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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 125 / Friday, July 2, 2021 / Notices
Abstract: This is a request for a new information collection. The Rural, Insular, and Native Achievement Programs RINAP administers Section 1121 of Title I, Part A of the ESEA; Title II of Public Law 108118 Supplemental Education Grant SEG, CARES Act Outlying Areas; Title III of CRRSA
Outlying Areas, Sections 2005 and 1100623 of the ARP; Title V, Part B
of the ESEA Rural Education Achievement Program, Title VI, Part B
of the ESEA Native Hawaiian Education; and Title VI, Part C of the ESEA Alaska Native Education.
Periodic progress updates, phone, virtual, or in-person conversations during a fiscal year with authorized representatives and project directors help ensure grantees are making progress toward meeting program goals and objectives. The information shared with RINAP helps inform the selection and delivery of technical assistance to grantees and aligns structures, processes, and routines so RINAP can monitor the connection between grant administration and intended outcomes.
Dated: June 29, 2021.
Kate Mullan, PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Alaska LNG Project Office of Fossil Energy, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
AGENCY:

On April 15, 2021, the U.S.
Department of Energys Office of Fossil Energy DOE/FE granted a request for rehearing of a final order issued to Alaska LNG Project LLC Alaska LNG
for the export of liquefied natural gas LNG produced from Alaskan sources to non-free trade agreement countries, pursuant to the Natural Gas Act NGA.
In the Rehearing Order, DOE stated that it was granting rehearing for the purpose of conducting two Alaska-specific environmental studies collectively, the Alaska environmental study proceeding. To this end, DOE intends to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement SEIS
for the Alaska environmental study proceeding DOE/EIS0512S1, consistent with the National
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Environmental Policy Act NEPA. The SEIS will include analysis of potential environmental impacts associated with natural gas production on the North Slope of Alaska and a life cycle analysis LCA calculating the greenhouse gas GHG emissions for LNG exported from the proposed Alaska LNG Project.
ADDRESSES: Documents related to the SEIS process will be posted at: https
energy.gov/nepa/doeeis-0512-s1supplemental-environmental-impactstatement-alaska-lng-project.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions concerning the SEIS or requests to be placed on the SEIS
distribution list should be sent to: Brian Lavoie, U.S. Department of Energy FE
34, Office of Regulation, Analysis, and Engagement, Office of Fossil Energy, Forrestal Building, Room 3E042, 1000
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585; 202 5862459;
brian.lavoie@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background On August 20, 2020, DOE issued DOE/FE Order No. 3643A the Alaska LNG Order 1 to Alaska LNG Project LLC
Alaska LNG under section 3a of the NGA.2 DOE/FE authorized Alaska LNG
to export LNG produced from Alaskan sources to any country with which the United States has not entered into a free trade agreement FTA requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas, and with which trade is not prohibited by U.S. law or policy nonFTA countries. Alaska LNG is authorized to export LNG in a volume equivalent to 929 billion cubic feet per year Bcf/yr of natural gas 2.55 Bcf per day, for a term of 30 years, with export operations required to commence within 12 years of the date that the Alaska LNG Order was issued. Exports will occur by vessel from a liquefaction facility to be constructed in the Nikiski area of the Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska Liquefaction Facility, which will be part of the proposed Alaska LNG Project.3
1 Alaska LNG Project LLC, DOE/FE Order No.
3643A, FE Docket 1496LNG, Final Opinion and Order Granting Long-Term Authorization to Export Liquefied Natural Gas to Non-Free Trade Agreement Nations Aug. 20, 2020, available at: https
www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2020/08/f77/
ord3643a.pdf hereinafter Alaska LNG Order.
2 15 U.S.C. 717ba. The authority to regulate the imports and exports of natural gas, including liquefied natural gas, under section 3 of the NGA
15 U.S.C. 717b has been delegated to the Assistant Secretary for FE in Redelegation Order No. S4
DELFE12021, issued on March 25, 2021.
3 See Alaska LNG Project LLC, DOE/FE Order No.
3643B, FE Docket 1496LNG, Order on Rehearing Apr. 15, 2021, available at: https
www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/
ord3643b.pdf hereinafter Rehearing Order.

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Alaska Gasline Development Corporation AGDC, an independent, public corporation of the State of Alaska, applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC for authorization to site, construct, and operate the Alaska LNG Project. As approved by FERC on May 21, 2020,4
the Alaska LNG Project includes the following three elements:
i Producing natural gas from stranded resources on the North Slope of Alaska at a proposed natural gas treatment plant to be located on the North Slope;
ii Transporting the natural gas on a proposed 800-mile long pipeline; and iii Liquefying the natural gas for export from the proposed Liquefaction Facility, which has a planned liquefaction capacity of 20 million metric tons per year of LNG
equivalent to approximately 929 Bcf/yr of natural gas.5

In sum, AGDC holds the FERC
authorization for the Alaska LNG
Project, and Alaska LNG holds the DOE
authorization to export LNG from the Alaska LNG Project. Both the DOE and FERC authorizations have been challenged in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit D.C.
Circuit.6 Those lawsuits are ongoing and are currently subject to various pending procedural motions.
To fulfill its obligations under NEPA,7
DOE/FE participated as a cooperating agency in FERCs review of the Alaska LNG Project.8 FERC issued the final environmental impact statement EIS
for the Alaska LNG Project on March 6, 2020,9 and DOE/FE adopted the final EIS on March 16, 2020 DOE/EIS
0512.10 Subsequently, DOE/FE issued the Alaska LNG Order, conditioning it on Alaska LNGs compliance with the 165 environmental conditions adopted in the FERC Order see supra note 4, among other requirements.11
4 Alaska Gasline Dev. Corp., Order Granting Authorization Under Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act, 171 FERC 61,134, 12 May 21, 2020
hereinafter FERC Order.
5 Rehearing Order at 3.
6 See Sierra Club v. U.S. Dept of Energy, Petition for Review, Case No. 201503 D.C. Cir. Dec. 16, 2020; Center for Biological Diversity, et al., v.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commn, Petition for Review, Case No. 201379 D.C. Cir. Sept. 21, 2020;
see also Rehearing Order at 56.
7 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.
8 See Alaska LNG Order at 23, 32.
9 Federal Energy Regulatory Commn, Alaska LNG
Project Final Environmental Impact Statement, Docket No. CP17178000 Mar. 6, 2020, available at: https www.ferc.gov/industries-data/naturalgas/final-environmental-impact-statement-0
hereinafter final EIS.
10 Letter from Amy Sweeney, DOE/FE, to Julie Roemele, U.S. Envtl. Prot. Agency Mar. 16, 2020
adoption of final EIS, available at: https
www.energy.gov/nepa/downloads/doeeis-0512notice-adoption.
11 See Alaska LNG Order at 42 Ordering Para. H.

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