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68 DECEMBER 2016 Atlantic Coast Pipeline Under Contract Adapted from Information by Dominion Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC, which has proposed a nearly 600-mile natural gas transmission pipeline to bring energy to Virginia and North Carolina, announced it has signed a construction contract with Spring Ridge Constructors, LLC (SRC), a joint venture of leading natural gas pipeline construction companies. Pending approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) would run from Harrison County, West Virginia, southeast through Virginia with a lateral extension to Chesapeake, Virginia, and then south through eastern North Carolina. If approved, construction is scheduled to begin fall of 2017. According to economic impact studies conducted in 2015, the project's construction is expected to generate more than 17,000 jobs, $2.7 billion in total economic activity, and $4.2 million in average annual tax revenue for cities and counties in the project area. "We are excited to work with SRC, which has assembled four of the nation's leading and most-qualified pipeline builders for this project," said Diane Leopold, president of Dominion Energy. In another significant milestone for the project, in early August FERC issued a Notice of Schedule, which established the time- line for the remainder of the project's federal environmental review process. ACP anticipates completing construction and bringing the pipeline into service in late 2019. ACP is working with its contractors to evaluate the possibility of bringing on more crews and working on more simultaneous spreads to complete construction sooner. This analysis is expected to be finalized over the next few months. Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC is composed of four major U.S. energy companies - Dominion, Duke Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas, and Southern Company Gas. assistant for a geotechnical engineering firm and eventual ly became a licensed professional geologist. On ce the samples are collected, they will be transferred to Arkansas Analytical, an independent Arkansas-certified environmental laboratory. Quality criteria have been set to assure the integrity of the samples. Once the validated laboratory results and analyses are completed, a final findings report will be submitted to ADEQ by January 2017. Geotechnical Investigation cont’d from page 22. WorldWide Drilling Resource ®