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1Bear Head states that Bear Head Corp. is a 

Canadian company incorporated pursuant to the 

laws of Nova Scotia, and that Bear Head (USA) is 

a Delaware limited liability company. Both have 

their principal place of business in Houston, Texas, 

and both are wholly-owned indirect subsidiaries of 

Liquefied Natural Gas Limited, a publicly listed 

Australian company based in Perth, Australia. 2Bear Head refers to this requested authorization 

as the ‘‘NG Authorization.’’ Bear Head states that 

the M&N Pipeline is operated by Maritimes & 

Northeast Pipeline, L.L.C. in the United States and 

by its Canadian pipeline affiliate, Maritimes & 

Northeast Pipeline Limited Partnership, in Canada. 3See Application at 1 n.3 (‘‘approximately 42.4 

Bcf/y of the natural gas volume proposed to be 

exported will be consumed in Canada and not 

exported as LNG [liquefied natural gas]’’); id. at 12 

(description of project). 

4 In the Application, Bear Head also requests 

authorization to export U.S.-sourced LNG to any 

nation that currently has, or in the future may enter 

into, a FTA requiring national treatment for trade 

in natural gas (FTA countries). DOE/FE will review 

Bear Head’s request for a FTA export authorization 

separately pursuant to NGA § 3(c), 15 U.S.C. 

717b(c). Additionally, on January 23, 2015, Bear 

Head filed a separate application with DOE/FE 

requesting authorization to access certain Canadian 

natural gas supplies, in a volume up to 250 Bcf/yr, 

that it states must flow through the United States 

due to the configuration of existing North American 

pipeline infrastructure. Application at 2–3 n.7. Bear 

Head refers to this requested authorization as the 

‘‘Canadian NG authorization.’’ Id. That application 

is pending before DOE/FE in FE Docket No. 15–14– 

NG, and is the subject of a notice being published 

in the Federal Register concurrently with this 

Notice. 

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Dated: April 10, 2015. 

Deborah S. Delisle, 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08681 Filed 4–15–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Methane Hydrate 

Advisory Committee. The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 86 Stat.770) requires that notice of 

these meetings be announced in the 

Federal Register. 

DATES: Thursday, May 7, 2015, 12:45 

p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (EDT)—Registration, 

1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (EDT)—Meeting. 

ADDRESSES: U.S. Department of Energy, 

Forrestal Building, Room 3G–043, 1000 

Independence Ave. SW., Washington, 

DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lou 

Capitanio, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Office of Oil and Natural Gas, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. Phone: (202) 

586–5098. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Committee: The 

purpose of the Methane Hydrate 

Advisory Committee is to provide 

advice on potential applications of 

methane hydrate to the Secretary of 

Energy, and assist in developing 

recommendations and priorities for the 

Department of Energy’s Methane 

Hydrate Research and Development 

Program. 

Tentative Agenda: The agenda will 

include: Welcome and Introduction by 

the Designated Federal Officer; 

Committee Business; Report by the 

Chair regarding recommendations to the 

Secretary; Update on gas hydrate 

research activity including FY 2015 

research initiatives and plans; Alaska 

update; Advisory Committee 

Discussion; and Public Comments, if 

any. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. The Designated 

Federal Officer and the Chair of the 

Committee will conduct the meeting to 

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written statement with the Committee, 

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for an oral statement at least five 

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include the presentation on the agenda. 

Public comment will follow the threeminute rule. 

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advisory-committees/methane-hydrateadvisory-committee. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on April 10, 

2015. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08798 Filed 4–15–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[FE Docket No. 15–33–LNG] 

Bear Head LNG Corporation and Bear 

Head LNG (USA), LLC; Application for 

Long-Term, Multi-Contract 

Authorization To Export Domestically 

Produced Natural Gas Through 

Canada to Non-Free Trade Agreement 

Countries After Liquefaction for a 25- 

Year Term 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Fossil Energy 

(FE) of the Department of Energy (DOE) 

gives notice of receipt of an application 

(Application), filed on February 25, 

2015, by Bear Head LNG Corporation 

and Bear Head LNG (USA), LLC 

(collectively, Bear Head),1 requesting 

long-term, multi-contract authorization 

to export domestically produced natural 

gas as follows: (i) To export the natural 

gas by pipeline to Canada at the United 

States-Canada border (at a point near 

Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New 

Brunswick, respectively) on the 

Maritimes & Northeast (M&N) Pipeline 

in a volume of 440 billion cubic feet per 

year (Bcf/yr), or approximately 1.2 Bcf 

per day (Bcf/d); 2 (ii) to use 

approximately 42.4 Bcf/yr of the U.S.- 

sourced natural gas as feedstock in a 

Canadian natural gas liquefaction and 

export facility currently being 

developed by Bear Head within the 

Point Tupper/Bear Head Industrial Park 

near the town of Port Hawksbury, on the 

Straight of Canso, in Richmond County, 

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada 

(Project); 3 and (iii) to export a portion 

of the U.S.-sourced natural gas in the 

form of LNG in a volume equivalent to 

approximately 397.6 Bcf/yr of natural 

gas (1.1 Bcf/d) by vessel from Nova 

Scotia, Canada, to one or more countries 

with which the United States does not 

have a free trade agreement (FTA) 

requiring national treatment for trade in 

natural gas and with which trade is not 

prohibited by U.S. law or policy (nonFTA countries).4 Only Bear Head’s 

proposed export of LNG produced from 

U.S-sourced natural gas to non-FTA 

countries is subject to this Notice. Bear 

Head states that its proposed Project and 

LNG exports will not involve the 

construction of any facilities in the 


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