Orono_Route_Permit_Application - Docket # W002/TL-11-223

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wetland, respectively. The Proposed Route will affect approximately 2 acres more of wetlands than Alternative Route 2 assuming a 75 -foot -wide route width in each route; • Except for replacing existing transmission Structure 076 which is located within existing right-of-way on Baker Park Reserve property, the Proposed Route is outside of the Baker Park Reserve property. Three of the four Alternative Routes enter the Baker Park Reserve Property and would require new right-of-way, creating new impacts; • Except for the existing Line 0831 conductors, the Proposed Route does not cross the BNSF railroad, U.S. Highway 12 or the Metropolitan Council's sewer line, however three of the four Alternative Routes cross these infrastructures; and • Xcel Energy is in discussions with two private landowners to move the portion of existing Line 0831, that is on their respective residential properties, north onto HFA land. Relocating this portion of Line 0831 is only associated with the Proposed Route. None of the Alternative Routes would relocate existing transmission facilities off residential property. Orono Project June 7, 2011 MPUC Docket No. E002/TL-11-223 64