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applied to their projections of
recapitalization costs and revenues.
Comments: Several respondents
suggested that adjustments to capital
costs should be considered for
extraordinary cost increases or inflation;
cost effectiveness break points should
also be adjusted due to these cost
escalations.
Response: FTA currently allows cost
increases related to unforeseen
commodities escalation or inflation. Per
FTA’s April 2005 Dear Colleague letter,
the cost-effectiveness breakpoints are
adjusted annually using the increase in
the Gross National Product deflator.
6. Contractor Review of Information for
the Before and After Study
FTA adopts as final its proposal that
contractors involved in a project’s
capital cost estimation and travel
forecasting be given an opportunity to
review and comment each time the
project sponsor is required to submit
information for the ‘‘before and after’’
study. The contractor’s comments, if
any, must be included in the
information submitted to FTA.
The intent of this provision is to
facilitate communication between
project sponsors and contractors on the
responsibilities of contractors for
variances between forecasts at the three
milestones before a project opens and
actual results two years after the project
opens for revenue service. If this
communication does not result in a
common understanding that can be
documented in the submittal of
information from the ‘‘before and after’’
study to FTA, the contractor’s
comments would have to be included in
the submittal by the project sponsor.
Comments: There was significant
support for and no opposition to this
requirement.
Issued in Washington, DC this 4th day of
August, 2008.
James S. Simpson,
Administrator.
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Comments should be submitted
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Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone: 202–366–5737; or e-mail:
tom.harrelson@dot.gov. Copies of this
collection also can be obtained from that
office.
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Title of Collection: Monthly Report of
Ocean Shipments Moving under ExportImport Bank Financing.
Type of Request: Extension of
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OMB Control Number: 2133–0013.
Form Numbers: MA–518.
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Public Resolution 17, required MARAD
to monitor and enforce the U.S.-flag
shipping requirements relative to the
loans/guarantees extended by the
Export-Import Bank (EXIMBANK) to
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requires that shipments financed by
Eximbank and that move by sea, must
be transported exclusively on U.S.-flag
registered vessels unless a waiver is
obtained from MARAD.
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under Public Resolution 17, to ensure
compliance of ocean shipping
requirements operating under Eximbank
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distribution of shipments between U.S.flag and foreign ships. MARAD will use
this information to report annually to
Congress the total shipping activities
during the calendar year.
Description of Respondents: Shippers
subject to Eximbank financing.
Annual Responses: 336 responses.
Annual Burden: 169 hours.
Comments: Comments should refer to
the docket number that appears at the
top of this document. Written comments
may be submitted to the Docket Clerk,
U.S. DOT Dockets, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Comments also
may be submitted by electronic means
via the Internet at https://
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Specifically address whether this
information collection is necessary for
proper performance of the functions of
the agency and will have practical
utility, accuracy of the burden
estimates, ways to minimize this
burden, and ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected. All
comments received will be available for
examination at the above address
between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT (or
EST), Monday through Friday, except
Federal Holidays. An electronic version
of this document is available on the
World Wide Web at https://
www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp.
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://www.regulations.gov/
search/index.jsp.
Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: August 4, 2008.
Leonard Sutter,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[USCG–2006–24644]
TORP Terminal LP, Bienville Offshore
Energy Terminal Liquefied Natural Gas
Deepwater Port License Application;
Final Application Public Hearing and
Final Environmental Impact Statement
Maritime Administration, DOT.
Notice of availability; notice of
public hearing; 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 TORP Terminal LP, Bienville
Offshore Energy Terminal Liquefied
Natural Gas Deepwater Port license
application. The application describes a
project that would be located in the Gulf
of Mexico, in Main Pass block MP 258,
approximately 63 miles south of Mobile
Point, Alabama. The Coast Guard and
Maritime Administration request public
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comments on the FEIS and application.
Publication of this notice begins a 45
day comment period and provides
information on how to participate in the
process.
DATES: A public hearing will be held in
Mobile, Alabama on August 26, 2008.
The public hearing will be held from 5
p.m. to 7 p.m. and will be preceded by
an open house from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The public hearing may end later than
the stated time, depending on the
number of persons wishing to speak.
Material submitted in response to the
request for comments on the FEIS and
application must reach the Docket
Management Facility by September 22,
2008 ending the 45 day comment
period.
Federal and State agencies must also
submit comments, recommended
conditions for licensing, or letters of no
objection by October 10, 2008 (45 days
after the final public hearing). Also by
October 10, 2008, the Governor of
Alabama (the adjacent coastal state) may
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.
The Maritime Administration must
issue a record of decision (ROD) to
approve, approve with conditions, or
deny the DWP license application by
November 24, 2008 (90 days after the
public hearing).
ADDRESSES: The public hearing in
Mobile will be held at the Mobile
Convention Center, One South Water
Street, Room 203, Mobile, Alabama
36602; telephone: 251–208–2100.
