Background Information

Project history, maps, and information about alternative routes considered in the Northeast Reliability Interconnect EIS.

Bangor Hydro-Electric Company (BHE) has applied to DOE to amend Presidential Permit PP–89, which authorizes BHE to construct a single-circuit 345,000-volt (345-kV) electric transmission line across the U.S. international border in the vicinity of Baileyville, Maine. DOE prepared an environmental impact statement (EIS) referred to here as "The Northeast Reliability Interconnect EIS," to address potential environmental impacts from the proposed action and the range of reasonable alternatives.

This section contains:

• Maps of the project area, including a map of alternative routes that were considered in the EIS;
• A project history, which summarizes the historical events leading up to the EIS;
• Descriptions of the alternative transmission line routes that were considered in the EIS.

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