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1A ‘‘pig’’ is a tool that the pipeline company 

inserts into and pushes through the pipeline for 

cleaning the pipeline, conducting internal 

inspections, or other purposes. 

2The appendices referenced in this notice will 

not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of the 

appendices were sent to all those receiving this 

notice in the mail and are available at www.ferc.gov 

using the link called ‘‘eLibrary’’ or from the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888 First 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call (202) 

502–8371. For instructions on connecting to 

eLibrary, refer to the last page of this notice. 

Dated: January 21, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01475 Filed 1–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF15–2–000] 

Venture Global Calcasieu Pass, LLC; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Planned Calcasieu Pass Project, 

and Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues, and Notice of 

Public Scoping Meeting 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

that will discuss the environmental 

impacts of the Calcasieu Pass Project 

involving construction and operation of 

LNG export facilities by Venture Global 

Calcasieu Pass, LLC (Venture Global) in 

Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The 

Commission will use this EIS in its 

decision-making process to determine 

whether the project is in the public 

convenience and necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies on the project. 

Your input will help the Commission 

staff determine what issues they need to 

evaluate in the EIS. Please note that the 

scoping period will close on February 

19, 2015. 

You may submit comments in written 

form or verbally. Further details on how 

to submit written comments are in the 

Public Participation section of this 

notice. If you sent comments on this 

project to the Commission before the 

opening of this docket on October 10, 

2014, you will need to file those 

comments in Docket No. PF15–2–000 to 

ensure they are considered as part of 

this proceeding. In lieu of or in addition 

to sending written comments, the 

Commission invites you to attend the 

public scoping meeting scheduled as 

follows: FERC Public Scoping Meeting, 

Calcasieu Pass Project, February 5, 

2015/7–9 p.m. CST, Cameron Parish 

School Board Educational Conference 

Center, 510 Marshall Street, Cameron, 

LA 70631. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this project. State and 

local government representatives should 

notify their constituents of this planned 

project and encourage them to comment 

on their areas of concern. 

The purpose of this scoping meeting 

is to provide the public an opportunity 

to learn more about the Commission’s 

environmental review process, and to 

verbally comment on the project. The 

scoping meeting will start at 6:00 p.m. 

and representatives from Venture Global 

will be present one hour prior to the 

start of the meeting to answer questions 

about the project. Additionally, Venture 

Global has established an Internet Web 

site at www.venturegloballng.com that 

will be updated as the environmental 

review of its project proceeds. 

Affected landowners and interested 

groups and individuals are encouraged 

to attend the scoping meetings and 

present comments on the issues they 

believe should be addressed in the EIS. 

A transcript of the meeting will be 

added to the Commission’s 

administrative record to ensure that 

your comments are accurately recorded. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, a pipeline company 

representative may contact you about 

the acquisition of an easement to 

construct, operate, and maintain the 

planned facilities. The company would 

seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable 

agreement. However, if the Commission 

approves the project, that approval 

conveys with it the right of eminent 

domain. Therefore, if easement 

negotiations fail to produce an 

agreement, the pipeline company could 

initiate condemnation proceedings 

where compensation would be 

determined in accordance with state 

law. 

A fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need 

To Know?’’ is available for viewing on 

the FERC Web site (www.ferc.gov). This 

fact sheet addresses a number of 

typically asked questions, including the 

use of eminent domain and how to 

participate in the Commission’s 

proceedings. 

Summary of the Planned Project 

Venture Global plans to construct and 

operate an LNG export facility in 

Cameron Parish, Louisiana adjacent to 

the Calcasieu Ship Channel. The facility 

would receive natural gas from North 

American sources and would liquefy 

and store it for export. When 

constructed, the project could process 

about 487.2 billion cubic feet per year 

(Bcf/yr) of natural gas. 

The Calcasieu Pass project would 

consist of the following facilities: 

• Ten (10) liquefaction blocks; 

• two (2) LNG storage tanks, each 

with approximately 200,000 cubic meter 

(‘‘m3’’) storage capacity; 

• two (2) marine berthing docks, to 

accommodate LNG carriers ranging from 

120,000 m3 to 185,000 m3 of carrying 

capacity; 

• a temporary floating LNG storage 

vessel berthed at one of the LNG 

berthing docks, which would be 

discontinued after the first permanent 

LNG storage tank becomes operational; 

• a turning basin on the Calcasieu 

Ship Channel; 

• a utility dock; 

• a gas-fired electric generation 

facility with generating capacity of 

approximately 600 megawatts (‘‘MW’’) 

that will be constructed to provide 

power for the project facilities; 

• two natural gas pipelines to connect 

to existing transmission pipelines, a 

23.8-mile-long, 42-inch-diameter 

pipeline and a 42-inch-diameter, 18.5- 

mile-long pipeline; 

• a Gas Gate Station to receive gas 

from the two lateral pipelines and will 

include pig 1 receivers, filter/separators, 

custody transfer meters, pressure 

regulators, emergency shutdown valves, 

and gas analyzers; 

• various buildings, including 

administration, control rooms, electrical 

equipment, workshop, and warehouse 

buildings and structures; 

• connection to the existing 

municipal water supply for construction 

and potable water requirements, and the 

potential drilling of groundwater wells 

to allow for water-cooling of the power 

plant; 

• facilities associated with the project 

site’s communication system; and 

• facilities associated with plant 

safety and security. 

