BY STACI WILSON
The Susquehanna County Planning Commission gave conditional, preliminary approval for the construction of a natural gas compressor station in Auburn Twp.
Penn-Virginia Resource Marcellus Gas Gathering is planning to build the station on lands owned by Mark Hinkley.
Planning director Bob Templeton said PVR is a private compressor station operator that collects natural gas from various gas companies and readies the product for the pipeline.
Templeton said the company will meet the county’s newly enacted land development ordinance that regulates setbacks and noise standards of natural gas compressor stations.
Plans submitted to the planning commission for compressor stations will be required to be stamped by a sound engineer.
Templeton said the county ordinance sets a design standard for compressor stations and a sound engineer’s stamp will be accepted just as the commission accepts the stamps of surveyors and building engineers.
Although conditional, preliminary approval was given to the project, the planning commission is waiting to receive an erosion control permit from DEP, a township driveway permit and the municipal report comment form.
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