Document ID: FERC-2023-0198-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; Appalachia to Market II and Entriken HP Replacement Project
Posted Date: 2023-02-16T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 32 (Thursday, February 16, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10108-10109]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-03306]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP22-486-000]

Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; Notice of Availability of the 
Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Appalachia to Market II and 
Entriken Replacement Project

    The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or 
Commission) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) for the 
Appalachia to Market II and Entriken HP Replacement Project (Project) 
proposed by Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas Eastern) in the 
above-referenced docket. Texas Eastern proposes to construct, operate, 
and maintain the Line 28 Loop, consisting of 2 miles of 36-inch-
diameter looping \1\ pipeline; a new receiver, valve, and crossover 
site; a 27,000 horsepower (hp) electric motor driven (EMD) compressor 
unit and associated buildings and piping at the Armagh Compressor 
Station; construct a 24,000 hp EMD compressor unit and associated 
buildings and piping at the Entriken Compressor Station. The Project 
would be located in Huntington, Indiana and Lebanon counties, 
Pennsylvania, and would allow Texas Eastern to provide up to 55,000 
Dth/d of firm natural gas transportation service from the Appalachian 
supply basin in Southwest Pennsylvania to delivery points in New 
Jersey.
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    \1\ A pipeline loop is a segment of pipe constructed parallel to 
an existing pipeline to increase capacity.
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    The EA assesses the potential environmental effects of the 
construction and operation of the Project in accordance with the 
requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. With the 
exception of climate change impacts, FERC staff concludes that approval 
of the proposed project, with the mitigation measures recommended in 
the EA, would not result in significant environmental impacts. Climate 
change impacts are not characterized in the EA as significant or 
insignificant because the Commission is conducting a generic proceeding 
to determine whether and how the Commission will conduct significant 
determinations going forward.\2\ The EA also concludes that no system, 
route, or other alternative would meet the Project objective while 
providing a significant environmental advantage over the Project as 
proposed.
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    \2\ Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Natural Gas 
Infrastructure Project Reviews, 178 FERC ] 61,108 (2022); 178 FERC ] 
61,197 (2022).
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    The Commission mailed a copy of the Notice of Availability of the 
Environmental Assessment for the Appalachia to Market II and Entriken 
HP Replacement 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 EA 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/industries-data/natural-gas/environment/environmental-documents). In addition, the EA 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., CP22-
486). Be sure you have selected an appropriate date range. For 
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected] or toll free at (866) 208-3676, or for TTY, 
contact (202) 502-8659.
    The EA 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 EA may do so. Your comments should 
focus on the EA's disclosure and discussion of potential environmental 
effects, measures to avoid or lessen environmental impacts and the 
completeness of the submitted alternatives, information and analyses. 
The more specific your comments, the more useful they would be. To 
ensure that the Commission has the opportunity to consider your 
comments prior to making its decision on this project, it is important 
that we receive your comments in Washington, DC on or before 5:00 p.m. 
Eastern Time on March 13, 2023.
    For your convenience, there are three methods you can use to submit 
your comments to the Commission. The Commission encourages electronic 
filing of comments and has staff available to assist you at (866) 208-
3676 or [email protected]. 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 Online. With eFiling, you can provide 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

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``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 (CP22-
486-000) 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.
    Filing environmental comments will not give you intervenor status, 
but you do not need intervenor status to have your comments considered. 
Only intervenors have the right to seek rehearing or judicial review of 
the Commission's decision. At this point in this proceeding, the 
timeframe for filing timely intervention requests has expired. Any 
person seeking to become a party to the proceeding must file a motion 
to intervene out-of-time pursuant to Rule 214(b)(3) and (d) of the 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedures (18 CFR 385.214(b)(3) and 
(d)) and show good cause why the time limitation should be waived. 
Motions to intervene are more fully described at https://www.ferc.gov/how-intervene.
    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: February 10, 2023.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-03306 Filed 2-15-23; 8:45 am]
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