Atlantic Sea Island Group LLC, Safe Harbor Energy Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application, 49041-49042 [E7-16875]

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Trips will range from one to five days and are specifically designed as therapeutic experiential sailing trips with sailing instruction included.’’ Geographic Region: ‘‘Puget Sound, WA.’’ rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES 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. Dated: August 16, 2007. By order of the Maritime Administrator. Daron T. Threet, Secretary, Maritime Administration. [FR Doc. E7–16857 Filed 8–24–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–81–P VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:56 Aug 24, 2007 Jkt 211001 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Maritime Administration [USCG–2007–28535] Atlantic Sea Island Group LLC, Safe Harbor Energy Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application Maritime Administration, DOT. Notice of application. AGENCY: ACTION: SUMMARY: The Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration announce that they have received an application for the licensing of a natural gas deepwater port, and that the application appears to contain the required information. This notice summarizes the applicant’s plans and the procedures that will be followed in considering the application. DATES: The Deepwater Port Act of 1974, as amended, requires any public hearing on this application to be held not later than 240 days after this notice, and requires a decision on the application to be made not later than 90 days after the final public hearing. ADDRESSES: The public docket for USCG–2007–28535 is maintained by the: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., West Building Ground Floor W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001. Docket contents are available for public inspection and copying, at this address, in room W12–140, 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 website 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 or Andrew Tibbetts, U.S. Maritime Administration, telephone: 202–366–5473, e-mail: andrew.tibbetts@dot.gov. If you have questions on viewing the docket, call Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone: 202–493– 0402. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Receipt of Application On May 8, 2007, the Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration received an application from Atlantic Sea Island Group LLC (ASIG), Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10174; for all Federal authorizations required for a license to own, construct, and operate a deepwater port governed by the Deepwater Port PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 49041 Act of 1974, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1501 et seq. (the Act). On August 15, 2007, we determined that the application appears to contain all information required by the Act. Background According to the Act, a deepwater port is a fixed or floating manmade structure other than a vessel, or a group of structures, located beyond State seaward boundaries and used or intended for use as a port or terminal for the transportation, storage, and further handling of oil or natural gas for transportation to any State. A deepwater port must be licensed by the Maritime Administrator (by delegated authority of the Secretary of Transportation, published on June 18, 2003 (68 FR 36496)). Statutory and regulatory requirements for licensing appear in 33 U.S.C. 1501 et seq. and in 33 CFR part 148. Under delegations from and agreements between the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Homeland Security, applications are processed by the Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration. Each application is considered on its merits. The Act requires adherence to a strict timeline for processing an application. Once we determine that an application contains the required information, we must hold public hearings on the application within 240 days, and the Maritime Administrator must render a decision on the application within 330 days. We will publish additional Federal Register notices to inform you of these public hearings and other procedural milestones, including environmental review. The Maritime Administrator’s decision, and other key documents, will be filed in the public docket. At least one public hearing must take place in each adjacent coastal State. For purposes of the Act, New York is the adjacent coastal State for this application. Other States can apply for adjacent coastal State status in accordance with 33 U.S.C. 1508(a)(2). Summary of the Application Atlantic Sea Island Group LLC (ASIG), proposes to own, construct, and operate a deepwater port, named Safe Harbor Energy, in the Federal waters of the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf in the area known as the New York Bight region in MMS lease area NK18–12 block 6655. The proposed location is approximately 13.5 miles south of the City of Long Beach on Long Island and 23 miles southeast of New York Harbor entrance, in an area between the Ambrose-to-Nantucket and Hudson E:\FR\FM\27AUN1.SGM 27AUN1 49042 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 165 / Monday, August 27, 2007 / Notices Canyon-to-Ambrose shipping lanes, located at approximately 40°23′ N and 73°36′ E, in water depth of between 60 and 70 feet. The deepwater port, Safe Harbor Energy, consists of three components: An island to be constructed of natural sand, gravel, and rock materials surrounded by armored breakwaters, consisting of prefabricated caissons, armor units, and rock; an LNG receiving, storage, and regasification facility; and a subsea pipeline that would transport the natural gas to an offshore connection with the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corporation’s pipeline system. The pipeline would consist