35082 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 124 / Thursday, July 1, 2021 / Notices 

1 The Project’s Environmental Assessment is 

available on eLibrary under accession no. 

20210316–3010. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2042–191] 

Public Utility District No. 1 of Pend 

Oreille County, Washington; Notice of 

Availability of Environmental 

Assessment 

In accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission’s (Commission) 

regulations, 18 CFR part 380, the Office 

of Energy Projects has reviewed an 

application submitted by Public Utility 

District No. 1 of Pend Oreille County, 

Washington to amend the license for the 

Box Canyon Project No. 2042, and has 

prepared an Environmental Assessment 

(EA) for the proposed amendment. The 

licensee proposes an amendment of the 

project license to be consistent with the 

terms of an Amended Settlement 

Agreement and to incorporate revised 

mandatory conditions submitted by the 

U.S. Department of the Interior under 

section 4(e) and section 18 of the 

Federal Power Act. The project is 

located on the Pend Oreille River in 

Pend Oreille County, Washington, and 

Bonner County, Idaho and occupies 

lands within the Kalispel Indian 

Reservation and lands within the 

Colville National Forest. 

The EA contains Commission staff’s 

analysis of the potential environmental 

effects of the proposed amendment to 

the license, and concludes that the 

proposed amendment, with appropriate 

environmental protective measures, 

would not constitute a major federal 

action that would significantly affect the 

quality of the human environment. 

The EA may be viewed on the 

Commission’s website at www.ferc.gov 

using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the 

docket number (P–2042) in the docket 

number field to access the document. At 

this time, the Commission has 

suspended access to the Commission’s 

Public Reference Room due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov or toll-free at 1–866–208–3676, 

or for TTY, (202) 502–8659. You may 

also register online at www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be 

notified via email of new filings and 

issuances related to this or other 

pending projects. For assistance, contact 

FERC Online Support. 

For further information, contact Holly 

Frank at (202) 502–6833, or by email at 

holly.frank@ferc.gov. 

Dated: June 25, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–14066 Filed 6–30–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP20–527–000] 

Columbia Gulf Transmission, LLC; 

Notice of Availability of The Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

The Proposed East Lateral Xpress 

Project 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared a draft 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

for the East Lateral XPress Project 

(Project), proposed by Columbia Gulf 

Transmission, LLC (Columbia Gulf) in 

the above-referenced docket. Columbia 

Gulf requests authorization to construct 

and operate natural gas transmission 

facilities in Louisiana. The Project is 

designed to provide a total of 725 

million standard cubic feet per day of 

firm transportation capacity, through a 

combination of incremental and existing 

capacity on Columbia Gulf’s interstate 

natural gas pipeline system, to an 

interconnect with Venture Global Gator 

Express, LLC, for ultimate delivery as 

feed gas for Venture Global Plaquemines 

LNG, LLC’s facility in Plaquemines 

Parish. 

The draft EIS responds to comments 

that were received on the Commission’s 

March 16, 2021 Environmental 

Assessment (EA) 1 and discloses 

downstream greenhouse gas emissions 

for the Project. With the exception of 

climate change impacts, the FERC staff 

concludes that approval of the proposed 

Project, with the mitigation measures 

recommended in this EIS, would not 

result in significant environmental 

impacts. FERC staff continues to be 

unable to determine significance with 

regards to climate change impacts. 

The draft EIS incorporates the above 

referenced EA, which addressed the 

potential environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

following Project facilities: 

• 8.1 miles of 30-inch-diameter 

pipeline lateral within Barataria Bay in 

Jefferson and Plaquemines Parish, 

Louisiana; 

• Centerville Compressor Station—a 

new 23,470-horsepower (hp) 

compressor station at an abandoned 

Columbia Gulf compressor station site 

in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana; 

• Golden Meadow Compressor 

Station—a new 23,470-hp compressor 

station adjacent to an existing tie-in 

facility in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana; 

• a point of delivery meter station in 

Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana; and 

• a tie-in facility with two mainline 

valves and other appurtenances on a 

new platform in Barataria Bay, Jefferson 

Parish, Louisiana. 

The Commission mailed a copy of the 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Proposed East Lateral Xpress Project 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., CP20–527). 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 the 

draft EIS’s disclosure and discussion of 

potential environmental effects, 

including climate impacts, measures to 

avoid or lessen environmental impacts, 

and completeness of the submitted 

alternatives, information and analyses. 

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 August 16, 2021. 


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