[Ellen White] 00:00:00 OK. [Ellen White] 00:00:01 I think we're going to get started. [Ellen White] 00:00:02 Good afternoon, everybody. [Ellen White] 00:00:04 We're happy to have everyone join us today for the informational webinar on the potential Lake Erie-Canada corridor. [Ellen White] 00:00:14 My name is Ellen White with Argonne National Laboratory. [Ellen White] 00:00:17 We are assisting the Grid Deployment Office in their NIETC designation effort. [Ellen White] 00:00:22 So I'm going to run through a few housekeeping items, the agenda and then I'll pass it on to GDO. [Ellen White] 00:00:29 So for housekeeping, this webinar will be recorded and it will be posted to the NIETC website, which is listed on the screen and I believe it will be put into the chat. [Ellen White] 00:00:38 Also, the chat function and microphones are disabled for the entire webinar, but the Q&A function is accessible. [Ellen White] 00:00:46 And so that's you can find that at the bottom of your screen. [Ellen White] 00:00:50 It's either its own button or it might be under that more button. [Ellen White] 00:00:54 Questions will be collected throughout the webinar and they will be used to develop an FAQ document. [Ellen White] 00:00:59 But we won't be providing any answers or responses today during the webinar. [Ellen White] 00:01:05 So please, if you come up with a question, just type it in. [Ellen White] 00:01:10 There'll be a couple of minutes at the end. [Ellen White] 00:01:12 If you think of a question near the end of the presentation where you'll be able to to put in your questions. [Ellen White] 00:01:18 Closed captioning is available. [Ellen White] 00:01:20 You can enable it by going to that More button and select closed captioning. [Ellen White] 00:01:29 Go to the next slide. [Ellen White] 00:01:31 So the agenda for today, first a couple of introductions and then we'll introduce you to what GDO is, the Grid Deployment Office and what kind of work they do. [Ellen White] 00:01:42 An overview of the NIETC designation process and then we will describe the potential Lake Erie-Canada corridor, which is what we're here to discuss today. [Ellen White] 00:01:52 And then lastly, we're going to be discussing how you can engage and comment on the potential NIETC or any of the other corridors that you might be interested in. [Ellen White] 00:02:03 So with that, I'm going to pass the presentation to Pat Hoffman, who's the Principal Deputy Director of the Grid Deployment Office. [Ellen White] 00:02:10 Thank you. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:02:12 Thank you, Ellen. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:02:13 Welcome everybody to this webinar. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:02:15 I would like to thank the team for all their hard work in a lot of the transmission planning activities that we have been doing at the Grid Deployment Office. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:02:26 So the Grid Deployment Office, it is a relatively new office that was established in 2022. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:02:32 GDO was created really to serve 3 functions that are shown here on the slide. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:02:38 The first area was really looking at resource adequacy by supporting generation, critical generation sources, primarily hydropower and nuclear energy, as well as taking a hard look at electricity markets and making sure that services are valued through the electricity markets. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:02:55 So is there opportunities to improve electricity markets, look at additional services recognizing the needs of the electric system moving forward for reliability? [Patricia Hoffman] 00:03:06 The second area is really to catalyze the development of new and upgraded high capacity electric transmission lines as well as improve the distribution system nationwide. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:03:17 We really want to look at investments as we think about additional generation capacity, low growth in the United States as well as resiliency efforts and how can we really utilize the transmission system to provide as much flexibility as possible. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:03:33 The third area is really going after the resilience of the electric grid. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:03:38 How can we continue to invest in the long term and address the long term needs of the system? [Patricia Hoffman] 00:03:45 We recognize some of the unfortunate events that are going on in the West with the wildfires. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:03:49 We recognize the Hurricanes that damaged the system. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:03:53 How can we invest for the future and really take a look at investing once as we move forward to really take to advance the system, but advance the system in the most cost effective manner possible. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:04:07 The Grid Deployment Office oversees more than $22 billion in funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act or the BIL, IRA, the Inflation Reduction Act, in an annual appropriations. