Presidential Document2025-12509
Authorizing Junction Pipeline Company, LLC To Construct, Connect, Operate, and Maintain Pipeline Facilities at Toole County, Montana, at the International Boundary Between the United States and Canada
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Published
July 3, 2025
Signed
June 30, 2025
Issuing agencies
Executive Office of the President
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 126 (Thursday, July 3, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 29401-29403]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12509]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 126 / Thursday, July 3, 2025 /
Presidential Documents
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Presidential Permit of June 30, 2025
Authorizing Junction Pipeline Company, LLC To
Construct, Connect, Operate, and Maintain Pipeline
Facilities at Toole County, Montana, at the
International Boundary Between the United States and
Canada
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of
the United States of America (the ``President''), I
hereby grant this Presidential permit, subject to the
conditions herein set forth, to Junction Pipeline
Company, LLC (the ``permittee''). The permittee is a
limited liability company, organized under the laws of
the State of Texas. Permission is hereby granted to the
permittee to construct, connect, operate, and maintain
pipeline Border facilities, as described herein, at the
international border of the United States and Canada at
Toole County, Montana, for the import from Canada into
the United States of crude oil and petroleum products
of every description, refined or unrefined (inclusive
of, but not limited to, naphtha, liquefied petroleum
gas, natural gas liquids, jet fuel, gasoline, kerosene,
and diesel), but not including natural gas subject to
section 3 of the Natural Gas Act, as amended (15 U.S.C.
717b).
This permit does not affect the applicability of any
otherwise-relevant laws and regulations. As confirmed
in Article 2 of this permit, the Border facilities
shall remain subject to all such laws and regulations.
The term ``Facilities'' as used in this permit means
the portion in the United States of the international
pipeline project associated with the permittee's April
8, 2021, application for an amendment to its existing
permit, and any land, structures, installations, or
equipment appurtenant thereto.
The term ``Border facilities'' as used in this permit
means those parts of the Facilities consisting of a 30-
inch diameter pipeline extending from the international
border between the United States and Canada at Toole
County, Montana, to and including the first mainline
shut-off valve or pumping station in the United States
located approximately one quarter of a mile from the
international border, and any land, structures,
installations, or equipment appurtenant thereto.
This permit is subject to the following conditions:
Article 1. The Border facilities herein described, and
all aspects of their operation, shall be subject to all
the conditions, provisions, and requirements of this
permit and any subsequent Presidential amendment to it.
The permittee shall make no substantial change in the
Border facilities, in the location of the Border
facilities, or in the operation authorized by this
permit unless the President has approved the change in
an amendment to this permit or in a new permit. Such
substantial changes do not include, and the permittee
may make, changes to the average daily throughput
capacity of the Border facilities to any volume of
products that is achievable through the Border
facilities, and to the directional flow of any such
products.
Article 2. The standards for, and the manner of,
construction, connection, operation, and maintenance of
the Border facilities shall be subject to inspection by
the representatives of appropriate Federal, State, and
local agencies. Officers and employees of such agencies
who are duly authorized and performing their official
duties shall be granted free and unrestricted access to
the Border facilities by the permittee. The Border
facilities, including
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the construction, connection, operation, and
maintenance of the Border facilities, shall be subject
to all applicable laws and regulations, including
pipeline safety laws and regulations issued or
administered by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of
Transportation. The permittee shall obtain requisite
permits from relevant State and local governmental
entities, and relevant Federal agencies.
Article 3. Upon the termination, revocation, or
surrender of this permit, unless otherwise decided by
the President, the permittee, at its own expense, shall
remove the Border facilities within such time as the
President may specify. If the permittee fails to comply
with an order to remove, or to take such other
appropriate action with respect to, the Border
facilities, the President may direct an appropriate
official or agency to take possession of the Border
facilities--or to remove the Border facilities or take
other action--at the expense of the permittee. The
permittee shall have no claim for damages caused by any
such possession, removal, or other action.
Article 4. When, in the judgment of the President,
ensuring the national security of the United States
requires entering upon and taking possession of any of
the Border facilities or parts thereof, and retaining
possession, management, or control thereof for such a
length of time as the President may deem necessary, the
United States shall have the right to do so, provided
that the President or his designee has given due notice
to the permittee. The United States shall also have the
right thereafter to restore possession and control to
the permittee. In the event that the United States
exercises the rights described in this article, it
shall pay to the permittee just and fair compensation
for the use of such Border facilities, upon the basis
of a reasonable profit in normal conditions, and shall
bear the cost of restoring the Border facilities to
their previous condition, less the reasonable value of
any improvements that may have been made by the United
States.
Article 5. Any transfer of ownership or control of the
Border facilities, or any part thereof, or any changes
to the name of the permittee, shall be immediately
communicated in writing to the President or his
designee, and shall include information identifying any
transferee. Notwithstanding any such transfers or
changes, this permit shall remain in force subject to
all of its conditions, permissions, and requirements,
and any amendments thereto.
Article 6. (1) The permittee is responsible for
acquiring any right-of-way grants or easements,
permits, and other authorizations as may become
necessary or appropriate.
(2) The permittee shall hold harmless and indemnify
the United States from any claimed or adjudged
liability arising out of construction, connection,
operation, or maintenance of the Border facilities,
including environmental contamination from the release,
threatened release, or discharge of hazardous
substances or hazardous waste.
(3) To ensure the safe operation of the Border
facilities, the permittee shall maintain them and every
part of them in a condition of good repair and in
compliance with applicable law.
Article 7. The permittee shall file with the President
or his designee, and with appropriate agencies, such
sworn statements or reports with respect to the Border
facilities, or the permittee's activities and
operations in connection therewith, as are now, or may
hereafter, be required under any law or regulation of
the United States Government or its agencies. These
reporting obligations do not alter the intent that this
permit be operative as a directive issued by the
President alone.
Article 8. Upon request, the permittee shall provide
appropriate information to the President or his
designee with regard to the Border facilities. Such
requests could include information concerning current
conditions or anticipated changes in ownership or
control, construction, connection, operation, or
maintenance of the Border facilities.
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Article 9. This permit is not intended to, and does
not, create any right or benefit, substantive or
procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any
party against the United States, its departments,
agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirtieth day of June, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
ninth.
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[FR Doc. 2025-12509
Filed 7-2-25; 8:45 am]
Billing code 4710-10-P
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