Empire Pipeline, Inc.

Original Volume No. 1

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Effective Date: 12/10/2008, Docket: CP06-5-010, Status: Effective

Original Sheet No. 4 Original Sheet No. 4

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

Empire Pipeline, Inc., a New York corporation, is a natural gas

pipeline company engaged in the business of transporting natural gas in

interstate commerce, under authorization granted by and subject to the

jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

The Empire State Pipeline, constructed in 1993 under the jurisdiction

of the Public Service Commission of the State of New York, extended from

Grand Island, New York, to near Syracuse, New York. The system of Empire

Pipeline, Inc. includes these formerly state regulated facilities as well

as compression and pipeline facilities enabling the transportation of gas

into the facilities of Millennium Pipeline Company, L.P.