PROJECT DESCRIPTION
PacifiCorp, doing business as Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) has filed an application for a right-of-way to construct and operate a 345 kV overhead transmission line to cross public lands (both BLM and the Forest Service) for the Sigurd to Red Butte No. 2 - 345 kV Transmission Project (Project). RMP has determined that the southwest Utah transmission system will be fully utilized and will require a minimum of 600 megawatts of reliable capacity by 2014. This line would connect the Sigurd substation, located approximately six miles northeast of Richfield in Sevier County, Utah to the Red Butte substation, located southwest of the town of Central in Washington County, Utah. Project details include:
- 345 kV overhead transmission line
- EIS being prepared
- 160 miles long
- Typical H-frame steel structures
- Tower
- Towers 80—to 1,200 feet apart
- Alternative routes affect land in Sevier, Millard, Beaver, Iron, Piute, Garfield and Washington Counties.
- A geotechnical right-of-way application for RMP to gather geotechnical information to support the Project was filed in September 2009. A separate EA will be prepared for this short-term right-of-way application. The geotechnical investigation is required to characterize the surface and sub-surface conditions along the proposed routes and to provide information necessary for the engineering design for the transmission line towers.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Please join us at any of the following Public Open House Meetings to discuss the proposed project, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.:
Richfield, UT
June 27, 2011
250 North Main Street
Sevier County Offices, Room B-46 | Milford, UT
June 28, 2011
26 South 100 West
Milford City Offices, Recreation Hall |
Enterprise, UT
June 29, 2011
565 South 200 East
Enterprise High School, Commons | St. George, UT
June 30, 2011
88 West 100 South
St. George Library, Community Room B |
Comments on the DEIS will be accepted until July 18, 2011. To download a comment form click .
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