September
4, 2002
Dear Editor/Publisher:
If your
publication, radio or television station offers a
calendar of community events, you may want to include
news of the following workshop.
The California
Energy Commission Staff will conduct a data request
and issue resolution workshop to discuss the proposed
Blythe Energy Project Phase II as follows:
MONDAY,
SEPTEMBER 9, 2002
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Blythe City Hall
Multi-Purpose Room
235 North Broadway
Blythe, California
(Wheelchair Accessible)
The workshop
allows parties involved to discuss project issues
and data requests. Topics to be disucussed include:
air quality, biology, cultural resources, land use,
noise, public health, socioeconomics, soil and water
resources, traffic and transportation, transmission
system engineering, visual resources, and waste.
The Blythe
Energy Project Phase II, proposed by Caithness Blythe
II LLC, is a 520-megawatt, natural gas-fired, combined
cycle facility. It would be built within the property
boundaries of the existing project which is located
near Interstate 10 and the Blythe Airport, about 5
miles west of the City of Blythe in Riverside County.
Members
of the public and interested agencies are invited
to participate and provide comments. Those who wish
further information about how to participate should
contact Roberta Mendonca, the Commission's Public
Adviser, at (916) 654-4489, toll free in California
at (800) 822-6228, or by e-mail at pao@energy.state.ca.us
.
The Commission's
Web Site contains current information on the proposed
project at:
www.energy.ca.gov/sitingcases/blythe2
Please contact me at (916) 654-4989 if you prefer to have your name removed from our mailing list. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mary Ann
Costamagna
Information Officer
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