[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 218 (Thursday, November 12, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 69959]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28635]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP15-537-000]


DBM Pipeline, LLC; Notice of Withdrawal of Staff Protest to 
Proposed Blanket Certificate Activity

    Commission staff (Protestor) hereby withdraws its Protest to the 
Proposed Blanket Certificate Activity filed in the above-referenced 
proceeding on October 2, 2015.
    In its prior notice request filed on July 27, 2015 (in Docket No. 
CP15-537-000) and noticed on August 6, 2015,\1\ DBM Pipeline, LLC (DBM 
Pipeline) proposed to construct and operate approximately 9 miles of 
20-inch-diameter pipeline in Reeves and Culberson Counties, Texas, and 
Eddy County, New Mexico (Project). Protestor protested the prior notice 
request filed under the provisions of Part 157, subpart F, of the 
Commission's regulations, because DBM Pipeline did not file in its 
application or supplemental filings, the Bureau of Land Management 
comments on the Project and did not provide adequate avoidance plans to 
have no effect on historic properties. In addition DBM Pipeline did not 
provide complete responses to the FERC Environmental Data Request dated 
September 23, 2015.
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    \1\ Notice of the request was published in the Federal Register 
on August 13, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 48520).
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    Protestor notes that on November 3, 2015, DBM Pipeline filed a data 
response with comments from the Texas and New Mexico State Historic 
Preservation Officers (SHPOs), dated June 23, 2015 and October 27, 2015 
respectively, stating that the Project would either have no effect on 
or would avoid historic properties. DBM Pipeline also filed an 
avoidance plan for three cultural resources in New Mexico. 
Additionally, the BLM agreed with the avoidance plan and stated the 
Project would have no effect on historic properties in a letter dated 
November 2, 2015. FERC staff agrees with the Texas and New Mexico SHPOs 
and finds the avoidance plan acceptable. Finally, DBM Pipeline 
submitted complete responses to the FERC Environmental Data Request 
dated September 23, 2015.
    Thus, Protestor's environmental concern has been satisfied. 
Accordingly, Protestor hereby withdraws its Protest to the Proposed 
Blanket Certificate Activity filed in the instant docket on October 2, 
2015.

    Dated: November 4, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-28635 Filed 11-10-15; 8:45 am]
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