Presidential Permit definition

Presidential Permit means the permit granted by the U.S. Department of Energy, pursuant to Executive Order 10485 as amended by Executive Order 12038, authorizing the construction, operation, maintenance and connection of facilities for the transmission of electric energy at the international border between the United States and Canada.

Presidential Permit means a permit granted by the United States Secretary of State under Executive Order 13337 for the construction, connection, operation and maintenance of that portion of the Keystone US Pipeline System interconnecting with the Pipeline System at Canadian border at or near Monchy, Saskatchewan and terminating at a receipt point of the Keystone US Pipeline System at or near Steele City, Nebraska.

Examples of Presidential Permit in a sentence

• In processing Presidential Permit applications, the State Department is also explicitly directed to review the project’s compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. §470f), the Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C.§1531 et seq.), and Executive Order 12898 of February 11, 1994 (59 Federal Register 7629), concerning environmental justice.

• In preparing an EIS associated with a Presidential Permit, NEPA regulations promulgated by both the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the State Department would apply.

• However, in the event of a challenge based on an environmental issue, the distinction between State Department actions required under NEPA and those required under its authority to issue a Presidential Permit would be relevant.

• Finally, the report reviews the constitutional basis for the State Department’s authority to issue a Presidential Permit, and opponents’ possible challenges to this authority.

• The Bakken Marketlink project is described in the August 2011 final EIS for the 2008 Presidential Permit application in Section 2.5.3, available athttp://keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/documents/organization/182012.pdf.

• The detailed map shall identify the location of the proposed border crossing point(s) or power trans- fer point(s) by Presidential Permit number whenever possible.

• Since the Keystone and proposed Keystone XL pipelines are designed for the importation of oil from Canada, their facilities require a Presidential Permit.

• Documents submitted for the initial 2008 Presidential Permit application have now been archived by the State Department.

• The statement by Secretary Clinton was actually made in response to a question about the Alberta Clipper pipeline project which received a Presidential Permit from the State Department in 2009; a State Department spokesman later clarified that the Secretary was referring to the Keystone XL pipeline permit approval.

• However, the construction, connection, operation, and maintenance of a pipeline that connects the United States with a foreign country requires executive permission conveyed through a Presidential Permit.