The Iroquois Gas Transmission System announced late Friday ithas filed with FERC for a certificate of public convenience andnecessity to construct a $170 million extension which the companysays will help meet gas demand in New York City. If approved, theEastchester Extension project will start service in 2002.

“Our Eastchester project will significantly enhance thecapabilities of the natural gas grid in New York City,” said CraigFrew, president of the Iroquois Pipeline Operating Co. “The projecthas been designed to ensure both new and existing customers willbenefit from the new facilities that will be built.”

The Eastchester Extension Project is a proposed 30-mile pipelineextension from Iroquois’ existing mainline at Northport, LongIsland running about a mile on land, then some 27 miles beneathLong Island Sound, plus two miles into the Bronx. It also involvesbuilding new compressor stations at Dover and Boonville, NY, anadditional compressor unit at Iroquois’ Croghan, NY compressorstation, equipment upgrades at Iroquois’ compressor station inWright, NY, and the addition of cooling at the Wright and Athens,NY, facilities.

It will initially deliver about 220 MMcf/d from western Canadaand other emerging supply basins into Consolidated Edison’s gasgrid in the Bronx, north of Manhattan. “An important thing to noteabout Eastchester,” said Herb Rakebrand, vice president ofmarketing and transportation, “is that the customers supportingthis project will all be end users contributing to the developmentof New York City’s total energy infrastructure.”

The Iroquois Pipeline Operating Co. is the wholly-ownedsubsidiary of the Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P., and isthe operator of Iroquois’ 375-mile natural gas transmissionpipeline in the Northeast.

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