Calypso LNG L.L.C., Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application; Final Environmental Impact Statement, 40909-40911 [E8-16259]
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search/index.jsp.
Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: July 9, 2008.
Christine Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E8–16258 Filed 7–15–08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–81–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[USCG–2006–26009]
Calypso LNG L.L.C., Liquefied Natural
Gas Deepwater Port License
Application; Final Environmental
Impact Statement
Maritime Administration, DOT.
Notice of availability; request
for comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration
and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
announce the availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS)
for the Calypso LNG L.L.C., Liquefied
Natural Gas Deepwater Port license
application. The application describes a
project that would be located in the
Federal waters of the Outer Continental
Shelf in the OCS NG 17–06 (Bahamas)
lease area, approximately 8 to 10 miles
off the east coast of Florida to the
northeast of Port Everglades, in a water
depth of 800 to 950 feet. The Coast
Guard and the Maritime Administration
request public comments on the FEIS.
Publication of this notice begins a 45
day comment period and provides
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information on how to participate in the
process.
An announcement of the public
hearing for matters relevant to the
approval, denial, or approval with
conditions of the license application
will be published in the future and will
include another opportunity to provide
comments.
Material submitted in response
to the request for comments on the FEIS
must reach the Docket Management
Facility by September 2, 2008, ending
the 45 day public comment period.
As stated above, this notice is for the
availability of the Final Environmental
Impact Statement for the project. We
will announce the date and location for
the final public hearing and once again
provide the opportunity to comment.
The 45 day period for Federal and State
agencies’ comments, recommended
conditions for licensing, or letters of no
objection; and the 45 day period for the
Governor of Florida’s (the adjacent
coastal state) communication to
approve, disapprove, or notify the
Maritime Administration of
inconsistencies with State programs
relating to environmental protection,
land and water use, and coastal zone
management for which the Maritime
Administration may condition the
license to make consistent will not be
affected by the publication of the FEIS
and will occur after the final public
hearing.
In addition, the 90 day period by
which the Maritime Administration
must issue a record of decision (ROD) to
approve, approve with conditions, or
deny the DWP license application will
not be affected by the publication of the
FEIS and will occur 90 days after the
public hearing on the application as
described above.
DATES:
The FEIS, the application,
comments and associated
documentation is available for viewing
at the Federal Docket Management
System Web site: https://
www.regulations.gov under docket
number USCG–2006–26009. The FEIS is
also available at public libraries in Fort
Lauderdale area (Broward County
Library which is a federal depository
library and Riverland Library in Fort
Lauderdale; Dania Beach Library—Paul
DeMaio Branch in Dania Beach; Davie/
Cooper City Library in Davie; Helen B.
Hoffman Plantation Library and West
Regional Library in Plantation;
Hollywood Library in Hollywood, and
Pembroke Pines Library in Pembroke
Pines) and Florida State University
Marine Laboratory in Sopchoppy,
Florida.
ADDRESSES:
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Federal Register on April 11, 2000 (65
FR 19477).
You may view docket submissions at
the Federal Docket Management Facility
(see ADDRESSES ), electronically on the
FDMS Web site, or later in this notice
(see Privacy Act).
Request for Comments
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Docket submissions for USCG–2006–
26009 should be addressed to:
Department of Transportation, Docket
Management Facility, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., West Building, Ground
Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC
20590–0001.
The Federal Docket Management
Facility accepts hand-delivered
submissions, and makes docket contents
available for public inspection and
copying at this address between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. The Facility
telephone number is 202–366–9329, the
fax number is 202–493–2251, and the
Web site for electronic submissions or
for electronic access to docket contents
is https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LT
Hannah Kim, U.S. Coast Guard,
telephone: 202–372–1438, e-mail:
Hannah.Kim@uscg.mil. If you have
questions on viewing the docket, call
Renee V. Wright, Program Manager,
Docket Operations, telephone: 202–493–
0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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. These alternatives are more
fully discussed in the FEIS. The Coast
Guard and the Maritime Administration
are the lead Federal agencies for the
preparation of the EIS. You can address
any questions about the proposed action
or the FEIS to the Coast Guard project
manager identified in FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
We request public comments or other
information on the FEIS and
application. You can submit comments
to the Docket Management Facility
during the public comment period (see
DATES). The Coast Guard and the
Maritime Administration will consider
all comments and material received
during the comment period.
