The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) that will discuss the environmental impacts of the Texas Gateway Project involving construction and operation of facilities by Gulf South Pipeline Company, LLC (Gulf South) in Panola, Shelby, San Augustine, Sabine, Jasper, Newton, and San Jacinto counties, Texas and Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. The Commission will use this EIS in its decision-making process to determine whether the project is in the public convenience and necessity.

As part of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review process, the Commission takes into account concerns the public may have about proposals and the environmental impacts that could result from its action whenever it considers the issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. This gathering of public input is referred to as “scoping.” The main goal of the scoping process is to focus the analysis in the environmental document on the important environmental issues. On August 25, 2026, the Commission issued a Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Texas Gateway Project, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, and Schedule for Environmental Review (NOI). Through the NOI, the Commission initiated an initial public scoping period and requested comments on the scope of environmental issues to be addressed in the EIS. With this current Notice, the Commission is announcing an additional scoping period, which will also allow interested stakeholders an opportunity to participate in in-person scoping sessions. Comments received during the previous and current scoping periods will be considered in the Commission staff's environmental review and in the development of the EIS. Additional information about the Commission's NEPA process is described below in the NEPA Process and Environmental Document section of this notice.

By this notice, the Commission requests public comments on the scope of issues to address in the EIS. To ensure that your comments are timely and properly recorded, please submit your comments so that the Commission receives them in Washington, DC on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on November 12, 2026. Comments may be submitted in written or oral form. Further details on how to submit comments are provided in the Public Participation section of this notice.

Your comments should focus on the potential environmental effects, reasonable alternatives, and measures to avoid or lessen environmental impacts. Your input will help the Commission staff determine what issues they need to evaluate in the EIS. Commission staff will consider all written or oral comments during the preparation of the EIS.

If you submitted comments on this project to the Commission before the opening of this docket on June 26, 2026, you will need to file those comments in Docket No. CP26-547-000 to ensure they are considered as part of this proceeding.

This notice is being sent to the Commission's current environmental mailing list for this project. State and local government representatives should notify their constituents of this proposed project and encourage them to comment on their areas of concern.

If you are a landowner receiving this notice, a pipeline company representative may contact you about the acquisition of an easement to construct, operate, and maintain the proposed facilities. The company would seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable easement agreement. You are not required to enter into an agreement. However, if the Commission approves the project, the Natural Gas Act conveys the right of eminent domain to the company. Therefore, if you and the company do not reach an easement agreement, the pipeline company could initiate condemnation proceedings in court. In such instances, compensation would be determined by a judge in accordance with state law. The Commission does not subsequently grant, exercise, or oversee the exercise of that eminent domain authority. The courts have exclusive authority to handle eminent domain cases; the Commission has no jurisdiction over these matters.

Gulf South provided landowners with a fact sheet prepared by the FERC entitled “An Interstate Natural Gas Facility On My Land? What Do I Need To Know?” which addresses typically asked questions, including the use of eminent domain and how to participate in the Commission's proceedings. This ( printed page 65743) fact sheet along with other landowner topics of interest are available for viewing on the FERC website ( www.ferc.gov) under the Natural Gas, Landowner Topics link.

Public Participation

There are four methods you can use to submit your comments to the Commission. Please carefully follow these instructions so that your comments are properly recorded. The Commission encourages electronic filing of comments and has staff available to assist you at (866) 208-3676 or FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov.

(1) You can file your comments electronically using the eComment feature, which is located on the Commission's website ( www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC Online. Using eComment is an easy method for submitting brief, text-only comments on a project;

(2) You can file your comments electronically by using the eFiling feature, which is located on the Commission's website ( www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC Online. With eFiling, you can provide comments in a variety of formats by attaching them as a file with your submission. New eFiling users must first create an account by clicking on “eRegister.” You will be asked to select the type of filing you are making; a comment on a particular project is considered a “Comment on a Filing”;

(3) You can file a paper copy of your comments by mailing them to the Commission. Be sure to reference the project docket number (CP26-547-000) on your letter. Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via any other carrier must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852; or

(4) In lieu of sending written comments, the Commission invites you to attend one of the four in-person public scoping sessions its staff will conduct in the project area, scheduled as follows:

The primary goal of these scoping sessions is to have you identify the specific environmental issues and concerns that should be considered in the EIS. Individual oral comments will be taken on a one-on-one basis with a court reporter. This format is designed to receive the maximum amount of oral comments in a convenient way during the timeframe allotted.