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:04:22 This really helps us to fulfill our mission and deploy solutions to lower energy costs and improve grid reliability and resilience. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:04:31 The Grid Deployment Office works very closely with states, Tribes, territories, industry, communities and other energy sector stakeholders really to ensure that our program supports a robust portfolio of generation, transmission, and distribution. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:04:48 Transformational efforts really focus on what are the local needs, the regional needs and the national needs. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:04:55 We recognize that the transmission and distribution system is the backbone of America's economic, energy and national security conversation. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:05:06 Next slide, please. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:05:11 What is a National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor? [Patricia Hoffman] 00:05:16 A NIETC is an area of the country where there is inadequate transmission and that inadequacy could harm consumers either currently, now or in the future. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:05:27 DOE is congressionally authorized to identify and designate National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors under the Federal Power Act. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:05:37 If you're interested in looking at more details of this, the NIETC designation processes in Section 216.A of the Federal Power Act and was amended by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:05:51 The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act actually gave us authority to take a forward-looking approach in understanding the state of the transmission system, whereas 216.A actually had us look at the current state of affairs. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:06:06 So the So under this authority, the Secretary, if the Secretary chooses to do so, can designate a NIETC based on several factors. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:06:17 The first factor is the presence of a pressing transmission need in an area. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:06:22 This is based on the findings from the National Transmission Needs Study. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:06:28 The Transmission Needs Study is a triannual state of the grid study report that DOE conducts and it is posted on the latest one is posted on our website that assesses current and expected transmission capacity constraints and congestion. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:06:45 This study has been a very important study in really helping us evaluate some of the transmission requirements, looking at transmission opportunities, looking at different scenarios as which is a very good role for the national labs and helping us assess different optionalities as we think about risk to the transmission system but opportunities moving forward. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:07:09 The second factor that the Secretary looks at with respect to a NIETC potential NIETC designation is any sort of NIETCs that would further national energy policy, maximize use of existing rights away, reduce electric or reduce electricity costs for consumers. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:07:29 And so these are some of the factors that we take into consideration. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:07:33 Designating NIETC focuses public and policy maker attention on the greatest area of needs for transmission, but also unlocks several tools to advance transmission deployment in the United States. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:07:48 These tools are listed here. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:07:49 The first tool is the Transmission Facilitation Program and the second tool is the Transmission Facility Financing program. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:07:58 And I will talk about both of these tools in a moment. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:08:01 The third thing that it unlocks is federal siting and permitting authority. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:08:06 But this authority is carried out by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and is under a separate process. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:08:13 So what I want to do is just briefly take a moment and walk through the two financing tools that DOE has available to to us. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:08:21 The first is the Transmission Facilitation Program. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:08:25 This is a 2.5 billion revolving fund borrowing authority that really provides federal support to overcome hurdles with developing large scale transmission lines. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:08:36 These tools include capacity contracts, which really is an anchor tenant process where DOE buys capacity on a transmission line. