"No serious environmental study has been done," he said.
If the council accepts the environmental study, the plan will go to the County Legislature.
The corps's environmental study said 80percentt of the benefits would be to reduce mainland flooding.
Mr. Crawford said the authority would implement all the proposals in its environmental study.
The E.P.A. and the Army Corps of Engineers are conducting an environmental study to assess the suitability of the sites.
Canada lost a case where it had rejected, after an environmental study, a proposed mining and marine-terminal project.
The environmental study acknowledged that the pipeline would disrupt local communities and harm the environment, especially during construction.
Karl Brack, a spokesman for Columbia Gas, called the environmental study "a positive step in the project's review".
The town's environmental study and proposal, completed this year, were supposed to end the impasse but did not.
Once the environmental study is complete, another six steps remain to gain approval and funding from the Federal Transit Administration.
Uruguay's previous government should have ordered an independent environmental study at the outset.
