Document ID: PHMSA-2019-0100-0002
Agency: phmsa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Hazardous Materials Safety: Draft Environmental Assessment for a Special Permit Request for Liquefied Natural Gas by Rail
Posted Date: 2019-06-06T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 109 (Thursday, June 6, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26507-26508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-11882]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2019-0100]

Hazardous Materials Safety: Notice of Availability of the Draft 
Environmental Assessment for a Special Permit Request for Liquefied 
Natural Gas by Rail

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), 
DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: PHMSA announces the availability for public review and comment 
of the draft environmental assessment for a special permit request to 
transport ``Methane, Refrigerated Liquid'' (i.e., liquefied natural 
gas) by rail tank car.

DATES: Comment must be received by July 8, 2019. To the extent 
possible, PHMSA will consider late-filed comments.

ADDRESSES: Comments should reference the Docket number for this notice 
and may be submitted in the following ways:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.

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     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
     Mail: Docket Management System; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Routing 
Symbol M-30, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
     Hand Delivery: To the Docket Management System; Room W12-
140 on the ground floor of the West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 
SE, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and 
Docket Number (PHMSA-2019-0100) for this notice at the beginning of the 
comment. To avoid duplication, please use only one of these four 
methods. All comments received will be posted without change to the 
Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) and will include any personal 
information you provide. If sent by mail, comments must be submitted in 
duplicate. Persons wishing to receive confirmation of receipt of their 
comments must include a self-addressed stamped postcard.
    Docket: For access to the dockets to read associated documents or 
comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov or DOT's Docket 
Operations Office (see ADDRESSES).
    Privacy Act: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits 
comments from the public to better inform its process. DOT posts these 
comments, without change, including any personal information the 
commenter provides, to http://www.regulations.gov, as described in the 
system of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 
http://www.dot.gov/privacy.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ryan Paquet by telephone at 202-366-
4511, or email at specialpermits@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a request for special permit 
from Energy Transport Solutions, LLC seeking authorization to transport 
``Methane, Refrigerated Liquid'' (UN1972), commonly known and liquefied 
natural gas (LNG), in a rail tank car. Specifically, the request is to 
authorize shipment of LNG in a DOT specification 113C120W tank car 
subject to certain operational conditions. We invite interested persons 
to review and provide comment on the ``draft environmental assessment'' 
for this special permit request. Please include comment on potential 
safety, environmental, and any additional impacts that should be 
considered. The document is available at http://www.regulations.gov 
under Docket number PHMSA-2019-0100. PHMSA has also included the draft 
special permit in the docket for this notice as further reference 
material. Before issuing a final decision on the special permit 
request, PHMSA will evaluate all comments and consider each relevant 
comment we receive in making our decision to grant or deny the request 
for special permit.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2019, under authority 
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
William S. Schoonover,
Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety, Pipeline and 
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
[FR Doc. 2019-11882 Filed 6-5-19; 8:45 am]
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