83 FR 391 - Application for Right of Way Permit for an Ethane Pipeline and Approved Compatibility Determination; San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 2 (January 3, 2018)
Fish and Wildlife Service
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 2 (January 3, 2018)
| Page Range | 391-392 | |
| FR Document | 2017-28385 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 3, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 391-392] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-28385] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service [FWS-R2-R-2017-N138]; FXRS12610200000-189-FF02RTTM00] Application for Right of Way Permit for an Ethane Pipeline and Approved Compatibility Determination; San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have received an application for a 30-year right-of-way (ROW) permit under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act from Lavaca Pipeline Company. The applicant wishes to install, own, and operate a natural gas pipeline within an existing ROW easement crossing 203 feet on San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge in Brazoria County, Texas. We request public comment on the permit application. DATES: We must receive any written comments regarding the permit application on or before February 2, 2018. ADDRESSES: If you wish to review documents and submit comments, you may request documents by U.S. mail, email, or phone (see below). Documents are also available for public inspection by appointment during normal business hours at the Texas Mid-coast Complex office below (open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). Send your comments or requests by any one of the following methods.Email: [email protected] (use ``Lavaca ROW'' as your message subject line). Fax: 979-964-4021 (``Lavaca ROW'' subject line). U.S. mail: Project Leader, Texas Mid-coast Complex, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2547 County Road 316, Brazoria, TX 77422. In-person drop-off: You may drop off information during regular business hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the above office address. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Sanchez, 979-964-4011 (phone), or [email protected] (email). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: There is also an approved compatibility determination available for review. Comments regarding the compatibility determination will be received and filed, but we will not be amending the document. [[Page 392]] Applicant's Proposal Lavaca Pipeline Company has requested to purchase a 30-foot-wide pipeline easement across a 203-foot-long section of the San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge NWR in Brazoria County, Texas. The (ROW) permit would enable the applicant to install, own, and operate a 16- inch-diameter steel pipeline to transport ethane gas. The requested ROW overlies an existing ROW easement, and the pipeline would be laid parallel to an already existing pipeline. The applicant's pipeline would be installed by means of a conventional bore technique under refuge land; therefore, the process would not require trenching on refuge lands. No additional easement boundaries beyond the existing ROW are required. The bore holes will be located 300 feet outside the refuge property line on adjacent private lands. Background Lavaca Pipeline Company is constructing a 16-inch-diameter pipeline for the transportation of ethane through Galveston, Brazoria, Matagorda, and Wharton Counties in Southeast Texas. Lavaca Pipeline is making efforts to co-locate the pipeline within existing pipeline ROW corridors. Lavaca Pipeline has requested to cross the San Bernard NWR along an existing ROW. Although a new ROW is being requested, an existing ROW and pipeline are already in place. The existing pipeline ROW is not an exclusive easement; therefore, additional ROWs and pipelines can be installed within the same cleared corridor. The requested permit would allow for the pipeline to cross a narrow (203- foot-wide) strip of refuge that connects two larger parcels and is commonly referred to as the Sulfur Ditch. Compatibility Determination In our compatibility determination, which was approved on July 26, 2017, we determined that placing the pipeline across this narrow (203- foot-wide) strip would minimize the impact to other refuge lands. Several options were evaluated, but it was determined that they would have resulted in greater impact than this proposal. Public Availability of Comments Written comments we receive become part of the public record associated with this action. Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you may request in your comment that we withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. We will not consider anonymous comments. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, will be made available for public disclosure in their entirety. Authority We provide this notice under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 715d). Dated: November 6, 2017. Lueders, Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [FR Doc. 2017-28385 Filed 1-2-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4333-15-P
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Application No. Applicant Species Location Activity Type of take Permit action
TE35518B ...... Jeremy Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), Rangewide ........ Conduct presence/absence Add new activity—band—to Amend, renew.
Sheets, gray bat (M. grisescens), surveys, document habitat existing authorized activi-
Plymouth, northern long-eared bat use, conduct population ties: Capture, handle,
IN. (M. septentrionalis), Vir- monitoring, evaluate im- mist-net, radio-tag, release.
ginia big-eared bat pacts.
(Corynorhinus townsendii
virginianus).
TE85232B ...... Zachary Kai- Add gray bat (Myotis Rangewide ........ Conduct presence/absence Capture, handle, mist-net, Amend.
ser, Inde- grisescens) to existing per- surveys, document habitat radio-tag, light-tag, band,
pendence, mitted species: Indiana bat use, conduct population wing biopsy, collect tissue
MO. (M. sodalis), northern monitoring, evaluate im- and hair samples, release,
long-eared bat (M. pacts. salvage.
septentrionalis).
TE38769A ...... Sarah Brad- Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), Missouri ............. Conduct presence/absence Capture, handle, mist-net, Renew.
ley, Salem, gray bat (M. grisescens), surveys, document habitat harp trap, radio-tag, band,
MO. northern long-eared bat use, conduct population release, enter hibernacula.
