Comment EI-19186
Received or sent (printed as 1/4/2013)
The IUOE Local 400 represents approximately 360 workers and their families that live and work in the Colstrip, Hardin, Lame Deer, Ashland and Forsyth MT. area that could be adversely affected by the proposed BNSF preferred Colstrip route" of the Tongue River Railroad. We feel that the Surface Transportation Board should consider the socioeconomic impacts of this route on all of these cities and towns and the residents in the surrounding areas. This route has the possibility of devastating the local economies, displacing families, increasing unemployment, lowering the tax base and creating innumerable hardships on the people and businesses in this area. This route should not be approved."
Submitted by: Charles E. Cashell · IUOE Local 400
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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