Document ID: FERC-2022-0156-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Request for Extension of Time: Lake Charles LNG Co., LLC, Lake Charles LNG Export Co., LLC, Trunkline Gas Co., LLC
Posted Date: 2022-02-09T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 27 (Wednesday, February 9, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7446-7447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-02701]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. CP14-120-000;CP14-119-000]

Lake Charles LNG Company, LLC; Trunkline Gas Company, LLC; Notice 
of Request for Extension of Time

    Take notice that on January 31, 2022, Lake Charles LNG Company, LLC 
(Lake Charles LNG); Lakes Charles LNG Export Company, LLC (Lake Charles 
LNG Export); and Trunkline Gas Company, LLC (Trunkline; collectively, 
the Applicants), requested that the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission (Commission) grant an extension of time, until December 16, 
2028, to complete construction of the Liquefaction Project and the 
Pipeline Modifications Project (collectively, the Project) and make the 
Project available for service as authorized in the December 17, 2015 
Order Granting Section 3 and Section 7 Authorizations and Approving 
Abandonment (Order).\1\
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    \1\ Lake Charles LNG Company, LLC, et al., 153 FERC ] 61,300 
(2015), reh'g denied, 155 FERC ] 61,328 (2016) (Order).
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    The Liquefaction Project is an export project, consisting of three 
liquefaction trains, with a total design production capacity of 16.45 
metric tons per annum of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and appurtenances, 
to be located adjacent to Lake Charles LNG's existing LNG terminal in 
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (Terminal); and modifications and 
installation of certain facilities at the Terminal. The Pipeline 
Modifications Project consist of the (1) construction of approximately 
17.9 miles of pipeline; (2) construction of a new compressor station; 
(3) installation of additional compression at the Longville

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Compressor Station; (4) construction of five new meter stations; (5) 
piping modifications at four compressor stations; and (6) construction/
modifications of various appurtenances, all located in Arkansas, 
Mississippi, and Louisiana.
    The Order required Trunkline to complete construction of the 
Pipeline Modifications Project and make it available for service within 
four years of the date of the Order; the Order further required Lake 
Charles LNG and Lake Charles LNG Export to complete construction of the 
Liquefaction Project and make it available for service within five 
years of the date of the Order.\2\ On December 5, 2019, the Applicants 
were granted their request for an extension for both projects, until 
December 16, 2025, to complete construction and place the Project into 
service.\3\ The Applicants state that global market conditions have 
impacted its ability to reach a final investment decision and secure 
long-term offtake contracts, thus they now request an additional three 
years, until December 16, 2028, to complete construction of the Project 
and place it into service.
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    \2\ Order, 153 FERC ] 61,300 at Ordering Paragraphs (B)(1) and 
(L), respectively.
    \3\ Letter Order to Trunkline Gas Company, LLC; Lake Charles LNG 
Company, LLC; and Lake Charles LNG Export Company, LLC; Docket Nos. 
CP14-119-000, CP14-120-000, and CP14-122-000 (issued December 5, 
2019) (Letter Order).
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    This notice establishes a 15-calendar day intervention and comment 
period deadline. Any person wishing to comment on the Applicants' 
request for an extension of time may do so. No reply comments or 
answers will be considered. If you wish to obtain legal status by 
becoming a party to the proceedings for this request, you should, on or 
before the comment date stated below, file a motion to intervene in 
accordance with the requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice 
and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) and the Regulations under the 
Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10).
    As a matter of practice, the Commission itself generally acts on 
requests for extensions of time to complete construction for Natural 
Gas Act facilities when such requests are contested before order 
issuance. For those extension requests that are contested,\4\ the 
Commission will aim to issue an order acting on the request within 45 
days.\5\ The Commission will address all arguments relating to whether 
the applicant has demonstrated there is good cause to grant the 
extension.\6\ The Commission will not consider arguments that re-
litigate the issuance of the certificate order, including whether the 
Commission properly found the project to be in the public convenience 
and necessity and whether the Commission's environmental analysis for 
the certificate complied with the National Environmental Policy Act.\7\ 
At the time a pipeline requests an extension of time, orders on 
certificates of public convenience and necessity are final and the 
Commission will not re-litigate their issuance.\8\ The OEP Director, or 
his or her designee, will act on all of those extension requests that 
are uncontested.
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    \4\ Contested proceedings are those where an intervenor disputes 
any material issue of the filing. 18 CFR 385.2201(c)(1) (2019).
    \5\ Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC ] 61,144, at P 40 
(2020).
    \6\ Id. at P 40.
    \7\ Similarly, the Commission will not re-litigate the issuance 
of an NGA section 3 authorization, including whether a proposed 
project is not inconsistent with the public interest and whether the 
Commission's environmental analysis for the permit order complied 
with NEPA.
    \8\ Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC ] 61,144, at P 40 
(2020).
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    In addition to publishing the full text of this document in the 
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an 
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this document via the 
internet through the Commission's Home Page (http://www.ferc.gov) using 
the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the docket number excluding the last three 
digits in the docket number field to access the document. At this time, 
the Commission has suspended access to Commission's Public Reference 
Room, due to the proclamation declaring a National Emergency concerning 
the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), issued by the President on 
March 13, 2020. For assistance, contact FERC at 
[email protected] or call toll-free, (886) 208-3676 or TYY, 
(202) 502-8659.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings of comments, 
protests and interventions in lieu of paper using the ``eFile'' link at 
http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically may mail 
similar pleadings to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. Hand delivered submissions in 
docketed proceedings should be delivered to Health and Human Services, 
12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
    Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 18, 2022.

    Dated: February 3, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-02701 Filed 2-8-22; 8:45 am]
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