The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to complete a new environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the next two months, Kallanish Energy reports.
The federal agency intends to complete the report by Aug. 10.
That report was initially to be completed last April.
Last year, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, in Washington, D.C., allowed the pipeline developed by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners to begin moving oil from western North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois.
The judge also ordered the Corps of Engineers to further review the impact of the pipeline on the Standing Rock, Cheyenne, Yankton and Ogalala Sioux tribes.
That included looking at how a spill from the pipeline could impact drinking water for the tribes.
ETP has said the pipeline is safe and not a problem.
Last June 1, Dakota Access began moving crude.
It was the site of major protests in late 2016 and early 2017 in North Dakota, on an Indian reservation.
The 1,170-mile pipeline is moving 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day to the Midwest and the Gulf Coast.