(M. septentrionalis). monitoring, evaluate im-
pacts.
TE106220 ...... Brianne Wal- Add gray bat (Myotis Rangewide ........ Research, conduct pres- Add new activities—harp Amend, renew.
ters, Indiana grisescens) to existing per- ence/absence surveys, trap, wing biopsy, collect
State Uni- mitted species: Indiana bat document habitat use, tissue and hair samples,
versity Bat (M. sodalis), northern conduct population moni- salvage, and enter
Center, long-eared bat (M. toring, evaluate impacts. hibernac-ula—to existing
Terre septentrionalis). authorized activities: Cap-
Haute, IN. ture, handle, mist-net,
radio-tag, band, release.
Public Availability of Comments Next Steps Bernard National Wildlife Refuge in
If the Service decides to issue permits Brazoria County, Texas. We request
We seek public review and comments public comment on the permit
on these permit applications. Please to any of the applicants listed in this
notice, we will publish a notice in the application.
refer to the permit number when you
Federal Register. DATES: We must receive any written
submit comments. Comments and
comments regarding the permit
materials we receive in response to this Authority
application on or before February 2,
notice are available for public Section 10 of the Endangered Species 2018.
inspection, by appointment, during Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531
normal business hours at the address ADDRESSES: If you wish to review
et seq.).
listed in ADDRESSES. documents and submit comments, you
Dated: December 1, 2017. may request documents by U.S. mail,
Before including your address, phone Lori H. Nordstrom, email, or phone (see below). Documents
number, email address, or other Assistant Regional Director, Ecological are also available for public inspection
personal identifying information in your Services, Midwest Region. by appointment during normal business
comment, you should be aware that [FR Doc. 2017–28382 Filed 1–2–18; 8:45 am] hours at the Texas Mid-coast Complex
your entire comment—including your BILLING CODE 4333–15–P office below (open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.).
personal identifying information—may Send your comments or requests by any
be made publicly available at any time. one of the following methods.
While you can ask us in your comment DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR • Email: jennifer_sanchez@fws.gov
to withhold your personal identifying (use ‘‘Lavaca ROW’’ as your message
information from public review, we Fish and Wildlife Service subject line).
cannot guarantee that we will be able to [FWS–R2–R–2017–N138]; • Fax: 979–964–4021 (‘‘Lavaca ROW’’
do so. FXRS12610200000–189–FF02RTTM00] subject line).
• U.S. mail: Project Leader, Texas
Contents of Public Comments Mid-coast Complex, U.S. Fish and
Application for Right of Way Permit for
Please make your comments as an Ethane Pipeline and Approved Wildlife Service, 2547 County Road 316,
specific as possible. Please confine your Compatibility Determination; San Brazoria, TX 77422.
comments to issues for which we seek Bernard National Wildlife Refuge • In-person drop-off: You may drop
off information during regular business
comments in this notice, and explain AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the above
the basis for your comments. Include Interior. office address.
sufficient information with your ACTION: Notice of availability; request FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
comments to allow us to authenticate for comments.
any scientific or commercial data you Jennifer Sanchez, 979–964–4011
SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and (phone), or jennifer_sanchez@fws.gov
include.
Wildlife Service, have received an (email).
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The comments and recommendations
that will be most useful and likely to application for a 30-year right-of-way SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: There is
(ROW) permit under the Migratory Bird also an approved compatibility
influence agency decisions are: (1)
Conservation Act from Lavaca Pipeline determination available for review.
Those supported by quantitative
Company. The applicant wishes to Comments regarding the compatibility
information or studies; and (2) Those
install, own, and operate a natural gas determination will be received and
that include citations to, and analyses pipeline within an existing ROW filed, but we will not be amending the
of, the applicable laws and regulations. easement crossing 203 feet on San document.
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Applicant’s Proposal identifying information—may be made california; and at the following BLM
Lavaca Pipeline Company has publicly available at any time. While offices: California Desert District Office,
requested to purchase a 30-foot-wide you may request in your comment that 22835 Calle San Juan De Los Lagos,
pipeline easement across a 203-foot-long we withhold your personal identifying Moreno Valley, CA 92553; and Barstow
section of the San Bernard National information from public review, we Field Office, 2601 Barstow Road,
Wildlife Refuge NWR in Brazoria cannot guarantee that we will be able to Barstow, CA 92311. Notice of the 9-day
County, Texas. The (ROW) permit do so. We will not consider anonymous temporary closure period for subsequent
would enable the applicant to install, comments. All submissions from races will be published in annual news
own, and operate a 16-inch-diameter organizations or businesses, and from releases and posted on the BLM website
steel pipeline to transport ethane gas. individuals identifying themselves as at least 30-days in advance of the event.
