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system could be readily applied to Rappahannock and other areas also, as a tool to deal with increasing development pressures.
The Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection (RLEP) has initiated a bill (Senate Bill 210) with the help of Senator Miller to give citizens an increased role in deciding whether new powerlines should be constructed in a given area. The local conservation group has worked on this issue for years, and is now proposing that the voltage for a power transmission line which must be approved by the state Corporation Commission be changed from 150,000 volts to 100,000 volts.
This would bring the 115 kilovolt and 138 kilovolt transmission lines into the process already established for high voltage lines, whereby the affected public can participate in a hearing on the question, and the utility must prove that there is indeed necessity for a new powerline corridor. Such corridors often mean clearcutting a 100-foot swath across the forested hills, at times condemn
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