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Council Minutes of 1-5-71 Page -4- <br />, <br />that it was impractical to mai.ntain, At the suggeation of sosae in the <br />audience, cas wrote to the Fedezal Govertadeut for thatr coomCs and <br />have obtain::Z a letter from the Fe3eral Power Comousfon, ae"ra1 <br />booklets, and papers gerta3.a#ag to high Cension transmi.saion lives and <br />pollution. All of these substmtiaCe mhst C.E.I. hade said. In fact <br />the Federal Power Cammission estiaatos that the cost af undexgtamct is <br />15 times greater. The9 slso :tate that setiatenance is a prablsm aact <br />repairs sometimes take several days up to amonth, in ccmtrast tc? jcfst <br />a few haurs with overh"d.. Fett+ersl Power Ccmission also :aid that the <br />cost of ma3.ntenance of such power line is about 10 tims gr"ter then <br />overhead 13ne. <br />The following booklets and letters were received: <br />A. Preeident's Council on Recreetion and Natural Beauty - 1986 .(Mr. <br />West read excerpts from this book substantiating that placing all such <br />line unde=ground is not yet a fe"ible aternative because af techaologica3 <br />problem and cost. ) <br />B. Environmmtal Criteria €or ElecCric Transmisaion 3qst.ems - U.S. <br />Intexior & Agriculture Department. (Mr. West quoted paragraphs <br />from this book). <br />C. Letter from Federal Power CommiaBion by Mr. T. A. Phillips, Chfef <br />Bureau of Power - througti Congressman Minshall. (Mr. West read <br />entire letter). <br />D. The 2970 Natianai Power Survey - Federal Power Commisaion, (Mr.Wegt <br />quoted paragraphs fr4m this booklet in which was stated that che <br />cost increaise for undergrounding of traasmissicm is in moet caeea <br />prohibitive under pr+eeeat technologp. <br />E. Federal Power Ganaissioa Report Qf 1969. (Parsgraphs fxom this book- <br />1et were also read bq Mr. West.) Marqland was meatianed as reqvirfng <br />undergxound installatian of virtually a11 future utilitq distsibutian <br />facilities. Mr. West wrate to Clerk of Legislature ia Maryl.and. Fouud <br />out atatsment is in errot. There is no requirement that there be under- <br />ground wiriag and that ].egislation pertains to 69,000 v42ts aac3 under. <br />It al.so states that this shall be done at the request of the comuuaftp <br />involved and total convers3an cosCe to be charged agait?sC such lot or <br />parcel of land. <br />F. Electric Paaer and the Enviraument - pnt out by the Energyr Policq <br />Staff, Office of Science aad Technoiogy - August, 1970. (Sxcerpts <br />from this boaklet were quoted by Mr. West.) <br />In addition, we have a letter from the Ohio Publfc Utilitiea Commiss3.an, <br />written to Mr. Gradq, stating that there are no state laws naking under- <br />groimd mandatory, nor to their kncwaledge are there anq citi.es in the <br />state of Ohio that hawe such ordinance. The letter also state: that <br />if the City asks for underground, we must be wiiling to pay fox that <br />extra service. <br />We have a s}mopsis of two court cases. One of which prohibits a Citq <br />from stapping the cactstruction af power lines as lcrng as they ara built <br />according to the Safety Code. 2'he seccnd one s tates thaC it is umreason- <br />able and, therefore, unlac4ul for a city to require 411 vuclerground wtring. <br />(Mr. West comented he would wait for a ruling on this bg our Law Direct4r) <br />Oste of the intsrasted parties braught up that Ft. Wayne, Indiana, required