Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 6 / Monday, January 10, 2022 / Notices 1131 

1The Office of Fossil Energy changed its name to 

the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management 

on July 4, 2021. 

2 Venture Global Calcasieu Pass, LLC, DOE/FE 

Order No. 4346, Docket Nos. 13–69–LNG, 14–88– 

LNG, and 15–25–LNG (Consolidated), Opinion and 

Order Granting Long-Term Authorization to Export 

Liquefied Natural Gas to Non-Free Trade Agreement 

Nations (Mar. 5, 2019), amended by DOE/FE Order 

No. 4346–A (Oct. 21, 2020) (extending export term). 

3See id. 

4See id. 

Independence Ave. SW, Washington, 

DC 20585 for SEAB members only. 

DATES: Tuesday, January 25, 2022; 9 

a.m.–2 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Virtual meeting for 

members of the general public. To track 

attendees, registration is required using 

the following link: https://

doe.webex.com/doe/j.php?RGID=

r4a98339039631f483dd01656743fa12b. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Lawrence, Designated 

Federal Officer, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC 20585; email: 

seab@hq.doe.gov. telephone: (202) 586– 

5260. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Board was 

established to provide advice and 

recommendations to the Secretary on 

the Administration’s energy policies; 

the Department’s basic and applied 

research and development activities; 

economic and national security policy; 

and other activities as directed by the 

Secretary. 

Purpose of the Meeting: This is the 

second meeting of Secretary Jennifer M. 

Granholm’s SEAB. 

Tentative Agenda: The meeting will 

start at 9:00 a.m. on January 25th. The 

tentative meeting agenda includes: Roll 

call, remarks from the Secretary, 

remarks from the SEAB chair, remarks 

on DOE recruitment, SEAB working 

group report-outs, and public 

comments. The meeting will conclude 

at 2:00 p.m. 

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during the meeting. Approximately 15 

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fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. Those wishing to 

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seab@hq.doe.gov, no later than 5:00 

p.m. on Wednesday, January 24, 2022. 

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written statement to Christopher 

Lawrence, U.S. Department of Energy, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585, or email to: 

seab@hq.doe.gov. 

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 

will be available on the SEAB website 

or by contacting Mr. Lawrence. He may 

be reached at the above postal address 

or email address, or by visiting SEAB’s 

website at www.energy.gov/seab. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 4, 

2022. 

LaTanya Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[Docket Nos. 13–69–LNG, 14–88–LNG, 15– 

25–LNG (Consolidated)] 

Venture Global Calcasieu Pass, LLC; 

Application for Limited Amendment to 

Existing Long-Term, Multi-Contract 

Authorization To Export Liquefied 

Natural Gas to Non-Free Trade 

Agreement Nations 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy and 

Carbon Management, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Fossil Energy 

and Carbon Management (FECM) of the 

Department of Energy (DOE) gives 

notice (Notice) of receipt of an 

application (Application), filed on 

December 3, 2021 (as corrected on 

December 10, 2021), by Venture Global 

Calcasieu Pass, LLC (Calcasieu Pass). In 

relevant part, Calcasieu Pass requests a 

limited amendment of its existing 

authorization to export domestically 

produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to 

non-free trade agreement (non-FTA) 

countries, issued in Order No. 4346. The 

amendment would increase Calcasieu 

Pass’s approved non-FTA export 

volume from 620 billion cubic feet per 

year (Bcf/yr) to 640.666 Bcf/yr of natural 

gas—an increase of 20.666 Bcf/yr. 

Calcasieu Pass filed the Application 

under the Natural Gas Act (NGA). 

DATES: Protests, motions to intervene, or 

notices of intervention, as applicable, 

and written comments are to be filed 

electronically as detailed in the Public 

Comment Procedures section no later 

than 4:30 p.m., Eastern time, March 11, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: Electronic Filing by email: 

fergas@hq.doe.gov. 

Although DOE has routinely accepted 

public comment submissions through a 

variety of mechanisms, including postal 

mail and hand delivery/courier, DOE 

has found it necessary to make 

temporary modifications to the 

comment submission process in light of 

the ongoing Covid–19 pandemic. DOE is 

currently accepting only electronic 

submissions at this time. If a commenter 

finds that this change poses an undue 

hardship, please contact Office of 

Resource Sustainability staff at (202) 

586–2627 or (202) 586–4749 to discuss 

the need for alternative arrangements. 

Once the Covid–19 pandemic health 

emergency is resolved, DOE anticipates 

resuming all of its regular options for 

public comment submission, including 

postal mail and hand delivery/courier. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Sweeney or Jennifer Wade, U.S. 

Department of Energy (FE–34), Office 

of Fossil Energy and Carbon 

Management,1 Office of Regulation, 

Analysis, and Engagement, Office of 

Resource Sustainability, Forrestal 

Building, Room 3E–042, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586– 

2627; (202) 586–4749, amy.sweeney@

hq.doe.gov or jennifer.wade@

hq.doe.gov. 

Cassandra Bernstein, U.S. Department of 

Energy (GC–76), Office of the 

Assistant General Counsel for 

Electricity and Fossil Energy, 

Forrestal Building, Room 6D–033, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586– 

9793, cassandra.bernstein@

hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In Order 

No. 4346, issued on March 5, 2019, in 

Docket Nos. 13–69–LNG, 14–88–LNG, 

15–25–LNG (consolidated), DOE 

authorized Calcasieu Pass to export 

domestically produced LNG in a volume 

equivalent to 620 Bcf/yr of natural gas.2

Calcasieu Pass is authorized to export 

this LNG by vessel from the Calcasieu 

Pass LNG Project (the Project), which is 

currently under construction in 

Cameron Parish, Louisiana, to any 

country with which the United States 

has not entered into 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 (non-FTA countries), 

pursuant to NGA section 3(a), 15 U.S.C. 

