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Dated: June 22, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018–13957 Filed 6–28–18; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket Nos. CP15–550–000, CP15–551–
000, and CP15–551–001]
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Notice of Availability of the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Calcasieu Pass Project;
Venture Global Calcasieu Pass, LLC,
TransCameron Pipeline, LLC
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared a draft
environmental impact statement (EIS)
for the Calcasieu Pass Project, proposed
by Venture Global Calcasieu Pass, LLC
(Venture Global Calcasieu Pass) and
TransCameron Pipeline, LLC
(TransCameron Pipeline) in the abovereferenced dockets. Venture Global
Calcasieu Pass requests authorization to
site, construct, and operate a natural gas
liquefaction and storage facility, and
marine export terminal in Cameron
Parish, Louisiana. TransCameron
Pipeline requests authorization to
construct, install, and operate certain
natural gas pipeline facilities also in
Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The new
liquefaction facilities would have a
design production capacity of 12
million metric ton of liquefied natural
gas (LNG) per annum.
The draft EIS assesses the potential
environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the
Calcasieu Pass Project in accordance
with the requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act. The FERC
staff concludes that approval of the
proposed project would have some
adverse environmental impacts;
however, all of these impacts would be
reduced to less-than-significant levels
with the implementation of Venture
Global Calcasieu Pass’ and
TransCameron Pipeline’s proposed
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mitigation measures and the additional
measures recommended in the draft EIS.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Department of
Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, and U.S. Department of
Transportation participated as
cooperating agencies in the preparation
of the draft EIS. Cooperating agencies
have jurisdiction by law or special
expertise with respect to resources
potentially affected by the proposal and
participate in the National
Environmental Policy Act analysis.
Although the cooperating agencies
provided input on the conclusions and
recommendations presented in the draft
EIS, the agencies will present their own
conclusions and recommendations in
their respective Records of Decision for
the project.
The draft EIS addresses the potential
environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the
following project facilities:
• Nine integrated pre-cooled single
mixed refrigerant (SMR) blocks;
• two full-containment aboveground
LNG storage tanks, each with a usable
capacity of approximately 200,000 cubic
meters;
• a 1,500-foot by 3,000-foot turning
basin adjacent to the Calcasieu River
Ship Channel;
• two LNG berthing docks, each
designed to handle carriers of 120,000 to
210,000 cubic meter cargo capacity;
• a 720 megawatt natural gas-fired
combined cycle gas turbine electric
generation facility;
• approximately 23.4 miles of 42inch-diameter pipeline to bring feed gas
from interconnections with ANR
Pipeline Company, Texas Eastern
Transmission, LP, and Bridgeline
Holdings, LP to the terminal site;
• one meter station;
• three mainline valves; and
• one pig launcher at the meter
station and one pig receiver at the gas
gate station on the terminal site.
The FERC staff mailed copies of the
draft EIS to federal, state, and local
government representatives and
agencies; elected officials;
environmental and public interest
groups; Native American tribes;
potentially affected landowners and
other interested individuals and groups;
libraries in the project area; and parties
to this proceeding. Paper copy versions
of this EIS were mailed to those
specifically requesting them; all others
received a CD version. In addition, the
EIS is available for public viewing on
the FERC’s website (www.ferc.gov) using
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the eLibrary link. A limited number of
hardcopies of the EIS are available for
distribution and public inspection at:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Public Reference Room, 888 First Street
NE, Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426,
(202) 502–8371.
Any person wishing to comment on
the draft EIS may do so. To ensure
consideration of your comments on the
proposal in the draft EIS, it is important
that the Commission receive your
comments on or before 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Time on August 13, 2018.
For your convenience, there are four
methods you can use to submit your
comments with the Commission. The
Commission will provide equal
consideration to all comments received,
whether filed in written form or
provided verbally. The Commission
encourages electronic filing of
comments and has staff available to
assist you at (866) 208–3676 or
FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. Please
carefully follow these instructions so
that your comments are properly
recorded.
(1) You can file your comments
electronically using the eComment
feature located on the Commission’s
website (www.ferc.gov) under the link to
Documents and Filings. This is an easy
method for submitting brief, text-only
comments on a project;
(2) You can also file your comments
electronically using the eFiling feature
on the Commission’s website
(www.ferc.gov) under the link to
Documents and Filings. With eFiling,
you can provide comments in a variety
of formats by attaching them as a file
with your submission. New eFiling
users must first create an account by
clicking on eRegister. You must select
the type of filing you are making. If you
are filing a comment on a particular
project, please select Comment on a
Filing;
(3) You can file a paper copy of your
comments by mailing them to the
following address. Be sure to reference
the project docket numbers (CP15–550–
000, CP15–551–000, and CP15–551–
001) with your submission: Kimberly D.
Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.
(4) In lieu of sending written or
electronic comments, the Commission
invites you to attend the public
comment session its staff will conduct
in the project area to receive comments
on the draft EIS, scheduled as follows:
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Date and time
Location
August 1, 2018 (4:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. CST) .............................................
Cameron Parish School Board, Educational Conference Center, 510
Marshall Street, Cameron, Louisiana 70631, (337) 775–5784.
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The primary goal of this comment
session is to have you identify the
specific environmental issues and
concerns with the draft EIS. Individual
verbal comments will be taken on a oneon-one basis with a court reporter. This
format is designed to receive the
maximum amount of verbal comments,
in a convenient way during the
timeframe allotted.
The comment session is scheduled
from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. CST. You may
arrive at any time after 4 p.m. There will
not be a formal presentation by
Commission staff when the session
opens. If you wish to speak, the
Commission staff will hand out
numbers in the order of your arrival;
distribution of numbers will be
discontinued at 6 p.m. However, if no
additional numbers have been handed
out and all individuals who wish to
provide comments have had an
opportunity to do so, staff may conclude
the session at 6 p.m. Please see
appendix 1 for additional information
on the session format and conduct.1
Your verbal comments will be
recorded by the court reporter (with
FERC staff or representative present)
and become part of the public record for
this proceeding. Transcripts will be
publicly available on FERC’s eLibrary
system (see below for instructions on
using eLibrary). If a significant number
of people are interested in providing
verbal comments in the one-on-one
settings, a time limit of 5 minutes may
be implemented for each commentor.
It is important to note that verbal
comments hold the same weight as
written or electronically submitted
comments. Although there will not be a
formal presentation, Commission staff
will be available throughout the
comment session to answer your
questions about the environmental
review process.
Filing environmental comments will
not give you intervenor status, but you
do not need intervenor status to have
your comments considered. However,
only intervenors have the right to seek
rehearing or judicial review of the
1 The appendices referenced in this notice will
not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of the
appendices were sent to all those receiving this
notice in the mail and are available at www.ferc.gov
using the link called eLibrary or from the
Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888 First
Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, or call (202) 502–
8371. For instructions on connecting to eLibrary,
refer to the last page of this notice.
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Commission’s decisions. Any person
may seek to intervene on environmental
grounds and thereby become a party to
this proceeding by filing a motion to
intervene that complies with the
requirements in Rule 214 of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedures (18 CFR Part 385.214). Any
such intervention must be filed within
the comment period for the draft EIS to
be deemed timely. Motions to intervene
that are filed after the comment due date
for the draft EIS are untimely and may
be denied. Any late-filed motion to
intervene must show good cause why
the time limitation should be waived
and provide justification by reference to
factors set forth in Rule 214(d) of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedures (18 CFR part 385.214(b)(3)
and (d)). The Commission strongly
encourages electronic filing of
interventions in lieu of paper using the
eFiling feature described above, and
available at https://www.ferc.gov. Persons
unable to file electronically may submit
a paper copy of the intervention to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE, Washington, DC
20426.
Questions?
Additional information about the
project is available from the
Commission’s Office of External Affairs,
at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC
website (www.ferc.gov) using the
eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary link,
click on General Search, and enter the
docket number in the Docket Number
field, excluding the last three digits (i.e.,
CP15–550; CP15–551). Be sure you have
selected an appropriate date range. For
assistance, please contact FERC Online
Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov
or toll free at (866) 208–3676; or for
TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. The
eLibrary link also provides access to the
texts of all formal documents issued by
the Commission, such as orders, notices,
and rulemakings.
In addition, the Commission offers a
free service called eSubscription that
allows you to keep track of all formal
issuances and submittals in specific
dockets. This can reduce the amount of
time you spend researching proceedings
by automatically providing you with
notification of these filings, document
summaries, and direct links to the
documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/esubscription.asp.
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Dated: June 22, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018–13958 Filed 6–28–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP18–503–000]
ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of
Request Under Blanket Authorization
Take notice that on June 14, 2018,
ANR Pipeline Company (ANR), 700
Louisiana Street, Suite 700, Houston,
Texas 77002–2700, filed in Docket No.
CP18–503–000 a prior notice request
pursuant to sections 157.205, 157.208,
and 157.216 of the Commission’s
regulations under the Natural Gas Act
(NGA), and ANR’s blanket certificate
issued in Docket No. CP82–480–000, to
abandon 20 injection/withdrawal wells,
one observation well, and related
appurtenances in its Winfield Storage
Field, located in Mecosta and Montcalm
Counties Michigan (Winfield Storage
Field Wells Abandonment Project).
