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Senator Hecht. Well, I have never had such a fine day with gov- 

 ernment witnesses in my life. I have been here for five years. It is 

 amazing what that box does [indicating]. 



[General laughter.] 



Senator Hecht. Thank you. Your full statement will be in the 

 record. 



Mr. Leonard. Thank you. 



Senator Hecht. Mr. Bok. 



STATEMENT OF ERIK BOK, FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE REPRESENT- 

 ATIVE, LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER, 

 LOS ANGELES, CA 



Mr. Bok. Thank you, Senator Hecht. 



Senator Hecht. Let me first say to those who might not know 

 you that these gentlemen are well known. You are the Federal 

 Legislative Representative, Los Angeles Department of Water and 

 Power, Los Angeles, California. 



Mr. Bok. Yes. 



L.A. Water and Power is the project manager for the Intermoun- 

 tain Power Project in Utah and the White Pine Power Project, 

 which is proposed to be built in White Pine County, Nevada. 



I would like to thank the Subcommittee for allowing me to speak 

 on S. 854. 



IPP and the White Pine Power Project are two separate 1,500 

 megawatt coal-fired power plant projects. IPP is a $5.5 billion gen- 

 erating station located in Millard County, Utah. The IPP generat- 

 ing station became fully operational in May of 1987. 



The White Pine Power Project is a proposed generating station 

 and, as I mentioned, would be located in White Pine County, 

 Nevada. 



As introduced, S. 854 does not explicitly preserve the existing 

 IPP and White Pine Power Project rights of way interest in the 

 Coyote Springs area of the Nevada portion of the proposed land ex- 

 change. 



In order to protect those interests, there is a need to set aside a 

 transmission line corridor in the land slated for acquisition by Aer- 

 ojet General Corporation. 



The IPP and White Pine Power Projects would be seriously dam- 

 aged should a transmission line corridor not be expressly reserved 

 in the legislation. 



Both these projects have gone through an extensive EIS process 

 and in 1980, the Intermountain Power Project transmission line 

 was granted a right of way, and the White Pine Power Project in 

 1985 was granted a record of decision in support of transmission 

 corridors in the same area. 



The Coyote Springs area is a critical link for energy transmission 

 between southern and northeastern Nevada. Due to the topographi- 

 cal features of the terrain and environmental constraints — there 

 are several wilderness study areas around the property — and legis- 

 lative mandates for uses of the area for military uses, no feasible 

 alternative routes exist for this area. 



Our involvement with BLM on establishing a transmission line 

 corridor throughout the Coyote Springs area dates back to the late 