The requested ROW overlies an existing representatives or officials of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beth
ROW easement, and the pipeline would organizations or businesses, will be Ransel, District Manager, California
be laid parallel to an already existing made available for public disclosure in Desert District, telephone: 951–697–
pipeline. The applicant’s pipeline their entirety. 5200, email: bransel@blm.gov; or
would be installed by means of a Authority Katrina Symons, Barstow Field
conventional bore technique under Manager, telephone: 760–252–6004,
refuge land; therefore, the process We provide this notice under the email: ksymons@blm.gov. Persons who
would not require trenching on refuge Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 use a telecommunications device for the
lands. No additional easement U.S.C. 715d). deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay
boundaries beyond the existing ROW Dated: November 6, 2017. Service at 1–800–877–8339 to contact
are required. The bore holes will be Lueders, the above individuals during normal
located 300 feet outside the refuge Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. business hours. The Service is available
property line on adjacent private lands. Fish and Wildlife Service. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave
Background [FR Doc. 2017–28385 Filed 1–2–18; 8:45 am] a message or question with the above
BILLING CODE 4333–15–P
individuals. You will receive a reply
Lavaca Pipeline Company is during normal hours.
constructing a 16-inch-diameter SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The dates
pipeline for the transportation of ethane DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR for King of the Hammers, the dates of
through Galveston, Brazoria, Matagorda, the temporary closure, and a map of the
and Wharton Counties in Southeast Bureau of Land Management closure area will be posted at the
Texas. Lavaca Pipeline is making efforts
[LLCAD08000.18XL1109AF. California Desert District Office, the
to co-locate the pipeline within existing
L12200000.EA0000.LXSSB0280000] Barstow Field Office, and on the BLM
pipeline ROW corridors. Lavaca
website at the addresses provided above
Pipeline has requested to cross the San Notice of Temporary Closure on Public every year at least 30 days prior to the
Bernard NWR along an existing ROW. Lands for the Annual King of the event. The dates are also available upon
Although a new ROW is being
Hammers Race, San Bernardino request.
requested, an existing ROW and
County, CA This temporary closure applies to all
pipeline are already in place. The
public use, including pedestrian use
existing pipeline ROW is not an AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, and vehicles. The BLM will also post
exclusive easement; therefore, Interior. the temporary closure notice and map of
additional ROWs and pipelines can be ACTION: Notice of temporary closure. the temporary closure area at the main
installed within the same cleared
entry points into the Johnson Valley Off-
corridor. The requested permit would SUMMARY: As authorized under the
Highway Vehicle Recreation Area. The
allow for the pipeline to cross a narrow provisions of the Federal Land Policy
(203-foot-wide) strip of refuge that annual temporary closure will comply
and Management Act of 1976, as
connects two larger parcels and is with the management plan for the area,
amended, the Bureau of Land
commonly referred to as the Sulfur ensuring that when the annual
Management (BLM) is giving notice that
Ditch. temporary closure period includes a
certain public lands located near
Saturday or Sunday, a minimum of
Compatibility Determination Johnson Valley, California, within the
three staging areas within the Johnson
Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle
In our compatibility determination, Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation
Recreation Area, will be temporarily
which was approved on July 26, 2017, Area will remain open to the public on
closed to all public use to enhance
we determined that placing the pipeline those weekend days.
public safety during Hammerking Exclusive Use: The area will be for
across this narrow (203-foot-wide) strip Productions’ annual King of the
would minimize the impact to other exclusive use of King of the Hammers
Hammers desert race authorized under participants, registered spectators for
refuge lands. Several options were a Special Recreation Permit (SRP). This
evaluated, but it was determined that the King of the Hammers, and other
action is in effect for King of the authorized users with an authorized
they would have resulted in greater Hammers, which takes place annually,
impact than this proposal. SRP valid for activities within the
during a 9-day period. temporary closure area. For the
Public Availability of Comments DATES: This Notice is effective from temporary closure area, anyone without
Written comments we receive become February 2, 2018, through February 10,
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a SRP authorizing use within the
part of the public record associated with 2018. The Hammerking Productions temporary closure area during the
this action. Before including your SRP for this event is valid until temporary closure period is prohibited
address, phone number, email address, February 22, 2022. from using the area.
or other personal identifying ADDRESSES: The BLM will post the Exceptions: Temporary closure
information in your comment, you temporary closure notice and a map of restrictions do not apply to medical and
should be aware that your entire the temporary closure area on the BLM rescue personnel in the performance of
comment—including your personal website at: https://www.blm.gov/ their official duties; official United
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| Dates | We must receive any written comments regarding the permit application on or before February 2, 2018. | |
| Contact | Jennifer Sanchez, 979-964-4011 (phone), or [email protected] (email). | |
| FR Citation | 83 FR 391 |
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