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1BNGR states that the mileposts are slightly 

corrected from the earlier proceedings involving 

this line. See Blackwell N. Gateway R.R.—Change 

in Operators Exemption—Okla. Dep’t of Transp. 

and Blackwell Indus. Auth., FD 34777 (STB served 

Nov. 30, 2005) and State of Okla. by and through 

the Okla. Dep’t of Transp. and Blackwell Indus. 

Auth.—Acquis. Exemption—Cent. Kan. Ry., FD 

33492 (STB served Oct. 31, 1997). 

approximately 37.26 miles.1 ODOT 

owns the portions of the Blackwell Line 

extending from milepost 18.32, near 

Hunnewell, Kan., on the Oklahoma/ 

Kansas border, to milepost 35.35 at 

Blackwell, and from milepost 127.0 to 

milepost 126.45 in Blackwell. BIA owns 

the portions of the Blackwell Line 

extending from milepost 0.09 at 

Wellington, to milepost 18.32 at the 

Kansas/Oklahoma border, and from 

milepost 126.45 to milepost 125.0 in 

Blackwell. 

BNGR currently operates the 

Blackwell Lines pursuant to a lease 

agreement with ODOT and BIA. BNGR, 

ODOT, and BIA have agreed to execute 

a First Renewal Track Lease and 

Operating Agreement that will extend 

the terms of the lease for 5 years, 

through November 30, 2015, and will 

also include other changes beyond the 

extension of the lease term. 

BNGR certifies that its projected 

revenues as a result of this transaction 

will not result in the creation of a Class 

II or Class I carrier and will not exceed 

$5 million. 

The transaction is scheduled to be 

consummated on December 1, 2010, the 

effective date of the exemption (30 days 

after the exemption was filed). 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. Petitions to reopen the 

proceeding to revoke the exemption 

under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed 

at any time. The filing of a petition to 

revoke will not automatically stay the 

transaction. 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

35441, must be filed with the Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, a copy of each pleading must 

be served on, Thomas J. Litwiler, 29 

North Wacker Drive, Suite 920, Chicago, 

IL 60606–2832. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at ‘‘http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov.’’ 

Decided: November 10, 2010. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28975 Filed 11–16–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

[USCG–2010–0993] 

Liberty Natural Gas LLC, Liberty 

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) 

Deepwater Port License Application 

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Application. 

SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration 

and the U.S. Coast Guard announce they 

have received an application for the 

licensing of a natural gas deepwater port 

and the application contains the 

required information. This notice 

summarizes the applicant’s plans and 

procedures that will be followed in 

considering the application. 

DATES: The Deepwater Port Act of 1974, 

as amended, requires a public hearing 

on this application within 240 days of 

the publication of this notice, and a 

decision on the application not later 

than 90 days after the final public 

hearing. 

ADDRESSES: The public docket for 

USCG–2010–0993 is maintained by the: 

Department of Transportation, Docket 

Management Facility, West Building, 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC 20590–0001. 

The Federal Docket Management 

Facility accepts hand-delivered 

submissions, and makes docket contents 

available for public inspection and 

copying at this address between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. The Facility 

telephone number is 202–366–9329, the 

fax number is 202–493–2251, and the 

Web site for electronic submissions or 

for electronic access to docket contents 

is http://www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Ray Martin, U.S. Coast Guard, 

telephone: 202–372–1449, e-mail: 

Raymond.W.Martin@uscg.mil or Ms. 

Yvette Fields, Maritime Administration, 

telephone: 202–366–0926, e-mail: 

Yvette.Fields@dot.gov. If you have 

questions on viewing the Docket, call 

Ms. Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, 

Docket Operations, telephone: 202–493– 

0402. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Receipt of Application 

On September 28, 2010, the Maritime 

Administration and U.S. Coast Guard 

received an application from Liberty 

Natural Gas LLC for all Federal 

authorizations required for a license to 

own, construct, and operate a deepwater 

port authorized under the Deepwater 

Port Act of 1974, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 

1501 et seq. (the Act). On November 1, 

2010, we determined the application 

contained all information required by 

the Act to initiate processing. 

