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Editor:
A letter sent to the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington asking for intervention to require an environmental impact statement before Vepco could possibly proceed with its plans for a bigh-power tension line across Rappahannock and eleven other Virginia counties has drawn the reply that EPA cannot intervene because the Vepco project is not being financed, licensed or permitted by a Federal agency.
Since the proposed new route would traverse interstate boundaries, from Mt. Storm in West Virginia to Louisa County in this state, I personally feel that the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is defective in this respect and should be amended to apply to all interstate routes.
But that cannot help us right now. In his letter to me, Sheldon Myers, Director of the Office of Federal Activities of the EPA, suggested opponents of the Vepco line might want to contact Governor Godwin’s Council on the Environment, which I have done— and hope others will do— in the following communication:
Mr. Gerald P. McCarthy
Executive Director,
Governor’s Office
Council on the Environment
Eighth Street Office
Building, Richmond, Va.
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