Major Facility Siting Program
Wind Hunter:
Project
Description , Scoping
Letter , Application ,
Project Map , Environmental
Assessment June 2006
Letter withdrawing
application-March 2007
Several state and federal agencies are cooperating on the environmental
review of this project. They include the Montana Department of Environmental
Quality (DEQ) for the 230kV transmission line, the Montana Department of Natural
Resources and Conservation for the portions of the wind farm and transmission
lines located on state school trust lands, the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
for
portions of the wind farm and transmission lines located on federal lands, the
Western Area Power Administration (http://www.wapa.gov/corpsrvs/envpnp.htm
) for transmission lines crossing lands enrolled in the Conservation Reserve
Program and the Wetland Reserve Program. On March 14, 2007 DEQ received a
letter from Wind Hunter formally withdrawing their application for approval of
the 230kV transmission line. Instead they propose to construct a 69kV line
which is not regulated by DEQ.
BLM has recently released a programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for
wind farm development on lands it administers in the west. The EIS may be viewed
at http://www.windeis.anl.gov.
