Kinder Morgan Inc. said May 19 that the Georgia Department of Transportation declined its application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the proposed Palmetto Pipeline.

The company said May 1 that Palmetto had received approval for rates, terms and conditions of service from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Ron McClain, president of Kinder Morgan Products Pipelines, said May 19 the company is disappointed that Georgia’s Department of Transportation declined its request.

He added that the company will conduct “an open dialogue with communities and landowners along the proposed pipeline rights-of-way and share information about the project to address concerns.”

Palmetto will transport petroleum products from Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina to parts of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

Baton Rouge, La., Collins and Pascagoula, Miss., and Belton, S.C., are cities where the petrochemicals will ship from. North Augusta, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla., are where they will end up.

Palmetto will handle 167,000 barrels per day of capacity.

Expansion capacity will be leased from Plantation Pipe Line Co., which is between Baton Rouge and Belton. A new 360-mile pipeline from Belton running to Jacksonville will also be built for the system, the company said May 1.

Kinder Morgan companies have worked in Georgia for 80 years, operating more than 3,000 miles of pipelines across 85 counties. When approved, the roughly-$1 billion Palmetto Pipeline could provide about 1,200 temporary construction jobs, 28 permanent jobs and more than $12 million in state and local tax revenues, the company said May 19.

Houston-based Kinder Morgan Inc. is North America’s largest energy infrastructure company.