Welcome to the California Public
Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) PG&E Web site for the Northeast San Jose
Transmission Reinforcement Project.
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) submitted Application
Number 98-07-007 in July 1998.
Between July 1998 and April 1999, the CPUC reviewed this
application for authority to construct and operate a new 230 kilovolt (kV)
transmission line in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties and a new substation
in Santa Clara County.
On April
12th, 1999 PG&E filed a Motion to Dismiss this Application in order to
investigate alternative transmission line routes. On April 13th, 1999, the
CPUC Administrative Law Judge for the Application issued a Proposed
Decision recommending that the Application be dismissed without prejudice;
and on May 13th, 1999, the Commission approved this Decision.
PG&E
submitted a new application, [Application Number 99-09-029] to the
Commission on September 9, 1999.
The major change included in the new application is that the
previous "Easterly Alternative" is now presented as PG&E’s proposed
transmission line route, and additional detail is included for this
route. In addition, the
application considers additional alternatives (including the potential for
a new electric generation facility to be constructed adjacent to the
proposed Los Esteros Substation) and modifies some of PG&E’s 230 kV
route alternatives from the original application.
Recirculation
of Draft EIR: A
Supplemental Draft EIR was issued on October 11, 2000. This
document evaluates the impacts of several changes to alternative transmission
line routes and a new alternative substation site.
Final
EIR Issued: The Final
EIR was issued in February 2001. This document identifies the environmentally
superior project alternative and includes responses to all comments on
the Draft EIR and the Supplemental Draft EIR.
Additional
information on the project is available as follows:
