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A Nevada— Calilornia sncfgy generatron develooment m While Pine Couniy 



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li^^Se; Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 



"^ Room 931. Post Office Box m. Los Angeles. California 90051 



Mr. Donald P. Hodel 

 Secretary of the Interior 

 U.S. Department of the Interior 

 18th and C Streets, N.W. 

 Washington, D.C. 20240 



Dear Mr. Hodel: 



Proposed Withdrawal of Public Lands 

 Clark County and Lincoln County, Nevada 



This letter is to state the concerns of the Los Angeles 

 Department of Water and Power (LADWP), Development Manager for 

 the White Pine Power Project (WPPP), regarding the proposed 45,298 

 acre withdrawal of public land in Clark County and Lincoln County, 

 Nevada and the ultimate intent to exchange this land for land in 

 Florida. The LADWP concerns relate to electric transmission 

 corridors within the land to be exchanged. This exchange could 

 seriously impact the proposed WPPP transmission lines, as well as 

 result in closure of the major north-south utility transmission 

 corridor in eastern Nevada. 



The WPPP is a proposed 1500 megawatt, coal-fueled 

 generating to be located in eastern Nevada. The construction and 

 operation of this $2.5 billion facility would result in 

 significant economic benefits to the State of Nevada. The LADWP 

 has been working with the Bureau of Land Management (ELM) since 

 1980 on the routing and environmental assessment of corridors from 

 the proposed WPPP site in White Pine County, Nevada to southern 

 Nevada. The preferred and alternative two-mile-wide corridors are 

 included in the WPPP Final Environmental Impact Report (EIS) which 

 was released on August 20, 1984. The Record of Decision, which 

 culminated six years of intensive coordinated work with federal 

 agencies, was signed by the BLM Nevada State Director on 

 March 26, 1985. 



A critical segment of the preferred transmission corridor, 

 as described in the WPPP Final EIS, is located east of the Delamar 

 Mountains. The alternative to this segment, located near the 

 Pahranagat Wildlife Refuge, is currently constrained by wilderness 

 Study Area (WSA) boundaries. Should the WSA boundaries be modified, 

 as requested in several letters to the BLM, the new preferred 

 corridor would be to the west of the Delamar Mountains and parallel 

 to existing and planned transmission lines, including a second 



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