DOE reopens comment period on SPR expansion

The US Department of Energy has reopened the public comment period on expanding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and extended it through Dec. 19. The agency also scheduled a public meeting on the subject for Dec. 7 in Port Gibson, Miss.

Nov. 23, 2005

Nick Snow
Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 23 -- The US Department of Energy has reopened the public comment period on expanding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and extended it through Dec. 19. The agency also scheduled a public meeting on the subject for Dec. 7 in Port Gibson, Miss.

DOE took the actions after Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour asked Energy Sec. Samuel W. Bodman on Oct. 27 to include a new site at the Bruinsburg salt dome in the analysis of proposed sites and environmental impacts.

The initial comment period closed a day later.

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