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Dorothea Leicher, Columbia Crossroads, PA.
`I write to encourage FERC to more fully consider the impacts of the proposed 
`Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC (Transco) Regional Energy Access 
`Expansion (REAE) project (docket number CP21­94­000) in terms of its significant
`climate impacts, its impacts to environmental justice communities, and the 
`irreparable harm it will inflict upon Pennsylvania’s pristine streams, 
`forests, and other natural resources. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement 
`(DEIS) is woefully inadequate and fails to address the scope of negative effects
`that would result from this project.  
`First, FERC admits that the climate change impacts of this pipeline will be 
`significant but then does no further analysis of these impacts and does not take
`these impacts into account.  This is unacceptable given the stakes that we all 
`face from a warming climate. FERC should consider the environmental impacts of 
`the additional greenhouse gas emissions, including upstream impacts and 
`downstream GHG emissions.
`Second, FERC acknowledges that the impacts of certain project components may be 
`predominately borne by environmental justice communities, but then concludes 
`that the impacts of the project â€œas a whole ” on environmental justice 
`communities were not high enough.  This minimizes the real and acknowledged 
`impact that this pipeline will have on environmental justice communities.  
`Burying that impact in conclusions about the project as a whole sacrifices those
`communities to a pipeline.   
`Finally, this pipeline will have significant and permanent impacts on some of 
`Pennsylvania’s highest quality water resources.  The project would impact 114 
`Exceptional Value (EV) wetlands and 37 High Quality (HQ) streams. Many of the 
`streams that would be crossed by the project are cold water trout streams that 
`are very sensitive to degradation. Clearing the forest around these streams 
`exposes them to direct sunlight, raising the water temperature and jeopardizing 
`their suitability as trout waters. Cutting forests and riparian buffers also 
`creates habitat fragmentation. This fragmentation should be evaluated in terms 
`of not only the impacts caused by these particular pipeline segments but also by
`other cuts in the same region, either by Transco on its other pipeline pieces or
`by other pipeline/linear projects. In addition, when the stream crossing 
`includes a cut through a pre­existing mature and healthy forest, the degradation
`of the forest on either side of the Right­of­Way that results from this forest 
`fragmentation also needs to be considered in terms of both stream impacts and 
`forest impacts. Transco does not have all of its required permits from state 
`agencies and has not provided adequate mitigation measures.
`The pipeline is also proposed to be constructed within the habitat of several 
`threatened and endangered plant and animal species including white­fringed 
`orchid, Indiana bat, northern long­eared bat, timber rattlesnake, and bog 
`turtle. Potential impacts to wood turtles are completely ignored in the DEIS, 
`and this omission should be corrected and impacts to wood turtles should be 
`considered. 
`For these reasons, I encourage FERC to refuse to approve the Transco REAE 
`Project. Thank you.
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