Background 

According to the Act, a deepwater 

port is a fixed or floating manmade 

structure other than a vessel, or a group 

of structures, located beyond state 

seaward boundaries and used or 

intended for use as a port or terminal for 

the transportation, storage, and further 

handling of oil or natural gas for 

transportation to any state. 

The Maritime Administrator 

possesses the authority to license a 

deepwater port (by delegation from the 

Secretary of Transportation, published 

on June 18, 2003 (68 FR 36496)). 

Statutory and regulatory requirements 

for licensing appear in 33 U.S.C. 1501 

et seq. and in 33 CFR Part 148. Under 

delegations from, and agreements 

between, the Secretary of Transportation 

and the Secretary of Homeland Security, 

applications are jointly processed by the 

Maritime Administration and U.S. Coast 

Guard. Each application is considered 

on its own merits. 

The Act imposes a strict timeline for 

processing an application. Once we 

determine that an application contains 

the required information, we must hold 

public hearings on the application 

within 240 days, and the Maritime 

Administrator must render a decision 

on the application within 330 days. We 

will publish additional Federal Register 

notices to inform you of these public 

hearings and other procedural 

milestones, including the environmental 

review. The Maritime Administrator’s 

decision, and other key documents, will 

be filed in the public docket. 

At least one public hearing must take 

place in each adjacent coastal state. 

Pursuant to the criteria provided in the 

Act, New Jersey and New York are 

adjacent coastal states for this 

application. Other states may apply for 

adjacent coastal state status in 

accordance with 33 U.S.C. 1508(a)(2). 

Summary of the Application 

Liberty Natural Gas, LLC, proposes to 

own, construct, and operate a natural 

gas deepwater port, known as Liberty 

Deepwater Port. It would be located 

approximately 16 miles off the coast of 

New Jersey to the east of Asbury Park 

in a water depth of approximately 100 

to 120 feet. It will connect via offshore 

pipeline to a 9.2 mile onshore pipeline 

that will traverse through Perth Amboy, 

Woodbridge and Carteret in Middlesex 

County, New Jersey and terminate in 

Linden, Union County, New Jersey. 

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Liberty Deepwater Port would receive 

and transfer natural gas from purposebuild LNG regasification vessels 

(LNGRVs) with a total cargo tank 

capacity of approximately 145,000 m3. 

The vessels would be equipped to 

vaporize LNG cargo to natural gas 

through onboard closed loop 

vaporization systems and to odorize and 

meter gas for send-out by means of a 

Submerged Turret LoadingTM (STL) 

buoy system. When the vessels are not 

present, the buoy would be submerged 

on a special landing pad on the seafloor, 

100–120 feet below the sea surface. The 

top of the buoy would be approximately 

50–70 feet below the surface of the 

water. 

Liberty Deepwater Port would consist 

of up to four STL Buoy systems. Each 

buoy system would connect to an 18- 

inch diameter pipeline, called a Lateral, 

at a pipeline end manifold (PLEM) 

installed on the seafloor. The Laterals 

would be approximately 0.6 miles to 1 

mile in length. Natural gas would flow 

through each Lateral to the 36-inch 

diameter, 44.37 mile long Offshore 

Pipeline. The Offshore Pipeline would 

connect to a 36-inch diameter, 9.2 mile 

long Onshore Pipeline that would 

traverse through Perth Amboy, 

Woodbridge and Carteret in Middlesex 

County, New Jersey and terminate in 

Linden, Union County, New Jersey. The 

Onshore Pipeline would connect to 

Transco and TETCO pipeline systems. 

The Liberty Deepwater Port would be 

installed in two phases, with the first 

two STL Buoy systems and 

accompanying onshore and offshore 

pipeline infrastructure proposed to be 

installed and operational by the end of 

2013. The second phase, consisting of 

an additional pair of STL Buoy systems 

and associated Laterals, would be 

constructed at a later date. 

