Last week, the United States Forest Service released a final supplemental environmental impact statement for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, bringing the project one step closer to resolving a permitting setback that has prevented construction on a small portion routed through Jefferson National Forest, according to Natural Gas Intelligence.
The USFS’s recent determination clears the way for the Bureau of Land Management to issue a right-of-way for the pipeline’s 3.5-mile span stretching through Jefferson National Forest near the Virginia-West Virginia border.
The USFS’s statement was prepared in response to a 2018 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which vacated and remanded an earlier USFS decision permitting the pipeline to cross protected forest lands.
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