Each scoping session is scheduled from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time. You may arrive at any time after 6:00 p.m. There will not be a formal presentation by Commission staff when the session opens. If you wish to speak, the Commission staff will hand out numbers in the order of your arrival. Comments will be taken until 8:00 p.m. However, if no additional numbers have been handed out and all individuals who wish to provide comments have had an opportunity to do so, staff may conclude the session at 7:30 p.m. Please see appendix 1 for additional information on the session format and conduct.^[1]

Your oral comments will be recorded by a court reporter (with FERC staff or representative present) and become part of the public record for this proceeding. Transcripts will be publicly available on FERC's eLibrary system (see the last page of this notice for instructions on using eLibrary). If a significant number of people are interested in providing oral comments in the one-on-one settings, a time limit of 5 minutes may be implemented for each commentor. Although there will not be a formal presentation, Commission staff will be available throughout the scoping session to answer your questions about the environmental review process. Representatives from Gulf South will also be present to answer project-specific questions.

It is important to note that the Commission provides equal consideration to all comments received, whether filed in written form or provided orally at a virtual scoping session.

Additionally, the Commission offers a free service called eSubscription which makes it easy to stay informed of all issuances and submittals regarding the dockets/projects to which you subscribe. These instant email notifications are the fastest way to receive notification and provide a link to the document files which can reduce the amount of time you spend researching proceedings. Go to www.ferc.gov/​ferc-online/​overview to register for eSubscription.

For public inquiries and assistance with making filings such as interventions, comments, or requests for rehearing, contact the Office of Public Participation at (202) 502-6595 or OPP@ferc.gov.

Summary of the Proposed Project

Gulf South proposes to construct, and operate the Texas Gateway Project which will comprise approximately 155 miles of new natural gas pipelines and associated metering and compression facilities in east Texas and southwest Louisiana. Gulf South also proposes to construct a new compressor station along its existing Index 129 Legacy System in San Jacinto County, Texas and expand two existing compressor stations located along Gulf South's existing Index 129 Legacy System, to support the proposed new pipeline. Overall, the Project will allow Gulf South to transport approximately 1.8 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas from existing facilities in Carthage, Texas to delivery points in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.

According to Gulf South, its project would support liquefied natural gas (LNG), industrial, and utility demand by connecting shippers to diverse natural gas supplies from the Permian, Eagle Ford, and Haynesville basins. Gulf South asserts that the project would enhance system reliability, supply security, flow assurance, and long-term economic development in southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas by linking these production areas to the ( printed page 65744) growing market centers in southeast Texas and southwestern Louisiana, including LNG export facilities located near the Gillis Hub and surrounding Gulf Coast Region.

The Texas Gateway Project would consist of the following facilities:

• New approximate 155-mile-long natural gas pipeline comprised of 36-inch- and 42-inch-diameter pipe segments, in Panola, Shelby, San Augustine, Sabine, Jasper, Newton, and San Jacinto counties, Texas and Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
• Three new delivery meter and regulator (M&R) stations.
• A new 13,410 nominal horsepower ^[2] (hp) compressor station (the Cleveland Compressor Station [CS]) along its existing Index 129 Legacy System in San Jacinto County, Texas.
• Expansion of compressor capacity at the existing Carthage Junction CS and Magasco CS.
• A new bi-directional check M&R station at the Carthage Junction CS.

The general location of the project facilities is shown in appendix 2.

Land Requirements for Construction

Construction of the proposed facilities would disturb about 3,034 acres of land for the aboveground facilities and the pipeline. Following construction, Gulf South would maintain about 996 acres for permanent operation of the project's facilities; the remaining acreage would be restored and revert to former uses. About 40 percent of the proposed pipeline route parallels existing pipeline, utility, or road rights-of-way.

