How to submit a comment to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

General Information

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regularly opens public comment periods for major decisions before the agency, including approvals needed for interstate pipelines like the Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate and Southeast Supply Enhancement Project (SSEP).  When submitting a comment to FERC, you must assign the comment to the docket number of the project you are commenting on, and then submit your comment using one of the methods listed below.  The MVP Southgate project docket number is CP25-60-000. SSEP’s project-specific docket number is CP25-10-000.

The following are ways to submit your comment ranked in order of most recommended method:

  1. Using the FERC website (eComment or eFiling)
  2. Mailing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426
  3. Delivering by hand to Health and Human Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852

You can see a list of open comment periods here.  Please note that personal comments are always best, so adding your personal reasons on why the topic at hand is important to you is crucial.

Using the FERC Website

FERC’s website gives two options for submitting comments, called eComment and eFile.  Below is a walkthrough for each, starting with eComment, which is the quickest submission method.

Comments from individuals up to 6,000 characters long can be submitted using the eComment function (recommended):  https://ferconline.ferc.gov/QuickComment.aspx 

  1. Using the above link, fill out the form required by FERC to authorize eComment - after filling this out, FERC will email you a link to finish the comment process (Note: it’s best to write your comment in another document beforehand to avoid the FERC site time limits. Remember this will be public - do not put any private information into the comment) 

  1. Click the link in the authorization email to go to the submission page - FERC imports your information into this page, but you must still assign your comment to the necessary docket number before submitting
  1. Under your imported information form, search for the relevant docket (CP16-10 [in example below]- please select CP25-60 for MVP Southgate or CP25-10 for the SSEP docket).

  1. When the results come up, select the correct docket (CP25-60-000 for the Southgate Amendment docket [seen in below example]) 

                 

  1. Make sure the “Selected Dockets” area below the search form shows the relevant docket

  1. Copy and paste your comment and Submit!

For comments from individuals that are over 6,000 characters, are in PDF format, or contain images (such that you cannot cut and paste them into the “quick comment function,” you must use the eFile function.  Start this process by registering with FERC here

  1. At the above link, fill out the required information and click “Next” to register with FERC (note - you must click “Next” instead of “Done” to complete the full registration required for efiling)

  1. After registering with FERC, go into the eFile function.  Select “General”, “Comment (on Filing, Environ, Report,or Tech Conf)”, and “Comment”, then click Next:

  1. The next page allows you to select the Docket # (CP25-60-000 for Southgate amendment docket), then takes you to a page to upload your comment, PDF or other supplemental documents.  (Note: there will be a space for “Filer” / “Agents” - filling this out is only necessary if you are filing on behalf of an organization).  
  2. After your files are selected and all necessary fields completed, submit your eFiling. You will receive an email confirmation from FERC.  Your filing will appear on the MVP docket soon after (see example below):

On 2/26/2025, the following Filing was submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington D.C.:

Filer:           Individual No Affiliation (as Agent)

Docket(s):              CP25-60-000

Lead Applicant: Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC

Filing Type:    Comment on Filing

Description:    What you typed into the description box “Comment from...

Current Comment Periods

CP26-14-000: Mountain Valley Pipeline Boost Project

  • Application Documents in e-Library:
  • Motions to Intervene:
  • Comments and motions to intervene due on or before 5:00 pm Eastern Time on November 26, 2025.
  • Scoping Period Information:
  • “By this notice, the Commission requests public comments on the scope of issues to address in the environmental document.  To ensure that your comments are timely and properly recorded, please submit your comments so that the Commission receives them in Washington, DC on or before 5:00 pm Eastern Time on December 19, 2025.  Comments may be submitted in written form.”

CP25-60-000: Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate Extension Amendment request and Environmental Assessment (EA).

CP25-10-000: Southeast Supply Enhancement Project

  • Public comment period in response to Environmental Assessment - proposed for November/December 2025

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*If you need additional assistance with talking points or submitting your comment, you may reach out to: POWHR (russell@powhr.org), Appalachian Voices (jessica@appvoices.org) or VPR (virginiapipelineresisters@gmail.com) to receive them as soon as they are available.  Please note that personal comments are always best, so adding your personal reasons on why the topic at hand is important to you is crucial.

Keeping up to Date

Please follow POWHR - Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights on Facebook or at powhr.org to stay up to date on happenings around the Mountain Valley Pipeline, Southgate extension and the SSEP, and to keep up to date on submissions to and actions from FERC regarding the MVP or other projects, you can subscribe to get alerts using the project’s docket number.  This can be done using the same eRegistration as that  shown previously for eFile - if you would like to register only for eSubscription and not the full registration required for eFile, click Done instead of Next after filling out the form:

After completing the registration process, you can login and go to eSubscribe, then subscribe to get FERC alerts on MVP Southgate by adding the docket number CP25-60-000 (see the screenshot below) or CP25-10-000 for Southeast Supply Enhancement Project.

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