DOE/EIS-0512-S1: Amended Record of Decision

Alaska LNG Project Supplemental EIS; Alaska

On August 20, 2020, DOE published a Record of Decision (ROD) as an Appendix to its Order No. 3643-A granting Alaska LNG Project LLC (Alaska LNG) authorization to export LNG to countries with which the United States has not entered into a free trade agreement (FTA) requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas, and with which trade is not prohibited by U.S. law or policy (non-FTA countries). That order was subsequently the subject of a rehearing request filed by Sierra Club, which DOE granted in part in its Order on Rehearing on April 15, 2021. In response, DOE prepared a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in accordance with NEPA, for the purpose of evaluating the potential environmental impacts associated with natural gas production on the North Slope of Alaska related to the proposed Project and assessing life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the export authorization.

On April 13, 2023, DOE issued Order No. 3643-C following its publication of the Final SEIS in January 2023. As an Appendix to the Order, DOE is issuing an Amended ROD under NEPA for the proposed Alaska LNG Project. The Amended ROD presents in more detail the relevant factual and procedural background for the Alaska LNG Project, the SEIS analysis and public process, comments submitted on the Final SEIS by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and DOE’s responses thereto, and other information considered by DOE pursuant to NEPA that informs DOE’s decision in this Order.

The Order No. 3643-C appendix beginning on page 28 is DOE’s Amended ROD under NEPA.

For more information, see Alaska LNG Project Supplemental EIS.