Submissions should include:
• Docket number USCG–2006–26009.
• Your name and address.
Submit comments or material using
only one of the following methods:
• Electronic submission to FDMS,
https://www.regulations.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 FDMS website (https://
www.regulations.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 FDMS Web site, or the
Department of Transportation Privacy
Act Statement that appeared in the
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Background
Information about deepwater ports,
the statutes, and regulations governing
their licensing, and the receipt of the
current application for a liquefied
natural gas (LNG) deepwater port
appears in Volume 71 FR 65031,
Monday, November 6, 2006. The Notice
of Intent to Prepare an EIS for the
proposed action was published in
Volume 71 FR 67422, Tuesday,
November 21, 2006 and the Notice of
Availability of the Draft EIS was
published in Volume 72 FR 62303,
Friday, November 2, 2007. The FEIS,
application materials and associated
comments are available on the docket.
Information from the ‘‘Summary of the
Application’’ from previous Federal
Register notices is included below for
your convenience.
Summary of the Application
Calypso LNG L.L.C., 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 8 to 10 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 (8) or nine
(9) mooring lines, consisting of wire
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rope, chain, and buoyancy elements,
each attached to anchor points on the
sea bed. Anchor points would consist of
a combination of suction piles and
gravity anchors.
The buoys would be designed to moor
and unload (i) transport and
regasification vessels (TRVs) and (ii) a
storage and regasification ship (SRS).
TRVs would be drawn from the existing
and future global fleet as compatible
with the unloading buoy system. A TRV
would moor at the east buoy for four (4)
to seven (7) days. When empty it 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 be a specialized,
purpose built LNG carrier designed to
accept LNG from conventional LNG
carriers from the existing and future
global fleet. 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 LNG carriers. The SRS would
detach 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.
Both vessels would be equipped to
vaporize LNG cargo to natural gas
through an onboard closed loop shelland-tube vaporization system, and to
odorize and meter gas for send-out by
means of the unloading buoy to
conventional subsea pipelines. The
mooring buoys would be connected
through the hull of the vessels to
specially designed turrets that would
enable the vessel to weathervane or
rotate in response to prevailing winds,
waves, and the current directions. When
the vessels are not present the buoys
would be submerged approximately 100
feet below the surface.
The unloading buoys would connect
through flexible risers and two (2)
approximately 2.5 mile long 30-inch
flow lines located on the seabed that
would connect directly to the Calypso
pipeline, a Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) permitted pipeline,
yet to be constructed which would then
connect to existing onshore pipeline
system.
Calypso would be capable of
delivering natural gas in a continuous
flow by having at least one TRV or the
SRS regasifying at all times. The system
would be designed so that a TRV and
the SRS can regasify simultaneously for
concurrent unloading of natural gas.
Calypso would have an average
throughput capacity of approximately
1.1 billion standard cubic feet per day
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(bcsfd) and a peak delivery capacity of
1.9 bcsfd.
Existing onshore delivery systems
would be utilized and no new
construction of onshore pipelines or
LNG storage facilities are included as
part of the proposed deepwater port.
Existing shore based infrastructure will
be used to facilitate movement of
personnel, equipment, supplies, and
disposable materials between the
deepwater port and shore.
Construction of the deepwater port
would be expected to take three (3)
years should a license be issued. The
deepwater port, if licensed, 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
The electronic form of all comments
received into the Federal Docket
Management System can be searched by
the name of the individual submitting
the comment (or signing the comment,
if submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). The DOT
Privacy Act Statement can be viewed in
the Federal Register published on April
11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70, pages
19477–78) or you may visit https://
www.regulations.gov.
Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: July 9, 2008.
Christine Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E8–16259 Filed 7–15–08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–81–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2008–0018; Notice 2]
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Nissan North America, Inc.; Grant of
Petition for Decision of
Inconsequential Noncompliance
Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan),
has determined that certain vehicles
that it manufactured during the period
of April 5, 2007 to July 25, 2007, did not
fully comply with paragraph S4.3(b) of
49 CFR 571.110 (Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standards (FMVSS) No. 110 Tire
Selection and Rims for Motor Vehicles
With a GVWR of 4,536 Kilograms
(10,000 Pounds) or Less). On November
6, 2007, Nissan filed an appropriate
report pursuant to 49 CFR part 573,
Defect and Noncompliance
Responsibility and Reports identifying
approximately 321 model year 2008
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Nissan Titan E-grade trucks
manufactured from April 5 to July 25,
2007, that do not comply with the
paragraphs of FMVSS No. 110 cited
above.
Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 30118(d) and
30120(h) and the rule implementing
those provisions at 49 CFR part 556,
Nissan has petitioned for an exemption
from the notification and remedy
requirements of 49 U.S.C. chapter 301
on the basis that this noncompliance is
inconsequential to motor vehicle safety.
Notice of receipt of the petition was
published, with a 30-day public
comment period, on February 6, 2008 in
the Federal Register (73 FR 7031). No
comments were received. To view the
petition and all supporting documents
log onto the Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Web site
at: https://www.regulations.gov/. Then
follow the online search instructions to
locate docket number ‘‘NHTSA–2008–
0018.’’
For further information on this
decision, contact Mr. John Finneran,
Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance, the
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA), telephone
(202) 366–0645, facsimile (202) 366–
7097.
Paragraph S4.3(b) of 49 CFR 571.110
requires in pertinent part that:
S4.3 Placard. Each vehicle * * * shall
show the information specified in S4.3 (a)
through (g) * * * on a placard permanently
affixed to the driver’s side B-pillar * * *
(b) Designated seated capacity (expressed
in terms of total number of occupants and
number of occupants for each front and rear
seat location)
Nissan described the noncompliance
as an incorrect total vehicle seating
capacity being shown on the tire
information placards affixed to the
subject vehicles.
Specifically, the subject placards
incorrectly show the total vehicle
seating capacity as six, with three
seating positions in the front row, and
three seating positions in the second
row.
Nissan explained that the subject Egrade Titan trucks are equipped with
optional two front bucket seats. This
configuration makes available two seats
in the front row and three in the back
row for a total of five seating positions.
Nissan stated its belief that the space
between the two front bucket seats is
occupied by a hard plastic console with
cup holders that cannot be used or
mistaken for a seating position.
Nissan further supported its belief
that the noncompliance is
inconsequential to motor vehicle safety
for the following reasons:
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1. The front center console area of this
vehicle cannot be mistaken for a seating
position because the center console is
low to the floor, has molded-in cup
holders, has no padded/cushioned area,
and has no provisions for seatbelts. It is
apparent to any observer that there are
only two front seating positions. Even if
an occupant referenced the tire
information placard to determine the
vehicle’s front seating capacity, it is
readily apparent that the total capacity
is five and not six and front row
capacity is two and not three.
2. Because the subject vehicle cannot
be occupied by more than five people,
there is no risk of vehicle overloading.
3. The vehicle capacity weight
(expressed as a total weight for
passengers and cargo) on the placard is
correct. The seating capacity error has
no impact on the vehicle capacity
weight.
4. All other applicable requirements
of FMVSS No. 110 have been met.
Nissan also states that there have been
no customer complaints, injuries, or
accidents related to the incorrect seating
capacity of the subject tire information
placard.
Additionally, Nissan stated that it
believes that because the
noncompliance is inconsequential to
motor vehicle safety that no corrective
action is warranted.
After receipt of the petition, Nissan
also informed NHTSA that it has
corrected the problem that caused these
errors so that they will not be repeated
in future production.
