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Transmission Siting and Public Lands: Options for Improvement and the Gateway West Case Study

The Western Governors’ Association requested that the Center for Advanced Energy Studies’ Energy Policy Institute conduct a study to provide options for improvement relating to the planning, siting, and permitting of electric transmission lines on federally-owned and administered public lands. Specifically, the Energy Policy Institute was requested to utilize the proposed Gateway West transmission line project as a case study to identify and examine difficulties arising from siting interstate transmission lines, and to discuss potential options to overcome these challenges. The case study pays particular attention to the Idaho portion of the project. The options discussed primarily focus on, but are not limited to, federal government actions. The author presented preliminary results and options at the Western Interstate Energy Board’s State-Provincial Steering Committee meeting in San Diego on January 11, 2011.