Liberty Natural Gas LLC, Liberty Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Deepwater Port License Application, 70350-70351 [2010-28881]
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approximately 37.26 miles.1 ODOT
owns the portions of the Blackwell Line
extending from milepost 18.32, near
Hunnewell, Kan., on the Oklahoma/
Kansas border, to milepost 35.35 at
Blackwell, and from milepost 127.0 to
milepost 126.45 in Blackwell. BIA owns
the portions of the Blackwell Line
extending from milepost 0.09 at
Wellington, to milepost 18.32 at the
Kansas/Oklahoma border, and from
milepost 126.45 to milepost 125.0 in
Blackwell.
BNGR currently operates the
Blackwell Lines pursuant to a lease
agreement with ODOT and BIA. BNGR,
ODOT, and BIA have agreed to execute
a First Renewal Track Lease and
Operating Agreement that will extend
the terms of the lease for 5 years,
through November 30, 2015, and will
also include other changes beyond the
extension of the lease term.
BNGR certifies that its projected
revenues as a result of this transaction
will not result in the creation of a Class
II or Class I carrier and will not exceed
$5 million.
The transaction is scheduled to be
consummated on December 1, 2010, the
effective date of the exemption (30 days
after the exemption was filed).
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemption
is void ab initio. Petitions to reopen the
proceeding to revoke the exemption
under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed
at any time. The filing of a petition to
revoke will not automatically stay the
transaction.
An original and 10 copies of all
pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD
35441, must be filed with the Surface
Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20423–0001. In
addition, a copy of each pleading must
be served on, Thomas J. Litwiler, 29
North Wacker Drive, Suite 920, Chicago,
IL 60606–2832.
Board decisions and notices are
available on our Web site at ‘‘https://
www.stb.dot.gov.’’
Decided: November 10, 2010.
By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell,
Director, Office of Proceedings.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[USCG–2010–0993]
Liberty Natural Gas LLC, Liberty
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Deepwater Port License Application
Maritime Administration, DOT.
Notice of Application.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Maritime Administration
and the U.S. Coast Guard announce they
have received an application for the
licensing of a natural gas deepwater port
and the application contains the
required information. This notice
summarizes the applicant’s plans and
procedures that will be followed in
considering the application.
DATES: The Deepwater Port Act of 1974,
as amended, requires a public hearing
on this application within 240 days of
the publication of this notice, and a
decision on the application not later
than 90 days after the final public
hearing.
SUMMARY:
The public docket for
USCG–2010–0993 is maintained by the:
Department of Transportation, Docket
Management Facility, West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., 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: Mr.
Ray Martin, U.S. Coast Guard,
telephone: 202–372–1449, e-mail:
Raymond.W.Martin@uscg.mil or Ms.
Yvette Fields, Maritime Administration,
telephone: 202–366–0926, e-mail:
Yvette.Fields@dot.gov. If you have
questions on viewing the Docket, call
Ms. Renee V. Wright, Program Manager,
Docket Operations, telephone: 202–493–
0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:
Receipt of Application
1 BNGR
states that the mileposts are slightly
corrected from the earlier proceedings involving
this line. See Blackwell N. Gateway R.R.—Change
in Operators Exemption—Okla. Dep’t of Transp.
and Blackwell Indus. Auth., FD 34777 (STB served
Nov. 30, 2005) and State of Okla. by and through
the Okla. Dep’t of Transp. and Blackwell Indus.
Auth.—Acquis. Exemption—Cent. Kan. Ry., FD
33492 (STB served Oct. 31, 1997).
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On September 28, 2010, the Maritime
Administration and U.S. Coast Guard
received an application from Liberty
Natural Gas LLC for all Federal
authorizations required for a license to
own, construct, and operate a deepwater
port authorized under the Deepwater
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Port Act of 1974, as amended, 33 U.S.C.
1501 et seq. (the Act). On November 1,
2010, we determined the application
contained all information required by
the Act to initiate processing.
