[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 72 (Thursday, April 14, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22206-22207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07984]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP21-44-000]
LA Storage, LLC; Notice of Availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Hackberry Storage
Project
The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared a final environmental impact statement (EIS)
for the Hackberry Storage Project (Project), proposed by LA Storage,
LLC (LA Storage) in the above-referenced docket. LA Storage requests
authorization to construct and operate natural gas storage and
transmission facilities in Louisiana. The Project is designed to
provide 20.03 billion cubic feet of working gas storage capacity and
1.5 billion cubic feet per day of gas deliverability and injectability,
and interconnecting with the Cameron Interstate Pipeline (CIP)
facilities operated by Cameron Interstate Pipeline, LLC and the Port
Arthur Pipeline Louisiana Connector (PAPLC) facilities to be operated
by Port Arthur Pipeline, LLC.
The final EIS assesses the potential environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the Project in accordance with the
requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. FERC staff
concludes that approval of the proposed Project, with the mitigation
measures recommended in the EIS, would result in some adverse
environmental impacts; however, with the exception of climate change
impacts, those impacts would not be significant. The EIS does not
characterize the Project's greenhouse gas emissions as significant or
insignificant because the Commission is conducting a generic proceeding
to determine whether and how the Commission will conduct climate change
significance determinations going forward.\1\
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\1\ Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Natural Gas
Infrastructure Project Reviews, 178 FERC ] 61,108 (2022); 178 FERC ]
61,197 (2022).
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The final EIS addresses the potential environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the following Project facilities: The
Project would involve the conversion of three existing salt dome
caverns to natural gas storage service and the development of one new
salt dome cavern for additional natural gas storage service, all within
a permanent natural gas storage facility on a 160-acre tract of land
owned by LA Storage in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. In addition to the
storage caverns, LA Storage would construct and operate on-site
compression facilities (Pelican Compressor Station) and up to six
solution mining water supply wells at the storage facility on LA
Storage's property. LA Storage would also construct and operate the
following natural gas facilities in Cameron and Calcasieu Parishes,
Louisiana: The Hackberry Pipeline, consisting of approximately 11.1
miles of 42-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline connecting the
certificated PAPLC pipeline (CP18-7) to the natural gas storage
caverns; the CIP Lateral, an approximately 4.9-mile-long, 42-inch-
diameter natural gas pipeline extending from the existing CIP to the
planned natural gas storage caverns; metering and regulating at the CIP
and PAPLC interconnects; and an approximately 6.2-mile-long, 16-inch-
diameter brine disposal pipeline that would transport brine from the
caverns to four saltwater disposal wells located on two new pads north
of the facility.
The Commission mailed a copy of the Notice of Availability of the
Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Hackberry Storage
Project to federal, state, and local government representatives and
agencies; local libraries; newspapers; elected officials; Native
American Tribes; and other interested parties. The final EIS is only
available in electronic format. It may be viewed and downloaded from
the FERC's website (www.ferc.gov), on the natural gas environmental
documents page (https://www.ferc.gov/industries-data/natural-gas/environment/environmental-documents). In addition, the final EIS may be
accessed by using the eLibrary link on the FERC's website. Click on the
eLibrary link (https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/search) select
``General Search'' and enter the docket number in the ``Docket Number''
field (i.e., CP21-44-000). 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.
Additional information about the Project is available from the
Commission's Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208-FERC, or on the
FERC
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website (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary link. 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 https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/overview to
register for eSubscription.
Dated: April 8, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-07984 Filed 4-13-22; 8:45 am]
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