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BISMARCK, N.D. -- State regulators gave their final approval Wednesday to a $2.6 billion pipeline project that could transport nearly a quarter-million barrels of crude oil daily to market.

The three-member North Dakota Public Service Commission voted unanimously in favor of the Sandpiper project during the commission’s meeting at the state Capitol.

Canadian company Enbridge will oversee the construction. The 616-mile project, between 24 inches and 30 inches in diameter, would be able to move up to 225,000 barrels per day from a facility south of Tioga to an existing terminal in Superior, Wis. About half the pipeline mileage would be in North Dakota.

Federal regulators recently gave the project the green light on their end.

Mark Maki, president of Enbridge Energy Partners, LP, said it will have the potential to move more than 20 percent of the Williston Basin’s current production. “It’s a great milestone for North Dakota,” he said in a statement.

PSC members also praised the project in a statement after they approved it.