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Show AAAPCO pipeline EIS released A proposed liquid hydrocarbon pipeline system from Texas through Utah, Colorado and New Mexico to Wyoming is the subject of a draft environmental en-vironmental impact statement released Friday by the Department of the Interior. In-terior. MAPCO, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, proposes to construct 1,172 miles of common carrier pipeline and related facilities to transport liquid hydrocar-. hydrocar-. bons from the Rock Springs, Wyoming, area to existing pipeline systems near Seminole, Texas. This project is in anticipation an-ticipation of increased production from the "Overthrust Belt" in the Rocky Mountain region. The goal of the project is to collect and transport, through a system of gathering lines and the rnain pipeline, up to 65,000 barrels per day of mixed stream natural gasoline and propane. Characteristically, the hydrocarbons are gaseous under atmospheric conditions. condi-tions. In storage and in the pipeline these products are handled and transported under pressure in a liquid state. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico state office prepared the draft statement in cooperation with the Forest Service. The statement analyzes the environmental en-vironmental effects of the proposed action ac-tion and five alternatives. The New Mexico BLM state director has been delegated authority to issue all grants and permits for the MAPCO project for crossing BLM and Forest Service lands. A public comment period will run through June 16, 1980. Copies of the draft statement are available from the BLM New Mexico state office (920), P.O. Box 1449, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501. Review copies are available at public libraries and BLM and Forest Service offices along the route in New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming, and in the BLM Public Affairs Office, Main Interior Building, 18th and E Streets, N.W. Washington, D C. 20240. Public hearings will be announced through the Federal Register and local media, and will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Grand Junction, Colorado; Col-orado; Vernal, Utah; and Rock Springs, Spr-ings, Wyoming. |