Document ID: FERC-2020-0360-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Suspending Environmental Review Schedule: Commonwealth LNG, LLC
Posted Date: 2020-03-25T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 25, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16935-16936]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-06232]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP19-502-000]

Commonwealth LNG, LLC; Notice Suspending Environmental Review 
Schedule

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) is 
suspending the environmental review schedule for Commonwealth LNG, 
LLC's (Commonwealth) proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export 
terminal in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The notice of schedule, issued 
on October 15, 2019, identified a May 2020 draft Environmental Impact 
Statement (EIS) issuance date and an October 2, 2020 final EIS issuance 
date. This schedule was based upon Commonwealth providing complete and 
timely responses to any data requests. In its February 4, 2020 partial 
response to staff's January 2, 2020 data request, Commonwealth stated 
it would provide the remainder of the outstanding responses in stages 
through July 2020, including an official interpretation from the United 
States Department of Transportation--Pipeline and Hazardous Material 
Safety Administration (PHMSA) in June 2020 pertaining to Commonwealth's 
proposed LNG storage tank design.
    Because the outstanding data responses to staff's data request and 
the issuance of the PHMSA interpretation are expected after the 
previously announced draft EIS date, the Commission will suspend the 
environmental review schedule for the project. Once staff has reviewed 
both the responses and the PHMSA interpretation, the Commission will 
issue a revised schedule for the draft and final EIS. This is not a 
suspension of the Commission staff's review of Commonwealth's project. 
Staff will continue to process Commonwealth's proposal to the extent 
possible based upon the information Commonwealth has filed to date 
while awaiting the responses and the PHMSA interpretation.

Additional Information

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``General Search'' from the eLibrary menu, enter the selected date 
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    Dated: March 16, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-06232 Filed 3-24-20; 8:45 am]
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