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Welcome to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) website
for the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review of the
proposed Sunrise Powerlink Transmission Line Project. Applications
for this project were submitted to the CPUC on December 14,
2005 (A.05-12-014) and August 4, 2006 (A.06-08-010). This site
provides access to public documents and information relevant to
the CEQA and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review processes.
Background
SDG&E has filed an application with the CPUC to construct the
Sunrise Powerlink Project (SRPL). The CPUC is the CEQA lead agency
and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is the lead agency
under NEPA. This project was approved by the California Independent
System Operator on August 3, 2006. The Proponent's Environmental
Assessment was filed with the CPUC on August 4, 2006 and is
available on SDG&E's
project website.
The CPUC maintains other webpages for documents related to its
proceeding on the SRPL, where it makes available documents filed
by parties to that proceeding. The two webpages for Applications
A.06-0-8010
and A.05-12-014
list documents and rulings filed in the proceedings. The CPUC also
maintains a page of general
information on the SRPL project.
The SRPL Project, as proposed by SDG&E, includes a new, approximately
90-mile 500 kV line from Imperial Valley Substation (in Imperial
County, near the City of El Centro) to a new Central East Substation
(in central San Diego County, south of the intersection of County
Highways S-22 and S-2). The 500 kV portion
would approximately follow the eastern boundary of BLM lands west
of El Centro and SR 78, and would pass through Anza-Borrego
Desert State Park.
The SRPL Project also proposes approximately 60 miles of 230 kV transmission
lines from the new Central East Substation to SDG&E's existing
Peñasquitos Substation (in the City of San Diego). SDG&E
proposes to construct two segments underground (one segment south
of Ramona and another in the community of Ranchos Peñasquitos,
San Diego). Figure 1 shows
an overview of the proposed project route.
Data Requests
The EIR/EIS Team will submit Data Requests to SDG&E when it
needs specific information to support EIR/EIS preparation. These
requests will be made available here at the time they are issued.
Data requests submitted to SDG&E to date are provided below.
Responses to these data requests can be found at SDG&E's
website.
Data Request No. 1 (September 27,
2006)
Data Request No. 2 (November 15,
2006)
Data Request No. 3 (November 21,
2006)
Public Scoping Meetings
On August 31, 2006, the BLM published its Notice
of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement in the
Federal Register (Volume 71, No. 169, page 51848). On September
15, 2006, the CPUC issued a Notice of
Preparation/Notice of Public Scoping Meetings for an Environmental
Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement. In early October 2006,
the CPUC and BLM held a series of seven public scoping meetings
in Imperial and San Diego Counties to take public comment on the
scope and content of the environmental document. Transcripts from
the seven scoping meetings are available here:
El Centro - 4:30
p.m. October 2, 2006
Ramona - 4:00 p.m.
October 3, 2006
Ramona - 7:00 p.m.
October 3, 2006
Borrego Springs - 2:00
p.m. October 4, 2006
Borrego Springs -
6:30 p.m. October 4, 2006
San Diego (Mission
Valley) - 2:00 p.m. October 5, 2006
San Diego
(Rancho Peñasquitos) - 6:30 p.m. October 5, 2006
The scoping comment period ended on October 20, 2006, but
additional public meetings will be held in the future to obtain
public comment on alternatives. Notices of those meetings and the
timeframes during which comments on alternatives will be accepted
will be posted here and mailed to all those on the NEPA/CEQA mailing
list. A Scoping Report will be prepared, summarizing
all comments received (including oral comments made at the Scoping
Meetings). This report will be posted on this website and copies
will be placed in local document repository sites listed under "Documents
Available" below.
Documents Available
The following documents are available
at 18 libraries and offices in the
project area.
— SDG&E's
Application and Proponent's Environmental Assessment (August 4,
2006).
— Notice of Intent
(August 31, 2006)
— Notice of Preparation
(NOP) (September 15, 2006)
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NOP Figure 1.
Proposed Project Overview (1.6 MB)
NOP Figure 2. Imperial Valley
Link (1.8 MB)
NOP Figure 3. Anza-Borrego Link
(0.5 MB)
NOP Figure 4A. Central Link
(2.0 MB)
NOP Figure 4B. Proposed Central
East Substation (0.5 MB)
NOP Figure 5A. Inland Valley
Link (2.7 MB)
NOP Figure 5B. Detail of Ramona
Area (2.4 MB)
NOP Figure 6A. Coastal Link
(2.2 MB)
NOP Figure 6B. Rancho Peñasquitos
Detail (2.5 MB)
NOP Figure 7. SDG&E Alternatives
Fully Evaluated and Carried Forward in PEA (1.8 MB)
NOP Figure 8. SDG&E Alternatives
Considered and Eliminated (2.2 MB)
For Additional Information
To request additional information or to be added to the mailing
list, please contact us by email, fax, or phone, as follows:
The CPUC's Project Manager is:
Billie Blanchard, CPUC Project Manager
California Public Utilities Commission
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco CA 94102
Tel. (415) 703-2068
Fax (415) 703-2200
Email: bcb@cpuc.ca.gov |
