The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has issued a new Endangered Species Act review of the Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC’s 2 million Dth/d, 303-mile Appalachian natural gas pipeline, according to Natural Gas Intelligence.
The USFWS notified the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week that it had finished drafting a current Biological Opinion (BiOp) and Incidental Take Statement (ITS) for the project, as part of federal requirements to review potential impacts to protected species from its construction.
In obtaining the new USFWS permits, MVP has cleared “a key hurdle” in its efforts to place the Mountain Valley Pipeline into service.
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