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The Corps and the federal cooperating agencies, along with CPRA (the applicant), have been working diligently to prepare the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for CPRA’s proposed Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) Project. The MBSD is a large and complex project. The proposed project would discharge up to 75,000 cfs of sediment, fres
The Corps and the federal cooperating agencies, along with CPRA (the applicant), have been working diligently to prepare the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for CPRA’s proposed Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) Project. The MBSD is a large and complex project. The proposed project would discharge up to 75,000 cfs of sediment, freshwater, and nutrients within the Barataria Basin. The total cost is estimated at more than $1 billion and faces many environmental and engineering challenges due to
The Corps and the federal cooperating agencies, along with CPRA (the applicant), have been working diligently to prepare the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for CPRA’s proposed Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) Project. The MBSD is a large and complex project. The proposed project would discharge up to 75,000 cfs of sediment, freshwater, and nutrients within the Barataria Basin. The total cost is estimated at more than $1 billion and faces many environmental and engineering challenges due to
The Corps and the federal cooperating agencies, along with CPRA (the applicant), have been working diligently to prepare the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for CPRA’s proposed Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) Project. The MBSD is a large and complex project. The proposed project would discharge up to 75,000 cfs of sediment, freshwater, and nutrients within the Barataria Basin. The total cost is estimated at more than $1 billion and faces many environmental and engineering challenges due to
COP approval must be delayed due to delays to the NEPA and associated consultation analyses that must be completed prior to COP approval. This milestone change has been coordinated with the project proponent as well as NOAA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Other FAST-41 cooperating agencies were also provided a courtesy notification of the proposed milestone changes. The milestone changes have been previously approved by the FPISC Executive Director.
Project delays due to numerous factors including delayed submission of some COP appendices, COP updates that warranted updates to the associated NEPA and consultation documents; the addition of a new NEPA alternative while drafting of the EIS was already well underway; the delayed submission of additional modeling information associated with the new NEPA alternative; and a complex and controversial Section 106 process.
NHPA section 106 consultation process needs to be extended because the agency received more stakeholder comments related to onshore visual impacts than originally anticipated, and because the proximity of the lease area to many national historic landmarks in Rhode Island will require additional consultation under sections 106 and 110(f) of the NHPA.
Final Required Milestone Date of 04/29/2022 for Issuance of Lead Agency Record of Decision has passed by 5 business days
DOE determined that it was necessary for the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), which is conducting the SEIS, to conduct additional modeling on an issue central to both studies in the SEIS—the options associated with managing carbon dioxide (CO2) produced with, and removed from, the natural gas supplying the proposed Alaska LNG Project on the North Slope of Alaska.
Final Required Milestone Date of 03/17/2022 for Issuance of Lead Agency Record of Decision has passed by 5 business days