United States Department of State
Bureau of Oceans and International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
for the
Keystone XL Project
Executive Summary
January 2014
Applicant for Presidential Permit: TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP
Front cover photo sources in order of appearance top to bottom:
Whooping crane
Hagerty, Ryan. 2012. Endangered Whooping Crane (Grus Americana). Photograph. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
23 February 2012. Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/6777481034/.
Black-footed ferret
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. 2012. Black-footed ferret. Photograph. USFWS Headquarters. 3 July 2012. Website:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/7013874797/in/photolist-9Z7MXd-bFMWBP-bsoAvk-9DoXKC-bZh2uu/.
Sage grouse
Rush, Kenneth. No Date. Male Greater Sage Grouse Strutting at Hat Six Lek near Casper, Wyoming. Photograph.
Shutterstock, Image ID: 52631191. Website: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-52631191/stock-photo-male-greater-
sage-grouse-strutting-at-hat-six-lek-near-casper-wyoming.html.
American burying beetle
Backlund, Doug. No date. Untitled [American Burying Beetle]. Photograph. U.S Fish & Wildlife Service – South
Dakota Field Office. Website: http://www.fws.gov/southdakotafieldoffice/BEETLE.HTM.
United States Department of State
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
For the
KEYSTONE XL PROJECT
Applicant for Presidential Permit:
TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP
Executive Summary
Genevieve Walker
Project Manager
United States Department of State
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental
and Scientific Affairs
2201 C Street NW, Room 2726
Washington, DC 20520
Cooperating Agencies
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
U.S. Department of Agriculture—Farm Service Agency (FSA)
U.S. Department of Agriculture—Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)
U.S. Department of Agriculture—Rural Utilities Service (RUS)
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
U.S. Department of