Document ID: FERC-2019-0314-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Opportunity to File Pleadings: Constitution Pipeline Company, LLC
Posted Date: 2019-03-20T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 54 (Wednesday, March 20, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 10305]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05192]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. CP18-5-000, CP18-5-001]

Notice Affording the Parties an Opportunity To File Pleadings: 
Constitution Pipeline Company, LLC

    1. On September 14, 2018, Constitution Pipeline Company, LLC, filed 
with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia 
Circuit (D.C. Circuit) a petition for review of the Commission's orders 
in Constitution Pipeline Co., LLC, 162 FERC ] 61,014 (2018), and 
Constitution Pipeline Co., LLC, 164 FERC ] 61,029 (2018). On February 
25, 2019, the Commission filed an unopposed motion for voluntary remand 
of the above-captioned proceedings \1\ so that it may consider the 
implications of the D.C. Circuit's decision in Hoopa Valley Tribe v. 
FERC.\2\ In the Voluntary Remand Motion, the Commission stated that it 
``will permit the parties to file, within 30 days of the Court's order 
on this motion, supplemental pleadings and record materials on the 
significance of the Hoopa Valley decision. The Commission will also 
permit the parties to file responsive pleadings within 30 days after 
that initial deadline.'' \3\ The D.C. Circuit granted the Voluntary 
Remand Motion on February 28, 2019.\4\
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    \1\ Constitution Pipeline Co., LLC v. FERC, Unopposed Motion of 
Respondent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for Voluntary 
Remand, No. 18-1251 (filed Feb. 25, 2019) (Voluntary Remand Motion).
    \2\ Hoopa Valley Tribe v. FERC, 913 F.3d 1099 (D.C. Cir. 2019) 
(Hoopa Valley decision).
    \3\ Voluntary Remand Motion at 2.
    \4\ Constitution Pipeline Co., LLC v. FERC, No. 18-1251, Order 
(issued Feb. 28, 2019).
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    2. Accordingly, the parties are hereby afforded the opportunity to 
file supplemental pleadings and record materials with the Commission by 
April 1, 2019, addressing the significance to these proceedings of the 
Hoopa Valley decision. The parties may file responsive pleadings with 
the Commission by May 1, 2019.

    Dated: March 11, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-05192 Filed 3-19-19; 8:45 am]
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