NHTSA Decision
NHTSA agrees with Nissan that the
noncompliance is inconsequential to
motor vehicle safety. As Nissan states,
because the vehicles have a center
console mounted between the front two
seating positions and no provisions to
accommodate restraint for a center
occupant, it is obvious that the front
row seating capacity is two and not
three. Therefore, overloading the
vehicles is unlikely because the space
between the front row bucket seats is
clearly not intended to be a seating
position. As Nissan additionally points
out, the other information on the tire
information placard is correct.
In consideration of the foregoing,
NHTSA has decided that Nissan has met
its burden of persuasion that the
labeling noncompliances described are
inconsequential to motor vehicle safety.
Accordingly, Nissan’s petition is
granted and the petitioner is exempted
from the obligation of providing
notification of, and a remedy for, the
noncompliances under 49 U.S.C. 30118
and 30120.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[USCG-2006-26009]
Calypso LNG L.L.C., Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port License
Application; Final Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
announce the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement
(FEIS) for the Calypso LNG L.L.C., Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port
license application. The application describes a project that would be
located in the Federal waters of the Outer Continental Shelf in the OCS
NG 17-06 (Bahamas) lease area, approximately 8 to 10 miles off the east
coast of Florida to the northeast of Port Everglades, in a water depth
of 800 to 950 feet. The Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration
request public comments on the FEIS. Publication of this notice begins
a 45 day comment period and provides information on how to participate
in the process.
An announcement of the public hearing for matters relevant to the
approval, denial, or approval with conditions of the license
application will be published in the future and will include another
opportunity to provide comments.
DATES: Material submitted in response to the request for comments on
the FEIS must reach the Docket Management Facility by September 2,
2008, ending the 45 day public comment period.
As stated above, this notice is for the availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement for the project. We will announce the
date and location for the final public hearing and once again provide
the opportunity to comment. The 45 day period for Federal and State
agencies' comments, recommended conditions for licensing, or letters of
no objection; and the 45 day period for the Governor of Florida's (the
adjacent coastal state) communication to approve, disapprove, or notify
the Maritime Administration of inconsistencies with State programs
relating to environmental protection, land and water use, and coastal
zone management for which the Maritime Administration may condition the
license to make consistent will not be affected by the publication of
the FEIS and will occur after the final public hearing.
In addition, the 90 day period by which the Maritime Administration
must issue a record of decision (ROD) to approve, approve with
conditions, or deny the DWP license application will not be affected by
the publication of the FEIS and will occur 90 days after the public
hearing on the application as described above.
ADDRESSES: The FEIS, the application, comments and associated
documentation is available for viewing at the Federal Docket Management
System Web site: https://www.regulations.gov under docket number USCG-
2006-26009. The FEIS is also available at public libraries in Fort
Lauderdale area (Broward County Library which is a federal depository
library and Riverland Library in Fort Lauderdale; Dania Beach Library--
Paul DeMaio Branch in Dania Beach; Davie/Cooper City Library in Davie;
Helen B. Hoffman Plantation Library and West Regional Library in
Plantation; Hollywood Library in Hollywood, and Pembroke Pines Library
in Pembroke Pines) and Florida State University Marine Laboratory in
Sopchoppy, Florida.
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Docket submissions for USCG-2006-26009 should be addressed to:
Department of Transportation, Docket Management Facility, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140,
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
The Federal Docket Management Facility accepts hand-delivered
submissions, and makes docket contents available for public inspection
and copying at this address between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays. The Facility telephone number is 202-
366-9329, the fax number is 202-493-2251, and the Web site for
electronic submissions or for electronic access to docket contents is
https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LT Hannah Kim, U.S. Coast Guard,
telephone: 202-372-1438, e-mail: Hannah.Kim@uscg.mil. If you have
questions on viewing the docket, call Renee V. Wright, Program Manager,
Docket Operations, telephone: 202-493-0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Comments
We request public comments or other information on the FEIS and
application. You can submit comments to the Docket Management Facility
during the public comment period (see DATES). The Coast Guard and the
Maritime Administration will consider all comments and material
received during the comment period.