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:08:46 The second tool is a public private partnership and this is where we can evaluate NIETC opportunities. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:08:53 And then the third area is loans. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:08:56 On this slide, here you see the TFP selections which these are capacity contracts, agreements that we have with transmission providers to date in utilizing this 2 1/2 billion revolving fund borrowing authority. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:09:14 The second financing program that we have is the Transmission Facility Financing. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:09:20 This program is different and such that it must be in an area of national interest. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:09:29 So it must be a project that is covered under the full designation of a NIETC. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:09:35 So we cannot access the 2 billion in financing or direct loans that we can provide until we really have a NIETC designation. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:09:46 So DOE is in the process of really developing and doing the architecture of the application process for the TFF program, but recognize that we do need to have a NIETC designation to access the funds and be able to provide any sort of loan or cost subsidy as part of this program. [Patricia Hoffman] 00:10:07 So with that, I'm going to pause there and I'm going to turn the presentation over to Molly Roy, who's going to walk into the DITSI designation process itself. [Molly Roy] 00:10:19 Thank you so much, Pat, and thank you everyone for being here. [Molly Roy] 00:10:22 My name is Molly Roy, I'm a Senior Project Manager with the Grid Deployment office. [Molly Roy] 00:10:27 And let's dive into the NIETC designation process itself. [Molly Roy] 00:10:31 So you see here on the screen, what's laid out is a four phase process that GDO established in December of 2023 with which to designate a NIETC. [Molly Roy] 00:10:42 So also in December 23, we opened a first phase one information gathering window. [Molly Roy] 00:10:49 So we put out a request for public comment. [Molly Roy] 00:10:53 We got a lot of comments and information back, took that along with our National Transmission Needs Study that had talked about in the findings and analysis in there and based on all of that information, put together a preliminary list of 10 potential NIETCs. [Molly Roy] 00:11:10 So that was announced in May of 2024 when we kicked off phase two of this process. [Molly Roy] 00:11:17 So we put out that list of 10 potential corridors, requested further comment, got a lot of more comments and information on those 10 areas. [Molly Roy] 00:11:27 And based on that, about a month ago kicked off phase three. [Molly Roy] 00:11:31 So you see that we are here, that's where we are right now. [Molly Roy] 00:11:36 And for phase three, we are now down from 10, we're down to three potential corridors that we're considering and we have also narrowed and refined the boundaries further based on what was put out in Phase 2. [Molly Roy] 00:11:48 So those 3 corridors that we're currently considering, we now have another public comment window open. [Molly Roy] 00:11:53 This will not be the last one. [Molly Roy] 00:11:54 But throughout this phase, we will continue to conduct community engagement as well as any required environmental reviews, which we'll talk about in some more detail in a moment. [Molly Roy] 00:12:06 Based on all that put together a final NIETC designation, which would be phase four and when the process is completed. [Molly Roy] 00:12:15 But there's a lot of decision points between now and then. [Molly Roy] 00:12:18 So we'll talk about that in the timeline for getting there. [Molly Roy] 00:12:21 So let's go to the next slide. [Molly Roy] 00:12:26 So just to on a overview level, the three potential corridors that we're considering now in phase three each meet bullets that you see here on the screen. [Molly Roy] 00:12:37 So each of them supports critical transmission development to address needs on the electric grid unmet through existing planning processes. [Molly Roy] 00:12:46 They each address key findings in that in that Needs Study, the National Transmission Needs Study and aligns with other DOE priorities. [Molly Roy] 00:12:57 They each demonstrate a clear utility of NIETC designation to further transmission. [Molly Roy] 00:13:02 So that means those three tools that Pat had covered that are unlocked by NIETC designation. [Molly Roy] 00:13:07 We believe the current potential corridors that we're looking at could the any transmission developed in those could use those tools in the near term to develop transmission. [Molly Roy] 00:13:20 And we also have sufficient information with which to narrow the boundaries to facilitate any necessary environmental review. [Molly Roy] 00:13:29 And we also think these three corridors balanced DOE’s staff and other resources to achieve timely, durable designations that follow from robust public engagement that we think each of these corridors and areas deserve. [Molly Roy] 00:13:43 So with that, let's go to the next slide and we can look at the particular corridor that we're