Document ID: FERC-2022-1161-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Granting Interventions: Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., LLC
Posted Date: 2022-09-13T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 176 (Tuesday, September 13, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 56048]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19722]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP21-94-000]

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC; Notice Granting 
Interventions

    On April 9, 2021, the Commission issued notice of Transcontinental 
Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC's (Transco) application pursuant to section 
7(c) of the Natural Gas Act for a certificate of public convenience and 
necessity to construct and operate the Regional Energy Access Expansion 
Project. The notice established April 30, 2021, as the deadline for 
filing motions to intervene.
    On March 2, 2022, the Commission issued the Notice of Availability 
of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the project and opened 
a new intervention and comment period ending on April 25, 2022. 
Pursuant to the Commission's regulations, any person may file to 
intervene on environmental grounds based on the draft EIS and such 
intervention will be deemed timely if filed within the draft EIS 
comment period.\1\
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    \1\ 18 CFR 157.10(a)(2) (2021) (providing that ``any person may 
file to intervene on environmental grounds based on the draft 
environmental impact''); id. at Sec.  380.10(a)(1)(i) (allowing any 
person to file a motion to intervene on the basis of a draft 
environmental impact statement).
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    On April 25, 2022, the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters 
filed timely, doc-less motions to intervene noting multiple 
environmental concerns regarding the project. On April 25, 2022, the 
New Jersey Conservation Foundation filed a timely motion to intervene 
environmental concerns regarding the project's GHG emissions and 
proximity to environmental justice communities. Transco opposes these 
motions for failing to show ``good cause'' by stating that they have a 
clear and direct interest in this proceeding which no other party can 
adequately represent.\2\
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    \2\ Transco May 10, 2022 Answer Opposing Motions to Intervene in 
Docket No. CP21-94.
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    Pursuant to Rule 214(c)(2) of the Commission's Rules of Practice 
and Procedure,\3\ if an answer in opposition to a timely motion to 
intervene is filed within 15 days after the motion to intervene is 
filed, the movant becomes a party only when the motion is expressly 
granted. Because both New Jersey League of Conservation Voters and the 
New Jersey Conservation Foundation demonstrated that they represent 
interests that may be affected by the outcome of this proceeding and 
identified environmental grounds for their interventions, their motions 
to intervene are granted.
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    \3\ 18 CFR 385.214(c)(2) (2021).

    Dated: September 7, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-19722 Filed 9-12-22; 8:45 am]
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