Hazardous Materials: Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Assessment for a Special Permit Request for Liquefied Natural Gas by Rail
| Published date | 09 July 2019 |
| Citation | 84 FR 32831 |
| Record Number | 2019-14532 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Pipeline And Hazardous Materials Safety Administration |
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 131 (Tuesday, July 9, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 131 (Tuesday, July 9, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32831-32832]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14532]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2019-0100]
Hazardous Materials: 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; comment period extension.
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SUMMARY: PHMSA is extending the comment period for the notice
announcing the availability for public review of and comment on the
draft environmental assessment for a special permit request to
transport ``Methane, Refrigerated Liquid'' (i.e., liquefied natural
gas) by rail tank car.
DATES: The comment period for the notice published June 6, 2019, at 84
FR 26507, is extended. Comments should
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be received on or before August 7, 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.
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 [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On June 6, 2019, PHMSA published a notice announcing the
availability of a draft environmental assessment for public review.
Specifically, PHMSA received a request for a 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. The request is to authorize shipment of
LNG in a DOT specification 113C120W tank car subject to certain
operational conditions. We invited interested persons to review and
provide comment on the ``draft environmental assessment'' for this
special permit request; and to include relevant information on
potential safety, environmental, and any additional impacts that should
be considered. PHMSA has also included the draft special permit in the
docket for this notice as further reference material. The notice, draft
environmental assessment, and draft special permit are available for
review at http://www.regulations.gov under Docket number PHMSA-2019-
0100.
II. Comment Period Extension
PHMSA is granting a request to extend the comment period. The
request was received from two members of Congress.\1\ PHMSA initially
provided a 30-day comment period to the notice, which ends on July 8,
2019. The comment period is being extended 30 days. The comment period
will now close on August 7, 2019. This will allow PHMSA to seek
additional review and public input on this issue.
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\1\ See June 28, 2019, letter from Representative Peter A.
DeFazio, Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
and Representative Tom Malinowski, which has been added to the
docket at www.regulations.gov.
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III. Additional Docket Materials
PHMSA is also using this comment period extension notice to make
the public aware of additional documents submitted to the docket and
available for public review:
1. An updated draft Environmental Assessment.
2. The Energy Transport Solutions, LLC Quantitative Risk Assessment
(QRA).
3. The Energy Transport Solutions, LLC special permit application
(in redacted form).
Issued in Washington, DC, on July 3, 2019, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR part 1.97.
Drue Pearce,
Deputy Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration.
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