PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – South Dakota regulators have scheduled public meetings next month on a proposed pipeline that would carry oil from western North Dakota to eastern refineries.
The $3.8 million Dakota Access Pipeline would stretch from the Bakken formation to Patoka, Illinois. Energy Transfer Partners wants to have it operating by the end of 2016.
About 271 miles of the 1,134-mile pipeline would be in South Dakota. The state Public Utilities Commission has scheduled public hearings on Jan. 21 in Bowdle and Redfield and on Jan. 22 in Iroquois and Sioux Falls.
The PUC won’t make a decision on a permit for the pipeline until late next year.