of two parallel 36-inch-diameter pipe segments extending 12.8 miles from the island. Safe Harbor Energy will include berthing and offloading space for two conventional LNG vessels with capacity of 70,000 m3 to 270,000 m3. Additionally, it would accommodate support vessels including docking/ firefighting tugs and crew support launches. The storage portion would include four (4) 180,000 m3 fullcontainment storage tanks. The regasification equipment would be an ambient air heat exchange type. Safe Harbor Energy would have an average throughput capacity of approximately 1.15 billion standard cubic feet per day (bscfd). A shore based facility will 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 approximately five (5) 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. rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES 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. VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:56 Aug 24, 2007 Jkt 211001 Dated: August 17, 2007. Daron T. Threet, Secretary, Maritime Administration. [FR Doc. E7–16875 Filed 8–24–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–81–P DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Surface Transportation Board [STB Docket No. AB–55 (Sub-No. 680X)] CSX Transportation, Inc.— Abandonment Exemption—in Portsmouth County, VA CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), has filed a notice of exemption under 49 CFR part 1152 subpart F—Exempt Abandonments to abandon a 0.50-mile rail line on its Southern Region, Florence Division, Portsmouth Subdivision, from railroad milepost SA 0.28 to railroad milepost SA 0.78, in Portsmouth, Portsmouth County, VA. The line traverses United States Postal Service Zip Code 23704. CSXT has certified that: (1) No local traffic has moved over the line for at least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic on the line can be rerouted over other lines; (3) no formal complaint filed by a user of rail service on the line (or by a state or local government entity acting on behalf of such user) regarding cessation of service over the line either is pending with the Board or with any U.S. District Court or has been decided in favor of complainant within the 2-year period; and (4) the requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7 (environmental report), 49 CFR 1105.8 (historic report), 49 CFR 1105.11 (transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12 (newspaper publication), and 49 CFR 1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental agencies) have been met. As a condition to this exemption, any employee adversely affected by the abandonment shall be protected under Oregon Short Line R. Co.— Abandonment—Goshen, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979). To address whether this condition adequately protects affected employees, a petition for partial revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) must be filed. Provided no formal expression of intent to file an offer of financial assistance (OFA) has been received, this exemption will be effective on September 26, 2007, unless stayed pending reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do not involve environmental issues,1 formal expressions of intent to 1 The Board will grant a stay if an informed decision on environmental issues (whether raised by a party or by the Board’s Section of Environmental Analysis (SEA) in its independent PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 file an OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2),2 and trail use/rail banking requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be filed by September 6, 2007. Petitions to reopen or requests for public use conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must be filed by September 17, 2007, with the Surface Transportation Board, 395 E. Street, SW., Washington, DC 20423– 0001. A copy of any petition filed with the Board should be sent to CSXT’s representative: Steven C. Armbrust, 500 Water Street, J–150, Jacksonville, FL 32202. If the verified notice contains false or misleading information, the exemption is void ab initio. CSXT has filed environmental and historic reports addressing the effects, if any, of the abandonment on the environment and historic resources. SEA will issue an environmental assessment (EA) by August 31, 2007. Interested persons may obtain a copy of the EA by writing to SEA (Room 1100, Surface Transportation Board, Washington, DC 20423–0001) or by calling SEA, at (202) 245–0305. [Assistance for the hearing impaired is available through the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 800–877–8339.] Comments on environmental and historic preservation matters must be filed within 15 days after the EA becomes available to the public. Environmental, historic preservation, public use, or trail use/rail banking conditions will be imposed, where appropriate, in a subsequent decision. Pursuant to the provisions of 49 CFR 1152.29(e)(2), CSXT shall file a notice of consummation with the Board to signify that it has exercised the authority granted and fully abandoned the line. If consummation has not been effected by CSXT’s filing of a notice of consummation by August 27, 2008, and there are no legal or regulatory barriers to consummation, the authority to abandon will automatically expire. Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at https:// www.stb.dot.gov. Decided: August 20, 2007. investigation) cannot be made before the exemption’s effective date. See Exemption of Outof-Service Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C.2d 377 (1989). Any request for a stay should be filed as soon as possible so that the Board may take appropriate action before the exemption’s effective date. 2 Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing fee, which currently is set at $1,300. See 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25). E:\FR\FM\27AUN1.SGM 27AUN1

