Appalachian Mountain Club Brian Mills Senior Planning Advisor Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE-20) U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Ave. SW Washington, DC 20585 December 14, 2012 Dear Mr. Mills: I am writing to submit as a scoping comment the attached petition, signed by more than 2000 AMC members, supporters, and advocates. The petition calls on the Department of Energy to ensure that the Environmental Impact Study includes a comprehensive and methodologically sound study of the potential visual impacts of the Northern Pass project as proposed. AMC’s members believe that erecting thousands of steel lattice towers that will loom above the tree canopy is incongruous with and will permanently scar New Hampshire’s iconic landscape. The proposed corridor bisects the state, and runs parallel to I-93, the main tourist thoroughfare to the White Mountains and beyond. The proposed route traverses ten miles of the White Mountain National Forest, impacts the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (a unit of the National Park system) at multiple locations, and will create over 40 miles of new corridor through northern New Hampshire’s remote and undeveloped landscape. The project as proposed represents a huge cumulative visual impact and should be analyzed as such. In addition, this thorough cumulative visual impact analysis must be unbiased and, regardless of the Applicant’s business interests, must include a comprehensive look at all reasonable alternatives to negate this visual impact, including burying the proposed transmission line on terrain where it would be a more practical option than in the proposed corridor. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Vice President for Conservation Main office • Five Joy Street, Boston, MA 02108-1490 617-523-0655 Pinkham Notch Visitor Center • Route 16, Box 298, Gorham, NH 03581-0298 603-466-2721 Highland Center at Crawford Notch • General Delivery, Route 302, Bretton Woods, NH 03575-9999 603-278-4453 www.outdoors.org Appalachian Mountain Club The Northern Pass transmission project as proposed, and the more than 1,000 towers up to 135 feet high it entails, will cut a devastating swath through more than 140 miles of New Hampshire’s iconic scenic landscape, impacting over 95,000 acres, including 3,000 acres in the White Mountain National Forest and multiple viewpoints along the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. We, the undersigned, petition the Department of Energy to ensure that the required analysis of environmental impacts (EIS) includes a comprehensive and methodologically sound evaluation of the visual impacts of the Project as proposed. 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