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21 November 2006
[Federal Register: November 21, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 224)]
[Notices]
[Page 67422-67424]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[USCG-2006-26009]
Calypso LNG LLC, Calypso Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port
License Application; Preparation of Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of intent; notice of public meeting; request for
comments.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration (MARAD)
announce that the Coast Guard intends to prepare an environmental
impact statement (EIS) as part of the environmental review of this
license application. The application describes a project that would be
located in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 9 miles northeast of Port
Everglades, Florida. Publication of this notice begins a scoping
process that will help identify and determine the scope of
environmental issues to be addressed in the EIS. This notice requests
public participation in the scoping process and provides information on
how to participate.
DATES: The public meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL will be held on
December 6, 2006. The public meeting will be held from 6:30 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. and will be preceded by an open house from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The public meeting may end earlier or later than the stated time,
depending on the number of persons wishing to speak. Material submitted
in response to the request for comments must reach the Docket
Management Facility by December 21, 2006.
ADDRESSES: The public meetings will be held at: Fort Lauderdale
Marriott North, 6500 North Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
33309; 954-771-0440.
Address docket submissions for USCG-2006-26009 to: Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation,400 Seventh
Street SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001.
The Docket Management Facility accepts hand-delivered submissions,
and makes docket contents available for public inspection and copying
at this address, in room PL-401, 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: Mary K. Jager, U.S. Coast Guard,
telephone: 202-372-1454, e-mail: mary.k.jager@uscg.mil. If you have
questions on viewing the docket, call Renee V. Wright, Program Manager,
Docket Operations, telephone: 202-493-0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Meeting and Open House
We invite you to learn about the proposed deepwater port at an
informational open house, and to comment at a public meeting on
environmental issues related to the proposed deepwater port. Your
comments will help us identify and refine the scope of the
environmental issues to be addressed in the EIS.
In order to allow everyone a chance to speak at the public meeting,
we may limit speaker time, or extend the meeting hours, or both. You
must identify yourself, and any organization you represent, by name.
Your remarks will be recorded or transcribed for inclusion in the
public docket.
You may submit written material at the public meeting, either in
place of or in addition to speaking. Written material must include your
name and address, and will be included in the public docket.
Public docket materials will be made available to the public on the
Docket Management Facility's Docket Management System (DMS). See
``Request for Comments'' for information about DMS and your rights
under the Privacy Act.
All of our public meeting locations are wheelchair-accessible. If
you plan to attend the open house or public meeting, and need special
assistance such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable
accommodation, please notify the Coast Guard (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT) at least 3 business days in advance. Include your
contact information as well as information about your specific needs.
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Request for Comments
We request public comments or other relevant information on
environmental issues related to the proposed deepwater port. The public
meeting is not the only opportunity you have to comment. In addition to
or in place of attending a meeting, you can submit comments to the
Docket Management Facility during the public comment period (see
DATES). We will consider all comments and material received during the
comment period.
Submissions should include:
Docket number USCG-2006-26009.
Your name and address.
Your reasons for making each comment or for bringing
information to our attention.
Submit comments or material using only one of the following
methods:
Electronic submission to DMS, http://dms.dot.gov.
Fax, mail, or hand delivery to the Docket Management
Facility (see ADDRESSES). Faxed or hand delivered submissions must be
unbound, no larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, and suitable for copying
and electronic scanning. If you mail your submission and want to know
when it reaches the Facility, include a stamped, self-addressed
postcard or envelope.
Regardless of the method used for submitting comments or material,
all submissions will be posted, without change, to the DMS Web site
(http://dms.dot.gov), and will include any personal information you
provide. Therefore, submitting this information makes it public. You
may wish to read the Privacy Act notice that is available on the DMS
Web site, or the Department of Transportation Privacy Act Statement
that appeared in the Federal Register on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477).
You may view docket submissions at the Docket Management Facility
(see ADDRESSES), or electronically on the DMS Web site.
Background
Information about deepwater ports, the statutes and regulations
governing their licensing, and the receipt of the current application
for the proposed Calypso deepwater port appears at 71 FR 65031,
November 6, 2006. The ``Summary of the Application'' from that
publication is reprinted below for your convenience.
Consideration of a deepwater port license application includes
review of the proposed deepwater port's natural and human environmental
impacts. The Coast Guard is the lead agency for determining the scope
of this review, and in this case the Coast Guard has determined that
review must include preparation of an EIS. This notice of intent is
required by 40 CFR 1501.7, and briefly describes the proposed action
and possible alternatives and our proposed scoping process. You can
address any questions about the proposed action, the scoping process,
or the EIS to the Coast Guard contact person identified in FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
Proposed Action and Alternatives
The proposed action requiring environmental review is the Federal
licensing of the proposed deepwater port described in ``Summary of the
Application'' below. The alternatives to licensing the proposed port
are: (1) Licensing with conditions (including conditions designed to
mitigate environmental impact), and (2) denying the application, which
for purposes of environmental review is the ``no-action'' alternative.