ANR states that the well integrity risk
assessments for these wells revealed
integrity weaknesses, and to maintain
these wells would require some form of
remediation, the cost of which would
likely exceed the cost of plugging, as
well as exceed the value provided by
the wells to storage operations. ANR
claims many of the wells proposed for
abandonment are poor performers in
comparison with other wells in the
Winfield Storage Field, contributing
approximately 2.8 percent of the total
field deliverability. Therefore, ANR
concludes that plugging and abandoning
the wells is the best course of action to
maintain field integrity and efficiency.
ANR affirms that there will be no
change to the field’s total inventory,
reservoir pressure, reservoir and buffer
boundaries, or the certificated capacity
as a result of the proposed Winfield
Storage Field Wells Abandonment
Project. ANR estimates the cost of the
Project to be approximately $2.8
million, all as more fully set forth in the
application which is on file with the
Commission and open to public
inspection. The filing may also be
viewed on the web at https://
www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary link.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket Nos. CP15-550-000, CP15-551-000, and CP15-551-001]
Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement for the Proposed Calcasieu Pass Project; Venture Global
Calcasieu Pass, LLC, TransCameron Pipeline, LLC
The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared a draft environmental impact statement (EIS)
for the Calcasieu Pass Project, proposed by Venture Global Calcasieu
Pass, LLC (Venture Global Calcasieu Pass) and TransCameron Pipeline,
LLC (TransCameron Pipeline) in the above-referenced dockets. Venture
Global Calcasieu Pass requests authorization to site, construct, and
operate a natural gas liquefaction and storage facility, and marine
export terminal in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. TransCameron Pipeline
requests authorization to construct, install, and operate certain
natural gas pipeline facilities also in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The
new liquefaction facilities would have a design production capacity of
12 million metric ton of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per annum.
The draft EIS assesses the potential environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the Calcasieu Pass Project in accordance
with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. The
FERC staff concludes that approval of the proposed project would have
some adverse environmental impacts; however, all of these impacts would
be reduced to less-than-significant levels with the implementation of
Venture Global Calcasieu Pass' and TransCameron Pipeline's proposed
mitigation measures and the additional measures recommended in the
draft EIS.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Department
of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Department of
Transportation participated as cooperating agencies in the preparation
of the draft EIS. Cooperating agencies have jurisdiction by law or
special expertise with respect to resources potentially affected by the
proposal and participate in the National Environmental Policy Act
analysis. Although the cooperating agencies provided input on the
conclusions and recommendations presented in the draft EIS, the
agencies will present their own conclusions and recommendations in
their respective Records of Decision for the project.
The draft EIS addresses the potential environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the following project facilities:
Nine integrated pre-cooled single mixed refrigerant (SMR)
blocks;
two full-containment aboveground LNG storage tanks, each
with a usable capacity of approximately 200,000 cubic meters;
a 1,500-foot by 3,000-foot turning basin adjacent to the
Calcasieu River Ship Channel;
two LNG berthing docks, each designed to handle carriers
of 120,000 to 210,000 cubic meter cargo capacity;
a 720 megawatt natural gas-fired combined cycle gas
turbine electric generation facility;
approximately 23.4 miles of 42-inch-diameter pipeline to
bring feed gas from interconnections with ANR Pipeline Company, Texas
Eastern Transmission, LP, and Bridgeline Holdings, LP to the terminal
site;
one meter station;
three mainline valves; and
one pig launcher at the meter station and one pig receiver
at the gas gate station on the terminal site.
The FERC staff mailed copies of the draft EIS to federal, state,
and local government representatives and agencies; elected officials;
environmental and public interest groups; Native American tribes;
potentially affected landowners and other interested individuals and
groups; libraries in the project area; and parties to this proceeding.
Paper copy versions of this EIS were mailed to those specifically
requesting them; all others received a CD version. In addition, the EIS
is available for public viewing on the FERC's website (www.ferc.gov)
using the eLibrary link. A limited number of hardcopies of the EIS are
available for distribution and public inspection at: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission Public Reference Room, 888 First Street NE, Room
2A, Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8371.
Any person wishing to comment on the draft EIS may do so. To ensure
consideration of your comments on the proposal in the draft EIS, it is
important that the Commission receive your comments on or before 5:00
p.m. Eastern Time on August 13, 2018.
For your convenience, there are four methods you can use to submit
your comments with the Commission. The Commission will provide equal
consideration to all comments received, whether filed in written form
or provided verbally. The Commission encourages electronic filing of
comments and has staff available to assist you at (866) 208-3676 or
[email protected]. Please carefully follow these instructions
so that your comments are properly recorded.
