The Departments of Interior and Justice filed papers today in Cheyenne that instruct the National Park Service to conduct a supplemental environmental impact statement on the matter.
A ruling by a state appeals court last week, stemming from one of the lawsuits over the project, may cause additional delays in putting up most of the housing — though not in building the arena itself — by requiring the state to conduct a new environmental impact statement.
The latest ruling follows the court's previous decision in August to require the State Department to also conduct a supplemental environmental impact statement on a new route through Nebraska.
When it first applied for permission in 1989, the Huntington Town Board reviewed the application and voted to require the club to conduct an environmental impact statement.
On Sunday, the corps announced it would not grant the permit but would instead conduct an environmental impact statement and explore alternate routes for the pipeline.
Judge Dayton's ruling in favor of Missoula County and its affiliated environmental groups demanded that Montana conduct an environmental-impact statement before granting further mega-load permits.
Today, as part of the budget deal, the governor and the M.T.A. agreed to conduct an environmental impact statement and an engineering review for a full-length line, rather than for a partial line, raising the authority's initial investment in the project from $700 million over the next five years to $1.05 billion.
The corps announced Sunday that it would not grant a permit – known as an easement – to the company, but would instead conduct an environmental impact statement and explore alternate routes for the 1,172-mile 1,172-milewhich is slated to carry crude oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to a refinery in Illinois.
Along with denying the final easement required for the $3.8 billion project to pass under Lake Oahe, the Obama administration ordered the Army Corps to conduct an environmental impact statement to examine the possible affects of the pipeline and explore alternative routes.
When the South Carolina-based tree engineering company, ArborGen recently applied for deregulation of their freeze tolerant eucalyptus, APHIS responded by filing a "notice of intent" to conduct an environmental impact statement, and opened up for public comments on ArborGen's petition.
