[Federal Register: March 3, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 42)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Federal Consistency Appeals by Weaver's Cove, LLC and Mill River
Pipeline, LLC
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (Commerce).
ACTION: Notice of stay--closure of administrative appeals 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 administrative appeals filed by Weaver's Cove, LLC and Mill
River Pipeline, LLC (Weaver's Cove and Mill River Consistency Appeals).
DATES: The decision record for the Weaver's Cove and Mill River
Consistency Appeals will now close on May 5, 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: Brett Grosko, Attorney-Advisor, Office
of the General Counsel, via e-mail at gcos.inquiries@noaa.gov, or at
(301) 713-7384.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In August 2007, Weaver's Cove, LLC and Mill
River Pipeline, LLC (Weaver's Cove and Mill River, or Appellants) filed
appeals 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 Commonwealth of Massachusetts
(Commonwealth), relating to Weaver's Cove's and Mill River's proposal
to construct and operate a liquefied natural gas terminal in Fall
River, Massachusetts, and two associated pipeline laterals that would
transport gas from the terminal to the interstate pipeline grid.
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. 16 U.S.C. 1465. 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. 16 U.S.C.
1465(b)(3).
After reviewing the Weaver's Cove and Mill River Consistency
Appeals' 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 March 4, 2008, until
May 5, 2008.
Additional information about the Weaver's Cove and Mill River
Consistency Appeals 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 26, 2008.
Jeffrey S. Dillen,
Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Ocean Services.
[Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog No. 11.419 Coastal Zone
Management Program Assistance.]
[FR Doc. E8-3951 Filed 2-29-08; 8:45 am]
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