The FEIS, the application, comments
and associated documentation are
available for viewing at the Federal
Docket Management System Web site:
https://www.regulations.gov under
docket number USCG–2006–24644. The
FEIS is also available at public libraries
in Mobile (Ben May Main Library and
Spring Hill College Library), Bayou La
Batre (Mose Hudson Tapia Public
Library), Orange Beach (Orange Beach
Public Library), Daphne (Daphne Public
Library), and Gulf Shores (Thomas B.
Norton Public Library).
Docket submissions for USCG–2006–
24644 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
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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. The public hearing is not
the only opportunity you have to
comment. In addition to or in place of
attending a hearing, 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–2006–24644.
• 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 Web site (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).
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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 26605, Friday,
May 5, 2006. The Notice of Intent to
Prepare an EIS for the proposed action
was published in the Federal Register
in Volume 71 FR 31258, Thursday, June
1, 2006 and the Notice of Availability of
the Draft EIS was published in Volume
72 FR 37074, Friday, July 6, 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
TORP Terminal LP, proposes to own,
construct, and operate a deepwater port,
named Bienville Offshore Energy
Terminal (BOET), in the Federal waters
of the Outer Continental Shelf on Main
Pass block MP 258, approximately 63
miles south of Mobile Point, Alabama,
in a water depth of approximately 425
feet. The BOET Deepwater Port would
be capable of mooring two LNG carriers
of up to approximately 250,000 cubic
meter capacity by means of Single
Anchor Leg Moorings (SALMs).
The LNG carriers would be off loaded
one at a time to HiLoad floating regasification facilities, which use four
submerged shell-and-tube heat
exchangers to vaporize the LNG before
sending natural gas via 14-inch diameter
flexible risers to a Pipeline End
Manifold (PLEM) on the seafloor, then
through a 30-inch diameter pipeline to
the support platform, where the gas will
be metered and further sent via
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interconnecting pipelines to four
existing pipelines (Dauphin Island
Gathering System Feedline, Transco
Feedline, Destin Feedline, and Viosca
Knoll Gathering System Feedline).
The major components of the
proposed deepwater port would be the
Support Platform, two HiLoad floating
LNG transfer and re-gasification units,
two PLEMs with ancillary risers and
terminal pipelines, HiLoad parking line
pilings, and approximately 25 miles of
new subsea pipeline.
BOET will have an average
throughput capacity of 1.2 billion
standard cubic feet per day (Bscfd) of
natural gas. No new onshore pipelines
or LNG storage facilities are proposed
with this action. A shore based facility
will be used to facilitate movement of
personnel, equipment, supplies, and
disposable materials between the
terminal and shore.
Construction of the deepwater port
would be expected to take 30 months;
with startup of commercial operations
in 2011, 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: August 1, 2008.
Leonard Sutter,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping
Requirements; Agency Information
Collection Activity: Under OMB Review
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice
announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below will be forwarded to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comment. The ICR describes
the nature of the information collection
and the expected burden. The Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day comment
period was published on February 4,
2008 (73 FR 6556–6558). No comments
on this notice were received.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before 30 days from the date of
publication.
ADDRESSES: Send comments, within 30
days, to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503,
Attention NHTSA Desk Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Keith D. Williams at the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
Enforcement and Justice Services
Division (NTI–122), 202–366–0543,
1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., W44–231,
Washington, DC 20590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
Title: Demonstration of Speed
Management Programs; Including
Automated and Traditional
Enforcement.
OMB Number: 2127—NEW.
Type of Request: Collection of
information.
Abstract: The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
proposes to conduct a series of
telephone surveys that will examine the
effectiveness of a speed management
research and demonstration program in
the city of Tucson, Arizona. As part of
the program, surveys will be
administered pre and post
implementation of the countermeasure
treatment program to measure
awareness of the program in both
Tucson and an as yet to be selected
comparison community/ies in the State
of Arizona. The pretreatment telephone
surveys would be administered during
the fall-winter 2008/2009 time period
and the post-treatment survey 24
months afterward. The National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
was established to reduce the mounting
number of deaths, injuries, and
economic losses resulting from motor
vehicle crashes on the Nation’s
highways. As part of this statutory
mandate, NHTSA is authorized to
conduct research as a foundation for the
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development of motor vehicle standards
and traffic safety programs. The speed
demonstration project requires NHTSA
to measure whether these initiatives
were effective. The telephone surveys
are instrumental in that measurement.
The telephone surveys will be
administered to a randomly selected
sample of 400 persons pre and post
treatment in the demonstration and
comparison areas to persons age 18 and
older. An essential part of this
evaluation effort is to compare baseline
and post-intervention measures of
attitudes and intervention awareness to
determine if the interventions were
associated with changes on those
indices.
