Developers of the long-contested Constitution Pipeline have reactivated an application with federal regulators that could allow for the delivery of natural gas produced in Pennsylvania to power up to 3 million homes in New York and New England.

The status of a state-level environmental permit remains unclear. Developers are seeking a waiver for a permit in New York, where the project has met resistance.

Constitution, a subsidiary of Oklahoma-based Williams Companies, wants to build a 124-mile pipeline that would transport 650 million cubic feet natural gas per day produced in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus supply basin to a hub near Albany, New York. The gas would be transported from there to users in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine via other pipelines.

Constitution initially received federal approvals for the project more than a decade ago. In a Dec. 22 filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the company seeks to reinstate approval of a national water quality permit granted in 2014 that had lapsed.

That same year, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation cited insufficient information and data related to the pipeline’s potential impacts.

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