focusing on today. [Molly Roy] 00:13:49 So this is the potential Lake Erie-Canada corridor you can use see it's the purple line you see on the map. [Molly Roy] 00:13:58 And we'll talk in a moment about a web platform where you can zoom much farther in on this on the lines that you see drawn here. [Molly Roy] 00:14:06 The just a quick geographic description and this is a narrower area in northern Pennsylvania. [Molly Roy] 00:14:15 In phase two, the area drawn on the map had included Erie Bluff State Park on the onshore part of the corridor and now that is removed in this phase three. [Molly Roy] 00:14:27 In the phase three boundaries and the corridor is approximately 1/2 mile wide on land whereas it's 30 miles wide offshore in Lake Erie. [Molly Roy] 00:14:39 Transmission developed in this potential corridor could maintain and improve reliability and resilience. [Molly Roy] 00:14:46 It could increase integration of new energy supplies. [Molly Roy] 00:14:50 It could provide inter regional connections between Canada and the PJM interconnection region and it can provide needed resource adequacy support to the PJM interconnection region. [Molly Roy] 00:15:03 And we are aware of one transmission project being developed in this corridor right now that could take advantage of those three tools that we were talking about and that is the Lake Erie Connector project by next era. [Molly Roy] 00:15:17 So if we go to the next slide, this is the timeline and next steps that it would take to get from now to a final NIETC designation. [Molly Roy] 00:15:28 So as you can see, the first step on the timeline at the bottom, we're in January 2025 and we're currently holding webinars for each potential NIETC. [Molly Roy] 00:15:37 The public comment period that we're in right now ends on February or the deadline is February 14th for comments. [Molly Roy] 00:15:43 So at that time, we'll be collecting, consolidating, reviewing all the comments that we receive. [Molly Roy] 00:15:49 And as I said, this will not be the last public comment period that we go through, but we'll be taking all that in from this comment period and then using that to determine to set up for the rest of the process, but also to determine whether NEPA applies to corridor designations, NEPA being the National Environmental Policy Act. [Molly Roy] 00:16:09 I will talk a bit more about this in a moment, but if the the determination made that NEPA applies, then we'll determine the appropriate level of NEPA analysis needed for each corridor and begin that analysis. [Molly Roy] 00:16:21 And based on that level of NEPA analysis that would significantly affect the timeline coming after that. [Molly Roy] 00:16:30 So that's why you see in green at the bottom here. [Molly Roy] 00:16:32 Each corridor will proceed through the rest of the timeline independently based on what environmental review and analysis they need in particular. [Molly Roy] 00:16:43 So let's see. [Molly Roy] 00:16:44 So then conduct additional, we'll be conducting additional public engagement both on the transmission need of the corridor as well as the potential environmental impacts, which will inform both the designation report and environmental documents that we'll be releasing. [Molly Roy] 00:17:00 So just to finish out the timeline at the bottom targeted for the summer 2025 pending you know, other decisions being made about the direction of the program of the transmission facility financing program that Pat talked about. [Molly Roy] 00:17:16 We are aiming to have the formal application process open this summer and then the the next box is about the 2025 to 2026 is a rough timeline for when we would conduct any required environmental reviews based on the level of analysis needed. [Molly Roy] 00:17:34 And that puts 2026 being when we would release draft NIETC designation reports and draft environmental documents. [Molly Roy] 00:17:41 Those documents would all go through public comments before there's a final NIETC designation. [Molly Roy] 00:17:49 So that is the timeline of next steps. [Molly Roy] 00:17:51 And I'll hand it back to Ellen to cover the NEPA determination process and the web platform we talked about for mapping purposes. [Ellen White] 00:17:59 OK. [Ellen White] 00:18:00 Thanks, Molly. [Ellen White] 00:18:02 So this slide's just going to go through how GDO determines the level of NEPA that will be required for NIETC designation. [Ellen White] 00:18:10 And NEPA or the National Environmental Policy Act requires federal agencies to assess the environmental effects of any major federal action that may significantly affect the quality of the human environment. [Ellen White] 00:18:24 So the first step in determining the level of NEPA analysis that could be required for NIETC designation is to decide if the NIETC designation is a major federal action. [Ellen White] 00:18:34 If it's not, then no NEPA analysis would be required. [Ellen White] 00:18:38 If NIETC designation is determined to be a major federal action, then the next step would be determine if the effect if the action would have any effect on the human environment. [Ellen White] 00:18:50 And if it's decided that it's an action that does not normally have a significant effect, then it would be categorically excluded from a detailed