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13Regulations Implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, Order No. 486, 

52 FR 47897 (Dec. 17, 1987), FERC Stats. & Regs., 

Regulations Preambles 1986–1990 ¶ 30,783 (1987). 

14 18 CFR 380.4(a)(2)(ii). 

1 Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 

Natural Gas Infrastructure Project Reviews, 178 

FERC ¶ 61,108 (2022); 178 FERC ¶ 61,197 (2022). 

burden estimates, should be sent to the 

Commission in this docket and may also 

be sent to the Office of Management and 

Budget, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs [Attention: Desk 

Officer for the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission]. For security 

reasons, comments should be sent by 

email to OMB at the following email 

address: oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Please refer to the appropriate OMB 

Control Number(s) and Docket No. 

RD22–2–000 in your submission. 

Environmental Analysis 

The Commission is required to 

prepare an Environmental Assessment 

or an Environmental Impact Statement 

for any action that may have a 

significant adverse effect on the human 

environment.13 The Commission has 

categorically excluded certain actions 

from this requirement as not having a 

significant effect on the human 

environment. Included in the exclusion 

are rules that are clarifying, corrective, 

or procedural or that do not 

substantially change the effect of the 

regulations being amended.14 The 

actions approved here fall within this 

categorical exclusion in the 

Commission’s regulations. 

Document Availability 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov) and in the Commission’s 

Public Reference Room during normal 

business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern time) at 888 First Street NE, 

Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426. 

From the Commission’s Home Page 

on the internet, this information is 

available on eLibrary. The full text of 

this document is available on eLibrary 

in PDF and Microsoft Word format for 

viewing, printing, and/or downloading. 

To access this document in eLibrary, 

type the docket number excluding the 

last three digits of this document in the 

docket number field. 

User assistance is available for 

eLibrary and the Commission’s website 

during normal business hours from the 

Commission’s Online Support at (202) 

502–6652 (toll free at 1–866–208–3676) 

or email at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, 

or the Public Reference Room at (202) 

502–8371, TTY (202) 502–8659. Email 

the Public Reference Room at 

public.referenceroom@ferc.gov. 

By direction of the Commission. 

Dated: April 8, 2022. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–07987 Filed 4–13–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP21–44–000] 

LA Storage, LLC; Notice of Availability 

of the Final Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Proposed Hackberry 

Storage Project 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared a final 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

for the Hackberry Storage Project 

(Project), proposed by LA Storage, LLC 

(LA Storage) in the above-referenced 

docket. LA Storage requests 

authorization to construct and operate 

natural gas storage and transmission 

facilities in Louisiana. The Project is 

designed to provide 20.03 billion cubic 

feet of working gas storage capacity and 

1.5 billion cubic feet per day of gas 

deliverability and injectability, and 

interconnecting with the Cameron 

Interstate Pipeline (CIP) facilities 

operated by Cameron Interstate 

Pipeline, LLC and the Port Arthur 

Pipeline Louisiana Connector (PAPLC) 

facilities to be operated by Port Arthur 

Pipeline, LLC. 

The final EIS assesses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

Project in accordance with the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act. FERC staff 

concludes that approval of the proposed 

Project, with the mitigation measures 

recommended in the EIS, would result 

in some adverse environmental impacts; 

however, with the exception of climate 

change impacts, those impacts would 

not be significant. The EIS does not 

characterize 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 climate change significance 

determinations going forward.1

The final EIS addresses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

following Project facilities: The Project 

would involve the conversion of three 

existing salt dome caverns to natural gas 

storage service and the development of 

one new salt dome cavern for additional 

natural gas storage service, all within a 

permanent natural gas storage facility on 

a 160-acre tract of land owned by LA 

Storage in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. 

In addition to the storage caverns, LA 

Storage would construct and operate onsite compression facilities (Pelican 

Compressor Station) and up to six 

solution mining water supply wells at 

the storage facility on LA Storage’s 

property. LA Storage would also 

construct and operate the following 

natural gas facilities in Cameron and 

Calcasieu Parishes, Louisiana: The 

Hackberry Pipeline, consisting of 

approximately 11.1 miles of 42-inchdiameter natural gas pipeline 

connecting the certificated PAPLC 

pipeline (CP18–7) to the natural gas 

storage caverns; the CIP Lateral, an 

approximately 4.9-mile-long, 42-inchdiameter natural gas pipeline extending 

from the existing CIP to the planned 

natural gas storage caverns; metering 

and regulating at the CIP and PAPLC 

interconnects; and an approximately 

6.2-mile-long, 16-inch-diameter brine 

disposal pipeline that would transport 

brine from the caverns to four saltwater 

disposal wells located on two new pads 

north of the facility. 