The Offshore Pipeline ultimately used 

by four STL Buoy systems will have a 

delivery capacity of approximately 2.4 

billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) of 

natural gas. Each LNGRV will have an 

average natural gas delivery capacity of 

600 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/ 

d) with a maximum capacity of 750 

MMcf/d. 

Liberty Natural Gas LLC is currently 

seeking Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (FERC) approval for the 

onshore pipelines. As required by FERC 

regulations, FERC will also maintain a 

docket for the FERC portion of the 

project. The docket number is CP11–10. 

The filing may also be viewed on the 

Web at http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket number 

excluding the last three digits in the 

docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, call (866) 

208–3767 or TYY, (202) 502–8659. 

In addition, the deepwater port 

pipelines and structures, such as the 

STL moorings, may require permits 

under Section 404 of the Clean Water 

Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and 

Harbors Act, which are administered by 

the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

(USACE). 

Liberty Deepwater Port may also 

require permits from the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to the 

provisions of the Clean Air Act, as 

amended, and the Clean Water Act, as 

amended. 

The offshore and onshore pipelines 

will be included in the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

review as part of the deepwater port 

application process. FERC, EPA, and the 

USACE, among others, are cooperating 

agencies and will assist in the NEPA 

process as described in 40 CFR 1501.6; 

will be participating in the scoping 

meetings; and will incorporate the EIS 

into their permitting processes. 

Comments sent to the FERC docket, or 

to the EPA or USACE, will be 

incorporated into the DOT docket and 

considered as the EIS is developed to 

ensure consistency with the NEPA 

Process. 

Should a license be issued, 

construction of the deepwater port 

would be expected to take 

approximately 18 months over a twoyear period with startup of commercial 

operations following construction. The 

deepwater port would be designed, 

constructed and operated in accordance 

with applicable codes and standards. 

Privacy Act 

The electronic form of all comments 

received into the Federal Docket 

Management System 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 DOT 

Privacy Act Statement can be viewed in 

the Federal Register published on April 

11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70, pages 

19477–78) or you may visit http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Authority 49 CFR 

1.66. 

Dated: November 9, 2010. 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Christine Gurland, 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

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BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Termination of Environmental Review 

Process Cities of Chesapeake and 

Virginia Beach, VA 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Termination of environmental 

review process for Southeastern 

Parkway and Greenbelt. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this 

notice to advise the public that the 

environmental review process for 

proposed Southeastern Parkway and 

Greenbelt in the Cities of Chesapeake 

and Virginia Beach, Virginia, is 

terminated. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Edward Sundra, Planning and 

Environment Team Leader, FHWA 

Virginia Division Office, (804) 775– 

3320, Edward.Sundra@dot.gov, 400 

North 8th Street, Suite 750, Richmond, 

VA 23219–4825. Sharon Vaughn-Fair, 

Assistant Chief Counsel, FHWA Eastern 

Legal Services Division, (410) 962–2544, 

Sharon.Vaughn-Fair@dot.gov, 10 S. 

Howard Street, Suite 4000, Baltimore, 

MD 21201. Office hours are from 7:45 

a.m. to 4:15 p.m., e.t., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Electronic 

Access: 

An electronic copy of this notice may 

be downloaded from the Office of the 

Federal Register’s home page at http:// 

www.archives.gov and the Government 

Printing Office’s Web site at http:// 

www.access.gpo.gov. 

Background: 

The FHWA is terminating the 

environmental review process for the 

proposed Southeastern Parkway and 

Greenbelt. This notice terminates the 

environmental process that began when 

the notice of intent was published in the 

Federal Register on Wednesday 

December 24, 2003, at 68 FR 74698. A 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) was prepared for this project and 

a Notice of Availability was published 

in the Federal Register on June 10, 

2005, at 70 FR 33901. 

The identified preferred alternative 

for the proposed project would result in 

a net wetland loss of over 170 acres. 

There is significant resource agency 

opposition to the proposed project. The 

United States Army Corps of Engineers 

have expressed serious concern in their 

July 22, 2005, comment letter on the 

Draft EIS and in subsequent 

coordination meetings. An 

Environmentally Unsatisfactory rating 

was issued by the United States 

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