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that as a first step the League was prepared to give legal counsel to any landowner who wished to stop VEPCO from surveying his land, an initial step usually taken by the power companies before they fully reveal their plans. “If they ask to survey your land, say no and call RLEP”, he said.
Mr. Irwin told the group thal the line if built would be one of the most heavily powered in the nation, 500,000 volts, and is not needed by VEPCO to service its customers. He pointed out that VEPCO already has a full circuit between Mount Storm and the South Anna plant and that this latest proposal would only serve to destroy the beauty of the environment and the monetary value of any land within sight or sound of the huge construction. At a recent hearing in Warrenton, the Fauquier County Planning Commission turnec down the VEPCO proposal for the line. The question is scheduled tc come up before the Fauquier Board of Supervisors today Meanwhile the Atomic Energy Commission, under the new authority given it under the Environmental Protection Acl passed by Congress last year, in a recent ruling ordered VEPCO nol to build any line coming from the South Anna plant for at least tec months pending a study by the agency to determine its en vironmental impact. Up to now, however, VEPCO has not an nounced any change in its plans
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