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<br />~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.~~~ <br /> <br />- 16 - <br /> <br />'- <br /> <br />various routes for transmission line segments, an issue <br /> <br />nowhere identified as significant. The reader is simply <br /> <br />--- <br /> <br />left to wonder why these issues are treated in such <br /> <br />depth. On the other hand, socioeconomic impacts and <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />measures for their mitigation, clearly major issues (DEIS <br /> <br />at 24), are discussed in summary and formalistic fashion, <br /> <br />without consideration of possible solutions beyond those <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />minimal and totally inadequate measures suggested by the <br /> <br />applicant as possibilities. See, ~.~., DEIS App. 11 at <br /> <br />R-61 to R-63. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />Third, and very significantly, the draft EIS does <br /> <br />not state how alternatives considered and decisions based <br /> <br />on it will achieve the requirements of NEPA and other en- <br /> <br />vironmental laws and policies. Nor does the draft any- <br /> <br />where discuss the range of alternatives, including miti- <br /> <br />'gation measures, to be considered and implemented, such as <br /> <br />conditioning rights of way and loan guarantees on appro- <br /> <br />priate mitigation of impacts to the human environment, <br />*/ <br />including socioeconomic impacts.- Instead, there are <br /> <br />~/ As discussed elsewhere in our <br />ing agencies are clearly under an <br /> <br />comments, the authoriz- <br />obligation to implement <br />[Footnote continued] <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />0399 <br />