717b(a).3 This non-FTA authorization, 

as amended, extends through December 

31, 2050.4


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1132 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 6 / Monday, January 10, 2022 / Notices 

5This Notice applies only to the portion of the 

Application requesting an amendment to Calcasieu 

Pass’s non-FTA order. DOE will review separately 

the portion of the Application requesting an 

amendment to its three existing authorizations to 

export LNG to FTA countries, pursuant to section 

3(c) of the NGA, 15 U.S.C. 717b(c). 

6See NERA Economic Consulting, 

Macroeconomic Outcomes of Market Determined 

Levels of U.S. LNG Exports (June 7, 2018), available 

at: www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/06/f52/

Macroeconomic%20LNG%20Export%20Study

%202018.pdf. 

7U.S. Dep’t of Energy, Study on Macroeconomic 

Outcomes of LNG Exports: Response to Comments 

Received on Study; Notice of Response to 

Comments, 83 FR 67251 (Dec. 28, 2018). 

8The Addendum and related documents are 

available at: https://energy.gov/fe/draft-addendumenvironmental-review-documents-concerningexports-natural-gas-united-states. 

9The 2014 Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Report is 

available at: https://energy.gov/fe/life-cyclegreenhouse-gas-perspective-exporting-liquefiednatural-gas-united-states. 

10U.S. Dep’t of Energy, Life Cycle Greenhouse 

Gas Perspective on Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas 

From the United States: 2019 Update—Response to 

Comments, 85 FR 72 (Jan. 2, 2020). The 2019 

Update and related documents are available at: 

https://fossil.energy.gov/app/docketindex/docket/

index/21. 

In the Application, as relevant here,5

Calcasieu Pass requests a limited 

amendment to its approved LNG export 

volume in Order No. 4346. Specifically, 

Calcasieu Pass requests that DOE amend 

Order No. 4346 to increase its non-FTA 

export volume from 620 Bcf/yr to 

640.666 Bcf/yr of natural gas, an 

increase of 20.666 Bcf/yr. According to 

Calcasieu Pass, this increase reflects a 

refinement in the final design of the 

Project, in which the ‘‘actual peak 

liquefaction capacity of the Project 

facilities under optimal conditions’’ will 

increase from 12 million metric tons per 

annum (mtpa) of LNG to 12.4 mtpa of 

LNG (equivalent to 640.666 Bcf/yr of 

natural gas). 

Calcasieu Pass further states that it 

has filed an application with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 

asking FERC to amend its NGA section 

3 authorization to increase the Project’s 

authorized peak liquefaction capacity 

under optimal conditions to 12.4 mtpa 

of LNG. 

Calcasieu Pass states that the 

proposed increase in its non-FTA export 

volume will not require the construction 

of any new facilities or the modification 

of the previously authorized Project 

facilities, nor will it require any other 

changes to its non-FTA authorization. 

Additional details can be found in 

Calcasieu Pass’s Application and the 

email amendment to the Application, 

posted on the DOE website in Docket 

Nos. 13–69–LNG, 14–88–LNG, and 15– 

25–LNG, and available here: https://

fossil.energy.gov/ng_regulation/ 

applications-2013-venturegloballlc-13- 

69-lng1. 

DOE Evaluation 

In reviewing the Application, DOE 

will consider any issues required by law 

or policy. 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. As part of this 

analysis, DOE will consider the study 

entitled, Macroeconomic Outcomes of 

Market Determined Levels of U.S. LNG 

Exports (2018 LNG Export Study),6 and 

DOE’s response to public comments 

received on that Study.7

Additionally, DOE will consider the 

following environmental documents: 

• Addendum to Environmental 

Review Documents Concerning Exports 

of Natural Gas From the United States, 

79 FR 48132 (Aug. 15, 2014); 8

• Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas 

Perspective on Exporting Liquefied 

Natural Gas From the United States, 79 

FR 32260 (June 4, 2014); 9 and 

• Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas 

Perspective on Exporting Liquefied 

Natural Gas From the United States: 

2019 Update, 84 FR 49278 (Sept. 19, 

2019), and DOE’s response to public 

comments received on that study.10

Parties that may oppose this 

Application should address these issues 

and documents in their comments and 

protests, as well as other issues deemed 

relevant to the Application. 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., 

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 

environmental 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. Interested 

parties will be provided 60 days from 

the date of publication of this Notice in 

which to submit comments, protests, 

motions to intervene, or notices of 

intervention. 

Any person wishing to become a party 

to the proceeding must file a motion to 

intervene or notice of intervention. 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. 

As noted, DOE is only accepting 

electronic submissions at this time. 

Please email the filing to fergas@

hq.doe.gov. All filings must include a 

reference to ‘‘Docket Nos. 13–69–LNG, 

et al.,’’ or ‘‘Venture Global Calcasieu 

Pass, LLC’’ in the title line. 

Please Note: Please include all related 

documents and attachments (e.g., 

exhibits) in the original email 

correspondence. Please do not include 

any active hyperlinks or password 

protection in any of the documents or 

attachments 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. Any hardcopy filing submitted 

greater in length than 50 pages must 

also include, at the time of the filing, a 

digital copy on disk of the entire 

submission. 

The Application and any filed 

protests, motions to intervene, notices of 

interventions, and comments will also 

be available electronically by going to 

the following DOE Web address: https:// 

www.energy.gov/fecm/division-naturalgas-regulation. 

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. 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. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 4, 

2022. 

Amy Sweeney, 

Director, Office of Regulation, Analysis, and 

Engagement, Office of Resource 

Sustainability. 

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