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TransWest Express Transmission Line Project
The Bureau of Land Management and the Western Area Power Administration are co-lead agencies in preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in response to TransWest Express LLC's application for a right-of-way (ROW) to construct, operate, maintain, and decommission a transmission line project on public lands. Western Area Power Administration plans to partially fund the project under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The TransWest Express Transmission Project would provide transmission infrastructure and capacity to deliver approximately 3,000 megawatts of electric power from renewable and other energy resources in south-central Wyoming to a substation hub in southern Nevada. The proposed project would consist of an approximately 730-mile-long, 600-kilovolt, direct current transmission line, a northern terminal located near Sinclair, Wyoming, and a southern terminal approximately 25 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada. A ground electrode system (required for transmission line emergency shutdown) would be installed within 100 miles of each terminal.