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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 125 / Friday, July 2, 2021 / Notices Sierra Club filed a Request for Rehearing of the Alaska LNG Order, and AGDC filed a Motion for Leave to Answer and Answer to Sierra Clubs Request for Rehearing.12 On April 15, 2021, DOE/FE issued the Rehearing Order in which DOE/FE: i Granted AGDCs Motion for Leave to Answer; ii granted Sierra Clubs Rehearing Request for the purpose of conducting the Alaska environmental study proceeding;
and ii denied Sierra Clubs request for DOE/FE to withdraw the Alaska LNG
Order, without prejudice to Sierra Clubs ability to request relief in the future, should circumstances change.13
DOE/FE explained that, since the issuance of the Alaska LNG Order and while DOE/FEs action on Sierra Clubs Rehearing Request was pending, the President had issued two Executive Orders E.O. relevant to the Alaska LNG
proceeding: E.O. 13990, Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis,14 and E.O. 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.15
Consistent with these Executive Orders and to address Sierra Clubs arguments on rehearing, DOE stated that it was appropriate to further evaluate the environmental impacts of exporting LNG from the proposed Alaska LNG
Project to non-FTA countries. Therefore, DOE/FE announced that it was commissioning the Alaska environmental study proceeding.16

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Supplemental EIS SEIS
DOE/FE intends to prepare a SEIS for the Alaska environmental study proceeding. The SEIS will include an 12 See Rehearing Order at 56 providing additional background on DOEs rehearing proceeding. Sierra Clubs and AGDCs arguments on rehearing are summarized in the Rehearing Order at 610.
13 See id. at 2.
14 Exec. Order 13990 of Jan. 20, 2021, Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis, 86 FR 7037
Jan. 25, 2021, available at: https
www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/25/
2021-01765/protecting-public-health-and-theenvironment-and-restoring-science-to-tackle-theclimate-crisis. E.O. 13990 directs agencies to immediately review all regulations, orders, and other actions issued after January 20, 2017, that may increase GHG emissions or have other impacts on climate change.
15 Exec. Order No. 14008 of Jan. 27, 2021, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, 86 FR 7619 Feb. 1, 2021, available at: https
www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/02/01/
2021-02177/tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-homeand-abroad. E.O. 14008 sets forth additional policies to address climate changespecifically to organize and deploy the full capacity of Federal agencies to combat the climate crisisand requires the Federal Government to drive assessment, disclosure, and mitigation of climate pollution and climate-related risks in every sector of the U.S. economy.
16 See Rehearing Order at 1213.

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upstream analysis of potential environmental impacts associated with natural gas production on the North Slope of Alaska. This analysis will examine potential upstream impacts associated with incremental natural gas production on the North Slope of Alaska due to Alaska LNGs exports of LNG.
In addition, the SEIS will include a LCA calculating the GHG emissions for LNG exported from the proposed Alaska LNG Project, taking into account unique issues relating to production, pipeline transportation, and liquefaction in Alaska.17 Specifically, the LCA will examine the life cycle GHG emissions for LNG exported from Alaska by vessel to import markets in Asia the markets targeted for exports from Alaska and potentially in other regions.
DOE/FE has commissioned DOEs National Energy Technology Laboratory NETL to conduct both studies.
Potential Areas of Environmental Analysis For the upstream production study, DOE/FE has tentatively identified the following resource areas for analysis although the following list is not intended to be comprehensive or to predetermine the potential impacts to be analyzed: Land use and visual resources; geology and soils; water resources; air quality and noise;
ecological resources; cultural and paleontological resources;
infrastructure; waste management;
occupational and public health and safety; socioeconomics; transportation;
and environmental justice. For the LCA, DOE/FE will examine the global nature of GHG emissions associated with exports of LNG from Alaska from a life cycle perspective, as stated previously.
NEPA Process and Public Participation in the SEIS
DOE/FE will prepare the SEIS in accordance with the Council on Environmental Quality CEQ
regulations at 40 CFR parts 15001508
and DOE NEPA implementing procedures at 10 CFR part 1021. In accordance with 10 CFR 1021.311f, a public scoping process is not required for a DOE-issued SEIS. DOE/FE will issue a notice in the Federal Register 17 DOE/FE previously has explained that a LCA
is a method of accounting for cradle-to-grave GHG
emissions over a single common denominator. DOE
considers GHG emissions from all processes in the LNG supply chainsfrom the cradle when natural gas is extracted from the ground, to the grave when electricity is used by the consumer.
See U.S. Dept of Energy, Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Perspective on Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas From the United States: 2019 UpdateResponse to Comments, 85 FR 72, 76 Jan. 2, 2020; see also Rehearing Order at 14 n.90.

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detailing the release of the draft SEIS, dates of one or more internet-based public hearings, and instructions for submitting public comments.
Signing Authority This document of the Department of Energy was signed on June 28, 2021, by Jennifer Wilcox, Ph.D., Acting Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on June 29, 2021.
Treena V. Garrett, Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.
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