[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 163 (Thursday, August 21, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 49534]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-19414]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 6327]


Notice of Receipt of Application for a Presidential Permit To 
Operate and Maintain Pipeline Facilities on the Border of the United 
States

    Notice is hereby given that the Department of State has received an 
application from Razorback L.L.C. for a Presidential permit, pursuant 
to Executive Order 13337 of April 30, 2004, to operate and maintain two 
pipelines for transporting petroleum products from Brownsville, Texas, 
to Matamoros, Mexico (``Matamoros pipelines''), crossing the 
international boundary line between the United States and Mexico at a 
point near Brownsville, Texas. On July 26, 1999, the Department of 
State (the ``Department''), acting pursuant to delegated authority, 
issued a Presidential permit to the Penn Octane Corporation (``Penn 
Octane''), a California corporation with its principal place of 
business in Redmond, California, to ``construct, maintain and operate'' 
the Matamoros pipelines. According to the application, Rio Vista 
Operating Partnership L.P. (``Rio Vista'') was the successor in 
interest to Penn Octane and Razorback acquired the Matamoros pipelines 
from Rio Vista on December 31, 2007, as part of a large asset 
acquisition.
    According to the application, Razorback is a Delaware Limited 
liability company doing business in Texas as Diamondback Pipeline 
L.L.C. and is engaged in the interstate and intrastate transportation 
of liquid petroleum products by pipeline. Also, according to the 
application, Razorback is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of 
TransMontaigne Partners, L.P., a Delaware Limited Partnership. 
Razorback has, in written correspondence to the Department of State, 
committed to abide by the relevant terms and conditions of the permit 
previously issued by the Department to Penn Octane. Further, Razorback 
indicates in that correspondence that there have been no substantial 
changes in the operations of the Matamoros pipelines from those 
originally authorized by the Department and further states that the 
future operation of the pipeline will remain essentially unchanged from 
that previously permitted. Therefore, in accordance with 22 CFR 
161.7(b)(3) and the Department's Procedures for Issuance of a 
Presidential Permit Where There Has Been a Transfer of the Underlying 
Facility, Bridge or Border Crossing for Land Transportation (70 FR 
30990, May 31, 2005), the Department of State does not intend to 
conduct an environmental review of the application unless information 
is brought to its attention that the transfer potentially would have a 
significant impact on the quality of the human environment.
    As required by E.O. 13337, the Department of State is circulating 
this application to concerned federal agencies for comment.

DATES: Interested parties are invited to submit, in duplicate, comments 
relative to this proposal on or before September 22, 2008 to J. Brian 
Duggan, Office of International Energy and Commodities Policy, 
Department of State, Washington, DC 20520. The application and related 
documents that are part of the record to be considered by the 
Department of State in connection with this application are available 
for inspection in the Office of International Energy and Commodities 
Policy during normal business hours.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. Brian Duggan, Office of 
International Energy and Commodity Policy (EB/ESC/IEC/EPC), Department 
of State, Washington, DC 20520; or by telephone at (202) 647-1291; or 
by e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated: August 15, 2008.
Stephen J. Gallogly,
Director, Office of International Energy and Commodity Policy, 
Department of State.
[FR Doc. E8-19414 Filed 8-20-08; 8:45 am]
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