By failing to act within a one-year timeframe required by the Clean Water Act, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation waived its authority to issue or reject a water quality certification for a pipeline project that will feed natural gas to a new power plant in New York state, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said in a Sept. 15 order.
At issue is a Millennium Pipeline Company LLC project that includes approximately 7.8 miles of new natural gas pipeline that will extend from Millennium Pipeline’s existing main line pipeline north to the new 680-megawatt CPV Valley Energy Center in the Town of Wawayanda in Orange County, N.Y., which is currently under construction, and for ancillary aboveground facilities.
