[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 85 (Friday, May 1, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25507-25508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-09302]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD-2019-0011]
Deepwater Port License Application: SPOT Terminal Services LLC;
Correction and Comment Period Extension
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice of Correction and Extension of the Public Comment
Period.
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SUMMARY: By Federal Register notice of Friday, February 7, 2020, titled
Deepwater Port License Application: SPOT Terminal Services LLC, the
U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), in coordination with the Maritime
Administration (MARAD), announced the availability of the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the SPOT Terminal Services
LLC (SPOT) deepwater port license application for the export of oil
from the United States to nations abroad. Publication of that notice
began a 45-day public comment period, which began on February 7, 2020
and ended on March 23, 2020. On April 28, 2020, the same notice was
inadvertently published in the Federal Register. Additionally, both
notices announced the date and location of an informational open house
and public meeting that was held in Lake Jackson, Texas, on February
26, 2020, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and was preceded by an open
house from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. However, nationwide impacts of the
public health emergency under section 319 of the Public Health Services
Act in response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the President's
declaration of a national emergency due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and
state and local actions in response to COVID-19, have impacted the
public's ability to assemble and provide feedback on the SPOT deepwater
port license application DEIS. Therefore, this notice supplants the
April 28, 2020 notice and extends the public comment period for the
SPOT DEIS 30-days from the publication date of this Federal Register
notice.
DATES: Comments or related material on the SPOT deepwater port license
application must be received 30 days from the date of this notice.
ADDRESSES: The public docket for the SPOT deepwater port license
application is maintained by the U.S. Department of Transportation,
Docket Management Facility, West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. The license
application is available for viewing at the Regulations.gov website:
http://www.regulations.gov under docket number MARAD-2019-0011.
We encourage you to submit comments electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov. If you submit
your comments electronically, it is not necessary to also submit a hard
copy. If you cannot submit material using http://www.regulations.gov,
please contact either Mr. William Nabach, USCG or Yvette Fields, MARAD,
as listed in the following FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document, which also provides alternate instructions for
submitting written comments. Additionally, if you go to the online
docket and sign up for email alerts, you will be notified when comments
are posted. Anonymous comments will be accepted. All comments received
will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov and will
include any personal information you have provided. The Federal Docket
Management Facility's telephone number is 202-366-9317 or 202-366-9826,
the fax number is 202-493-2251.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. William Nabach, Project Manager,
USCG, telephone: 202-372-1437, email: [email protected]; or
Ms. Yvette Fields, Director, Office of Deepwater Port Licensing and
Port Conveyance, MARAD, telephone: 202-366-0926, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Comments
We request public comment on this proposal. The comments may relate
to, but are not limited to, the environmental impact of the proposed
action. All comments will be accepted. You may submit comments directly
to the Federal Docket Management Facility during the public comment
period (see Dates). We will consider all comments and material received
during the extended scoping period.
The license application, comments and associated documentation, as
well as the draft and final EISs (when published), are available for
viewing at the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) website: http://www.regulations.gov under docket number MARAD-2019-0011.
Public comment submissions should include:
Docket number MARAD-2019-0011.
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Your name and address.
Submit comments or material using only one of the following
methods:
Electronically (preferred for processing) to the Federal
Docket Management System (FDMS) website: http://www.regulations.gov
under docket number MARAD-2019-0011.
By mail to the Federal Docket Management Facility (MARAD-
2019-0011, U.S. Department of Transportation, West Building, Ground
Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-
0001.
Personal deliveries are currently not being accepted due
to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
By fax to the Federal Docket Management Facility at 202-
493-2251.
Faxed or mail submissions must be unbound, no larger than 8\1/2\ by
11 inches and suitable for copying and electronic scanning. The format
of electronic submissions should also be no larger than 8\1/2\ by 11
inches. If you mail your submission and want to know when it reaches
the Federal Docket Management Facility, please include a stamped, self-
addressed postcard or envelope.
Regardless of the method used for submitting comments, all
submissions will be posted, without change, to the FDMS website (http://www.regulations.gov) and will include any personal information you
provide. Therefore, submitting this information to the docket makes it
public. You may wish to read the Privacy and Use Notice that is
available on the FDMS website and the Department of Transportation
Privacy Act Notice that appeared in the Federal Register on April 11,
2000 (65 FR 19477), see Privacy Act. You may view docket submissions at
the Federal Docket Management Facility or electronically on the FDMS
website.
Privacy Act
The electronic form of all comments received into the FDMS 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 Department of Transportation Privacy
Act Statement can be viewed in the Federal Register published on April
11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70, pages 19477-78) or by visiting http://www.regulations.gov.
(Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1501, et seq., 49 CFR 1.93(h)).
Dated: April 28, 2020.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2020-09302 Filed 4-30-20; 8:45 am]
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