Res 1999 - 33 Providing Additional Comments to the MN Environmental Quality Board on Northern States Power's Environmental Assessment WorksheetCITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 99- :�3
A RESOLUTION PROVIDING ADDITIONAL COMIVV��NTS TO THE MINNESOTA
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY BOARD ON NORTHERN STATES POWER'S
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT WORKSHEET
WHEREAS, The Environmental Quality Board (EQB) has submitted an Environmental
Assessment Worksheet (EAW) prepared by Northem States Power (NSP) to the City of
Mendota Heights for review and comment regarding the NSP Southeast Metro 115kV
Transmission Line Project; and
WHEREAS, the Mendota Heights City Council provided comments in Resolution No.
99-32, A RESOLUTION PROVIDING COMN�NTS TO THE MINNESOTA
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY BOARD ON NORTHERN STATES POWER'S
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT WORKSHEET dated June 15, 1999; and
WHEREAS, the Mendota Heights City Council conducted a special meeting on June
24, 1999 for the purpose of further considering the EAW; and
WHEREAS, the Mendota Heights City Council desires to make additional comments
on NSP's EAW.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by the City Council of the City
of Mendota Heights that we fmd the Environmental Assessment Worksheet to be inadequate in
identifying and examining all potential environmental impacts associated with the proposed
Southeast Metro 115kV Transmission Line Project; and
BE IT FLJRTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of Mendota Heights hereby
requests the preparation of a full Environmental Impact Statement in order to fully determine
and study all the environmental impacts for the proposed Southeast Metro 115kV Transmission
Line Project.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Mendota Heights this twenty fourth day of June,
1999.
CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
By �G�-,.�..' � � �a
Charles E. Mertensotto, Mayor