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The target date has now changed a week from the original date of 1/3 to 1/17 due to a partial lapse in government funding, earlier this year. Proponent is aware and tailored their submittal of applications to cooperating agencies with the 1/17 date in mind. All are aware of this change and are in support of this schedule.
Sponsor is not concerned with the date change, no other aspects of permitting timetable are affected. Justification for delay documented under the action in the dashboard. The DOI Cerpo is aware of the delay.
BLM received approval to proceed with publishing the FEIS on September 18, 2019. Headquarters have reviewed and approved the extension.
The new project date is 90 days after FERC’s new projected order date of 2/13/20. DOE's issuance of an export is dependent on the release of FERC's order.
Final Required Milestone Date of 05/10/2021 for Conclusion of ESA Consultation has passed by 5 business days
Execution of the 106 Programmatic Agreement was delayed pending proposed changes requested by one of the consulting parties. The project sponsor changed the date accordingly for the conclusion of the 106 PA and the Record of Decision which will not be issued on December 6, 2019. Issues were not included in the most recent quarterly CPP. The CERPO has been made aware. These delays will not have any significant impact on the project.
While the current extension request from 12/1/19 to 12/31/19 for publication of the final rule is greater than 30 days from the ORIGINAL date, it is less than 30 days from the currently published target date for this milestone. As a reminder, the schedule was adjusted in fall 2018 to better align with the applicant's (Hillcorp) revised permitting and construction timeline for the project, which extended the construction schedule by at least one year.
1. Both the lead federal agency and project sponsor concur with the change. 2. This change does not affect any other aspects of the permitting timetable. 3. It is up to the lead federal agency to modify the CPP. This project has not been discussed at any project-specific CERPO meeting. 4. There is opportunity for the timeetable to be adjusted to make up for lost time if dependencies (two of which are not shown on the Dashboard) are fulfilled in timely fashion. 5. Agency CERPO has been made aware of this action.
The Corps requests a final milestone extension to April 28, 2020 because of the required Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) concurrence dependency for Corps decisions. This is not on the Dashboard as a dependency due to the limited options (not an Appendix B dependency). We have coordinated this extension with the project sponsor, the lead federal agency (FERC), and the agency responsible for the non-FERC joint agency ROD (BLM), among others. As this is the final milestone, it would not impact other aspects of the Corps’ permitting timetable.
The completion date for the Record of Decision was revised to accommodate the conclusion of the Section 106 Programmatic Agreement that was required before the Record of Decision could be issued. The 106 Programmatic Agreement was fully executed on December 5th. This change of date was provided by the project sponsor and it does not affect the revised permitting timetable. There are no issues to be documented in the CPP and there are no adjustments to the timetable needed. The Record of Decision is the conclusion of the EIS process.