long distances across oceans in specially
designed ships from its point of origin
in foreign countries with abundant
natural gas reserves. At the import
terminal at Bradwood, the LNG would
be off-loaded from the LNG transport
ships, stored as a liquid, vaporized back
into natural gas, and sent out via the
associated pipeline to the existing
interstate natural gas pipeline network.
The Bradwood Landing LNG import
terminal would have a peak sendout
capacity of about 1.3 billion cubic feet
per day (bcfd) of natural gas.
The draft EIS addresses the potential
environmental impacts from the
construction and operation of the
following facilities proposed by
Bradwood Landing LLC:
• A dredged LNG ship maneuvering
area off of the Columbia River
navigation channel;
• A single ship berth capable of
receiving LNG ships with cargo
capacities ranging from 100,000 to
200,000 cubic meters (m3);
• A set of four 16-inch-diameter LNG
unloading arms, including two liquid
unloading arms, one hybrid arm, and a
vapor return arm on the jetty, and a
1,240-foot-long, 32-inch-diameter
cryogenic LNG transfer pipeline and 6inch-diameter LNG recirculation
pipeline extending from the berth to the
LNG storage tanks;
• Two insulated LNG storage tanks,
each with a useable volume of over 1
million barrels, or 160,000 m3;
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• A vapor management system to
handle the boil-off gas (BOG) that occurs
during the unloading process, including
vapor return blowers and knockout
drum on the jetty, vapor handling
pipework, two BOG compressors, and a
BOG condenser;
• An LNG sendout system, consisting
of six submerged in-tank LNG discharge
pumps (three in each storage tank) and
five sendout pumps;
• Seven submerged combustion
vaporizers, of which six would normally
operate and one would be a back-up, to
re-gasify the LNG and provide natural
gas through a metering station to the
inlet valve of the sendout pipeline;
• Utilities, including a 1.5-mile-long
115-kilovolt power line and switchyard,
and an 800-kilowatt emergency dieselfueled generator;
• Support buildings, including a
warehouse/administrative building,
control building, switch rooms,
compressor building, and gatehouse/
security building; and
• A fire protection and detection
system, including a firewater
pumphouse, and security system
including fencing.
The natural gas pipeline facilities
proposed by NorthernStar Energy LLC
addressed in the draft EIS include:
• A 36.3-mile-long, underground,
high-pressure welded steel sendout
pipeline consisting of approximately
18.9 miles of 36-inch-diameter pipeline
in Clatsop and Columbia Counties,
Oregon and 17.4 miles of 30-inchdiameter pipeline in Columbia County,
Oregon and Cowlitz County,
Washington;
• Five meter stations, including at the
LNG terminal, the Georgia-Pacific
Wauna paper mill delivery point, the
interconnection with the Northwest
Natural Gas Company intrastate
pipeline system, the Portland General
Electric Company Beaver Power Plant
delivery point, and interconnection
with Williams Northwest Pipeline
Company interstate pipeline system;
and
• at least five mainline block valves,
two pig 1 launchers, and two pig
receivers.
Comment Procedures
Any person wishing to comment on
the draft EIS is encouraged to do so. To
ensure consideration prior to the
production of a final EIS, it is important
that your comments be received before
December 24, 2007.
Please note that the Commission
strongly encourages electronic filing of
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and inspect a pipeline.
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any comments. See 18 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) 385.2001(a)(1)(iii)
and the instructions on the FERC’s
Internet Web site (https://www.ferc.gov)
under the eFiling link and the link to
the User’s Guide. Before you can submit
comments, you will need to create a free
account by clicking on ‘‘Sign-up’’ under
‘‘New User.’’ You will be asked to select
the type of submission you are making.
This type of submission is considered a
‘‘Comment on Filing.’’ Comments
submitted electronically must be
submitted by December 24, 2007.
If you wish to mail comments on the
draft EIS, please mail your comments so
that they will be received in
Washington, DC on or before December
24, 2007. Please carefully follow the
instructions below to ensure that your
comments are received in time and
properly recorded:
• Send an original and two copies of
your comments to: Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Room 1A , Washington, DC 20426.
• Reference Docket No. CP06–365–
000 et al. on the original and both
copies; and
• Label one copy of your comments
for the attention of Gas Branch 3, PJ11.3.
After comments on the draft EIS are
reviewed, any significant new issues are
investigated, and modifications are
made to the text, a final EIS will be
published and distributed. The final EIS
will contain the staff responses to timely
comments received on the draft EIS.
