The FERC is now scheduled to release its final environmental impact statement for the Mountain Valley Pipeline on June 23, 2017.

Once the FEIS is released, other agencies will have 90 days to make comments on it.

Once the 90 days has passed the FERC will approve the project.  While technically the FERC is supposed to “make a decision”, the reality is that the FERC has only turned down four projects in it’s 38 year life.

Approval will come on September 21, 2017.

The only thing that could stop approval would be if the FERC still doesn’t have a quorum of commissioners on September 21.