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.
The Maritime Administrator
possesses the authority to license a
deepwater port (by delegation from 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 jointly processed by the
Maritime Administration and U.S. Coast
Guard. Each application is considered
on its own merits.
The Act imposes 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 the 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.
Pursuant to the criteria provided in the
Act, New Jersey and New York are
adjacent coastal states for this
application. Other states may apply for
adjacent coastal state status in
accordance with 33 U.S.C. 1508(a)(2).
Summary of the Application
Liberty Natural Gas, LLC, proposes to
own, construct, and operate a natural
gas deepwater port, known as Liberty
Deepwater Port. It would be located
approximately 16 miles off the coast of
New Jersey to the east of Asbury Park
in a water depth of approximately 100
to 120 feet. It will connect via offshore
pipeline to a 9.2 mile onshore pipeline
that will traverse through Perth Amboy,
Woodbridge and Carteret in Middlesex
County, New Jersey and terminate in
Linden, Union County, New Jersey.
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Liberty Deepwater Port would receive
and transfer natural gas from purposebuild LNG regasification vessels
(LNGRVs) with a total cargo tank
capacity of approximately 145,000 m3.
The vessels would be equipped to
vaporize LNG cargo to natural gas
through onboard closed loop
vaporization systems and to odorize and
meter gas for send-out by means of a
Submerged Turret LoadingTM (STL)
buoy system. When the vessels are not
present, the buoy would be submerged
on a special landing pad on the seafloor,
100–120 feet below the sea surface. The
top of the buoy would be approximately
50–70 feet below the surface of the
water.
Liberty Deepwater Port would consist
of up to four STL Buoy systems. Each
buoy system would connect to an 18inch diameter pipeline, called a Lateral,
at a pipeline end manifold (PLEM)
installed on the seafloor. The Laterals
would be approximately 0.6 miles to 1
mile in length. Natural gas would flow
through each Lateral to the 36-inch
diameter, 44.37 mile long Offshore
Pipeline. The Offshore Pipeline would
connect to a 36-inch diameter, 9.2 mile
long Onshore Pipeline that would
traverse through Perth Amboy,
Woodbridge and Carteret in Middlesex
County, New Jersey and terminate in
Linden, Union County, New Jersey. The
Onshore Pipeline would connect to
Transco and TETCO pipeline systems.
The Liberty Deepwater Port would be
installed in two phases, with the first
two STL Buoy systems and
accompanying onshore and offshore
pipeline infrastructure proposed to be
installed and operational by the end of
2013. The second phase, consisting of
an additional pair of STL Buoy systems
and associated Laterals, would be
constructed at a later date.
The Offshore Pipeline ultimately used
by four STL Buoy systems will have a
delivery capacity of approximately 2.4
billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) of
natural gas. Each LNGRV will have an
average natural gas delivery capacity of
600 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/
d) with a maximum capacity of 750
MMcf/d.
Liberty Natural Gas LLC is currently
seeking Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) approval for the
onshore pipelines. As required by FERC
regulations, FERC will also maintain a
docket for the FERC portion of the
project. The docket number is CP11–10.
The filing may also be viewed on the
Web 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
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document. For assistance, call (866)
208–3767 or TYY, (202) 502–8659.
In addition, the deepwater port
pipelines and structures, such as the
STL moorings, may require permits
under Section 404 of the Clean Water
Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and
Harbors Act, which are administered by
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE).
Liberty Deepwater Port may also
require permits from the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to the
provisions of the Clean Air Act, as
amended, and the Clean Water Act, as
amended.
The offshore and onshore pipelines
will be included in the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
review as part of the deepwater port
application process. FERC, EPA, and the
USACE, among others, are cooperating
agencies and will assist in the NEPA
process as described in 40 CFR 1501.6;
will be participating in the scoping
meetings; and will incorporate the EIS
into their permitting processes.
Comments sent to the FERC docket, or
to the EPA or USACE, will be
incorporated into the DOT docket and
considered as the EIS is developed to
ensure consistency with the NEPA
Process.