The general location of the project 

facilities is shown in Appendix 1.2

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the planned facilities 

would disturb about 914.1 acres of land 

for the aboveground facilities and the 

pipeline. Following construction, 

Venture Global would maintain about 

347.6 acres for permanent operation of 

the project’s facilities and pipeline. 

The Terminal facilities will occupy an 

approximately 203.6-acre property 

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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 18 / Wednesday, January 28, 2015 / Notices 4559 

3 ‘‘We,’’ ‘‘us,’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to the 

environmental staff of the Commission’s Office of 

Energy Projects. 

4The Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations addressing cooperating agency 

responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 1501.6. 

5The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 

regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 800. Those regulations define 

historic properties as any prehistoric or historic 

district, site, building, structure, or object included 

in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register 

of Historic Places. 

adjacent to the Calcasieu Ship Channel. 

Of the 203.6 acres, 86.8 acres will 

support permanent operational facilities 

and 116.8 acres will be used for 

temporary workspace. Of the 86.8 acres 

supporting permanent operational 

facilities, 8.6 acres will be converted to 

open water through excavation and 

dredging to create the LNG berthing 

area. 

Collectively, the approximately 42.3- 

mile long pipelines would require 665.7 

acres of construction workspace (of 

which 415.78 acres will be temporary 

workspace and 250.0 acres will remain 

as the permanent operational right-ofway). 

The EIS Process 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) requires the Commission to 

take into account the environmental 

impacts that could result from an action 

whenever it considers the issuance of a 

Certificate of Public Convenience and 

Necessity. NEPA also requires us 3 to 

discover and address concerns the 

public may have about proposals. This 

process is referred to as scoping. The 

main goal of the scoping process is to 

focus the analysis in the EIS on the 

important environmental issues. By this 

notice, the Commission requests public 

comments on the scope of the issues to 

address in the EIS. We will consider all 

filed comments during the preparation 

of the EIS. 

In the EIS we will discuss impacts 

that could occur as a result of the 

construction and operation of the 

planned project under these general 

headings: 

• Geology and soils; 

• land use; 

• socioeconomics; 

• water resources, fisheries, and 

wetlands; 

• cultural resources; 

• vegetation and wildlife; 

• air quality and noise; 

• endangered and threatened species; 

• reliability and safety; and 

• cumulative impacts. 

We will also evaluate possible 

alternatives to the planned project or 

portions of the project, and make 

recommendations on how to lessen or 

avoid impacts on the various resource 

areas. 

Although no formal application has 

been filed, we have already initiated our 

NEPA review under the Commission’s 

pre-filing process. The purpose of the 

pre-filing process is to encourage early 

involvement of interested stakeholders 

and to identify and resolve issues before 

the FERC receives an application. As 

part of our pre-filing review, we have 

begun to contact some federal and state 

agencies to discuss their involvement in 

the scoping process and the preparation 

of the EIS. 

The EIS will present our independent 

analysis of the issues. We will publish 

and distribute the draft EIS for public 

comment. After the comment period, we 

will consider all timely comments and 

revise the document, as necessary, 

before issuing a final EIS. To ensure we 

have the opportunity to consider and 

address your comments, please carefully 

follow the instructions in the Public 

Participation section on the following 

page. 

With this notice, we are asking 

agencies with jurisdiction by law and/ 

or special expertise with respect to the 

environmental issues related to this 

project to formally cooperate with us in 

the preparation of the EIS.4 Agencies 

that would like to request cooperating 

agency status should follow the 

instructions for filing comments 

provided under the Public Participation 

section of this notice. 

Consultations Under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

In accordance with the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation’s 

implementing regulations for section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act, we are using this 

notice to initiate consultation with the 

Louisiana State Historic Preservation 

Office (SHPO), and to solicit their views 

and those of other government agencies, 

interested Indian tribes, and the public 

on the project’s potential effects on 

historic properties.5 We will define the 

project-specific Area of Potential Effects 

(APE) in consultation with the SHPO as 

the project develops. On natural gas 

facility projects, the APE at a minimum 

encompasses all areas subject to ground 

disturbance (examples include 

construction right-of-way, contractor/

pipe storage yards, compressor stations, 

and access roads). Our EIS for this 

project will document our findings on 

the impacts on historic properties and 

summarize the status of consultations 

under section 106. 

