Saturday, December 17, 2005

Freedom of Information Act request made for WAPA engineering details

I made the following Freedom of Information Act request on the Department of Engergy website a couple of days ago.

NAME: Jonathan Ganz
SUBJECT: EFOIA Request
FEE: 100.00

FEE WAIVER REQUEST: I represent the concerned citizens of our community, known locally as the Friends of Arden Bluffs. We have no budget, no formal meetings, and no officers. We are not a formal group in any sense of the word. I am making this FOIA request on behalf of my neighbors.

DOCDESC: On or about 1/15/04, Western Area Power Admiinstration (WAPA), Sierra Nevada Region (SNR) filed an environmental impact report according to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for consideration in building a substation and power pole behind the SNR office located at 114 Parkshore Drive, Folsom, CA 95630-4710, Sacramento County. The project number is 040101-J. The approximate project date was September - December 2004, and was completed some time during 2005. This project was intended to tap into the Folsom-Nimbus line. Power to be supplied by the Folsom Substation. The power pole and substation were designed by engineers at or contracted by WAPA, and we in the community affected by this construction would like access to the engineering drawing, studies, and related material in order to complete an independent review.

COMMENTS: We have waited months for WAPA to reevaluate the construction, and we have repeatedly requested the technical reasons for the engineer's original decision. In fact, WAPA agreed in principle to give us access to the information so that we could have it reviewed independently, but they never followed through, and they are quite unresponsive to both our requests and those of our elected representatives (Congressman John Doolittle, Congressman Dan Lungren, Senator Dianne Feinstein) and our local newspaper (Sacramento Bee).

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