Should a license be issued,
construction of the deepwater port
would be expected to take
approximately 18 months over a twoyear period with startup of commercial
operations following construction. The
deepwater port would be designed,
constructed and operated in accordance
with applicable codes and standards.
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.
Dated: November 9, 2010.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Christine Gurland,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
Termination of Environmental Review
Process Cities of Chesapeake and
Virginia Beach, VA
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Termination of environmental
review process for Southeastern
Parkway and Greenbelt.
AGENCY:
The FHWA is issuing this
notice to advise the public that the
environmental review process for
proposed Southeastern Parkway and
Greenbelt in the Cities of Chesapeake
and Virginia Beach, Virginia, is
terminated.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Edward Sundra, Planning and
Environment Team Leader, FHWA
Virginia Division Office, (804) 775–
3320, Edward.Sundra@dot.gov, 400
North 8th Street, Suite 750, Richmond,
VA 23219–4825. Sharon Vaughn-Fair,
Assistant Chief Counsel, FHWA Eastern
Legal Services Division, (410) 962–2544,
Sharon.Vaughn-Fair@dot.gov, 10 S.
Howard Street, Suite 4000, Baltimore,
MD 21201. Office hours are from 7:45
a.m. to 4:15 p.m., e.t., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Electronic
Access:
An electronic copy of this notice may
be downloaded from the Office of the
Federal Register’s home page at https://
www.archives.gov and the Government
Printing Office’s Web site at https://
www.access.gpo.gov.
Background:
The FHWA is terminating the
environmental review process for the
proposed Southeastern Parkway and
Greenbelt. This notice terminates the
environmental process that began when
the notice of intent was published in the
Federal Register on Wednesday
December 24, 2003, at 68 FR 74698. A
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) was prepared for this project and
a Notice of Availability was published
in the Federal Register on June 10,
2005, at 70 FR 33901.
The identified preferred alternative
for the proposed project would result in
a net wetland loss of over 170 acres.
There is significant resource agency
opposition to the proposed project. The
United States Army Corps of Engineers
have expressed serious concern in their
July 22, 2005, comment letter on the
Draft EIS and in subsequent
coordination meetings. An
Environmentally Unsatisfactory rating
was issued by the United States
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[USCG-2010-0993]
Liberty Natural Gas LLC, Liberty Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Deepwater Port License Application
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of Application.
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SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard announce
they have received an application for the licensing of a natural gas
deepwater port and the application contains the required information.
This notice summarizes the applicant's plans and procedures that will
be followed in considering the application.
DATES: The Deepwater Port Act of 1974, as amended, requires a public
hearing on this application within 240 days of the publication of this
notice, and a decision on the application not later than 90 days after
the final public hearing.
ADDRESSES: The public docket for USCG-2010-0993 is maintained by the:
Department of Transportation, Docket Management Facility, West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
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: Mr. Ray Martin, U.S. Coast Guard,
telephone: 202-372-1449, e-mail: Raymond.W.Martin@uscg.mil or Ms.
Yvette Fields, Maritime Administration, telephone: 202-366-0926, e-
mail: Yvette.Fields@dot.gov. If you have questions on viewing the
Docket, call Ms. Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations,
telephone: 202-493-0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Receipt of Application
On September 28, 2010, the Maritime Administration and U.S. Coast
Guard received an application from Liberty Natural Gas LLC for all
Federal authorizations required for a license to own, construct, and
operate a deepwater port authorized under the Deepwater Port Act of
1974, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1501 et seq. (the Act). On November 1,
2010, we determined the application contained all information required
by the Act to initiate processing.
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.
The Maritime Administrator possesses the authority to license a
deepwater port (by delegation from 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 jointly processed by the Maritime Administration and
U.S. Coast Guard. Each application is considered on its own merits.