Currently Identified Environmental 

Issues 

We have already identified several 

issues that we think deserve attention 

based on a preliminary review of the 

planned facilities and the 

environmental information provided by 

Venture Global. This preliminary list of 

issues may change based on your 

comments and our analysis: 

• Protected species; 

• cultural resources; 

• water resources; 

• Coastal Zone Management Act; 

• fisheries; 

• site alternatives; 

• ship traffic; 

• public safety; and 

• cumulative impacts. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the project. 

Your comments should focus on the 

potential environmental effects, 

reasonable alternatives, and measures to 

avoid or lessen environmental impacts. 

The more specific your comments, the 

more useful they will be. To ensure that 

your comments are timely and properly 

recorded, please send your comments so 

that the Commission receives them in 

Washington, DC on or before February 

19, 2015. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to submit your 

comments to the Commission. In all 

instances, please reference the project 

docket number (PF15–2–000) with your 

submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has expert staff available 

to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or 

efiling@ferc.gov. 

(1) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 

feature located on the Commission’s 

Web site (www.ferc.gov) under the link 

to Documents and Filings. This is an 

easy method for interested persons to 

submit brief, text-only comments on a 

project; 

(2) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eFiling feature 

located on the Commission’s Web site 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to 

Documents and Filings. With eFiling, 

you can provide comments in a variety 

of formats by attaching them as a file 

with your submission. New eFiling 

users must first create an account by 

clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You must select 

the type of filing you are making. If you 

are filing a comment on a particular 

project, please select ‘‘Comment on a 

Filing’’; or 

(3) You can file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

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4560 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 18 / Wednesday, January 28, 2015 / Notices 

following address: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Environmental Mailing List 

The environmental mailing list 

includes federal, state, and local 

government representatives and 

agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American Tribes; other 

interested parties; and local libraries 

and newspapers. This list also includes 

all affected landowners (as defined in 

the Commission’s regulations) who are 

potential right-of-way grantors, whose 

property may be used temporarily for 

project purposes, or who own homes 

within certain distances of aboveground 

facilities, and anyone who submits 

comments on the project. We will 

update the environmental mailing list as 

the analysis proceeds to ensure that we 

send the information related to this 

environmental review to all individuals, 

organizations, and government entities 

interested in and/or potentially affected 

by the planned project. 

Copies of the completed draft EIS will 

be sent to the environmental mailing list 

for public review and comment. If you 

would prefer to receive a paper copy of 

the document instead of the CD version 

or would like to remove your name from 

the mailing list, please return the 

attached Information Request 

(Appendix 2). 

Becoming an Intervenor 

Once Venture Global files its 

application with the Commission, you 

may want to become an ‘‘intervenor’’ 

which is an official party to the 

Commission’s proceeding. Intervenors 

play a more formal role in the process 

and are able to file briefs, appear at 

hearings, and be heard by the courts if 

they choose to appeal the Commission’s 

final ruling. An intervenor formally 

participates in the proceeding by filing 

a request to intervene. Instructions for 

becoming an intervenor are in the User’s 

Guide under the ‘‘e-filing’’ link on the 

Commission’s Web site. Please note that 

the Commission will not accept requests 

for intervenor status at this time. You 

must wait until the Commission 

receives a formal application for the 

project. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web 

site (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary 

link. Click on the eLibrary link, click on 

‘‘General Search’’ and enter the docket 

number, excluding the last three digits 

in the Docket Number field (i.e., PF15– 

2). Be sure you have selected an 

appropriate date range. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free 

at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact 

(202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also 

provides access to the texts of formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission offers a 

free service called eSubscription which 

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 www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/esubscription.asp. 

Finally, public meetings or site visits 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

calendar located at www.ferc.gov/

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Dated: January 20, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01497 Filed 1–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER15–632–000] 

CID Solar, LLC; Supplemental Notice 

That Initial Market-Based Rate Filing 

Includes Request for Blanket Section 

204 Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding, of CID 

Solar, LLC’s application for marketbased rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate schedule, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability is February 9, 

2015. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with Internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 5 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above-referenced 

proceeding(s) are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the appropriate link in the 

above list. They are also available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an eSubscription link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Dated: January 20, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01494 Filed 1–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER15–876–000] 

Malaga Power, LLC; Supplemental 

Notice That Initial Market-Based Rate 

Filing Includes Request for Blanket 

Section 204 Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding, of Malaga 

Power, LLC’s application for marketbased rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate schedule, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

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