Comments will be considered by the
Commission and the cooperating
agencies but will not serve to make the
commentor a party to the proceeding.
Any person seeking to become a party
to the proceeding must file a motion to
intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedures (18 CFR 385.214). Anyone
may intervene in this proceeding based
on this draft EIS. You must file your
request to intervene as specified above.2
You do not need intervenor status to
have your comments considered.
The draft EIS has been placed in the
public files of the FERC and is available
for public inspection at: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Public
Reference Room, 888 First Street NE.,
Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, (202)
502–8371.
A limited number of copies of the
draft EIS are available from the Public
Reference Room identified above. In
addition, the draft EIS has been mailed
to affected landowners; various federal,
2 Interventions may also filed electronically via
the Internet in lieu of paper. See the previous
discussion on filing comments electronically.
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state, and local government agencies;
elected officials; environmental and
public interest groups; Indian tribes and
Native American organizations with an
interest in the project area; local
libraries and newspapers; intervenors;
and other individuals that expressed an
interest in the proposed Project.
Additional information about the
proposed Project is available from the
Commission’s Office of External Affairs,
at 1–866–208-–FERC or on the FERC
Internet Web site (https://www.ferc.gov).
To access information via the FERC Web
site click on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link then
click on ‘‘General Search’’ and enter the
docket number (CP06–365) excluding
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Number field. Be sure you have selected
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Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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[Project No. 2301–022, Montana]
PPL Montana; Notice of Availability of
Environmental Assessment
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August 17, 2007.
In accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and
the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission’s (Commission)
regulations, 18 CFR Part 380 (Order No.
486, 52 FR 47897), the Office of Energy
Projects has reviewed the application
for license for the Mystic Lake
Hydroelectric Project, located on West
Rosebud Creek, in Stillwater and Carbon
counties, Montana, and has prepared an
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Environmental Assessment (EA) for the
project. The project occupies about 674
acres of federal lands in the Custard
National Forest managed by the U.S.
Forest Service.
The EA contains Commission staff’s
analysis of the potential environmental
effects of the project and concludes that
licensing the project, with appropriate
environmental protective measures,
would not constitute a major federal
action that would significantly affect the
quality of the human environment.
A copy of the EA is available for
review at the Commission in the Public
Reference Room or may be viewed on
the Commission’s Web site at https://
www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link.
Enter the docket number excluding the
last three digits in the docket number
field to access the document. For
assistance, contact FERC Online
Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, (202)
502–8659.
You may also register online at https://
ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to
be notified via email of new filings and
issuances related to this or other
pending projects. For assistance, contact
FERC Online Support.
Consistent with the schedule
included in the Commission’s March 5,
2007, notice, any comments on the EA
should be filed by October 1, 2007. Note
that the due date in the process plan for
comments on the EA was based on a 30day comment period. We are
maintaining the process plan schedule
notwithstanding the early issuance of
the EA. Comments on the EA should be
addressed to Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426. Please affix
Project No. 2301–022 to all comments.
Comments may be filed electronically
via the Internet in lieu of paper. The
Commission strongly encourages
electronic filings. See 18 CFR
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions
on the Commission’s Web site (https://
www.ferc.gov) under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link.
For further information, contact Steve
Hocking at (202) 502–8753 or
steve.hocking@ferc.gov.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. PF07–9–000]
Steckman Ridge, L.P.; Notice of Intent
To Prepare an Environmental
Assessment for the Proposed
Steckman Ridge Storage Project and
Request for Comments on
Environmental Issues
August 20, 2007.
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) will prepare an
environmental assessment (EA) that will
address the environmental impacts of
the Steckman Ridge Storage Project
proposed by Steckman Ridge, L.P.
(Steckman). The Commission will use
the EA in its decision-making process to
determine whether or not to authorize
the project. This notice explains the
scoping process the FERC staff will use
to gather input from the public and
interested agencies on the project. Your
input will help us determine the issues
that need to be evaluated in the EA.
Please note that the scoping period will
close on September 20, 2007.
This notice is being sent to affected
landowners; federal, state, and local
government agencies; elected officials;
environmental and public interest
groups; Native American tribes; other
interested parties; and local libraries
and newspapers. We 1 encourage
government representatives to notify
their constituents of this planned
project and encourage them to comment
on their areas of concern.
