# 2025-20661: Nueva Era Pipeline's Eco Review Gets Bureaucratic Timeline

2025-20661, Nueva Era Dos, LLC; Notice of Schedule for the Preparation of an Environmental Assessment for the Nueva Era Dos Pipeline Project, is a Federal Register notice from Energy Department, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission published 2025-11-24, effective 2026-01-30 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20661
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20661
- Title: Nueva Era Dos, LLC; Notice of Schedule for the Preparation of an Environmental Assessment for the Nueva Era Dos Pipeline Project
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Energy Department; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 52937
- Published: 2025-11-24
- Effective: 2026-01-30
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Nueva Era Pipeline's Eco Review Gets Bureaucratic Timeline

## Summary

Nueva Era Dos wants to build a new natural gas pipeline to send a huge amount of gas daily to factories in Mexico. The government is getting ready to check how this project might affect the environment and plans to finish this review by January 30, 2026. If all goes well, final approvals should happen by April 30, 2026, which means things could move fast and impact local communities and industries.

## Effects PRIA read

- Environmental Review Timeline Set: mixed, medium. FERC staff will issue an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Nueva Era Dos Pipeline Project on January 30, 2026, and the 90-day federal authorization decision deadline is April 30, 2026. Per the notice, the Commission's April 30, 2026 deadline applies to other federal agencies and state agencies…
- EPA Requests Air, Water, Hazardous Analysis: benefit, medium. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asked that the EA address the project's effects on air quality and water quality, and also consider construction-related hazardous materials and waste. The notice says all substantive comments, including EPA's, will be addressed in the EA.
- New International Pipeline Proposed in Maverick County: mixed, high. Nueva Era Dos proposes a roughly 3,603-foot, 36-inch natural gas transmission pipeline installed by horizontal directional drill in Maverick County, Texas, to provide a new international interconnection primarily designed to deliver about one billion standard cubic feet of natural gas per day to in…

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## Sources
- [2025-20661 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/24/2025-20661/nueva-era-dos-llc-notice-of-schedule-for-the-preparation-of-an-environmental-assessment-for-the)
- [2025-20661 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-24/pdf/2025-20661.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20661 (as of 2026-06-08).