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           Welcome to the 
	California Public Utilities Commission's (CPUC) El Paso Global Networks California Telecommunication System Project
	web site. Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the California 
	Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is the designated state lead agency for the 
	El Paso Global Networks California Telecommunications System Project.  
	This communication system consists of a 337-mile fiber optic cable 
	route and associated facilities that will be installed via trenching, plowing, 
	boring, and bridge attachments in street and highway rights-of-way.   
	The project requires laying fiber optic cable in trenches dug in these 
	rights-of-way and will include construction of six small regeneration/optical 
	amplification stations spaced at intervals along the route.  Entering California 
	at Blythe, the route passes through Riverside, San Bernardino and 
	Los Angeles Counties, and through lands owned by the federal government, ending 
	in downtown Los Angeles. 
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