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tained that Vepco could not justify the need for the powerline, since their own reports show a zero rate of growth in electrical usage. RLEP also argued that whatever additional powerlines might be needed could be routed through existing corridors, without cutting a new right-of-way.
Irwin reminded RLEP members that “House Bill 664,’’ adopted during the 1974 session of the general assembly, “essentially means that the SCC’s decision is final. That bill took away whatever right the local government had to try to stop it.”
However, the suit with Vepco had been under way several months before the bill went into effect, in July of 1974. Judge Rayner V. Snead will have to rule on whether House Bill 664 applies to this powerline suit, Irwin said.
Phil Irwin then said he’d completed his briefing, and he’d like for the rest of the meeting to be a. “brainstorming session,” in which anyone could offer ideas on what RLEP should do next.
COMMANDER Steele Saunders of Front Royal asked Irwin if
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