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Note for John Dorney
From: Monica Swihart on Wed, Jul 6, 1994 4:49 PM
Subject: Lake Gaston
To: Boyd DeVane; Greg Thorpe; Steve Tedder
Cc: Alan Clark; David Harding; Jim Overton; John Dorney; Juan
Mangles; Ruth Swanek
John Dorney and I attended a meeting held by Alan Hirsch
regarding the EIS that FERC plans to prepare for the proposed
Lake Gaston Pipeline Project. EHNR agencies attended the meeting
as well as the Dept of Commerce and Agriculture. Hirsch went on
at great length about how important this EIS is to the Governor
and the State of North Carolina. FERC has scheduled a scoping
meeting on July 14 (10:00a.m -5:00p.m.) at the Raleigh Sheraton
Inn, Crabtree Valley to solicit input from resource agencies and
the public. Hirsch scheduled a strategy meeting on July 12 in
the 11th FLCR at 1:30p.m. to discuss the major issues we need to
address at the scoping meeting and to decide who will speak at
the scoping meeting. Both John and I will be out next week so I
gave Ruth the scoping document I picked up at the meeting. She
mentioned that there is a Neuse Coalition meeting at 2:00p.m on
the 12th, but she thought that maybe she or Juan could still
make an appearance. Jimmie 0 and Alan Clark might be interested
in attending the scoping meeting and pre-strategy meeting next
week as well. The timeline for the Roanoke Basinwide Plan came
up at today's meeting. Hirsch threw out the notion of
accelerating the plan completion date by six months to
incorporate its findings into FERCs EIS analysis. Our draft
written comments on the scoping document are due to Melba McGee
on July 22. A follow-up meeting will then be held on July 26th
at 1:30p.m. (11thf1CR) to discuss these draft comments.
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