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AT RECENT hearings in Richmond, three League witnesses disputed Vepco claims - that alternate routes proposed by environmentalists would greately increase construction
Fred Chambers, deputy director of the Power Division of the New York Public Service Commission, testified that he would be “surprised” if the routes
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