CX-020089: North Fork-Rifle 230-kV Transmission Line Access Road and Right-of-Way Maintenance

Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Rocky Mountain Region (RMR), proposes to conduct routine access road and right-of-way (ROW) maintenance along its entire North Fork-Rifle (NFK-RFL) 230-kV Transmission Line, from the North Fork Substation (Structure 28/4) to the Rifle Substation (Structures 80/5, 80/5A, and 80/5B). Access road maintenance may include: blading; grading; removal of rocks and other obstacles impeding safe travel; installation, repair, and replacement of water bars, rip-rap, and other erosion control measures; and cleanout, repair, and in-kind replacement of culverts and other drainage features. Additional ROW maintenance may include: landing construction, re-contouring, foundation repairs, and soil stabilization around Structures 43/4, 43/5, 44/1, 47/5, 56/3, 57/2, 58/4, 60/5, 61/2, 62/4, 62/5, and 63/3. Equipment that may be used for this includes bulldozers, excavators, motor graders, dump trucks, compactors, skid-steers, and work trucks. This work will occur on private lands and public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), in Delta, Garfield, and Mesa Counties in Colorado. Work will be confined to WAPA’s existing access road prisms and ROW, and no new roads will be constructed.