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Members of the public at a public scoping meeting in Kemmerer, Wyoming on June 12, 2008
About this project

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) (Caribou-Targhee and Medicine Bow National Forests) are conducting the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process for the proposed Gateway West Transmission Line Project. The BLM is the lead federal agency for the NEPA process. Other cooperating agencies include the National Park Service (National Trails Office, Fossil Butte and Craters of the Moon National Monuments), the Fish and Wildlife Service (Seedskadee and Cokeville Meadows National Wildlife Refuges), the Army Corps of Engineers, the States of Idaho and Wyoming, Power and Twin Falls Counties Idaho, and Lincoln and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming.

You are encouraged to participate in this project, in a variety of ways:

  • Visit this Web site for project information relating to the NEPA process
  • Sign up on the BLM’s mailing list (on the right)
  • Submit a question regarding the project to BLM staff
  • Participate in the draft environmental impact statement formal comment period, scheduled for spring 2009
  • Contact Walt George, BLM Project Manager

This project is jointly proposed by Idaho Power and Rocky Mountain Power. The companies plan to construct and operate 230 and 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission lines from the proposed Windstar substation near the Dave Johnston Power Plan at Glenrock, Wyoming to the proposed Hemingway substation near Melba, Idaho.

The proposed project is composed of 11 transmission line segments with a total length of approximately 1,000 miles across southern Wyoming and southern Idaho. The proposed line crosses approximately 500 miles of public land managed by the BLM, including 300 miles in Idaho and 200 miles in Wyoming.

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