ERIE — National Fuel Gas Supply Corp., a subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Company, will file an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for authorization to modernize a segment of its system in northwestern Pennsylvania, impacting Cameron, Clearfield, Elk, McKean and Potter counties.

The FM100 Modernization Project currently is participating in the FERC National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) pre-filing review process at Docket No. PF17-10-000. National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. will submit a formal application to the FERC in April 2018, with a target in-service date of spring 2020.

Landowners potentially impacted by the proposed project have been invited to attend a community open house at 6 p.m., Nov. 13 at the Port Allegany Veterans Memorial Inc., 4743 Rt. 155, Port Allegany.

They and other interested parties will have the opportunity to ask questions about the project and the regulatory process.

Specific components of the FM100 Modernization Project include the following:

Installing approximately 28.9-miles of new 12 or 16-inch steel natural gas pipeline in Sergeant, Norwich, and Liberty Townships in McKean County, and Roulette, Pleasant Valley, Clara, Hebron Townships in Potter County;

Installing a new natural gas compression facility in Sergeant Township in McKean County;

Installing a new interconnection in Hebron Township in Potter County;

Installing approximately 1.2 miles of 24-inch steel natural gas pipeline in Allegany and Hebron Townships in Potter County;

Inserting approximately 12.5-miles of 6-inch FlexSteel natural gas pipeline into National Fuel’s existing 12-inch steel natural gas pipeline (Line FM120) in Sergeant Township in McKean County, Jones Township and the City of St. Marys in Elk County, and Shippen Township in Cameron County;

Abandoning in place approximately 12-miles of 12-inch steel natural gas pipeline (Line FM120) in Shippen Township in Cameron County, and Benezette Township in Elk County;

Abandoning in place approximately 44.9-miles of 12-inch steel natural gas pipeline (Line FM100) in Huston and Lawrence townships in Clearfield County, Benezette Township in Elk County, the Borough of Driftwood, and Gibson and Lumber townships in Cameron County, and Wharton and Portage townships in Potter County; and

Abandoning and removing a natural gas compression facility (Costello Compression Station) in Portage Township in Potter County.