US releases map of potential energy corridors on federal lands

Washington (Platts)--9Jun2006

Four federal agencies Friday released a draft map of potential energy
corridors in several western US states for electricity transmission and oil,
natural gas and hydrogen pipelines.

The agencies -- the Energy Department, the Bureau of Land Management, the
US Forest Service and the Department of Defense -- are preparing a draft
programmatic environmental impact statement to identify the impacts of
designating energy corridors on federal lands in 11 states, as directed by
last year's Energy Policy Act.

Lawmakers decided that designating specific energy corridors for future
development would help minimize the time it takes to site and approve
projects, as well as reducing environmental effects and conflicts with other
uses of federal lands.

Any individual projects proposed for these corridors will be analyzed
further under the National Environmental Policy Act for their environmental
impacts.

Comments on the draft map, which is available at
http://corridoreis.anl.gov/documents/docs/WWEC_Preliminary_Draft_Corridor_Map
_LB.pdf, are due by July 10. The map provides few specifics of the exact
location of the energy corridors, like town names.

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