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1970s, and since that time, we have spent considerable time and 

 money to route or actually to site the feasibility of a transmission 

 corridor to the land. 



Fortunately, Aerojet has worked with us in the last couple of 

 months to address this issue, and recently we have reached an 

 agreement along with the Department of the Interior and Nevada 

 electric utilities to preserve via a proposed amendment a corridor 

 in these lands. The amendment will assure, one, that Aerojet's land 

 use objectives are going to be met; two, that the critical North- 

 South energy transmission link will be available; and, three, that 

 the interests of the Intermountain Power Project and the White 

 Pine Power Project have for themselves will be preserved. We be- 

 lieve that all interests will be accommodated if the Subcommittee 

 amends the bill to preserve the electric transmission corridor in 

 the Coyote Springs area, using our jointly drsifted, amended lan- 

 guage. 



It is essential that a one-mile wide transmission corridor 

 throughout the Coyote Springs area be reserved in the legislation 

 for the proposed land exchange. 



Both the Intermountain Power Project and the White Pine 

 Power Project were evaluated for feasibility based on the use of 

 this transmission line corridor. The rights of way have already 

 been agreed to by BLM, and we feel that losing it will create a 

 major hardship for the project participants who expended the time 

 and energy to comply with the extensive need for the require- 

 ments. 



That ends my statement. 



We have submitted a written statement to the Committee and 

 would like for that to be entered into the record. 



Senator Hecht. Without objection. 



Mr. BoK. The witness statement contains the amendment. 



[The statement follows:] 