Scoping Process
Public scoping is an early and open process for identifying and
determining the scope of issues to be addressed in the EIS. Scoping
begins with this notice, continues through the public comment period
(see DATES), and ends when the Coast Guard has completed the following
actions:
Invites the participation of Federal, State, and local
agencies, any affected Indian tribe, the applicant, and other
interested persons;
Determines the actions, alternatives, and impacts
described in 40 CFR 1508.25;
Identifies and eliminates from detailed study those issues
that are not significant or that have been covered elsewhere;
Allocates responsibility for preparing EIS components;
Indicates any related environmental assessments or
environmental impact statements that are not part of the EIS;
Identifies other relevant environmental review and
consultation requirements;
Indicates the relationship between timing of the
environmental review and other aspects of the application process; and
At its discretion, exercises the options provided in 40
CFR 1501.7 (b).
Once the scoping process is complete, the Coast Guard will prepare
a draft EIS, and we will publish a Federal Register notice announcing
its public availability. (If you want that notice to be sent to you,
please contact the Coast Guard project manager identified in FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.) You will have an opportunity to review
and comment on the draft EIS. The Coast Guard will consider those
comments and then prepare the final EIS. As with the draft EIS, we will
announce the availability of the final EIS and once again give you an
opportunity for review and comment.
Summary of the Application
Calypso LNG LLC, proposes to own, construct, and operate a
deepwater port, named Calypso, in the Federal waters of the Outer
Continental Shelf in the OCS NG 17-06 (Bahamas) lease area,
approximately 9 miles off the east coast of Florida to the northeast of
Port Everglades, in a water depth of approximately 800 to 950 feet.
Calypso would consist of a permanently moored unloading buoy system
with two (2) submersible buoys separated by a distance of approximately
three (3) miles. Each unloading buoy would be permanently secured to
eight or nine mooring lines, consisting of wire rope, chain, and
buoyancy elements, each attached to anchor points on the seabed. Anchor
points would consist of a combination of suction piles and gravity
anchors.
The buoys would be designed to moor and unload two (2) types of LNG
vessels: a transport and regasification vessel (TRV) of approximately
140,000 cubic meter capacity and a storage and regasification ship
(SRS) of approximately 250,000 cubic meter capacity. Both vessels would
be equipped to vaporize LNG cargo to natural gas through an onboard
closed loop vaporization system, and to odorize and meter gas for send-
out by means of the unloading buoy to conventional subsea pipelines.
The TRVs would moor to the westernmost buoy, and the SRS to the
easternmost buoy. The mooring buoys would be connected through the
vessels' hulls to specially designed turrets that would enable the
vessel to weathervane or rotate in response to prevailing wind, wave,
and current directions. When the vessels are not present, the buoys
would be submerged approximately 100 feet below the sea surface.
The unloading buoys would connect through flexible risers and two
(2) approximately 2.5 mile long 30-inch flowlines located on the seabed
that would connect directly to the Calypso pipeline, a Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) permitted pipeline.
Three types of vessels would be associated with the port: The TRV
drawn from the existing and future global fleet of specialized LNG
carriers compatible with Calypso's unloading buoy system; the SRS, a
specialized, purpose-built modified LNG carrier,
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designed to accept, regasify, odorize and meter LNG from conventional
LNG carriers and deliver it to the pipeline through Calypso's unloading
buoy system; and conventional LNG carriers. When empty the TRV would
disconnect from the buoy and leave the port, followed by another full
TRV that would arrive and connect to the buoy. The SRS would normally
remain attached to its mooring buoy. To sustain continuous
vaporization, the SRS' cargo tanks would be refilled approximately
every two (2) to four (4) days by standard LNG carriers drawn from the
global fleet. The SRS would be capable of detaching from the buoy if
threatened by a severe storm, such as a hurricane, and move under its
own power to safety; then return and reconnect to the buoy and continue
operations once the storm danger passed.
Calypso would be capable of delivering natural gas in a continuous
flow by having at least one TRV or SRS regasifying at all times. The
system would be designed so that a TRV and SRS can be moored
simultaneously for concurrent unloading of natural gas. Calypso would
have an average throughput capacity of approximately 1.1 billion
standard cubic feet per day and a peak delivery capacity of 1.9 Bcsfd.
No onshore pipelines or LNG storage facilities are associated with
the proposed deepwater port application. A shore based facility would
be used to facilitate movement of personnel, equipment, supplies, and
disposable materials between the port and shore.
Construction of the deepwater port would be expected to take three
(3) years; with startup of commercial operations following
construction, should a license be issued. The deepwater port would be
designed, constructed and operated in accordance with applicable codes
and standards and would have an expected operating life of
approximately 25 years.
Privacy Act
Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on
April 11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70; Pages 19477-78) or you may visit
http://dms.dot.gov.
(Authority 49 CFR 1.66)
By order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: November 16, 2006.
Joel C. Richard,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-19659 Filed 11-20-06; 8:45 am]
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