It’s official — the PUC and Dept. of Commerce have issued Notice of the meetings in February:
Scoping Comments are due by 4:30 p.m. on March 14, 2014. Send to bill.storm@state.mn.us
And here’s the schedule of the meetings — I think I’m going to opt out of Thief River Falls and Bemidji given the corridor options now:
But something on the maps bears a second look — the western route headed south from the border crossing down around Red Lake seems to have disappeared. Is that correct? I’m waiting to hear… and the verdict is, straight from the horse’s mouth:
This is the map we recently sent out to LGUs 90 days in advance of filing the route permit as required by Minn. Stat. 216E.03, subd. 3a as well as landowners. Those are the routes we are going to put in the route permit application. On the CoN scoping meetings we started with a larger study area and Notice Plan area so our thought was we still need to have coverage in that area and MPUC Staff agreed, though I’m not sure how many folks will attend in Bemidji or Thief River Falls.
