Public Comments

Title:	Hooper Springs Transmission Project
Description:	<P style="WIDTH: 620px">You are invited to review and comment on the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Bonneville Power Administration’s Hooper Springs Transmission Project in Caribou County, Idaho.  The draft EIS describes the proposed project and the environmental effects expected from construction, operation, and maintenance of the proposed transmission lines and new substation.  </P> <P>The project is needed to improve voltage stability on the transmission grid to meet future load growth in southeast Idaho and northwestern Wyoming.  Your comments on the draft EIS will help BPA refine the environmental analysis and decide whether to build the project.</P> <P>Interested members of the public are also invited to an open house public meeting:</P> <P align=left>Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.<BR>Project Overview Presentation, 5:15-5:30<BR>Oral Comment Period, 5:30-6:30<BR>Soda Springs High School<BR>300 E 1st N<BR>Soda Springs, Idaho</P> <P><A href="Caribou-County-Commissioner-Meeting-BPA-Hooper-Springs-Transmission-Project-06-25-12.mp3">Audio of project update at Caribou County, Idaho commissioner meeting June 25, 2012</A></P> <P><A href="Caribou-County-Commissioner-Meeting-BPA-Hooper-Transmission-Project-Sept-24-2012.mp3">Audio of project update at Caribou County, Idaho commissioner meeting Sept. 24, 2012</A></P> <P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal>View previous comments received during the initial public scoping period:<BR><A title=http://www.bpa.gov/applications/publiccomments/CommentList.aspx?ID=106 href="http://www.bpa.gov/applications/publiccomments/CommentList.aspx?ID=106">http://www.bpa.gov/applications/publiccomments/CommentList.aspx?ID=106</A></P>
Start Date:	2/27/2013
End Date:	4/22/2013
Related information:	http://www.bpa.gov/goto/HooperSprings

Bonneville Power Public Comments

Comments for Hooper Springs Transmission Project