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that the Council considers the further decrease in the quality of environment of the Northern Piedmont Region that would result from construction of the proposed lines to be unacceptable in terms of further damage to the natural environment and scenic beauty of the area.
The resolution notes that the Interior Department, the Agriculture Department, the Federal Power Commission and the Office of Science and Technology have published environmental guidelines and criteria for electric transmission systems, emphasizing the need for more extensive use of present utility corridors and the upgrading of existing systems.
The resolution states that from a review of evidence being presented at the Commission hearing, the additional need for electric energy in Northern Virginia can be met by upgrading, or more extensive use of present transmission rights of way.”
MEANWHILE, at Commission hearings last week in Richmond, C. M. Stallings, executive director of power supply and planning for Vepco, was on the witness stand for two days testifying that it would be risky to do what the environmentalists sugge strand use an existing right of way that already contains a 500,000 volt transmission line.
Stallings testified that by 1980 if two powerlines occupying a single corridor were knocked out, it could turn off the lights in the entire Southeastern United States. He based this statement, he testified, on the makeup of the national power grid.
John F. Kay, Jr., attorney for the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection, argued, however, that studies of max-' imum power loads carried by other power companies does not support the claim by Stallings that there would be a total blackout in the coastal area.
STALLINGS testified in response to a question by Kay that Vepco had found alternate transmission routes unusable before deciding on the proposed routes in question.
Several additional power company witnesses are scheduled to testify before opposing witnesses are scheduled to take the stand.
They will include Fred Chambers, former design engineer for high voltage
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