The Act imposes 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 the 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. Pursuant to the criteria provided in the Act, New Jersey
and New York are adjacent coastal states for this application. Other
states may apply for adjacent coastal state status in accordance with
33 U.S.C. 1508(a)(2).
Summary of the Application
Liberty Natural Gas, LLC, proposes to own, construct, and operate a
natural gas deepwater port, known as Liberty Deepwater Port. It would
be located approximately 16 miles off the coast of New Jersey to the
east of Asbury Park in a water depth of approximately 100 to 120 feet.
It will connect via offshore pipeline to a 9.2 mile onshore pipeline
that will traverse through Perth Amboy, Woodbridge and Carteret in
Middlesex County, New Jersey and terminate in Linden, Union County, New
Jersey.
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Liberty Deepwater Port would receive and transfer natural gas from
purpose-build LNG regasification vessels (LNGRVs) with a total cargo
tank capacity of approximately 145,000 m\3\. The vessels would be
equipped to vaporize LNG cargo to natural gas through onboard closed
loop vaporization systems and to odorize and meter gas for send-out by
means of a Submerged Turret Loading\TM\ (STL) buoy system. When the
vessels are not present, the buoy would be submerged on a special
landing pad on the seafloor, 100-120 feet below the sea surface. The
top of the buoy would be approximately 50-70 feet below the surface of
the water.
Liberty Deepwater Port would consist of up to four STL Buoy
systems. Each buoy system would connect to an 18-inch diameter
pipeline, called a Lateral, at a pipeline end manifold (PLEM) installed
on the seafloor. The Laterals would be approximately 0.6 miles to 1
mile in length. Natural gas would flow through each Lateral to the 36-
inch diameter, 44.37 mile long Offshore Pipeline. The Offshore Pipeline
would connect to a 36-inch diameter, 9.2 mile long Onshore Pipeline
that would traverse through Perth Amboy, Woodbridge and Carteret in
Middlesex County, New Jersey and terminate in Linden, Union County, New
Jersey. The Onshore Pipeline would connect to Transco and TETCO
pipeline systems.
The Liberty Deepwater Port would be installed in two phases, with
the first two STL Buoy systems and accompanying onshore and offshore
pipeline infrastructure proposed to be installed and operational by the
end of 2013. The second phase, consisting of an additional pair of STL
Buoy systems and associated Laterals, would be constructed at a later
date.
The Offshore Pipeline ultimately used by four STL Buoy systems will
have a delivery capacity of approximately 2.4 billion cubic feet per
day (bcf/d) of natural gas. Each LNGRV will have an average natural gas
delivery capacity of 600 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) with a
maximum capacity of 750 MMcf/d.
Liberty Natural Gas LLC is currently seeking Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval for the onshore pipelines. As
required by FERC regulations, FERC will also maintain a docket for the
FERC portion of the project. The docket number is CP11-10. The filing
may also be viewed on the Web 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, call (866) 208-3767 or TYY, (202) 502-8659.
In addition, the deepwater port pipelines and structures, such as
the STL moorings, may require permits under Section 404 of the Clean
Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, which are
administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
Liberty Deepwater Port may also require permits from the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to the provisions of the
Clean Air Act, as amended, and the Clean Water Act, as amended.
The offshore and onshore pipelines will be included in the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review as part of the deepwater port
application process. FERC, EPA, and the USACE, among others, are
cooperating agencies and will assist in the NEPA process as described
in 40 CFR 1501.6; will be participating in the scoping meetings; and
will incorporate the EIS into their permitting processes. Comments sent
to the FERC docket, or to the EPA or USACE, will be incorporated into
the DOT docket and considered as the EIS is developed to ensure
consistency with the NEPA Process.
Should a license be issued, construction of the deepwater port
would be expected to take approximately 18 months over a two-year
period with startup of commercial operations following construction.
The deepwater port would be designed, constructed and operated in
accordance with applicable codes and standards.
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.
Dated: November 9, 2010.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Christine Gurland,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2010-28881 Filed 11-16-10; 8:45 am]
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