[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 160 (Wednesday, August 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 44499]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22308]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 2870]


Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs; National Interest 
Determination Concerning a Pipeline Operated on the Border of the 
United States at Neche, North Dakota by Lakehead Pipe Line Company

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me under Executive Order 11423 
of August 16, 1968 as amended by Executive Order 12847 of May 17, 1993, 
and Department of State Delegation of Authority No. 118-1 of April 11, 
1973, and subject to satisfaction of the requirements of sections 1(d) 
and 1(f) of the said Executive Order, I hereby determine that issuance 
of a permit to Lakehead Pipe Line Company, a Delaware limited 
partnership, to construct, connect, operate and maintain a pipeline for 
the transportation of crude oil and natural gas liquids across the 
international boundary between the United States and Canada near Neche, 
North Dakota would serve the national interest.
    This determination shall become final fifteen days after the 
Secretaries of Defense, Treasury, Interior, Commerce, Transportation, 
the Attorney General, the Chairman of the Surface Transportation Board, 
and the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been 
notified of this proposed determination, unless the matter must be 
referred to the President for consideration and final decision pursuant 
to section 1(f) of said Executive Order.

    Dated: July 23, 1998.
Stuart E. Eizenstat,
Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural 
Affairs.
[FR Doc. 98-22308 Filed 8-18-98; 8:45 am]
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