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for previously evaluated corridors. The LADWP has offered to the 

 U.S. Department of the Interior, by letter dated November 5, 1985 

 (Attachment 4), to exchange the LADWP-owned Corral Canyon property 

 located in the Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area for BLM- 

 nanaged property, including land in this area, needed for the WPPP. 

 In response to the introduction of S. 854, a letter was sent to the 

 Secretary of the Interior dated September 18, 198 6 (Attachment 5) 

 by the WPPP stating its concerns about the impacts on the electric 

 transmission corridor relative to the proposed land exchange. 



We have been working diligently with Aerojet, the 

 Department of Interior and other interested Nevada electric 

 utilities to resolve this issue since September of 1986. After 

 extensive negotiations Aerojet, Nevada electric utilities, and 

 LADWP have drafted an amendment to S. 854 (Attachment 6) which 

 will assure (1) Aerojet 's land use objectives will be met, 

 (2) that critical north-south energy transmission link will be 

 available for future growth, and (3) the IPP and WPPP electric 

 transmission rights will be reserved. 



We believe 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 

 drafted amendment language. It is essential that a one-nile-wide 

 transmission line corridor through the Coyote Springs area be 

 reserved in the legislation for the proposed land exchange. Both 

 the IPP and WPPP were evaluated for feasibility based upon 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 on the project participants who have expended 

 millions of dollars complying with the National Environmental 

 Policy Act (NEPA) environmental process. 



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