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1See Order on Draft Policy Statements, 178 FERC 

¶ 61,197 (2022). 

website at www.ferc.gov using the 

eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary link, 

click on ‘‘General Search’’ and enter the 

docket number in the ‘‘Docket Number’’ 

field. Be sure you have selected an 

appropriate date range. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or (866) 

208–3676, or for TTY, contact (202) 

502–8659. The eLibrary link also 

provides access to the texts of all formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

Public sessions or site visits will be 

posted on the Commission’s calendar 

located at https://www.ferc.gov/newsevents/events along with other related 

information. 

Dated: March 31, 2022. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–07282 Filed 4–5–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. CP19–502–000; CP19–502– 

001] 

Commonwealth LNG, LLC; Notice of 

Availability of the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Proposed 

Commonwealth LNH Project 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared a draft 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

for the Commonwealth LNG Project, 

proposed by Commonwealth LNG, LLC 

(Commonwealth) in the abovereferenced docket. Commonwealth 

requests authorization to site, construct, 

and operate a natural gas liquefaction 

and export terminal and an integrated 

Natural Gas Act Section 3 natural gas 

pipeline, in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. 

The draft EIS assesses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

Commonwealth LNG Project in 

accordance with the requirements of the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA). FERC staff concludes that 

approval of the proposed project, with 

the mitigation measures recommended 

in the EIS, would result in some adverse 

environmental impacts. Most of these 

impacts on the environment would be 

reduced to less than significant levels; 

however, FERC staff conclude there 

would be significant impacts on visual 

resources and environmental justice 

communities. Regarding climate change 

impacts, this EIS is not characterizing 

the project’s greenhouse gas emissions 

as significant or insignificant because 

the Commission is conducting a generic 

proceeding to determine whether and 

how the Commission will conduct 

significance determinations going 

forward.1

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Department of 

Energy, U.S. Department of 

Transportation’s Pipeline and 

Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, and National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration’s 

National Marine Fisheries Service 

participated as cooperating agencies in 

the preparation of the draft EIS. 

Cooperating agencies have jurisdiction 

by law or special expertise with respect 

to resources potentially affected by the 

proposal and participate in the NEPA 

analysis. Although the cooperating 

agencies provided input to the 

conclusions and recommendations 

presented in the draft EIS, the agencies 

will present their own conclusions and 

recommendations in their respective 

Records of Decision for the project. 

The draft EIS addresses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

following project facilities: 

• Six liquefaction trains; 

• six gas pre-treatment trains; 

• two flare systems; 

• six liquid natural gas (LNG) storage 

tanks; 

• one marine facility consisting of an 

LNG carrier berth, barge dock; 

• utilities (e.g., electricity generation, 

water, plant air, nitrogen, hot oil 

system); 

• operation and safety systems (e.g., 

access and haul roads, storm protection 

structures, stormwater drainage systems, 

spill containment system, fire 

suppression facilities, facility lighting 

and security, emergency shutdown 

systems); 

• appurtenant facilities (e.g., 

administrative facilities, maintenance 

and warehouse buildings, marine 

facility operator buildings, equipment 

enclosures and electrical rooms); 

• 3.0 miles of 42-inch-diameter 

pipeline; 

• two interconnection facilities with 

existing pipelines; and 

• one metering station. 

The Commission mailed a copy of the 

Notice of Availability of the draft EIS to 

federal, state, and local government 

representatives and agencies; elected 

officials; environmental and public 

interest groups; Native American tribes; 

potentially affected landowners and 

other interested individuals and groups; 

and newspapers and libraries in the 

project area. The draft EIS is only 

available in electronic format. It may be 

viewed and downloaded from the 

FERC’s website (www.ferc.gov), on the 

natural gas environmental documents 

page (https://www.ferc.gov/industriesdata/natural-gas/environment/ 

environmental-documents). In addition, 

the draft EIS may be accessed by using 

the eLibrary link on the FERC’s website. 

Click on the eLibrary link (https://

elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/search) select 

‘‘General Search’’ and enter the docket 

number in the ‘‘Docket Number’’ field 

(i.e. CP19–502). 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 draft EIS is not a decision 

document. It presents Commission 

staff’s independent analysis of the 

environmental issues for the 

Commission to consider when 

addressing the merits of all issues in 

this proceeding. Any person wishing to 

comment on the draft EIS may do so. 

Your comments should focus on draft 

EIS’s disclosure and discussion of 

potential environmental effects, 

reasonable alternatives, and measures to 

avoid or lessen environmental impacts. 

To ensure consideration of your 

comments on the proposal in the final 

EIS, it is important that the Commission 

receive your comments on or before 5:00 

p.m. Eastern Time on May 23, 2022. 

For your convenience, there are four 

methods you can use to submit your 

comments to the Commission. The 

Commission will provide equal 

consideration to all comments received, 

whether filed in written form or 

provided orally. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has staff available to 

assist you at (866) 208–3676 or 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. Please 

carefully follow these instructions so 

that your comments are properly 

recorded. 