The Commission mailed a copy of the 

Notice of Availability of the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Proposed Hackberry Storage Project to 

federal, state, and local government 

representatives and agencies; local 

libraries; newspapers; elected officials; 

Native American Tribes; and other 

interested parties. The final 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 final 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., CP21–44–000). 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. 

Additional information about the 

Project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC 


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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: April 8, 2022. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–07984 Filed 4–13–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 15261–000] 

Nevada Hydro, Inc.; Notice of 

Preliminary Permit Application 

Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 

Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 

Competing Applications 

On February 8, 2022, Nevada Hydro 

Company, Inc. filed an application for a 

preliminary permit, pursuant to section 

4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), 

proposing to study the feasibility of the 

Lake Elsinore Advanced Pumped 

Storage Project to be located on Lake 

Elsinore and San Juan Creek near the 

city of Lake Elsinore in Riverside and 

San Diego Counties, California. The 

project would occupy about 845 acres of 

federal land administered by the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service. 

The sole purpose of a preliminary 

permit, if issued, is to grant the permit 

holder priority to file a license 

application during the permit term. A 

preliminary permit does not authorize 

the permit holder to perform any landdisturbing activities or otherwise enter 

upon lands or waters owned by others 

without the owners’ express permission. 

The proposed project would consist 

of: (1) A new upper reservoir (Decker 

Canyon) with a gross storage volume of 

5,750 acre-feet and a surface area of 

approximately 70 acres at a normal 

reservoir surface elevation of 2,790 feet 

above mean sea level (msl); (2) a 262- 

foot-high main dam located on the 

southwest side of the upper reservoir; 

(3) a water conduit system consisting of 

a 1,248-foot-long, 25-foot-diameter 

concrete-lined power shaft and a 8,247- 

foot-long, 15-foot-diameter power 

tunnel transitioning to two, 250-footlong, 12-foot-diameter steel penstocks; 

(4) an underground powerhouse with 

two, reversible Francis-type pumpturbine units with a total installed 

capacity of 500 megawatts; (5) the 

existing Lake Elsinore, to be used as a 

lower reservoir, with a surface area of 

about 3,412 acres at a normal reservoir 

surface elevation of 1,249 feet above 

msl; (6) two 2,450-foot-long, 25-footwide, and 25-foot-high concrete-lined 

tailrace tunnels; (7) about 32 miles of 

500-kilovolt transmission line 

connecting the project to an existing 

transmission line owned by Southern 

California Edison that is located north of 

the proposed project and to an existing 

San Diego Gas and Electric Company 

transmission line located to the south; 

and (8) appurtenant facilities. The 

estimated annual generation of the 

project would be 1,560 gigawatt-hours. 

Applicant Contacts: Mr. Michael 

Swiger, Van Ness Feldman LLP, 1050 

Thomas Jefferson Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20007; (202) 298–1891; 

mas@vnf.com; and Mr. Paul Anderson, 

Nevada Hydro Company, Inc., 2416 

Cades Way, Vista, California 92081; 

(951) 585–3277; paul@leapsphs.com. 

FERC Contact: Tim Konnert, (202) 

502–6359. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Competing applications and notices of 

intent must meet the requirements of 18 

CFR 4.36. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments, 

motions to intervene, notices of intent, 

and competing applications using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at https:// 

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

QuickComment.aspx. You must include 

your name and contact information at 

the end of your comments. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or 

(202) 502–8659 (TTY). In lieu of 

electronic filing, you may submit a 

paper copy. 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. The first page of any filing 

should include docket number P– 

15261–000. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the application, can 

be viewed, or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link of the Commission’s website at 

https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/search. 

Enter the docket number (P–15261) in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

Dated: April 8, 2022. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–07982 Filed 4–13–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2014–0859; FRL–9719–02– 

ORD] 

Supplement to the 2019 Integrated 

Science Assessment for Particulate 

Matter 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing the 

availability of a final document titled, 

‘‘Supplement to the 2019 Integrated 

Science Assessment for Particulate 

Matter (Final)’’ ([EPA/600/R–22/028]). 

The document was prepared by the 

Center for Public Health and 

Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) 

within EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development (ORD) as part of the 

reconsideration of the EPA’s 2020 final 

action reviewing the National Ambient 

Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for 

particulate matter (PM). The 

Supplement represents a targeted 

review of peer-reviewed studies 

published since the literature cutoff date 

(i.e., ∼January 2018) of the 2019 

Integrated Science Assessment for 

Particulate Matter (PM ISA). The 

Supplement and the 2019 p.m. ISA 

provide the scientific basis for EPA’s 

decisions, in conjunction with 

additional technical and policy 

assessments, for the reconsideration of 

the EPA’s 2020 review of the NAAQS 

and the appropriateness of possible 

alternative standards. 

DATES: The document will be available 

on or about May 13, 2022. 


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