environmental analysis. [Ellen White] 00:19:01 If it's unlikely or unknown if it will have significant effects, then the GDO would prepare an environmental assessment. [Ellen White] 00:19:10 And if that environmental assessment shows that there would not be significant effects, then the GDO would would develop and publish a FONSI finding of no significant impact report that would explain the results and why they concluded that there would be no significant effects. [Ellen White] 00:19:32 If the GDO expects that NIETC designation could have reasonably foreseeable significant effects, they would produce an environmental impact statement, which is a multidisciplinary document that analyzes the environmental, social and economic effects of a proposed action. [Ellen White] 00:19:51 And the NEPA process includes multiple public engagement opportunities and it concludes in a record of decision, which is the agency's decision on the action. [Ellen White] 00:20:05 And so next we're going to go to, if you could change that slide, we're going to be talking about the Geospatial Energy Mapper. [Ellen White] 00:20:14 Also called GEM, it's available at gem.anl.gov, which you can see at the top of the screen here and I believe it's also going to be put in the chat so you can link to GEM from there. [Ellen White] 00:20:26 And that isn't GEM is an online mapping and analysis tool. [Ellen White] 00:20:30 It has extensive catalogue of layers of data that you can use to view and overlay with the location of the all the three potential NIETCs as well as other resources. [Ellen White] 00:20:44 And so I'm going to do a quick live demo of the GEM mapping tool. [Ellen White] 00:20:50 So I'm going to just share my screen may take just a second here. [Ellen White] 00:21:00 OK, it should be up now. [Ellen White] 00:21:02 This is the homepage the gem.anl.gov. [Ellen White] 00:21:06 You can subscribe to the e-mail list if you'd like. [Ellen White] 00:21:09 There's some video tutorials here also that you can link to. [Ellen White] 00:21:12 And just if you click launch GEM either here or up in the right hand corner, it launches the tool in a separate window. [Ellen White] 00:21:19 So this is what the tool looks like. [Ellen White] 00:21:20 There's a big map in the front in the middle here with nothing on it so far. [Ellen White] 00:21:25 All of the layers that you can find are on the left here. [Ellen White] 00:21:28 And then as soon as you populate anything onto the map, it will appear in the legend to the right. [Ellen White] 00:21:33 So first let's pull up the potential NIETCs and they're under this Mapping Themes, which is just a list of a bunch of different types of grouping of resources or grouping of layers by resource. [Ellen White] 00:21:49 And I'm going to click on the potential NIETCs. [Ellen White] 00:21:50 They all have like preset layers already up depending on what the the theme is. [Ellen White] 00:21:57 And so this is the the layers that are up for the NIETCs. [Ellen White] 00:22:06 You can see in blue here are all three NIETCs and there's also transmission lines and then Federal Land Service Management Agency layer. [Ellen White] 00:22:13 So I'm going to zoom in to the Lake Erie-Canada connector. [Ellen White] 00:22:22 It's taking just a minute. [Ellen White] 00:22:23 And so you can see there's the NIETC and transmission lines could see Forest Service lands are in green here. [Ellen White] 00:22:33 And so that's, that's how it populates with just the NIETCs. [Ellen White] 00:22:37 If you're interested in adding another resource to the map, you can explore the catalog layer. [Ellen White] 00:22:43 This is a list of all of the layers that are on GEM. [Ellen White] 00:22:46 I think there's like 240 layers. [Ellen White] 00:22:49 You can filter by keyword, you can choose by category, or you can just go down the list and and see what what layers are available. [Ellen White] 00:22:57 But for now, we're going to put up pull up ecology just as an example. [Ellen White] 00:23:03 These are the layers that are under the category ecology, and I'm just going to pull up all the critical habitat. [Ellen White] 00:23:12 If you see here to the right, this shows the line that you have highlighted. [Ellen White] 00:23:16 The layer that's highlighted tells you where it came from, the source data, when it was published and last updated. [Ellen White] 00:23:24 The metadata button at the bottom here we'll open a new tab with additional information that you might want to know about the layer. [Ellen White] 00:23:31 Or you can download this this data, this critical habitat data to your own computer. [Ellen White] 00:23:38 So once that's checked blue, you can X out of this and it will show up here. [Ellen White] 00:23:43 You can see it's it's divided into endangered and threatened and it shows you the different colors, whether it's a line or an area. [Ellen White] 00:23:51 And then say you have another species that you're interested in that's not endangered or threatened, but you have the data for it and you want to know if it overlaps the NIETC. [Ellen White] 00:24:01 You can add your own data by clicking on file and then uploading shapefiles from your own computer or your own system. [Ellen White] 00:24:10 And that's just something that that