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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[FE Docket No. 11–141–LNG] 

Carib Energy (USA) LLC; Application 

for Long-Term Authorization To Export 

Domestically Produced Liquefied 

Natural Gas for a 25-Year Period 

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 October 20, 2011 

by Carib Energy (USA) LLC (Carib), 

requesting long-term, multi-contract 

authorization to export up to a total of 

120,000 gallons per day of domestically 

produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) 

(equivalent to approximately 3.44 

Billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas per 

year) over a twenty-five year period, 

commencing on the earlier of the date 

of first export or five years from the date 

the requested authorization is granted. 

The Application states that the LNG 

would be exported from ports of export 

in the southeastern United States, which 

may include Jacksonville, FL, West 

Palm Beach, FL, Miami, FL, Tampa, FL, 

Mobile, AL, Gulfport, MS, Savannah, 

GA, New Orleans, LA, Houston, TX, 

Galveston, TX, and Pensacola, FL, to 

any country with which the United 

States has not entered into a free trade 

agreement (FTA) providing for national 

treatment for trade in natural gas located 

within South America, Central America 

or the Caribbean that has, or in the 

future will have, the capacity to import 

LNG via use of approved ISO IMO7/ 

TVAC–ASME LNG containers (ISO 

containers) transported on ocean-going 

carriers, and with which trade is not 

prohibited by United States law or 

policy. The Application was filed under 

section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), 

as amended by section 201 of the Energy 

Policy Act of 1992. Protests, motions to 

intervene, notices of intervention, and 

written comments are invited. 

DATES: Protests, motions to intervene or 

notices of intervention, as applicable, 

requests for additional procedures, and 

written comments are to be filed using 

procedures detailed in Public Comment 

Procedures below no later than 

4:30 p.m., eastern time, February 27, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: Electronic Filing on the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal under FE 

Docket No. 11–141–LNG: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Electronic Filing by email: 

fergas@hq.doe.gov. 

Regular Mail 

U.S. Department of Energy (FE–34), 

Office of Natural Gas Regulatory 

Activities, Office of Fossil Energy, P.O. 

Box 44375, Washington, DC 20026– 

4375. 

Hand Delivery or Private Delivery 

Services (e.g., FedEx, UPS, etc.) 

U.S. Department of Energy (FE–34), 

Office of Natural Gas Regulatory 

Activities, Office of Fossil Energy, 

Forrestal Building, Room 3E–042, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larine Moore or Marc Talbert, U.S. 

Department of Energy (FE–34), Office 

of Natural Gas Regulatory Activities, 

Office of Fossil Energy, Forrestal 

Building, Room 3E–042, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586– 

9478; (202) 586–7991. 

Edward Myers, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of General Counsel, 

Fossil Energy and Energy Efficiency, 

Forrestal Building, Room 6B–159, 


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1 15 U.S.C. 717b(a). 

2Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC, DOE/FE Order 

2961 (May 20, 2011) at 29. 

3U.S. EIA, Annual Energy Outlook 2011, 

Executive Summary (2011), available at http:// 

www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/pdf/0383(2011).pdf. 

(‘‘2011 EIA Energy Outlook’’). 

4U.S. EIA, Annual Energy Outlook 2010 135, 

Table A–14 (2010), available at http:// 

www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/pdf/0383(2010.pdf. 

5 2011 EIA Energy Outlook at Table 8. 

1000 Independence Ave. SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586– 

3397. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Carib is a Delaware limited liability 

company with its principal place of 

business in Coral Springs, Florida. Stock 

in Carib is held equally by Everything 

for Gas International LLC d/b/a EFG 

Industries, a Florida limited liability 

company based in Coral Springs, 

Florida (EFG) and Argosy 

Transportation Group Inc., a Texas 

limited liability company based in 

Bellaire, Texas (Argosy). The 

Application states that EFG has more 

than 31 years experience in the 

liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) industry 

on an international level, engineering, 

designing, and installing LPG plant, 

terminals, and transporters, and 

supplying LPG equipment, including 

storage and transportation tanks. The 

Application further states that Argosy is 

an asset-based marine transport 

company specializing in solutions for 

shippers of break-bulk, heavy-lift and 

project cargo and that its management 

has more than 30 combined years 

experience in the marine transportation 

industry. On July 27, 2011, DOE/FE 

issued Order No. 2993, which granted 

Carib long-term, multi-contract 

authorization to export domestically 

produced LNG in an amount up to the 

equivalent of 11.53 Bcf of natural gas 

per year over a twenty-five year period 

to nations in Central America, South 

America, or the Caribbean with which 

the United States has entered into FTAs 

providing for the national treatment for 

trade in natural gas. The authorization 

issued in Order No. 2993 is to 

commence on the earlier of the date of 

first export or July 27, 2016. 

