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• Dixon said the Corps has not yet approved the application, but added that it appears the changes that have been made mitigate many of the environmental concerns they initially had.
• TransCanada has applied for a "nationwide" permit from the Corps. Under this permit process, there is no public comment period to specifically discuss or address a project. Instead, there is one public comment period to approve the conditions that need to be met to have a project awarded. And it is assumed, if the permit is approved, that the environment and waters are being protected.
• This has left some landowners feeling they have no say in the process.
• "As people who are mostly impacted by this and will bear the brunt of this, our voices have been silenced for us by the process, and it's one that we should have input in," said David Daniel, a Winnsboro, Texas, resident who will have the pro

posed pipeline run through his 20-acre property.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities are calling off a ground search for a South Dakota teenager who went missing while kayaking at Deerfield Lake in the Black Hills after they were unable to find him.
• Fifteen-year-old Justin Lewis went missing Monday afternoon. Searchers

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