The Bountiful City mayor called a special meeting Tuesday to discuss the proposed pipeline that would carry natural gas through Davis County en route to California.

The city contacted the news media Monday afternoon to announce the special meeting would be held Tuesday at 7 p.m. at City Hall.City Manager Tom Hardy said the mayor hopes to gauge reaction to a recent decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which has refused to grant the city and pipeline opponents a rehearing on its certification of two competing companies, WyCal and Kern River, to build the pipeline.

Under the FERC-approved route known as the "Wasatch Variation," the pipeline would come over the mountains east of Bountiful, pass through Mueller Park and skirt the foothills of South Davis County before heading west and south through Salt Lake County.

The Wasatch Variation was opposed by the citizens group, Bountiful, North Salt Lake and other communities who filed an appeal of the FERC certificates.

"We want to publicly find out where everyone is coming from," said Hardy, noting the reaction to the recent FERC decision to refuse a rehearing has been fragmented and difficult to assess. "We'd like to get everyone under one roof."

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Invited to Tuesday's meeting are the Bountiful Hills Residents and Concerned Citizens Association, which has led the fight against the pipeline; the Forest Service; the pipeline companies; and leaders of surrounding communities.

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