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Associated Press - September 18, 2009 8:04 PM ET
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Developers of the Gateway West transmission line have introduced new potential routes for the power line that's proposed to run from Glenrock to western Idaho.
Rocky Mountain Power and Idaho Power held meetings in Wheatland, Medicine Bow, Laramie and Douglas this past week to present new "conceptual alternatives" for part of the proposed line.
The utilities delayed their siting process in July to try to settle issues raised by landowners and local governments along the route in Wyoming and Idaho.
In Wyoming, the developers are looking at potential new routes that would skirt the northern Laramie Range to the west or east from Glenrock down to the Medicine Bow area.
The Bureau of Land Management is expected to identify a preferred route by next spring.
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