Upper Great Plains Wind Energy Programmatic EIS

Western Area Power Administration and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as joint lead agencies, issued the Upper Great Plains Wind Energy Final Programmatic EIS, which evaluates issues and potential environmental impacts associated with wind energy development within Western’s Upper Great Plains Customer Service Region (Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota) and upon the Service’s landscape-level grassland and wetland easements. Western will use the EIS to implement a comprehensive regional program to manage interconnection requests for wind energy projects.

For more information, see Upper Great Plains Wind Energy Programmatic EIS.