could be helpful if GEM doesn't contain all of the data that you're looking for. [Ellen White] 00:24:17 And alternately, if you want to download the NIETC data to your own computer, you can do that either through the the catalog or clicking just right here on the legend. [Ellen White] 00:24:29 The same information pops up about source metadata and you can download the NIETC shape files. [Ellen White] 00:24:37 What else do I want to go through? [Ellen White] 00:24:39 Oh, these three buttons right here are ways to view the data differently on the map. [Ellen White] 00:24:45 So you can remove the layer this way by pressing this minus button. [Ellen White] 00:24:49 If you're interested, say in only looking at the critical habitat and the the transmission lines here kind of distracting. [Ellen White] 00:24:56 They are a little bit similar color. [Ellen White] 00:24:58 You can hide them. [Ellen White] 00:24:59 So then you're only showing the critical habitat or you can change the transparency too. [Ellen White] 00:25:05 You can make it lighter or darker. [Ellen White] 00:25:09 And the last thing I'm just going to say is that you can also measure distance in area. [Ellen White] 00:25:14 So if you want to know the proximity of say this critical habitat to then it see, you can use the the measure tool. [Ellen White] 00:25:21 And you can also draw a line or polygon. [Ellen White] 00:25:23 If you're like concerned about a certain area, you can draw a circle around the area. [Ellen White] 00:25:27 And then you can always save or print the map using this button here. [Ellen White] 00:25:32 So hopefully this is a useful tool to provide comments to show the proximity of sensitive resources to an area that you're interested in. [Ellen White] 00:25:40 And yeah, that's just a very quick tutorial. [Ellen White] 00:25:45 I'm going to stop sharing now and pass back over to Molly. [Molly Roy] 00:25:51 Thank you, Ellen. [Molly Roy] 00:25:52 All right. [Molly Roy] 00:25:53 Just last two slides, as I noted, we were, we are in the middle of a and just sorry, just a quick reminder to keep putting your questions in the Q&A if you have them. [Molly Roy] 00:26:02 We'll also keep the zoom open a little bit longer afterwards in case you need to finish typing your question. [Molly Roy] 00:26:08 So as I've mentioned, we're in the middle of a public comment period. [Molly Roy] 00:26:11 Now the comments, so in December 16th, we published notice in the Federal Register seeking comment and those comments are due by February 14th. [Molly Roy] 00:26:21 We have a few bullets here on what we're particularly seeking input on. [Molly Roy] 00:26:26 So first, environmental, cultural or socio economic effects that may occur should DOE designate any of the potential NIETCs that we're looking at in phase three. [Molly Roy] 00:26:37 Next, the contents of DOE’s proposed public engagement framework and any unique public engagement and governmental consultation factors that we should account for in each of these potential NIETCs. [Molly Roy] 00:26:47 So really looking for information on how to further engage the public in these areas. [Molly Roy] 00:26:53 If there's an existing meeting or existing organization that you'd recommend we should work through or any any other information that's particular to that area that would be good to continue getting a robust engagement with the public. [Molly Roy] 00:27:08 We would love to hear that now. [Molly Roy] 00:27:11 And we are also accepting meeting requests by emailing our inbox, NIETC@hq.doe.gov. [Molly Roy] 00:27:18 Just note, we based on staff capacity may not be able to accept all requests, but may also be able to organize group meetings based on common features as a way to accommodate more. [Molly Roy] 00:27:31 So if we go to the next slide, this is where you can submit comments. [Molly Roy] 00:27:37 So there's a number of options from the e-mail address that we showed on the previous slide is the same for submitting comments. [Molly Roy] 00:27:46 So NIETC@hq.doe.gov, you can e-mail us questions, comments, meeting requests, anything you want there, you'll get to our team. [Molly Roy] 00:27:53 You can also hard copy mail us so we have the address there on the screen as well as submit comments through regulations.gov. [Molly Roy] 00:28:00 So that's where you'll find the Federal Register Notice and be able to submit comments there. [Molly Roy] 00:28:05 And that will all this will all get to us. [Molly Roy] 00:28:07 There's two options here for regulations.gov. [Molly Roy] 00:28:10 One is a docket that pertains to all three of the potential corridors that we're looking at in phase three. [Molly Roy] 00:28:17 And the last one is specific to this Lake Erie-Canada corridor. [Molly Roy] 00:28:21 So you can comment in either place. [Molly Roy] 00:28:24 So we'll leave this up. [Molly Roy] 00:28:26 That is the end of our the content of our presentation. [Molly Roy] 00:28:30 But again, encourage you to put questions in the Q&A box or e-mail us if you think of them afterwards. [Molly Roy] 00:28:36 We'll leave this open for a few minutes if you want to finish typing your question. [Molly Roy] 00:28:40 But otherwise, thank you so much for being here today and we look forward to your feedback. [Molly Roy] 00:28:46 Thank you.