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CALGARY – TransCanada Corp. has provided the National Energy Board with an easier-to-understand application for its controversial Energy East pipeline project. But it’s still almost 39,000 pages long.

The new document — at 38,885 pages that filled 12 boxes — was submitted at the federal energy regulator’s request because the initial application was deemed too “difficult even for experts to navigate.”

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The original application came in at 30,000 pages, plus amendments.

TransCanada needed two delivery trucks to drop off five copies of the latest application to the NEB’s offices in Calgary on Tuesday.

The NEB has yet to deem the company’s application complete, which is a necessary step before a legislated deadline takes effect for determining whether the project is in the public interest.

“We do need to have a quick look at it first,” NEB spokesperson Sarah Kiley said Wednesday of the compiled document.

The updated document removes the initial application’s plan to build a marine terminal at Cacouna, Que., which had become a source of controversy for the $15.7 billion project over concerns about beluga whale habitat.