FD 35952 · GREAT LAKES BASIN TRANSPORTATION, INC.-RAIL CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION-IN ROCK COUNTY, WISC., WINNEBAGO, OGLE, LEE, LASALLE, GRUNDY, AND KANKAKEE COUNTIES, ILL., AND LAKE AND PORTER COUNTIES, IND.

Comment EI-22029

Received or sent 13 Apr 2016 (printed as 4/13/2016)

[Grant Park] This railroad will destroy valuable farmland that is needed by the people of this U.S. The terminal is taking 23 square miles of good farmland. How can that be replaced? There has to be another way to use land that is not already used as valuable farmland.

Submitted by: Deb Ekhoff · Grant Park, Illinois

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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