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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[FE Docket No. 10–161–LNG; FE Docket No. 

11–59–LNG; FE Docket No. 11–128–LNG; et. 

al.] 

Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas 

Perspective on Exporting Liquefied 

Natural Gas From the United States 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Life 

Cycle Greenhouse Gas Perspective on 

Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas from 

the United States and request for 

comments. 

Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. and FLNG Liquefaction, LLC .......................................................................... [FE Docket No. 10–161–LNG]. 

Lake Charles Exports, LLC ................................................................................................................................. [FE Docket No. 11–59–LNG]. 

Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP .......................................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 11–128–LNG]. 

Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. and FLNG Liquefaction, LLC .......................................................................... [FE Docket No. 11–161–LNG]. 

Cameron LNG, LLC ............................................................................................................................................. [FE Docket No. 11–162–LNG]. 

Gulf Coast LNG Export, LLC .............................................................................................................................. [FE Docket No. 12–05–LNG]. 

Jordan Cove Energy Project, L.P ........................................................................................................................ [FE Docket No. 12–32–LNG]. 

LNG Development Company, LLC (d/b/a Oregon LNG) .................................................................................. [FE Docket No. 12–77–LNG]. 

Cheniere Marketing, LLC .................................................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 12–97–LNG]. 

Southern LNG Company, L.L.C. ........................................................................................................................ [FE Docket No. 12–100–LNG]. 

Gulf LNG Liquefaction Company, LLC ............................................................................................................. [FE Docket No. 12–101–LNG]. 

CE FLNG, LLC ..................................................................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 12–123–LNG]. 

Excelerate Liquefaction Solutions I, LLC .......................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 12–146–LNG]. 

Golden Pass Products LLC ................................................................................................................................. [FE Docket No. 12–156–LNG]. 

Pangea LNG (North America) Holdings, LLC ................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 12–184–LNG]. 

Trunkline LNG Export, LLC ............................................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 13–04–LNG]. 

Freeport-McMoRan Energy LLC ......................................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 13–26–LNG]. 

Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC ........................................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 13–30–LNG]. 

Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC ........................................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 13–42–LNG]. 

Venture Global LNG, LLC .................................................................................................................................. [FE Docket No. 13–69–LNG]. 

Eos LNG LLC ....................................................................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 13–116–LNG]. 

Barca LNG LLC ................................................................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 13–118–LNG]. 

Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC ........................................................................................................................... [FE Docket No. 13–121–LNG]. 

Magnolia LNG, LLC ............................................................................................................................................ [FE Docket No. 13–132–LNG]. 

Delfin LNG LLC .................................................................................................................................................. [FE Docket No. 13–147–LNG]. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Fossil Energy 

(FE) of the Department of Energy (DOE) 

gives notice of the availability of the 

Report Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas 

Perspective on Exporting Liquefied 

Natural Gas from the United States (Life 

Cycle Analysis Greenhouse Gas Report, 

or LCA GHG Report) in the abovereferenced proceedings and invites the 

submission of comments regarding the 

LCA GHG Report. The purpose of this 

LCA GHG Report is to provide 

additional information to the public and 

to DOE to inform its decisions regarding 

the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) 

emissions of U.S. LNG exports for use 

in electric power generation. The LCA 

GHG Report (http://energy.gov/fe/LCAGHG-Report) compares life cycle GHG 

emissions from U.S. LNG exports to 

regional coal and other imported natural 

gas for electric power generation in 

Europe and Asia. Comments submitted 

in compliance with the instructions in 

this notice will be placed in the 

administrative record for all of the 

above-listed proceedings and need only 

be submitted once. 

DATES: Initial comments are to be filed 

using procedures detailed in the Public 

Comment section no later than 4:30 

p.m., Eastern Time, July 21, 2014. All 

comments received need only be 

submitted once as they will be placed in 

the administrative record for each of the 

25 currently pending export application 

dockets. 

ADDRESSES: 

Electronic Filing Using Online Form: 

http://energy.gov/fe/LCA-GHG-Report. 

Regular Mail: U.S. Department of 

Energy (FE–34) Attn: LCA GHG Report 

Comments, Office of Oil & Gas Global 

Security & Supply, 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), Attn: 

LCA GHG Report Comments, Office of 

Oil & Gas Global Security & Supply, 

Office of Fossil Energy, Forrestal 

Building, Room 3E–042, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

John Anderson, 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– 

0521. 

Edward LeDuc, U.S. Department of 

Energy (GC–51), Office of the 

Assistant General Counsel for 

Environment, Forrestal Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586– 

4007. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Section 3(a) of the Natural Gas Act, 15 

U.S.C. 717b(a), directs the U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE) to 

authorize proposed exports of natural 

gas to countries with which the United 

States does not have a Free Trade 

Agreement (FTA) requiring national 

treatment for trade in natural gas (nonFTA countries), unless DOE finds that 

the proposed exportation will not be 

consistent with the public interest. 

DOE presently has before it numerous 

applications to export liquefied natural 

gas (LNG) to non-FTA countries. The 25 

proceedings identified above involve 

applications submitted by the named 

parties seeking authorization to export 

LNG by LNG tanker from large-scale 

liquefaction facilities in the lower-48 

states to non-FTA nations. The purpose 

of this Notice is to post the LCA GHG 

Report in the 25 proceedings, and to 


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invite comments on the LCA GHG 

Report, as applied to the pending 

matters. 

The LCA GHG Report 

The LCA GHG Report was conducted 

by the National Energy Technology 

Laboratory (NETL), a DOE laboratory. 

