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T O W N O F B R U T U S

9021 North Seneca Street

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315-834-9398

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Box

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315 834 9381

Weedsport,

New

York 13166 \ V , .:/V^-lh J / E-Mail: townofbrutus(a)centralny.twcbc.com

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Th e Town of B ru t u s is a n E q u al O p p o rt u n it y Lender Provider Employer

Complaints o f discrimination

should

be sent to : USDA Director, Office of Civil

Rights, Washington,

D C 20250

January 16 2014

H o n . Kevin

C a s u t t o

Administrative Law Judge

N Y S

P u b l i c

S e r v i c e C o m m i s s i o n

Three Empire State Plaza

Albany New York 12223-1350

Re:

Case

13-T-0235

-

Joint

Application of New York

State

Electric

G as

Corporation and Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation d/b/a National Grid for a

Certificate

of Environmental Compatibility

an d

Public

Need

for

the

Construction

of Approximately 14.5 miles of 115kV Electric

Transmission

Facilities from th e

S t at e S t re e t

Substation in

Cayuga County

to th e Elbridge

Substation

in

Onondaga County

D e a r

J u st ic e C a s u tt o :

At its meeting of

January

6 2014 the Town Board of the Town of Brutus

discussed with impacted

residents

th e

proposed

Auburn

Transmission

Project NYS

PSC

case

13-T-0235.

The

proposal

as

now

described

raises

a

number

of

concerns t hat

th e Board believes would negatively impact environmental resources of th e Town

and

harm

th e

quality of

life

of residents of the Town residing

near th e

project route. Specific

concerns

identified by th e

B oa rd a re :

1 -

Removal

of significant amounts of forested

lands

2 - Encroachment on farmland in violation of the Town s

adopted

Agricultural

and

Farmland

Protection Plan prepared with funds provide by a n d a pp ro v ed by

th e NYS

Department

of Agriculture

and

Markets.

3 - Violation

of

S e ct io n 1 2 5.1 08

of

t he T ow n s

Z on in g L aw

that

s e e k s

to prevent

the

location of such

facilities

near

residences

with no effort to minimize

the

extent

of

non-compliance.

4 - No effort to minimize

th e

visual

impacts

of

th e project

that

due

to

th e height

of

the proposed towers go

well beyond th e

adjacent properties.

5 -

R e m o v a l

of a s u b s t a n t i a l a m o u n t o f l an d f r o m t h e T o w n s ta x b a s e .

The Board s r ev ie w o f t hi s

proposal

has identified a potential mitigation measure.

Th e applicant is ignoring an existing unused transmission line it now has in place

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E-Mail: townofbrutus gcentralny. twcbc.com

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Th e Town of B ru t u s

is

a n Equal

Opportunity

Lender Provider Employer

Complaints of

discrimination should

be sent to :

USDA,

Director,

Office

of Civil Rights,

Washington, D.C. 20250

adjacent to t he proposed route. The removal of unused deteriorated towers in

this

right

of wa y could

accommodate th e

project

an d

avoid

many of the

negative

impacts

identified

a b o v e .

The Town

of

Brutus requests

that

th e

PSC

consider this

mitigation opportunity

an d require the applicant

modify

t he ir p ro po sa l

to utilize it

and thereby

minimize the

negative impacts th e Town has

identified.

cc: Hon. Kathleen

Burgess

H o n .

J o hn D e Fr an c is co

H o n . R o b e r t O a k s

T a n n e r R o ad R e si de n ts

Sincerely yours

m es A.

Hotaling

ow n

Supervisor