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North Baja Gets Another Year to Complete Yuma Lateral
FERC Tuesday gave North Baja Pipeline LLC an additional year to complete and place in service a lateral extending from a proposed interconnection at the United States-Mexico border near Yuma County, AZ.
The lateral, which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved in September 2008, was supposed to be completed this September, but North Baja said it won’t be able to make the deadline due to a hitch at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (see Daily GPI, Sept. 4, 2008). North Baja was granted an extension until Sept. 2, 2010 to put the lateral in service.
“North Baja states that it was unable to begin construction on the Yuma Lateral since it did not receive the necessary right-of-way (ROW) grant from the Bureau of Land Management until July 22,” said the FERC letter order, issued by the Office of Energy Projects [CP08-152].
“North Baja states that BLM determined that the Commission’s environmental assessment (EA) was not adequate to support a decision on the right-of-way grant and performed a separate EA. North Baja asserts that the BLM’s process, which did not uncover any new substantive issues, took several months to complete,” and delayed the issuance of the ROW grant.
The lateral would provide Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) with access to both regasified liquefied natural gas from Mexico and domestic gas for use at the Yucca Power Plant as well as for the future power generation needs of APS.
The $8.5 million project calls for the construction of 3.27 miles of 12-inch diameter pipeline extending from the international border at the Colorado River to the Yucca Power Plant. The U.S. lateral would lie entirely in Arizona.
A 3.14-mile-long segment in Mexico would be constructed by Sempra’s Gasoducto Bajanorte S. de R.L. de C.V. and would connect with the Gasoducto Bajanorte pipeline north of Algodones, Mexico, and extend to the international border.
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