[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 31 (Thursday, February 14, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 8647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-2814]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Federal Consistency Appeal by AES Sparrows Point LNG, LLC and
Mid-Atlantic Express, LLC
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (Commerce).
ACTION: Notice of stay--closure of administrative appeal decision
record.
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SUMMARY: This announcement provides notice that the Secretary of
Commerce has stayed, for a period of 60 days, closure of the decision
record in an administrative appeal filed by AES Sparrows Point, LLC and
Mid-Atlantic Express, LLC (AES Consistency Appeal).
DATES: The decision record for the AES Consistency Appeal will now
close on April 14, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Office of the General Counsel for Ocean Services, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce,
1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Odin-Smith, Attorney-Advisor, Office
of the General Counsel, via e-mail at [email protected], or at
(301) 713-7392.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In August 2007, AES Sparrows Point, LLC and
Mid-Atlantic Express, LLC (AES or Appellant) filed an appeal with the
Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) pursuant to section 307(c)(3)(A) of
the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA). The appeal was taken
from an objection by the Maryland Department of the Environment
(State), relating to AES' proposal to construct and operate a liquefied
natural gas terminal in Baltimore County, Maryland, and an associated
88-mile natural gas pipeline.
Under the CZMA, the Secretary must close the decision record in an
appeal 160 days after the notice of appeal is published in the Federal
Register. However, the CZMA authorizes the Secretary to stay closing
the decision record for up to 60 days when the Secretary determines it
necessary to receive, on an expedited basis, any supplemental
information specifically requested by the Secretary to complete a
consistency review or any clarifying information submitted by a party
to the proceeding related to information in the consolidated record
compiled by the lead Federal permitting agency.
After reviewing the AES Consistency Appeal decision record
developed to date, the Secretary has decided to solicit supplemental
and clarifying information. In order to allow receipt of this
information, the Secretary hereby stays closure of the decision record,
currently scheduled to occur on February 14, 2008, until April 14,
2008.
Additional information about the AES Consistency Appeal and the
CZMA appeals process is available from the Department of Commerce CZMA
appeals Web site http://www.ogc.doc.gov/czma.htm.
Dated: February 11, 2008.
Joel La Bissonniere,
Assistant General Counsel for Ocean Services.
[Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog No. 11.419 Coastal Zone
Management Program Assistance.]
[FR Doc. E8-2814 Filed 2-13-08; 8:45 am]
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