RAYMOND – Details of a second proposal this month to route sections of a natural gas pipeline through Warren County were unveiled Tuesday at the Eagle Ridge Conference Center in Raymond.

Houston-based Gulf South Pipeline LP plans to build and operate a 42-inch natural gas pipeline along an 88-mile stretch from a hub near Delhi, La., to one in Florence in Simpson County.

According to a map of what company officials said was a tentative route, the pipeline would come into Warren County at a point just south of the Baxter Wilson Power Plant, continue across U.S. 61 South near Grange Hall Road, and run across the county line with Hinds near the southern edge of Bovina Cut Off Road.

In company releases, the pipeline, called the Mississippi Expansion Project, is said to be part of a tandem of proposed lines geared to &#8220debottleneck” two different hubs that service the Gulf South, at north Louisiana and at Kosciusko.

The other is planned for eastern Texas and would relieve capacity constraints in that area, with each capable of delivering up to 1 billion cubic feet per day, the release said.

The project will also require Gulf South to build a new compressor station near Tallulah, with an open house scheduled for today at 5 p.m. at the Tallulah Country Club, 762 Old Highway 65 South.

At its April 17 meeting, Warren County supervisors approved a &#8220fee-in-lieu” of paying property taxes to Duke Energy Gas Transmission Inc., proposing to build a 36-inch, 270-mile interstate pipeline, partnering with Houston-based CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission.

That pipeline would extend from a CenterPoint-owned hub in northeastern Louisiana, cross Warren County near the Yokena and Cedars communities, then end at a hub in Mobile, Ala., partially owned by Duke Energy. Exact maps of that project have not been made available.

Unlike Duke Energy, whose representatives went before the county board before any extensive talks with property owners, Gulf South Pipeline called any similar plans to request tax breaks premature and downplayed any competition between the two proposals.

&#8220We can end up having the same customers and both projects get built,” company spokesman Ruth Burum said, reached from her Houston office earlier Tuesday, adding that a tax break request is something that is &#8220being explored.”

In releases, the company said the $260 million project would provide construction jobs for local workers and provide $4 million in taxes to state and local governments in Mississippi and Louisiana. It is expected to begin in late Spring 2007, with the pipeline placed in service by late 2007.

The company may also explore the tax-free bonds part of the incentive-laden Gulf Opportunity Zone Act, Burum said.

The one residential property owner who showed up at the session, billed by the company as an &#8220open house,” said his main concern was additional rights-of-way the company would seek.

&#8220They said they’d want another 60 feet of one that Entergy has on my property already for the power lines,” said G.W. Lee Jr., pointing to about a half-mile of land he said he co-owns between Bovina Cut Off Road and the Big Black River.

About 60 percent of the permits to survey land in the proposed corridor have been obtained, with &#8220people on the ground” expected to hit the ground in three weeks, said Gulf South project official Kyle Stevens.

Stevens said the preliminary route was mapped to avoid as many areas of population as possible, with the final route depending on acquiring the rights of way.

The tentative route has it roughly following a power transmission line through northern sections of Districts 4 and 5.

District 5 Supervisor Richard George was at the session, attended largely by officials of the company and with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which would lead an environmental review of the pipeline project.

George agreed that the property owners are the key to the success of the project. District 4 Supervisor Carl Flanders did not attend, but said earlier Tuesday that some property owners in his district are aware of the company’s plans.

Gulf South Pipeline Company operates over 7,500 miles of pipeline with 29 compressor stations and more than 100 pipeline interconnects. A subsidiary of Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, itself a subsidiary of The Loews Corporation, Gulf South manages field offices in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida.

The company lists about a half-dozen cities in Mississippi as customers, including Vicksburg. According to the company’s Web site, their contract to provide gas service with the city of Vicksburg runs through March 2009.