Comment EI-22941
Received or sent (printed as 5/22/2016)
Thank you for providing this medium to submit comments on Docket No. FD 35952 in reference to Great Lakes Basin Transportation, Inc. Because of the countless environmental impacts, and the suggestion for alternative routes, I am requesting that the Surface Transportation Board deny the GLB's petition for exception and require the proposed venture to submit to a full review or end this project. In addition to those who are suffering the emotional turmoil that this proposed route has done to them and their objection to doing the same to other farm land owners or rural community's there is the fact that the STB has jurisdiction to authorize construction of railroad lines, but cannot authorize construction of a designated utility corridor for possible use in the future by utilities as the GLB Route Narrative states. Great Lakes Basin states that one of its key design objectives is to ...provide a utility corridor for improved electricity, water, natural gas, fiber optics, and wireless coverage, both to support railroad operations and to provide new options for our neighbors." For these reasons, a full review of GLB's project under Section 10901 is warranted and I ask that you please do so. Regards, April Gerstung"
Submitted by: April Gerstung · April Gerstung
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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