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[USCG-2007-28535]


Atlantic Sea Island Group LLC, Safe Harbor Energy Liquefied 
Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of application.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration announce that 
they have received an application for the licensing of a natural gas 
deepwater port, and that the application appears to contain the 
required information. This notice summarizes the applicant's plans and 
the procedures that will be followed in considering the application.

DATES: The Deepwater Port Act of 1974, as amended, requires any public 
hearing on this application to be held not later than 240 days after 
this notice, and requires a decision on the application to be made not 
later than 90 days after the final public hearing.

ADDRESSES: The public docket for USCG-2007-28535 is maintained by the: 
Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New 
Jersey Ave., SE., West Building Ground Floor W12-140, Washington, DC 
20590-0001.
    Docket contents are available for public inspection and copying, at 
this address, in room W12-140, 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 website 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 or Andrew 
Tibbetts, U.S. Maritime Administration, telephone: 202-366-5473, e-
mail: andrew.tibbetts@dot.gov. If you have questions on viewing the 
docket, call Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, 
telephone: 202-493-0402.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Receipt of Application

    On May 8, 2007, the Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration 
received an application from Atlantic Sea Island Group LLC (ASIG), 
Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, 26th Floor, New York, NY 
10174; for all Federal authorizations required for a license to own, 
construct, and operate a deepwater port governed by the Deepwater Port 
Act of 1974, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1501 et seq. (the Act). On August 
15, 2007, we determined that the application appears to contain all 
information required by the Act.

Background

    According to the Act, a deepwater port is a fixed or floating 
manmade structure other than a vessel, or a group of structures, 
located beyond State seaward boundaries and used or intended for use as 
a port or terminal for the transportation, storage, and further 
handling of oil or natural gas for transportation to any State.
    A deepwater port must be licensed by the Maritime Administrator (by 
delegated authority of the Secretary of Transportation, published on 
June 18, 2003 (68 FR 36496)). Statutory and regulatory requirements for 
licensing appear in 33 U.S.C. 1501 et seq. and in 33 CFR part 148. 
Under delegations from and agreements between the Secretary of 
Transportation and the Secretary of Homeland Security, applications are 
processed by the Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration. Each 
application is considered on its merits.
    The Act requires adherence to a strict timeline for processing an 
application. Once we determine that an application contains the 
required information, we must hold public hearings on the application 
within 240 days, and the Maritime Administrator must render a decision 
on the application within 330 days. We will publish additional Federal 
Register notices to inform you of these public hearings and other 
procedural milestones, including environmental review. The Maritime 
Administrator's decision, and other key documents, will be filed in the 
public docket.
    At least one public hearing must take place in each adjacent 
coastal State. For purposes of the Act, New York is the adjacent 
coastal State for this application. Other States can apply for adjacent 
coastal State status in accordance with 33 U.S.C. 1508(a)(2).

Summary of the Application

    Atlantic Sea Island Group LLC (ASIG), proposes to own, construct, 
and operate a deepwater port, named Safe Harbor Energy, in the Federal 
waters of the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf in the area known as the 
New York Bight region in MMS lease area NK18-12 block 6655. The 
proposed location is approximately 13.5 miles south of the City of Long 
Beach on Long Island and 23 miles southeast of New York Harbor 
entrance, in an area between the Ambrose-to-Nantucket and Hudson

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Canyon-to-Ambrose shipping lanes, located at approximately 40[deg]23' N 
and 73[deg]36' E, in water depth of between 60 and 70 feet.
    The deepwater port, Safe Harbor Energy, consists of three 
components: An island to be constructed of natural sand, gravel, and 
rock materials surrounded by armored breakwaters, consisting of 
prefabricated caissons, armor units, and rock; an LNG receiving, 
storage, and regasification facility; and a subsea pipeline that would 
transport the natural gas to an offshore connection with the 
Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corporation's pipeline system. The 
pipeline would consist of two parallel 36-inch-diameter pipe segments 
extending 12.8 miles from the island. Safe Harbor Energy will include 
berthing and offloading space for two conventional LNG vessels with 
capacity of 70,000 m\3\ to 270,000 m\3\. Additionally, it would 
accommodate support vessels including docking/firefighting tugs and 
crew support launches. The storage portion would include four (4) 
180,000 m\3\ full-containment storage tanks. The regasification 
equipment would be an ambient air heat exchange type. Safe Harbor 
Energy would have an average throughput capacity of approximately 1.15 
billion standard cubic feet per day (bscfd).
    A shore based facility will 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 
approximately five (5) 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.

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.

    Dated: August 17, 2007.
Daron T. Threet,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-16875 Filed 8-24-07; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910-81-P

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