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LEGAL
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A public hearing to present the proposed Charter Street Heating Plant (CSHP) Rebuild project and findings of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) will be held at 5:30 PM on Wednesday, August 11, 2010, in Room 1106 of the Mechanical Engineering Building on the UW-Madison campus located at 1513 University Avenue. Free parking will be available after 5:00 pm in the Lot 17 parking ramp on Engineering Drive. The public hearing will include an informal open-house starting at 5:30 pm where interested individuals can view displays showing project components. A formal presentation will begin at 6:15 pm. All persons in attendance will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to identify both orally and in writing any support, issues, or concerns they believe should be addressed during the remainder of EIS process. The project proposes to rebuild CSHP to provide adequate heating and cooling loads to meet campus needs and includes the installation of a new biomass boiler, and two natural gas boilers to decrease the plant’s carbon footprint and to comply with a Consent Decree. This project requires construction of new buildings, boilers, and air control measures including new stacks at 117 N. Charter Street; new rail components including extension of a new rail spur on existing railroad right-of-way from W. Dayton Street east to near West Washington Avenue; a new rail unloading facility and building; modifications of existing rail overpasses at N. Park Street and East Campus Mall; and construction of biomass storage silos and conveying system on 115 N. Mills Street, which would cross overhead across N. Mills Street with an associated conveying system. The main project site encompasses an estimated 3.3 acres at 117 N. Charter Street which is the location of the existing CSHP facility and an estimated 1.1 acres at 115 N. Mills Street. Project construction is scheduled to commence September 2010 with substantial completion in March 2013. The FEIS for the project has been released for a 30-day public review period beginning July 15, 2010 and ending on August 13, 2010. The FEIS has been prepared by Ayres Associates on behalf of the State of Wisconsin Department of Administration Division of State Facilities (DSF) and the University of Wisconsin System Administration (UWSA) in compliance with the 1971 Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act (WEPA), sec. 1.11 Wisconsin statutes, as adopted by the Board of Regents in 1981 and updated in 1999. Copies of the FEIS are available at:
Madison Public Library (central branch) Helen
C. White Library (UW-Madison) Electronic copies are available for download from this web site (see below). If you are interested in this project or have any information relevant to it, we welcome your comments, suggestions, or other input. Please submit your comments in writing by August 13, 2010, to: |
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Ben Peotter |
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Comments received will be used to develop the Record of Decision (ROD), which will be circulated to key individuals and agencies involved in the EIS process and made publicly available to interested parties. Click Here to Download a Copy of the: FEIS Comment Form (0.01 Mb, PDF File)
Click Here to View Full FEIS Document:
Click Here to View Final EIS Appendices Chapter-by-Chapter:
Click Here to View Information from the August 11 Public
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Click Here to View DEIS Document: |
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