Projects to restore lands proposed by the sponsors of the scuttled Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and Supply Header Project (SHP) appear to avoid or reduce impacts to less than significant levels, FERC staff has determined.

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Dominion Energy and joint venture partner Duke Energy last year canceled the 600-mile, 1.5 Bcf/d ACP, designed to run from West Virginia into Virginia and North Carolina. The related SHP system also was canceled.

Staff with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission prepared a draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) following its review of the clean-up plan proposed by ACP and Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage Inc. (EGTS). 

ACP and EGTS plan to stabilize lands that were affected by their “previous (and now canceled) construction...