Department of Energy October 1, 2018 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing the adjusted amount of indemnification provided under subsection 170d. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (AEA), commonly known as the Price-Anderson Act. Subsection 170t. of the AEA requires an inflation adjustment of the indemnification amount at least once during each 5-year period following July 1, 2003, in accordance with the aggregate percentage change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) . This notice announces $13,703,464,000 as the third inflation-adjusted indemnification amount based on the aggregate percentage change in the CPI during the 5-year period from July 1, 2013 to July 1, 2018.

The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice (Notice) of receipt of an application (Application), filed on September 14, 2018, by Cheniere Marketing, LLC and Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC (collectively, Corpus Christi). Corpus Christi filed a supplement to the Application on September 24, 2018. The Application requests blanket authorization to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) in an amount up to the equivalent of 767 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas on a cumulative basis over a two-year period commencing on the earlier of the date of first export or December 31, 2018. Corpus Christi seeks to export this LNG from the Corpus Christi Liquefaction Project (Liquefaction Project), which is currently under construction in Corpus Christi, Texas. Corpus Christi requests authorization to export the LNG to any country with the capacity to import LNG via ocean-going carrier and with which trade is not prohibited by U.S. law or policy, including both countries with which the United States has entered into a free trade agreement (FTA) requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas (FTA countries) and all other countries (non-FTA countries). Corpus Christi requests this authorization on its own behalf and as agent for other entities who hold title to the LNG at the time of export. Corpus Christi filed the Application under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA). Additional details can be found in Corpus Christi's Application, posted on the DOE/FE website at: https://www.energy.gov/fe/cheniere-marketing- llc-and-corpus-christi-liquefaction-llc-18-137-lng-3. Protests, motions to intervene, notices of intervention, and written comments are invited.