[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 55 (Wednesday, March 22, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17213-17214]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05890]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP22-43-000]


Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; Notice of Request for Extension 
of Time

    Take notice that on March 7, 2023, Texas Eastern Transmission, LP 
(Texas Eastern) requested that Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(Commission) grant an extension of time, until April 7, 2024, to 
complete its Gator Express Meter Station Project (Project). Texas 
Eastern received a prior notice authorization for the Project on 
February 7, 2022, which authorized: Texas Eastern to construct and 
operate interconnection facilities between Texas Eastern and Venture 
Global Gator Express, LLC (Gator Express) in Plaquemines Parish, 
Louisiana. Specifically, Texas Eastern proposed to construct a new 
metering and regulating facilities (M&R Facilities) which will be 
installed on a platform owned by Gator Express with approximately 0.2 
mile of 30-inch-diameter interconnecting piping and a riser to connect 
Texas Eastern's Line to M&R Facilities on the Gator Express platform. 
The Commission's prior notice regulations require Texas Eastern to 
complete the construction of the Project and make it available for 
service within one year from issuance, or by April 8, 2023.\1\
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    \1\ 18 CFR 157.207(c).
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    In Texas Eastern's request for an extension of time, Texas Eastern 
stated that during construction Gator Express was unable to provide 
Texas Eastern with access to the platform, as Gator Express experienced 
its own extenuating circumstances that caused its delay in constructing 
the platform, including severe weather. Due to the extenuating 
circumstances Texas Eastern requests an extension of time which to 
complete the Project from the one-year date of April 8, 2023, to the 
new projected completion date of April 8, 2024.
    This notice establishes a 15-calendar day intervention and comment 
period deadline. Any person wishing to comment on SNG's 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).\2\
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    \2\ Only motions to intervene from entities that were party to 
the underlying proceeding will be accepted. Algonquin Gas 
Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC ] 61,144, at P 39 (2020).
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    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,\3\ the 
Commission will aim to issue an order acting on the request within 45 
days.\4\ The Commission will address all arguments relating to whether 
the applicant has demonstrated there is good cause to grant the 
extension.\5\ 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.\6\ 
At the time

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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.\7\ The OEP Director, or his or her 
designee, will act on those extension requests that are uncontested.
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    \3\ Contested proceedings are those where an intervenor disputes 
any material issue of the filing. 18 CFR 385.2201(c)(1) (2020).
    \4\ Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC ] 61,144, at P 40 
(2020).
    \5\ Id. P 40.
    \6\ 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.
    \7\ 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 the Commission's Public 
Reference Room, due to the proclamation declaring a National Emergency 
concerning 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 TTY, (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 should 
submit an original copy of the protest or intervention by U.S. mail to 
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions by any 
other courier in docketed proceedings should be delivered to, Kimberly 
D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins 
Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
    Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on March 31, 2023.

    Dated: March 16, 2023.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-05890 Filed 3-21-23; 8:45 am]
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