[at-l] "The Trail Isn't Really Wilderness Anyway..."

[sloetoe@yahoo.com (Sloetoe)]

--- Clark Wright <icw39@ncfreedom.net> wrote:
> Some ideas from afar, based on almost 20 years of env. law
> practice:
> 
> 1)  If any federal funds/permits are needed, NEPA's EA/EIS
> requirements should be triggered;
### Won't be federal land (permits), but project money would
certainly be federal...

> 2)  Document the record!!!!!!!!!  Oral comments at hearings
> are nice,
### and are official part of the record, but...
> but it is what you submit in writing that becomes legal fodder
### is 100% on target.

> 4)  Are there any sympathetic elected representatives?
### Sympathetic to the projects, so far....

> 6)  Who defined the "purpose and need" for the project; can it
> be redefined?
### Private project; Part of national energy policy. 
 
> 7)  Since it is a power project, is FERC involved?
### Only to obtain Excempt Wholesale Generator status.

> 8)  Any chance there is a water quality issue tied to site
> clearing or impervious surface area?
### Vermont construction code (post planning review) would take
care of it. Also, since they're on the mountain top, ultimate
downstream impact would be mitigated, (if immediate impact is
relatively huge).


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