Sabine Pass Liquefaction, L.L.C.; Sabine Pass Liquefaction Stage V, L.L.C.; Sabine Crossing, L.L.C.; Cheniere Creole Trail Pipeline, L.P.; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Sabine Pass Stage 5 Expansion Project, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, and Schedule for Environmental Review

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY <SUBAGY>Federal Energy Regulatory Commission</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[Docket No. CP24-75-001; Docket No. CP25-505-000; Docket No. CP25-506-000]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Sabine Pass Liquefaction, L.L.C.; Sabine Pass Liquefaction Stage V, L.L.C.; Sabine Crossing, L.L.C.; Cheniere Creole Trail Pipeline, L.P.; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Sabine Pass Stage 5 Expansion Project, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, and Schedule for Environmental Review</SUBJECT> 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 Sabine Pass Stage 5 Expansion Project, (Project) involving construction and operation of facilities by Sabine Pass Liquefaction, L.L.C., Sabine Pass Liquefaction Stage V, L.L.C., Sabine Crossing, L.L.C., and Cheniere Creole Trail Pipeline, L.P. (the Applicants) in Cameron, Beauregard, and Calcasieu Parishes, Louisiana; and Liberty, Jefferson, and Chambers Counties, Texas. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> The Commission will use this environmental document in its decision-making process to determine whether the planned pipeline project is in the public convenience and necessity and if the planned liquified natural gas facility expansion is in the public interest. The schedule for preparation of the EIS is discussed in the <E T="03">Schedule for Environmental Review</E> section of this notice. <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>  For tracking purposes under the National Environmental Policy Act, the unique identification number for documents relating to this environmental review is EISX-019-20-000-1751972136. </FTNT> 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 whenever it considers the issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and authorization. This gathering of public input is referred to as “scoping.” By notices issued on October 6, 2023 and August 1, 2024 in Docket No. PF23-2-000, the Commission opened scoping periods during Sabine Pass Liquefaction, L.L.C., Sabine Pass Liquefaction Stage V, L.L.C. and Sabine Crossing, L.L.C.'s planning process for the Sabine Pass Liquefaction Stage 5 Expansion project and the Sabine Crossing Pipeline project and prior to filing a formal application with the Commission, a process referred to as “pre-filing.” The Applicants have now filed a joint application with the Commission, and staff intends to prepare an EIS that will address the concerns raised during the pre-filing scoping process and comments received in response to this notice. By this notice, the Commission requests public comments on the scope of issues to address in the environmental document, including comments on potential alternatives and impacts, and any relevant information, studies, or analyses of any kind concerning impacts affecting the quality of the human environment. 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 September 8, 2025. Comments may be submitted in written form. Further details on how to submit comments are provided in the <E T="03">Public Participation</E> section of this notice. As mentioned above, during the pre-filing process, the Commission opened scoping periods for the Sabine Pass Liquefaction Stage 5 Expansion project and the Sabine Crossing Pipeline project which expired on November 6, 2023, and September 3, 2024 respectively; however, Commission staff continued to accept comments during the entire pre-filing process. Staff also held scoping sessions to take oral scoping comments. Those sessions were held in Cameron, Louisiana on October 24, 2023; Port Arthur, Texas on October 25, 2023; and Winnie, Texas, on August 28, 2024. All substantive written and oral comments provided during pre-filing will be addressed in the EIS. Therefore, if you submitted comments on this Project to the Commission during the pre-filing process in Docket No. PF23-2-000 you do not need to file those comments again. 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 grant, exercise, or oversee the exercise of eminent domain authority. The courts have exclusive authority to handle eminent domain cases; the Commission has no jurisdiction over these matters. The Applicants 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 fact sheet along with other landowner topics of interest are available for viewing on the FERC website ( <E T="03">www.ferc.gov</E> ) under the Natural Gas, Landowner Topics link. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Public Participation</HD> There are three methods you can use to submit your comments to the Commission. The Commission encourages electronic filing of comments and has staff available to assist you at (866) 208-3676 or <E T="03">FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov.</E> Please carefully follow these instructions so that your comments are properly recorded. (1) You can file your comments electronically using the eComment feature, which is located on the Commission's website ( <E T="03">www.ferc.gov</E> ) 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 ( <E T="03">www.ferc.gov</E> ) 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”; or (3) You can file a paper copy of your comments by mailing them to the Commission. Be sure to reference the project docket numbers (CP24-75-001, CP25-505-000, and CP25-506-000) 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, Maryland 20852. Additionally, the Commission offers a free service called eSubscription. This service provides automatic notification of filings made to subscribed dockets, document summaries, and direct links to the documents. Go to <E T="03">https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/overview</E> to register for eSubscription. The Commission's Office of Public Participation (OPP) supports meaningful public engagement and participation in Commission proceedings. OPP can help members of the public, including landowners, community organizations, Tribal members and others, access publicly available information and navigate Commission processes. For public inquiries and assistance with making filings such as interventions, comments, or requests for rehearing, the public is encouraged to contact OPP at (202) 502-6595 or <E T="03">OPP@ferc.gov.</E> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Summary of the Proposed Project, the Project Purpose and Need, and Expected Impacts</HD> The Applicants propose to expand the existing Sabine Pass Liquefied Natural Gas (SPLNG) Terminal facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana; construct and operate a new, 48-inch-diameter, 55.6-mile-long natural gas pipeline (Sabine Crossing Pipeline) in Liberty and Jefferson Counties, Texas, and into the SPLNG Terminal; and as part of the existing Creole Trail Pipeline System, construct and operate the new greenfield Tarpon Compressor Station in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, expand the existing Gillis Compressor Station in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, and modify an existing delivery meter station in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The Sabine Crossing Pipeline would deliver up to 2.7 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural gas to the SPLNG Terminal facility. The Tarpon Compressor Station would help deliver approximately 908 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscf/d) of natural gas to the SPLNG Terminal facility. According to the Applicants, the Project would expand the Applicants' liquified natural gas (LNG) production capabilities to meet immediate and future global demand for LNG. The Project would consist of the following facilities: SPLNG Terminal Expansion • three Liquefaction Trains (Trains 7, 8 and 9) and appurtenant facilities; Sabine Crossing Pipeline • approximately 55.6 miles of 48-inch-diameter pipeline; • six-meter stations along the pipeline route; • the new Hamshire Compressor Station along the pipeline route; • four pig traps, <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> and three mainline valves along the pipeline route; Creole Trail Pipeline System <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 24k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━