[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 
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    Dated: April 8, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-07984 Filed 4-13-22; 8:45 am]
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