Army Corps Issues Final MVP Permit, Construction Restarts “Soon”

On Saturday, June 3, President Biden signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) of 2023, also known as the "debt ceiling" bill, into law. Part of the new law is a provision that forces government agencies (on every level) to finish granting any outstanding permits to the long-stalled, 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. The new law also ripped away the right of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to hear any further cases regarding MVP. All of which means construction should, theoretically, begin by the end of this month (see Court Filing Says MVP Construction to Restart by End of June). On Friday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reissued a permit they've issued multiple times before, and this time there is no overturning it in the 4th Circuit.

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