Published in the May 26, 2016 edition BY BOB TUROSZ NORTH READING— Kinder Morgan has officially withdrawn its application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Washington D.C. for its Northeast Energy Direct (NED) pipeline project that would have followed a route through North Reading. The announcement from the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. (TGP) to FERC Secretary Kimberly D. Bose came on Monday, three days earlier than the deadline the company had set for itself to submit a status report to the federal agency following its April 22 request that FERC not take any further action in processing its application. Kinder Morgan, the parent company of TGP, had announced on April 20 that it was suspending all additional work and expenditures on this project. Monday's notification to FERC that Kinder Morgan was withdrawing the pipeline application all together is a more definitive indication that the plug has really been pulled on the project.