Welcome to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) website for the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review of the proposed Sunrise Powerlink Transmission Line Project. Applications for this project were submitted to the CPUC on December 14, 2005 (A.05-12-014) and August 4, 2006 (A.06-08-010). This site provides access to public documents and information relevant to the CEQA and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review processes.

Background

SDG&E has filed an application with the CPUC to construct the Sunrise Powerlink Project (SRPL). The CPUC is the CEQA lead agency and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is the lead agency under NEPA. This project was approved by the California Independent System Operator on August 3, 2006. The Proponent's Environmental Assessment was filed with the CPUC on August 4, 2006 and is available on SDG&E's project website.

The CPUC maintains other webpages for documents related to its proceeding on the SRPL, where it makes available documents filed by parties to that proceeding. The two webpages for Applications A.06-0-8010 and A.05-12-014 list documents and rulings filed in the proceedings. The CPUC also maintains a page of general information on the SRPL project.

The SRPL Project, as proposed by SDG&E, includes a new, approximately 90-mile 500 kV line from Imperial Valley Substation (in Imperial County, near the City of El Centro) to a new Central East Substation (in central San Diego County, south of the intersection of County Highways S-22 and S-2). The 500 kV portion would approximately follow the eastern boundary of BLM lands west of El Centro and SR 78, and would pass through Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Data Requests

The EIR/EIS Team will submit Data Requests to SDG&E when it needs specific information to support EIR/EIS preparation. These requests will be made available here at the time they are issued. Data requests submitted to SDG&E to date are provided below. Responses to these data requests can be found at SDG&E's website.

Data Request No. 1 (September 27, 2006)
Data Request No. 2 (November 15, 2006)
Data Request No. 3 (November 21, 2006)

Public Scoping

Part 1 of Scoping. On August 31, 2006, the BLM published its Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement in the Federal Register (Volume 71, No. 169, page 51848). On September 15, 2006, the CPUC issued a Notice of Preparation/Notice of Public Scoping Meetings for an Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement. In early October 2006, the CPUC and BLM held a series of seven public scoping meetings in Imperial and San Diego Counties to take public comment on the scope and content of the environmental document. The scoping comment period ended on October 20, 2006.

A Scoping Report has been prepared and was sent to all repositories on November 29, 2006; see the list of available documents below. The Scoping Report includes a copy of every letter submitted, as well as transcripts of the public scoping meetings and summaries of issues raised during scoping.

Part 2 of Scoping. Additional public meetings will be held in early 2007 to obtain public comment on alternatives. Notices of those meetings and the timeframes during which comments on alternatives will be accepted will be posted here and mailed to all those on the NEPA/CEQA mailing list. A second part of the Scoping Report will be prepared to summarize all comments received (including oral comments made at the Scoping Meetings).

Documents Available

The following documents are available at 26 libraries and offices in the project area.

 — SDG&E's Application and Proponent's Environmental Assessment (August 4, 2006).

 — Notice of Intent (August 31, 2006)

 — Notice of Preparation (NOP) (September 15, 2006)

NOP Figure 1. Proposed Project Overview
NOP Figure 2. Imperial Valley Link
NOP Figure 3. Anza-Borrego Link
NOP Figure 4A. Central Link
NOP Figure 4B. Proposed Central East Substation
NOP Figure 5A. Inland Valley Link
NOP Figure 5B. Detail of Ramona Area
NOP Figure 6A. Coastal Link
NOP Figure 6B. Rancho Peñasquitos Detail
NOP Figure 7. SDG&E Alternatives Fully Evaluated and Carried Forward in PEA
NOP Figure 8. SDG&E Alternatives Considered and Eliminated

For Additional Information

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