Current Application 

In the instant Application, Carib seeks 

long-term, multi-contract authorization 

to export domestically produced LNG 

up to the equivalent of 3.44 Bcf of 

natural gas per year for a period of 

twenty-five years beginning on the 

earlier of the date of first export or five 

years from the date the authorization is 

granted by DOE/FE. Carib requests that 

such long-term authorization provide 

for export from ports of export in the 

southeastern Unites States, which may 

include Jacksonville, FL, West Palm 

Beach, FL, Miami, FL, Tampa, FL, 

Mobile, AL, Gulfport, MS, Savannah, 

GA, New Orleans, LA, Houston, TX, 

Galveston, TX, and Pensacola, FL, to 

any country located within South 

America, Central America, or the 

Caribbean with which the United States 

has not entered into an FTA providing 

for the national treatment for trade in 

natural gas that has, or in the future will 

have, the capacity to import LNG via 

use of approved ISO LNG containers 

transported on ocean-going carriers, and 

with which trade is not prohibited by 

United States law or policy. Carib states 

that the source of natural gas supply to 

be exported will be the robust and 

liquid United States natural gas market. 

In its Application, Carib requests 

approval of exports to non-FTA 

countries of LNG purchased under the 

purchase and sale arrangement 

described in the Letter of Intent (LOI) 

included as Appendix C to this 

Application. The LOI describes the term 

of the proposed arrangement, the 

counter-party, the maximum yearly gas 

volumes to be purchased, and the 

facility from which the LNG will be 

delivered (Facility), as well as a 

commitment from the counter-party that 

no Facility modifications or additions to 

the Facility will be required in order for 

the Facility to deliver LNG to Carib and 

for Carib to export LNG from the United 

States under the arrangement described 

in the LOI. Carib states that it will file 

the Master Agreement and any 

Transaction Confirmations, as defined 

in the LOI, with the DOE/FE under seal 

following their execution. Carib expects 

to begin exporting LNG under the 

Master Agreement and Transaction 

Confirmations by the first quarter of 

2012. 

The Application states that Carib 

plans to transport the LNG proposed for 

export from the Facility to the 

destination port over highways in 40- 

foot ISO containers that comply with all 

United States Department of 

Transportation regulations. Carib 

affirms that the third parties with which 

it will contract to handle transportation 

will comply with all Required Permits, 

including but not limited to any federal, 

state, and local permits relating to 

hazardous material and cryogenic 

handling regulations and requirements. 

Additionally, the Application states that 

all ISO containers will be tracked from 

the time of loading until delivery by a 

proprietary GPS tracking system. 

According to the Application, 

deliveries from the Facility will take 

place throughout the year on a daily 

basis, spaced roughly equally, such that 

deliveries in any one day would not 

vary extremely from others. The 

Application states that physical 

limitations at the Facility ensure that 

will be the case and that, currently, no 

more than 120,000 gallons of LNG can 

be loaded from the Facility per day. 

Carib states that each container that it 

plans to use for LNG transport has a 

capacity of 10,200 gallons. Carib further 

states that truck traffic from the Facility 

under this arrangement, therefore, will 

be limited to no more than eleven trucks 

per day, or less than one truck per hour 

over a twelve-hour period. 

Public Interest Considerations 

In support of its Application, Carib 

states that pursuant to section 3 of the 

NGA, FE must authorize exports to a 

foreign country unless there is a finding 

that such exports ‘‘will not be consistent 

with the public interest.’’ 1 Carib states 

further, in evaluating an export 

application, FE applies the principles 

described in DOE Delegation Order No. 

0204–111 which states that domestic 

need for natural gas shall be the primary 

focus of DOE when evaluating an export 

application.2

Carib states that United States 

consumers currently have access to 

substantial quantities of natural gas, as 

a result of, among other things, 

technological advances that have 

allowed for development of previously 

undeveloped reserves of domestic shale 

gas.3 The Annual Energy Outlook 2010, 

prepared by the U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), forecasted shale 

gas production to increase to 2.85 Tcf by 

2015 and 6.0 Tcf by 2035, representing 

5.3% annual growth from 2008–2035.4

EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2011 

more than doubled its estimate of 

technically recoverable shale gas 

reserves, and doubled its projected shale 

gas production to 12.0 Tcf by 2035.5

Carib further states that large volumes of 

domestic shale gas reserves and its 

development and extraction, as well as 

continued low productions costs, will 

enable the United States to develop 

significant quantities of natural gas and 

LNG, which will be able to meet 

domestic demand for decades to come, 

and, as a result, also will provide an 

over-capacity of natural gas and LNG 

that would be available for export. 

Carib states that it expects that its 

export of domestic LNG will encourage 

the development of jobs in the United 

States. Qualified domestic 

transportation companies will be used 

to transport the LNG from each Facility 

to port, thereby supporting those 


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businesses. Carib also states that as a 

growing company, it will also be 

creating jobs as its marketing and sale of 

LNG to new markets increases its need 

for additional sales and administrative 

staff. 

Carib states that because the requested 

exports will have minimal effect on 

domestic natural gas supply based on 

current projections, and the DOE/FE has 

retained the ability to address changes 

in the domestic gas supply, if, in the 

future, there are unexpected changed 

circumstances, granting this Application 

for the requested term is consistent with 

the public interest. 

