FERC staff said it will prepare an environmental assessment (EA) for Tennessee Gas Pipeline‘s (TGP) Orion Project, a looping of the pipeline’s 300 Line that would target the Middle Atlantic and New England regions with additional service from Susquehanna County, PA, to Pike County, PA. The project’s 135,000 Dth/d of capacity is fully subscribed by South Jersey Resources Group LLC, South Jersey Gas Co., and Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., according to the Kinder Morgan Inc. pipeline (see Daily GPI, Oct. 9). More than two-dozen gas distribution systems, led by the Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi have urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to require TGP to justify its proposal to charge system fuel and electric compression rates as part of the project (see Daily GPI, Nov. 16). Comments on the project are due at the Commission by Dec. 23 [CP16-4].