Submissions should include:
Docket number USCG-2006-26009.
Your name and address.
Submit comments or material using only one of the following
methods:
Electronic submission to FDMS, https://www.regulations.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 FDMS website
(https://www.regulations.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
FDMS 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 Federal Docket Management
Facility (see ADDRESSES ), electronically on the FDMS Web site, or
later in this notice (see Privacy Act).
Background
Information about deepwater ports, the statutes, and regulations
governing their licensing, and the receipt of the current application
for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) deepwater port appears in Volume 71
FR 65031, Monday, November 6, 2006. The Notice of Intent to Prepare an
EIS for the proposed action was published in Volume 71 FR 67422,
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 and the Notice of Availability of the Draft
EIS was published in Volume 72 FR 62303, Friday, November 2, 2007. The
FEIS, application materials and associated comments are available on
the docket. Information from the ``Summary of the Application'' from
previous Federal Register notices is included below for your
convenience.
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.
These alternatives are more fully discussed in the FEIS. The Coast
Guard and the Maritime Administration are the lead Federal agencies for
the preparation of the EIS. You can address any questions about the
proposed action or the FEIS to the Coast Guard project manager
identified in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Summary of the Application
Calypso LNG L.L.C., 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 8 to 10 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 (8) or nine (9) mooring lines, consisting of wire
rope, chain, and buoyancy elements, each attached to anchor points on
the sea bed. Anchor points would consist of a combination of suction
piles and gravity anchors.
The buoys would be designed to moor and unload (i) transport and
regasification vessels (TRVs) and (ii) a storage and regasification
ship (SRS). TRVs would be drawn from the existing and future global
fleet as compatible with the unloading buoy system. A TRV would moor at
the east buoy for four (4) to seven (7) days. When empty it 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 be a
specialized, purpose built LNG carrier designed to accept LNG from
conventional LNG carriers from the existing and future global fleet.
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 LNG carriers. The SRS
would detach 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.
Both vessels would be equipped to vaporize LNG cargo to natural gas
through an onboard closed loop shell-and-tube vaporization system, and
to odorize and meter gas for send-out by means of the unloading buoy to
conventional subsea pipelines. The mooring buoys would be connected
through the hull of the vessels to specially designed turrets that
would enable the vessel to weathervane or rotate in response to
prevailing winds, waves, and the current directions. When the vessels
are not present the buoys would be submerged approximately 100 feet
below the surface.
The unloading buoys would connect through flexible risers and two
(2) approximately 2.5 mile long 30-inch flow lines located on the
seabed that would connect directly to the Calypso pipeline, a Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) permitted pipeline, yet to be
constructed which would then connect to existing onshore pipeline
system.
Calypso would be capable of delivering natural gas in a continuous
flow by having at least one TRV or the SRS regasifying at all times.
The system would be designed so that a TRV and the SRS can regasify
simultaneously for concurrent unloading of natural gas. Calypso would
have an average throughput capacity of approximately 1.1 billion
standard cubic feet per day
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(bcsfd) and a peak delivery capacity of 1.9 bcsfd.
Existing onshore delivery systems would be utilized and no new
construction of onshore pipelines or LNG storage facilities are
included as part of the proposed deepwater port. Existing shore based
infrastructure will be used to facilitate movement of personnel,
equipment, supplies, and disposable materials between the deepwater
port and shore.
Construction of the deepwater port would be expected to take three
(3) years should a license be issued. The deepwater port, if licensed,
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
The electronic form of all comments received into the Federal
Docket Management System can be searched by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). The DOT Privacy Act
Statement can be viewed in the Federal Register published on April 11,
2000 (Volume 65, Number 70, pages 19477-78) or you may visit https://
www.regulations.gov.
Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: July 9, 2008.
Christine Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-16259 Filed 7-15-08; 8:45 am]
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