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County approves resolution opposing transmission corridor

By Greg Bebemeyer

09/06/2024

Brown County Courthouse

(KNZA)--The Brown County Commission has approved a resolution opposing a proposed five-mile wide electric transmission line corridor that would run through Brown County.

The Commission unanimously approved the resolution at their August 30th meeting.

In May, the U.S. Department of Energy unveiled a list of 10 potential corridors--a designation that would allow the federal government to expedite the development of electric grid expansion projects in those areas.

One of the proposed corridors would run span much of Kansas and run locally through Marshall, Nemaha, Brown and Doniphan Counties.

The proposal would allow the federal government to take land through eminent domain, which the resolution says would have a devastating impact on Brown County's tax base and the local agriculture community.

The resolution pledges the Commission's support to legislation being proposed by U.S Senator Jerry Moran that would ban federal funds from being used to condemn private property to be used in the transmission corridor designation and prohibit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from using its authority to overrule a State regulator's rejection of an electric transmission project.

The resolution states the Commission's position that federal taxpayer dollars should not be used for eminent domain and that decisions regarding electric transmission siting should be left in Kansas, not Washington D.C.

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