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were on hand to visit with landowners.
• Mark Hanson, a project spokesman, and Dean Pawlowski, project manager, were the facilitators of the presentation.
• The 345 KV transmission line will cost $300 million to $340 million to complete and once construction begins, it should take three years to complete, becoming energized in 2019. This is one of 17 projects that

are expected to be built in the upper Midwest.
• The big issue at hand is that the current transmission system is getting full. This new line will increase capacity. It will off-load the smaller transmission lines so that new wind generation facilities can be hooked up through the smaller lines. The 345 KV line is too big to add more generation.

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