{"id":811,"date":"2015-01-20T17:53:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/?p=811"},"modified":"2015-01-20T20:43:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T20:43:28","slug":"invitation-to-consult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to Consult on GNTL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Interesting letter arrived today:<\/p>\n

GNTL_Invitation to Consult<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It says that “DOE is contacting you because you submitted comment(s) related to cultural resources during the open NEPA public scoping period for the proposed GNTL project.”<\/p>\n

RRANT Scoping Comment<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

???<\/p>\n

So what does that mean? What’s involved?\u00a0 Sending info to them?\u00a0 Sending more Comments?\u00a0 Attending meetings? A free trip to D.C?\u00a0 A self-funded trip to International Falls in February?<\/p>\n

“Consultation” is a term of art in federal permitting, and is required with all Indian tribes, of which there are several in the area of the project.\u00a0 In this case, they also specify “the State Historic Preservation Officer” and “the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation,” and also “certain individuals and organizations…”<\/p>\n

Here’s the\u00a0 National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Working with Section 106<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Energy Development, Transmission and Historic Preservation<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Are “historical resources” all that they’re concerned about, is there a special category for “cultural resources?”\u00a0 Or are different people invited to consult on different categories?<\/p>\n

And if this is something I want to do, and it is, I have to “include information about your demonstrated legal or economic relation to the undertaking” … (odd word, that)… ” or to properties potentially affected by the proposed GNTL project…”<\/p>\n

\"Untitled\"<\/a>Guess I’d better figure out what I said in those comments first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting letter arrived today: GNTL_Invitation to Consult It says that “DOE is contacting you because you submitted comment(s) related to cultural resources during the open NEPA public scoping period for the proposed GNTL project.” RRANT Scoping Comment ??? So what … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,37],"tags":[100,99,67,9,18,17,131,101,98],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doe-dept-of-energy","category-presidential-permit","tag-cultural-resources","tag-dept-of-energy","tag-doe","tag-great-northern-transmission-line","tag-manitoba-hydro","tag-minnesota-power","tag-presidential-permit","tag-section-106-of-nhpa","tag-u-s-department-of-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}