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Last updated: 2026-10-19 00:10 UTC  ·  Back to The AI Engine Warroom

A Kinder Morgan company plans to build a new gas pipeline through Harrison County, Texas. You have until Oct. 26 to speak up.

JUST POSTEDFERCNotice

When ex-slaves like Reeves Tucker settled near Hallsville after the Civil War, survival meant clearing timber and burning pine knots for light. Nearly 160 years later, the energy demands of Harrison County have shifted to the industrial scale — specifically a new gas-fired power plant fueled by a proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline. But as a quiet October 26 federal deadline approaches, local voices have just weeks to decide if they want a modern energy corridor running through their backyard.

Route map from the FERC filing: the proposed 3.2-mile, 24-inch pipeline lateral in red, east of Hallsville and west of Marshall in Harrison County, Texas, with the proposed meter station and NGPL's existing Gulf Coast mainlines
Route map: Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America prior notice application, Attachment D, FERC Docket No. CP26-565-000, accession 20260819-5115. Red is the proposed pipeline; M is the proposed meter station; green is NGPL's existing mainlines.
What happened

Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, which is run by Kinder Morgan, asked federal regulators on Aug. 19 for permission to build about 3.2 miles of 24-inch pipeline and a new metering station in Harrison County, Texas. The pipe would carry natural gas to Southwestern Electric Power Co.'s new Hallsville Power Plant. The company says it will cost about $36 million.

Why it matters

This is a shortcut approval process. The company already holds a standing permit that lets it build smaller projects like this one as long as no one formally objects. If no protest is filed by Oct. 26, the project is approved the next day without any regulator ever voting on it. Only a formal protest that stays on file forces the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to actually take a look.

Who is affected

People who own land or live along the route or near the new meter station in Harrison County. Also anyone who pays a SWEPCO electric bill, since the power plant is theirs. You do not have to own land on the route to get involved.

What you can do

There are three options, and none of them costs anything:

  • File a comment: tells regulators what you think, but does not give you any legal standing.
  • File a protest: the only thing that stops the automatic approval and forces a real review.
  • Want the option to appeal later? File a motion to intervene. If you’re already protesting, say you also want to intervene.
Next deadline

Everything is due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Oct. 26. For help filing, call FERC's Office of Public Participation at (202) 502-6595 or email OPP@ferc.gov. Questions about the project itself go to Francisco Tarin at Kinder Morgan, (719) 667-7517.

File an eComment

Write your comment in Word or a text file first (up to 10,000 characters), then paste it into eComment to avoid losing your work. Get an eRegistration account and use eFiling to file on behalf of an organization or submitting a motion to intervene.

Open FERC eComment
posted 2026-09-01  •  View source  •  Federal Register notice, FERC Docket No. CP26-565-000

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