Environmental Impact 

Carib states that no modifications to 

the Facility would be required in order 

for it to export LNG, and accordingly, 

under Categorical Exclusion B5.7 of the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), approval of this Application 

would not constitute a federal action 

significantly affecting the human 

environment within the meaning of 

NEPA. 

DOE/FE Evaluation 

This export Application will be 

reviewed pursuant to section 3(a) of the 

NGA, as amended, and the authority 

contained in DOE Delegation Order No. 

00–002.00L (April 29, 2011) and DOE 

Redelegation Order No. 00–002.04E 

(April 29, 2011). In reviewing this LNG 

export Application, DOE will consider 

domestic need for the natural gas, as 

well as any other issues determined to 

be appropriate, including whether the 

arrangement is consistent with DOE’s 

policy of promoting competition in the 

marketplace by allowing commercial 

parties to freely negotiate their own 

trade arrangements. Parties that may 

oppose this Application should 

comment in their responses on these 

issues. 

NEPA requires DOE to give 

appropriate consideration to the 

environmental effects of its proposed 

decisions. No final decision will be 

issued in this proceeding until DOE has 

met its NEPA responsibilities. 

Public Comment Procedures 

In response to this notice, any person 

may file a protest, comments, or a 

motion to intervene or notice of 

intervention, as applicable. Any person 

wishing to become a party to the 

proceeding must file a motion to 

intervene or notice of intervention, as 

applicable. The filing of comments or a 

protest with respect to the Application 

will not serve to make the commenter or 

protestant a party to the proceeding, 

although protests and comments 

received from persons who are not 

parties will be considered in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken on the Application. All protests, 

comments, motions to intervene or 

notices of intervention must meet the 

requirements specified by the 

regulations in 10 CFR part 590. 

Filings may be submitted using one of 

the following methods: (1) Submitting 

comments in electronic form on the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, by following the 

on-line instructions and submitting 

such comments under FE Docket No. 

11–141–LNG. DOE/FE suggests that 

electronic filers carefully review 

information provided in their 

submissions and include only 

information that is intended to be 

publicly disclosed; (2) emailing the 

filing to fergas@hq.doe.gov with FE 

Docket No. 11–141–LNG in the title 

line; (3) mailing an original and three 

paper copies of the filing to the Office 

Natural Gas Regulatory Activities at the 

address listed in ADDRESSES; or (4) hand 

delivering an original and three paper 

copies of the filing to the Office of 

Natural Gas Regulatory Activities at the 

address listed in ADDRESSES. 

A decisional record on the 

Application will be developed through 

responses to this notice by parties, 

including the parties’ written comments 

and replies thereto. Additional 

procedures will be used as necessary to 

achieve a complete understanding of the 

facts and issues. A party seeking 

intervention may request that additional 

procedures be provided, such as 

additional written comments, an oral 

presentation, a conference, or trial-type 

hearing. Any request to file additional 

written comments should explain why 

they are necessary. Any request for an 

oral presentation should identify the 

substantial question of fact, law, or 

policy at issue, show that it is material 

and relevant to a decision in the 

proceeding, and demonstrate why an 

oral presentation is needed. Any request 

for a conference should demonstrate 

why the conference would materially 

advance the proceeding. Any request for 

a trial-type hearing must show that there 

are factual issues genuinely in dispute 

that are relevant and material to a 

decision and that a trial-type hearing is 

necessary for a full and true disclosure 

of the facts. 

If an additional procedure is 

scheduled, notice will be provided to all 

parties. If no party requests additional 

procedures, a final Opinion and Order 

may be issued based on the official 

record, including the Application and 

responses filed by parties pursuant to 

this notice, in accordance with 10 CFR 

590.316. 

The Application filed by Carib is 

available for inspection and copying in 

the Office of Natural Gas Regulatory 

Activities docket room, Room 3E–042, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. To the extent 

that FE determines that certain material 

included with the Application is 

confidential information not appropriate 

for release to the general public, 

procedures will be established on 

request from intervenors to make that 

information available for their 

inspection. The docket room is open 

between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The Application and 

any filed protests, motions to intervene 

or notice of interventions, and 

comments will also be available 

electronically by going to the following 

DOE/FE Web address: http:// 

www.fe.doe.gov/programs/ 

gasregulation/index.html. In addition, 

any electronic comments filed will also 

be available at: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on December 

19, 2011. 

John A. Anderson, 

Manager, Natural Gas Regulatory Activities, 

Office of Oil and Gas Global Security and 

Supply, Office of Fossil Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2011–33168 Filed 12–23–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Northern New 

Mexico 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB), Northern New 

Mexico. The Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 

770) requires that public notice of this 

meeting be announced in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: Thursday, January 5, 2012, 3 

p.m.–7 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Cities of Gold Conference 

Center, 10–A Cities of Gold Road, Santa 

Fe, New Mexico 87506. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Menice Santistevan, Northern New 

Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board 

(NNMCAB), 1660 Old Pecos Trail, Suite 

B, Santa Fe, NM 87505. Phone (505) 

995–0393; Fax (505) 989–1752 or Email: 

msantistevan@doeal.gov. 


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