If you are a landowner receiving this
notice, you may be contacted by a
Steckman representative about the
acquisition of an easement to construct,
operate, and maintain the proposed
project facilities. The pipeline company
would seek to negotiate a mutually
acceptable agreement. However, if the
project is approved by the FERC, that
approval conveys with it the right of
eminent domain. Therefore, if easement
negotiations fail to produce an
agreement, the pipeline company could
initiate condemnation proceedings in
accordance with state law.
A fact sheet prepared by the FERC
entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas
Facility on My Land? What Do I Need
To Know?’’ is available for viewing on
the FERC Internet Web site (https://
www.ferc.gov). This fact sheet addresses
a number of typically asked questions,
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environmental staff of the FERC’s Office of Energy
Projects.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement for the Proposed Bradwood Landing LNG Terminal and Pipeline
Project
August 17, 2007.
Bradwood Landing LLC (Docket No. CP06-365-000); NorthernStar Energy LLC
(Docket Nos. CP06-366-000, CP06-376-000, and CP06-377-000)
The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared this draft Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal proposed by
Bradwood Landing LLC and the associated natural gas sendout pipeline
facilities proposed by NorthernStar Energy LLC in the above-referenced
dockets. The LNG import terminal would be located at Bradwood, about 38
miles up the Columbia River from its mouth, in Clatsop County, Oregon,
and the sendout pipeline would be located in Clatsop and Columbia
Counties, Oregon, and Cowlitz County, Washington.
The draft EIS was prepared to satisfy the requirements of the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (COE), U.S. Coast Guard (Coast Guard), and the U.S.
Department of Transportation (DOT) are federal cooperating agencies for
the development of this EIS. A federal cooperating agency has
jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to any
environmental impact involved with the proposal and is involved in the
NEPA analysis.
The COE is responsible for issuing permits under section 10 of the
Rivers and Harbor Act and section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The Coast
Guard is responsible for the safety and security of port areas and
navigable waterways, and
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would issue a Letter of Recommendation indicating if the Columbia River
waterway to the proposed LNG terminal is suitable for LNG marine
traffic. The DOT is responsible for enforcing safety regulations and
standards for the LNG terminal and the design and operation of the
natural gas sendout pipeline.
The FERC is the lead federal agency for compliance with the NEPA,
and for authorization of the Project under sections 3 and 7 of the
Natural Gas Act. The Commission will use the EIS to consider the
environmental impacts that would result if it decides to authorize the
Project. The cooperating agencies and the FERC staff conclude that the
proposed Project, with the appropriate mitigation measures as
recommended, would have limited adverse environmental impact.
The general purpose of the proposed Project is to provide a new
source of natural gas to the Pacific Northwest through the importation
of LNG. LNG is natural gas that has been cooled to about -260 degrees
Fahrenheit, reducing its volume about 600 times from a gas to a liquid,
allowing for its transport over long distances across oceans in
specially designed ships from its point of origin in foreign countries
with abundant natural gas reserves. At the import terminal at Bradwood,
the LNG would be off-loaded from the LNG transport ships, stored as a
liquid, vaporized back into natural gas, and sent out via the
associated pipeline to the existing interstate natural gas pipeline
network. The Bradwood Landing LNG import terminal would have a peak
sendout capacity of about 1.3 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of
natural gas.
The draft EIS addresses the potential environmental impacts from
the construction and operation of the following facilities proposed by
Bradwood Landing LLC:
A dredged LNG ship maneuvering area off of the Columbia
River navigation channel;
A single ship berth capable of receiving LNG ships with
cargo capacities ranging from 100,000 to 200,000 cubic meters (m\3\);
A set of four 16-inch-diameter LNG unloading arms,
including two liquid unloading arms, one hybrid arm, and a vapor return
arm on the jetty, and a 1,240-foot-long, 32-inch-diameter cryogenic LNG
transfer pipeline and 6-inch-diameter LNG recirculation pipeline
extending from the berth to the LNG storage tanks;
Two insulated LNG storage tanks, each with a useable
volume of over 1 million barrels, or 160,000 m\3\;
A vapor management system to handle the boil-off gas (BOG)
that occurs during the unloading process, including vapor return
blowers and knockout drum on the jetty, vapor handling pipework, two
BOG compressors, and a BOG condenser;
An LNG sendout system, consisting of six submerged in-tank
LNG discharge pumps (three in each storage tank) and five sendout
pumps;
Seven submerged combustion vaporizers, of which six would
normally operate and one would be a back-up, to re-gasify the LNG and
provide natural gas through a metering station to the inlet valve of
the sendout pipeline;
Utilities, including a 1.5-mile-long 115-kilovolt power
line and switchyard, and an 800-kilowatt emergency diesel-fueled
generator;
Support buildings, including a warehouse/administrative
building, control building, switch rooms, compressor building, and
gatehouse/security building; and
A fire protection and detection system, including a
firewater pumphouse, and security system including fencing.
The natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by NorthernStar Energy
LLC addressed in the draft EIS include:
A 36.3-mile-long, underground, high-pressure welded steel
sendout pipeline consisting of approximately 18.9 miles of 36-inch-
diameter pipeline in Clatsop and Columbia Counties, Oregon and 17.4
miles of 30-inch-diameter pipeline in Columbia County, Oregon and
Cowlitz County, Washington;
Five meter stations, including at the LNG terminal, the
Georgia-Pacific Wauna paper mill delivery point, the interconnection
with the Northwest Natural Gas Company intrastate pipeline system, the
Portland General Electric Company Beaver Power Plant delivery point,
and interconnection with Williams Northwest Pipeline Company interstate
pipeline system; and
at least five mainline block valves, two pig \1\
launchers, and two pig receivers.
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Comment Procedures
Any person wishing to comment on the draft EIS is encouraged to do
so. To ensure consideration prior to the production of a final EIS, it
is important that your comments be received before December 24, 2007.
Please note that the Commission strongly encourages electronic
filing of any comments. See 18 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the FERC's Internet Web
site (https://www.ferc.gov) under the eFiling link and the link to the
User's Guide. Before you can submit comments, you will need to create a
free account by clicking on ``Sign-up'' under ``New User.'' You will be
asked to select the type of submission you are making. This type of
submission is considered a ``Comment on Filing.'' Comments submitted
electronically must be submitted by December 24, 2007.
If you wish to mail comments on the draft EIS, please mail your
comments so that they will be received in Washington, DC on or before
December 24, 2007. Please carefully follow the instructions below to
ensure that your comments are received in time and properly recorded:
Send an original and two copies of your comments to:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Room 1A , Washington, DC 20426.
Reference Docket No. CP06-365-000 et al. on the original
and both copies; and
Label one copy of your comments for the attention of Gas
Branch 3, PJ11.3.
After comments on the draft EIS are reviewed, any significant new
issues are investigated, and modifications are made to the text, a
final EIS will be published and distributed. The final EIS will contain
the staff responses to timely comments received on the draft EIS.
Comments will be considered by the Commission and the cooperating
agencies but will not serve to make the commentor a party to the
proceeding. Any person seeking to become a party to the proceeding must
file a motion to intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the Commission's
Rules of Practice and Procedures (18 CFR 385.214). Anyone may intervene
in this proceeding based on this draft EIS. You must file your request
to intervene as specified above.\2\ You do not need intervenor status
to have your comments considered.
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\2\ Interventions may also filed electronically via the Internet
in lieu of paper. See the previous discussion on filing comments
electronically.
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The draft EIS has been placed in the public files of the FERC and
is available for public inspection at: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Public Reference Room, 888 First Street NE., Room 2A,
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8371.
A limited number of copies of the draft EIS are available from the
Public Reference Room identified above. In addition, the draft EIS has
been mailed to affected landowners; various federal,
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state, and local government agencies; elected officials; environmental
and public interest groups; Indian tribes and Native American
organizations with an interest in the project area; local libraries and
newspapers; intervenors; and other individuals that expressed an
interest in the proposed Project.
Additional information about the proposed Project is available from
the Commission's Office of External Affairs, at 1-866-208--FERC or on
the FERC Internet Web site (https://www.ferc.gov). To access information
via the FERC Web site click on the ``eLibrary'' link then click on
``General Search'' and enter the docket number (CP06-365) excluding the
last three digits in the Docket Number field. Be sure you have selected
an appropriate date range. The ``eLibrary'' link provides access to the
texts of formal documents issued by the Commission, such as orders,
notices, and rulemakings. For assistance with ``eLibrary'', please
contact FERC Online Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free
at 1-866-208-3676, or for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659.
In addition, the Commission now offers a free service called
eSubscription which allows you to keep track of all formal issuances
and submittals in specific dockets. This can reduce the amount of time
you spend researching proceedings by automatically providing you with
notification of these filings, document summaries and direct links to
these documents. To learn more about eSubscription and to sign-up for
this service please go to https://www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-16751 Filed 8-23-07; 8:45 am]
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