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20 September 2007
[Federal Register: August 31, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 169)]
[Notice]
[Page 50445-50446]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr31au07-165]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[USCG-2007-28676]
Clearwater Port LLC, Clearwater Port Liquefied Natural Gas
Deepwater Port License Application
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of application.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration announce that
they have received an application for the licensing of a natural gas
deepwater port, and that the application appears to contain the
required information. This notice summarizes the applicant's plans and
the procedures that will be followed in considering the application.
DATES: The Deepwater Port Act of 1974, as amended, requires any public
hearing on this application to be held not later than 240 days after
this notice, and requires a decision on the application to be made not
later than 90 days after the final public hearing.
ADDRESSES: The public docket is maintained by the: Department of
Transportation, Docket Management Facility, West Building, Ground
Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
The docket bears a U.S. Coast Guard identifying number, USCG-2007-
28676, which should be included in your submission, because the Coast
Guard handles much of the processing for each license application.
Docket contents are available for public inspection and copying, at
this address, in room W12-140, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays. The Facility's telephone is
202-366-9329, its fax is 202-493-2251, and its Web site for electronic
submissions or for electronic access to docket contents is http://
dms.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ray Martin, U.S. Coast Guard, at (202)
372-1449 or Raymond.W.Martin@uscg.mil, Kevin Tone, U.S. Coast Guard, at
(202) 372-1441 or Kevin.P.Tone@uscg.mil, or Mr. Scott Davies, U.S.
Maritime Administration, at (202) 366-2763 or Scott.Davies@dot.gov. If
you have questions on viewing the docket, call Renee V. Wright, Program
Manager, Docket Operations, telephone: 202-493-0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Receipt of Application
On July 5, 2006, the Maritime Administration received an
application from Clearwater Port LLC for all Federal authorizations
required for a license to own, construct, and operate a deepwater port
governed by the Deepwater Port Act of 1974, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1501
et seq. (the Act). On August 23, 2007, the Maritime Administration
determined that the application contains all information required by
the Act.
Background
According to the Act, a deepwater port is a fixed or floating
manmade structure other than a vessel, or a group of structures,
located beyond State seaward boundaries and used or intended for use as
a port or terminal for the transportation, storage, and further
handling of oil or natural gas for transportation to any State.
[[Page 50446]]
A deepwater port must be licensed by the Secretary of
Transportation. Statutory and regulatory requirements for licensing
appear in 33 U.S.C. 1501 et seq. and in 33 CFR part 148. Under
delegations from and agreements between the Secretary of Transportation
and the Secretary of Homeland Security, applications are processed by
the U.S. Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration. Each application
is considered on its merits.
The Act provides strict deadlines for processing an application.
Once we determine that an application contains the required
information, we must hold public hearings on the application within 240
days, and the Secretary of Transportation must render a decision on the
application within 330 days. We will publish additional Federal
Register notices to inform you of these public hearings and other
procedural milestones, including environmental review. The Secretary's
decision, and other key documents, will be filed in the public docket.
At least one public hearing must take place in each adjacent
coastal State. For purposes of the Act, California is the adjacent
coastal State for this application. Other States can apply for adjacent
coastal State status in accordance with 33 U.S.C. 1508(a)(2).
Summary of the Application
Clearwater Port LLC (a subsidiary of NorthernStar Natural Gas, LLC)
is proposing to construct Clearwater Port, an offshore liquefied
natural gas receiving terminal and regasification facility located in
federal waters approximately 10.5 miles offshore of the coast of
Oxnard, California in Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lease Block
OCS-P 0217. Clearwater Port would be comprised primarily of Platform
Grace, an offset dual berth (ODB) Satellite Service Platform that would
be installed adjacent to Platform Grace for docking of the LNG
carriers; and a new 36-inch subsea pipeline to transport vaporized
natural gas from the platform connecting at a junction point onshore at
a Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) pipeline located in Rancho
Santa Clara near Camarillo, California. The pipeline would come ashore
within the Reliant Energy Mandalay Power Generating Station and connect
with a new gas receiving and metering facility. The onshore components
of the project would consist of approximately 63 miles of new pipeline
by expanding the SoCalGas pipeline system as follows: A 36-inch
pipeline extending 12.9 miles from the Reliant Energy Mandalay Power
Generating Station to the existing Center Road Station; a 36-inch
pipeline extending 37 miles to loop the existing Line 324 for transport
of additional capacities from the Center Road Station to the existing
Saugus Station; an 8.75-mile leg of 36-inch pipeline to loop the
existing Line 225 for transport of additional capacities from the
existing Honor Rancho Station to the Quigley Station; and, a final 4.5-
mile leg of 36-inch pipeline to extend the existing Line 3008
(currently from the Quigley Valve Station to the Newhall Valve Station)
for transport of additional capacities from the existing Quigley Valve
Station to the existing Balboa Station.
The deepwater port would be able to receive approximately 139 LNG
carriers annually and accommodate two LNG carriers ranging from 70,000
m\3\ to 220,000 m\3\ in capacity. The carriers would transfer LNG one
carrier at a time through a conventional marine loading arm system to
the platform via a cryogenic pipe-in-pipe where it would be regasified
by an ambient air vaporizer (AAV) system. The AAV would have the
capacity to achieve an average hourly rate of 2300 m\3\, an average
daily gas send-out of 1.2 Bcfd and a peak send-out capacity of 1.4
Bcfd. Construction of the deep water port would be expected to take
three (3) years; with start-up of commercial operations following
construction, should a Federal license and the required California
State lease and permits be issued. The deep water port would be
designed, constructed and operated in accordance with applicable codes
and standards and would have an expected operating life of
approximately 30 years.
(Authority 49 CFR 1.66)
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: August 27, 2007.
Daron T. Threet,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-17326 Filed 8-30-07; 8:45 am]
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