NEPA Process and the Environmental Document

The EIS issued by the Commission will discuss impacts that could occur as a result of the construction and operation of the proposed project under the relevant general resource areas:

• geology and soils;
• water resources and wetlands;
• vegetation and wildlife;
• threatened and endangered species;
• cultural resources;
• socioeconomics;
• land use;
• air quality and noise; and
• reliability and safety.

Based on an initial review of Gulf South's proposal, Commission staff have identified several expected effects that deserve attention in the EIS. The project would cross 766 waterbodies, including 9 major waterbodies, and would disturb about 165.4 acres of wetlands during construction and about 29.7 during operation. About 24.3 acres of forested wetland would be converted to emergent wetland. Habitat for a number of species, including alligator snapping turtle, Louisiana pigtoe, Texas heelsplitter, monarch butterfly, tricolored bat, and whooping crane, as well as migratory birds would be affected. Flowage easements and fee-owned lands managed/owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a Clean Water Act Section 10 waterbody would be crossed, as well as the Sabine National Forest.

Commission staff will also evaluate reasonable alternatives to the proposed project or portions of the project and make recommendations on how to lessen or avoid impacts on the various resource areas. Your comments will help Commission staff identify and focus on the issues that might have an effect on the human environment and potentially eliminate others from further study and discussion in the EIS.

The EIS will present Commission staff's independent analysis of the issues. The scheduling information contained in the Commission's August 25, 2026 NOI will be maintained unless revised via additional notice. Staff will prepare a draft EIS which will be issued for public comment. Commission staff will consider all timely comments received during the comment period on the draft EIS and revise the document, as necessary, before issuing a final EIS. The draft and final EIS will be available in electronic format in the public record through eLibrary ^[3] and the Commission's natural gas environmental documents web page ( www.ferc.gov/​industries-data/​natural-gas/​environment/​environmental-documents). If eSubscribed, you will receive instant email notification when the draft and final EISs are issued.

With this notice, the Commission is asking agencies with jurisdiction by law and/or special expertise with respect to the environmental issues of this project to formally cooperate in the preparation of the EIS.^[4] Agencies that would like to request cooperating agency status should follow the instructions for filing comments provided under the Public Participation section of this notice.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma are cooperating agencies in the preparation of the EIS.^[5]

Consultation Under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act

In accordance with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's implementing regulations for section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, the Commission is using this notice to initiate consultation with the applicable State Historic Preservation Office(s), and to solicit their views and those of other government agencies, interested Indian tribes, and the public on the project's potential effects on historic properties.^[6] The EIS for this project will document findings on the impacts on historic properties and summarize the status of consultations under section 106.

Environmental Mailing List

The environmental mailing list includes federal, state, and local government representatives and agencies; elected officials; Native American Tribes; environmental and public interest groups; other interested parties; and local libraries and media outlets. This list also includes all affected landowners (as defined in the Commission's regulations) who are potential right-of-way grantors, whose property may be used temporarily for project purposes, or who own homes within certain distances of aboveground facilities, and anyone who submits comments on the project and includes a mailing address with their comments. Commission staff will update the environmental mailing list as the analysis proceeds to ensure that Commission notices related to this environmental review are sent to all individuals, organizations, and government entities interested in and/or potentially affected by the proposed project.

If you need to make changes to your name/address, or if you would like to remove your name from the mailing list, please complete one of the following steps:

(1) Send an email to GasProjectAddressChange@ferc.gov stating your request. You must include the docket number CP26-547-000 in ( printed page 65745) your request. If you are requesting a change to your address, please be sure to include your name and the correct address. If you are requesting to delete your address from the mailing list, please include your name and address as it appeared on this notice. This email address is unable to accept comments.

OR

(2) Return the attached “Mailing List Update Form” (appendix 3).

Additional Information

Additional information about the project is available from the FERC website at www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary link, click on “General Search” and enter the docket number in the “Docket Number” field. Be sure you have selected an appropriate date range. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or (866) 208-3676, or for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. The eLibrary link also provides access to the texts of all formal documents issued by the Commission, such as orders, notices, and rulemakings.

Public sessions or site visits will be posted on the Commission's calendar located at www.ferc.gov/​news-events/​events along with other related information.

(Authority: 18 CFR 2.1)