The U.S. Department of Energy announced $42 million for permitting and preconstruction work on Williams’ Constitution natural-gas pipeline.

The Department of Energy announced $42 million for permitting and preconstruction activities on Williams’ Constitution pipeline, according to the supplied report. The funding is for preparatory work, not a disclosed allocation covering the pipeline’s entire construction cost.

The administration is invoking an emergency wartime law to support the project. Neither supplied message names that law or details the funding agreement’s disbursement conditions.

The long-delayed pipeline was originally proposed more than a decade ago to transport gas from Pennsylvania shale fields to New York and New England. The report describes lower northeastern U.S. gas prices as the administration’s objective, not an achieved result, and gives no pipeline throughput or confirmed operating date.