(1) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 

feature on the Commission’s website 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC 

Online. This is an easy method for 

submitting brief, text-only comments on 

a project; 

(2) You can file your comments 

electronically by using the eFiling 

feature on the Commission’s website 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC 

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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.’’ If you are filing a comment 

on a particular project, please select 

‘‘Comment on a Filing’’ as the filing 

type; or 

(3) You can file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

Commission. Be sure to reference the 

project docket number (CP19–502–000) 

on your letter. Submissions sent via the 

U.S. Postal Service must be addressed 

to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. Submissions sent via any 

other carrier must be addressed to: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. 

(4) In lieu of sending written or 

electronic comments, the Commission 

invites you to attend one of the virtual 

public comment sessions its staff will 

conduct by telephone to receive 

comments on the draft EIS, scheduled as 

follows: 

Date and Time 

Monday, April 25, 2022, 5:30–7:30 

p.m. (CDT), Call in number: 800–779– 

8625, Participant Passcode: 3472916. 

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 2:30–4:30 

p.m. (CDT), Call in number: 800–779– 

8625, Participant Passcode: 3472916. 

The primary goal of these comment 

sessions is to have you identify the 

specific environmental issues and 

concerns with the draft EIS. There will 

not be a formal presentation by 

Commission staff when the session 

opens. Individual oral comments will be 

taken on a one-on-one basis with a court 

reporter present on the line. This format 

is designed to receive the maximum 

amount of oral comments, in a 

convenient way during the timeframe 

allotted, and is in response to the 

ongoing COVID–19 pandemic. 

Prospective commentors are encouraged 

to review the draft EIS to familiarize 

themselves with the project prior to 

participating in the meeting. 

Each comment session is scheduled 

from either 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. or else 2:30 

p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Central Daylight 

Time. You may call at any time after the 

listed start times, at which point you 

will be placed on mute and hold. Calls 

will be answered in the order they are 

received. Once answered, you will have 

the opportunity to provide your 

comment directly to a court reporter 

with FERC staff or representative 

present on the line. A time limit of 5 

minutes will be implemented for each 

commentor. 

Transcripts of all comments received 

during the comment sessions will be 

publicly available on FERC’s eLibrary 

system (see page 2 of this notice for 

instructions on using eLibrary). 

It is important to note that the 

Commission provides equal 

consideration to all comments received, 

whether filed in written form or 

provided at a virtual comment session. 

Any person seeking to become a party 

to the proceeding must file a motion to 

intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedures (18 CFR part 385.214). 

Motions to intervene are more fully 

described at https://www.ferc.gov/ferconline/ferc-online/how-guides. Only 

intervenors have the right to seek 

rehearing or judicial review of the 

Commission’s decision. The 

Commission grants affected landowners 

and others with environmental concerns 

intervenor status upon showing good 

cause by stating that they have a clear 

and direct interest in this proceeding 

which no other party can adequately 

represent. Simply filing environmental 

comments will not give you intervenor 

status, but you do not need intervenor 

status to have your comments 

considered. 

Questions? 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC 

website (www.ferc.gov) using the 

eLibrary link. The eLibrary link also 

provides access to the texts of all formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission offers a 

free service called eSubscription that 

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 https://www.ferc.gov/ 

ferc-online/overview to register for 

eSubscription. 

Dated: March 31, 2022. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–07283 Filed 4–5–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9394–01–OMS] 

Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: 

Authorized Program Revision 

Approval, Rhode Island Department of 

Environmental Management (RIDEM) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

(EPA) approval of the Rhode Island 

Department of Environmental 

Management (RIDEM) request to revise/ 

modify certain of its EPA-authorized 

programs to allow electronic reporting. 

DATES: EPA approves the authorized 

program revisions/modifications as of 

April 6, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shirley M. Miller, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of Information 

Management, Mail Stop 2824T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20460, (202) 566–2908, 

miller.shirley@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 13, 2005, the final Cross-Media 

Electronic Reporting Rule (CROMERR) 

was published in the Federal Register 

(70 FR 59848) and codified as part 3 of 

title 40 of the CFR. CROMERR 

establishes electronic reporting as an 

acceptable regulatory alternative to 

paper reporting and establishes 

requirements to assure that electronic 

documents are as legally dependable as 

their paper counterparts. Subpart D of 

CROMERR requires that state, tribal or 

local government agencies that receive, 

or wish to begin receiving, electronic 

reports under their EPA-authorized 

programs must apply to EPA for a 

revision or modification of those 

programs and obtain EPA approval. 

Subpart D provides standards for such 

approvals based on consideration of the 

electronic document receiving systems 

that the state, tribe, or local government 

will use to implement the electronic 

reporting. Additionally, § 3.1000(b) 

through (e) of 40 CFR part 3, subpart D 

provides special procedures for program 

revisions and modifications to allow 

electronic reporting, to be used at the 

option of the state, tribe or local 

government in place of procedures 

available under existing programspecific authorization regulations. An 

application submitted under the subpart 

D procedures must show that the state, 

tribe or local government has sufficient 

legal authority to implement the 

electronic reporting components of the 


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