Affected Public: Randomly selected
members of the general public in
telephone households.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
266.67 hours (1,600 interviews
averaging 10 minutes each).
Comments Are Invited On: Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary or the proper performance
of the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; the accuracy of
the Department’s estimate of the burden
of the proposed information collection;
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
A Comment to OMB is most effective if
OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Dated: August 4, 2008.
Jeffrey Michael,
Acting Associate Administrator, Research
and Program Development.
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Internal Revenue Service
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163195–05 (NPRM)]
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request for Regulation Project
Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the
Treasury, as part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[USCG-2006-24644]
TORP Terminal LP, Bienville Offshore Energy Terminal Liquefied
Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application; Final Application
Public Hearing and Final Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of availability; notice of public hearing; 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 TORP Terminal LP, Bienville Offshore Energy Terminal
Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port license application. The
application describes a project that would be located in the Gulf of
Mexico, in Main Pass block MP 258, approximately 63 miles south of
Mobile Point, Alabama. The Coast Guard and Maritime Administration
request public
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comments on the FEIS and application. Publication of this notice begins
a 45 day comment period and provides information on how to participate
in the process.
DATES: A public hearing will be held in Mobile, Alabama on August 26,
2008. The public hearing will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and will be
preceded by an open house from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The public hearing
may end later than the stated time, depending on the number of persons
wishing to speak.
Material submitted in response to the request for comments on the
FEIS and application must reach the Docket Management Facility by
September 22, 2008 ending the 45 day comment period.
Federal and State agencies must also submit comments, recommended
conditions for licensing, or letters of no objection by October 10,
2008 (45 days after the final public hearing). Also by October 10,
2008, the Governor of Alabama (the adjacent coastal state) may 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.
The Maritime Administration must issue a record of decision (ROD)
to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the DWP license
application by November 24, 2008 (90 days after the public hearing).
ADDRESSES: The public hearing in Mobile will be held at the Mobile
Convention Center, One South Water Street, Room 203, Mobile, Alabama
36602; telephone: 251-208-2100.
The FEIS, the application, comments and associated documentation
are available for viewing at the Federal Docket Management System Web
site: https://www.regulations.gov under docket number USCG-2006-24644.
The FEIS is also available at public libraries in Mobile (Ben May Main
Library and Spring Hill College Library), Bayou La Batre (Mose Hudson
Tapia Public Library), Orange Beach (Orange Beach Public Library),
Daphne (Daphne Public Library), and Gulf Shores (Thomas B. Norton
Public Library).
Docket submissions for USCG-2006-24644 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. The public hearing is not the only opportunity you have to
comment. In addition to or in place of attending a hearing, 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-2006-24644.
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 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 FDMS Web site
(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 26605, Friday, May 5, 2006. The Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS
for the proposed action was published in the Federal Register in Volume
71 FR 31258, Thursday, June 1, 2006 and the Notice of Availability of
the Draft EIS was published in Volume 72 FR 37074, Friday, July 6,
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
TORP Terminal LP, proposes to own, construct, and operate a
deepwater port, named Bienville Offshore Energy Terminal (BOET), in the
Federal waters of the Outer Continental Shelf on Main Pass block MP
258, approximately 63 miles south of Mobile Point, Alabama, in a water
depth of approximately 425 feet. The BOET Deepwater Port would be
capable of mooring two LNG carriers of up to approximately 250,000
cubic meter capacity by means of Single Anchor Leg Moorings (SALMs).
The LNG carriers would be off loaded one at a time to HiLoad
floating re-gasification facilities, which use four submerged shell-
and-tube heat exchangers to vaporize the LNG before sending natural gas
via 14-inch diameter flexible risers to a Pipeline End Manifold (PLEM)
on the seafloor, then through a 30-inch diameter pipeline to the
support platform, where the gas will be metered and further sent via
[[Page 46360]]
interconnecting pipelines to four existing pipelines (Dauphin Island
Gathering System Feedline, Transco Feedline, Destin Feedline, and
Viosca Knoll Gathering System Feedline).
The major components of the proposed deepwater port would be the
Support Platform, two HiLoad floating LNG transfer and re-gasification
units, two PLEMs with ancillary risers and terminal pipelines, HiLoad
parking line pilings, and approximately 25 miles of new subsea
pipeline.
BOET will have an average throughput capacity of 1.2 billion
standard cubic feet per day (Bscfd) of natural gas. No new onshore
pipelines or LNG storage facilities are proposed with this action. A
shore based facility will be used to facilitate movement of personnel,
equipment, supplies, and disposable materials between the terminal and
shore.
Construction of the deepwater port would be expected to take 30
months; with startup of commercial operations in 2011, 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
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(Authority 49 CFR 1.66)
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: August 1, 2008.
Leonard Sutter,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-18100 Filed 8-7-08; 8:45 am]
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