The LCA GHG Report estimates the life 

cycle GHG emissions of U.S. LNG 

exports to Europe and Asia, compared 

with alternative supplies, to produce 

electric power. For additional 

information on the natural gas model, 

refer to the NETL report, ‘‘Life Cycle 

Analysis of Natural Gas Extraction and 

Power Generation,’’ which is available 

at http://energy.gov/fe/LCA-GHGReport. 

The primary questions addressed by 

the LCA GHG Report are: 

• How does exported liquefied 

natural gas (LNG) from the U.S. compare 

with regional coal (or other LNG 

sources) for electric power generation in 

Europe and Asia, from a life cycle 

greenhouse gas (GHG) perspective? 

• How do those results compare with 

natural gas sourced from Russia and 

delivered to the same European and 

Asian markets via pipeline? 

To address these questions, NETL 

applied its life cycle analysis (LCA) 

model to represent unconventional 

natural gas production and 

transportation to a U.S. Gulf Coast 

liquefaction facility, liquefaction of the 

gas at the facility, and transportation of 

the LNG to an import terminal in 

Rotterdam, Netherlands, to represent a 

European market, and to an import 

terminal in Shanghai, China, to 

represent Asian Markets. LNG produced 

in Algeria was modeled to represent an 

alternative regional LNG European 

market supply source with a destination 

of Rotterdam and LNG from Darwin, 

Australia was modeled to represent an 

alternative regional LNG Asian market 

supply source with a destination of 

Osaka, Japan. Conventional natural gas 

extracted from the Yamal region of 

Siberia in Russia was modeled as the 

regional pipeline gas alternative for both 

the European and Asian markets. 

Regional coal production and 

consumption in Germany and China 

were also modeled. Scenario specific 

variability was modeled by adjusting 

methane leakage for natural gas 

production, coal type (bituminous and 

sub-bituminous), transport distance 

(ocean tanker for LNG and rail for coal), 

and power plant efficiency. 

DOE is not establishing a new 

proceeding or docket by today’s 

issuance and the submission of 

comments in response to this Notice 

will not make commenters parties to 

any of the pending 25 cases. Persons 

with an interest in the outcome of one 

or more of the 25 pending matters have 

been given an opportunity to intervene 

in or protest those pending matters by 

complying with the procedures 

established in the respective notices of 

application issued in the pending 25 

matters and published in the Federal 

Register. The record in the 25 pending 

proceedings will include all comments 

received in response to this Notice. 

Comments will be reviewed on a 

consolidated basis for purposes of 

hearing, and decisions will be issued on 

a case-by-case basis. 

Public Comment 

In response to this Notice, any person 

may file comments. DOE prefers 

comments to be filed using the online 

form (method 1). However, for those 

lacking access to the Internet, comments 

may be filed using method 2 or 3. The 

three methods are: (1) Submission of 

comments using the online form at 

http://energy.gov/fe/LCA-GHG-Report; 

(2) mailing comments to the Office of 

Oil and Gas Global Security and Supply 

at the address listed in ADDRESSES; and 

(3) delivering comments (by hand or 

courier) to the Office of Oil and Gas 

Global Security and Supply at the 

address listed in ADDRESSES. All filings 

must include a reference to LCA GHG 

Report Comments. PLEASE NOTE: 

DOE/FE is not accepting any comments 

by email. Any hardcopy filing submitted 

that is greater in length than 50 pages 

must also include, at the time of the 

filing, a digital copy on disk of the 

entire submission in PDF format. Please 

do not include any active hyperlinks or 

password protection in any of the 

electronic documents related to the 

filing. All electronic filings submitted to 

DOE must follow these guidelines to 

ensure that all documents are filed in a 

timely manner. 

DOE will consider all comments 

received until the close of the comment 

period. Comments must be limited to 

the issues and potential impacts 

addressed in the LCA GHG Report, and 

DOE may disregard comments that are 

not germane. 

Commenters should be advised that 

filings with DOE shall be subject to 

public disclosure, so submissions 

should be free of any personally 

identifiable information (PII) or other 

information that the individual does not 

wish to be revealed in a public forum. 

Instructions for submitting comments 

are available at http://energy.gov/fe/ 

LCA-GHG-Report. All comments filed in 

response to this Notice will be publicly 

available on the DOE/FE Web site 

(http://energy.gov/fe/LCA-GHG-Report). 

The LCA GHG Report and other 

relevant documents are available for 

download at http://energy.gov/fe/LCAGHG-Report and for inspection and 

copying in the Division of Natural Gas 

Regulatory Activities docket room, 

Room 3E–042, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585. 

The docket room is open between the 

hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 29, 

2014. 

Christopher A. Smith, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office 

of Fossil Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2014–12927 Filed 6–3–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Proposed Procedures for Liquefied 

Natural Gas Export Decisions 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed procedures. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE or the Department) 

proposes to act on applications to export 

liquefied natural gas (LNG) only after 

the review required by the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has 

been completed, suspending its practice 

of issuing conditional decisions prior to 

final authorization decisions. 

DATES: Comments are to be filed using 

procedures detailed in the Submission 

of Comments section no later than 4:30 

p.m., Eastern Time, July 21, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons may 

submit comments by any of the 

following methods: 

Electronic Filing Using Online Form: 

http://energy.gov/fe/Procedures. 

Regular Mail: U.S. Department of 

Energy (FE–34), Attn: Proposed 

Procedures, Office of Oil and Gas Global 

Security and Supply, 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), Attn: 

Proposed Procedures Office of Oil and 

Gas Global Security and Supply, Office 

of Fossil Energy, Forrestal Building, 

Room 3E–042, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

John Anderson, U.S. Department of 

Energy (FE–34), Office of Oil and Gas 

Global Security and Supply, Office of 

Fossil Energy, Forrestal Building, 

Room 3E–042, 1000 Independence 


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