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CALGARY – A major new pipeline project that would move oil to the United States should be approved, with conditions, the National Energy Board recommended Monday.

The NEB released its recommendation that the federal government should approve Enbridge Inc.’s application to replace its Line 3 pipeline between Alberta and Wisconsin, which would allow the company to ship 760,000 barrels per day through the line. The company currently ships about 390,000 bpd through the existing line.

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The project is the largest in Enbridge’s history with an estimated price tag of $7.5 billion and the company expects the new line, built next to the roughly 50-year-old existing line, will be in operation by 2019.

Enbridge issued a statement following the NEB announcement, which said the recommendation was “an important step in the regulatory process of this important maintenance project. We are reviewing the conditions now.”