FERC Office of Energy Projects staff signed off on aTranscontinental Gas Pipe LineCo. LLC proposal to build and modify natural gas facilities toprovide bidirectional service to Georgia markets.
"The staff recommends that the commission order containa finding of no significant impact," staff said in the March 31environmental assessment, or EA, of the Dalton expansion project. The staffadded that certain mitigating measures should be recommended as conditions ofthe project's certificate.
The Dalton expansion project would deliver an additional448,000 Dth/d of transportation capacity to markets in northwest Georgia, agrowing area of demand, according to FERC staff.
In March 2015, Transco announced that it had applied tobuild and operate facilities that make up the . Transcooriginally planned on an in-service date of May 2017 for the project, withconstruction expected to begin during the summer of 2016.
Construction and operation of the facilities, including approximately115 miles of new pipeline, would take place in Coweta, Carroll, Douglas,Paulding, Bartow, Gordon, Murray and Whitfield counties in Georgia.