(1) You can file your comments electronically using the eComment
feature located on the Commission's website (www.ferc.gov) under the
link to Documents and Filings. This is an easy method for submitting
brief, text-only comments on a project;
(2) You can also file your comments electronically using the
eFiling feature on the Commission's website (www.ferc.gov) under the
link to Documents and Filings. With eFiling, you can provide comments
in a variety of formats by attaching them as a file with your
submission. New eFiling users must first create an account by clicking
on eRegister. You must select the type of filing you are making. If you
are filing a comment on a particular project, please select Comment on
a Filing;
(3) You can file a paper copy of your comments by mailing them to
the following address. Be sure to reference the project docket numbers
(CP15-550-000, CP15-551-000, and CP15-551-001) with your submission:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.
(4) In lieu of sending written or electronic comments, the
Commission invites you to attend the public comment session its staff
will conduct in the project area to receive comments on the draft EIS,
scheduled as follows:
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Date and time Location
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August 1, 2018 (4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Cameron Parish School Board,
CST). Educational Conference Center,
510 Marshall Street, Cameron,
Louisiana 70631, (337) 775-
5784.
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The primary goal of this comment session is to have you identify
the specific environmental issues and concerns with the draft EIS.
Individual verbal comments will be taken on a one-on-one basis with a
court reporter. This format is designed to receive the maximum amount
of verbal comments, in a convenient way during the timeframe allotted.
The comment session is scheduled from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. CST. You may
arrive at any time after 4 p.m. There will not be a formal presentation
by Commission staff when the session opens. If you wish to speak, the
Commission staff will hand out numbers in the order of your arrival;
distribution of numbers will be discontinued at 6 p.m. However, if no
additional numbers have been handed out and all individuals who wish to
provide comments have had an opportunity to do so, staff may conclude
the session at 6 p.m. Please see appendix 1 for additional information
on the session format and conduct.\1\
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\1\ The appendices referenced in this notice will not appear in
the Federal Register. Copies of the appendices were sent to all
those receiving this notice in the mail and are available at
www.ferc.gov using the link called eLibrary or from the Commission's
Public Reference Room, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, or
call (202) 502-8371. For instructions on connecting to eLibrary,
refer to the last page of this notice.
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Your verbal comments will be recorded by the court reporter (with
FERC staff or representative present) and become part of the public
record for this proceeding. Transcripts will be publicly available on
FERC's eLibrary system (see below for instructions on using eLibrary).
If a significant number of people are interested in providing verbal
comments in the one-on-one settings, a time limit of 5 minutes may be
implemented for each commentor.
It is important to note that verbal comments hold the same weight
as written or electronically submitted comments. Although there will
not be a formal presentation, Commission staff will be available
throughout the comment session to answer your questions about the
environmental review process.
Filing environmental comments will not give you intervenor status,
but you do not need intervenor status to have your comments considered.
However, only intervenors have the right to seek rehearing or judicial
review of the Commission's decisions. Any person may seek to intervene
on environmental grounds and thereby become a party to this proceeding
by filing a motion to intervene that complies with the requirements in
Rule 214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedures (18 CFR
Part 385.214). Any such intervention must be filed within the comment
period for the draft EIS to be deemed timely. Motions to intervene that
are filed after the comment due date for the draft EIS are untimely and
may be denied. Any late-filed motion to intervene must show good cause
why the time limitation should be waived and provide justification by
reference to factors set forth in Rule 214(d) of the Commission's Rules
of Practice and Procedures (18 CFR part 385.214(b)(3) and (d)). The
Commission strongly encourages electronic filing of interventions in
lieu of paper using the eFiling feature described above, and available
at https://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically may
submit a paper copy of the intervention to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426.
Questions?
Additional information about the project is available from the
Commission's Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208-FERC, or on the
FERC website (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary link. Click on the
eLibrary link, click on General Search, and enter the docket number in
the Docket Number field, excluding the last three digits (i.e., CP15-
550; CP15-551). Be sure you have selected an appropriate date range.
For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at
[email protected] or toll free at (866) 208-3676; or for TTY,
contact (202) 502-8659. The eLibrary link also provides access to the
texts of all formal documents issued by the Commission, such as orders,
notices, and rulemakings.
In addition, the Commission offers a free service called
eSubscription that allows you to keep track of all formal issuances and
submittals in specific dockets. This can reduce the amount of time you
spend researching proceedings by automatically providing you with
notification of these filings, document summaries, and direct links to
the documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp.
Dated: June 22, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-13958 Filed 6-28-18; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
