Opinion ID: 597401
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Heading: The FERC Order Under Review

Text: 13 Entertaining petitioners' motion for a rehearing of the September 1990 order, FERC, on November 8, 1991, rejected the claims petitioners now bring before this Court. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., 57 Fed. Energy Reg. Comm'n Rep. (CCH) p 61,187 (1991). Specifically, it held that petitioners were not entitled to personal notice of the proceedings on TN Gas's application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity. Id. at 61,650. FERC also rejected petitioners' argument that it should have prepared an EIS, as opposed to an environmental assessment, for the pipeline project, concluding that with the specified mitigation measures the project would have no significant environmental impact. Id. Additionally, FERC held that the NGA and implementing regulations did not require it to conduct a trial-type hearing because the paper record was sufficient to allow FERC to make the required inquiries. Id. at 61,650-51. Lastly, FERC approved TN Gas's most recent re-routing of the pipeline, dismissing petitioners' contentions that the routes they identified in their petition for late intervention were superior to the CRRA. Id. at 61,651. 14