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Notice of Permit Approval
TB Flats Wind Energy, LLC – TB Flats Wind
Energy Project
Before the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council
Docket Number DEQ/ISC 18-01
Notice of Permit Approval.
Pursuant to provisions in the Wyoming Industrial Development Information
Act (W.S. 35-12-101 et seq.), notice is hereby given that the TB Flats Wind
Energy Project of TB Flats Wind Energy, LLC (Applicant) has received a Permit
to construct from the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council. Records of the application and decision can
be viewed during business hours in the offices of the Industrial Siting
Division, Department of Environmental Quality, or on the Wyoming Department of
Environmental Quality’s website at, http://deq.wyoming.gov/isd/application-permits/resources/tb-flats-wind-energy-project/.
The Permit will allow the Applicant to construct and operate a wind
energy generation facility to produce up to 500 megawatts of energy. The
project components include up to approximately 200 turbines, at least one new
substation, an operations and maintenance building, access roads, a collector
system that is proposed to be located underground, a generation tie-line, and
ancillary facilities. The project is
located on approximately 52,000 acres of private and state land in Carbon
County, the southern end of which begins approximately 7 miles north of the
Town of Medicine Bow, primarily east of State Highway 487, and along State
Highway 77. Construction is anticipated to commence in Q2 2019 and be complete
by the end of December 2020. Construction manpower is anticipated to peak at
500 workers in July-September of both 2019 and 2020, with a temporary shutdown
of major activities over the winter.
Pursuant to W.S. 16-3-107, notice was given and the Wyoming Industrial
Siting Council conducted a public hearing on the Application for Permit. The hearing began at 8:30 A.M. on June 21,
2018 at the Jeffrey Memorial Community Center, 315 W. Pine Street, Rawlins,
Wyoming. The hearing concluded and deliberations
of the Industrial Siting Council took place the afternoon of June 22, 2018, at
the same location. The Council
considered the Applicant’s request pursuant to the provisions of the Industrial
Development and Siting Act (W.S. 35-12-101 et seq.), and the Rules and
Regulations adopted thereunder, and rendered a decision to grant the permit.
Dated this 31 Day of July, 2018
Industrial Siting Division
Department of Environmental Quality
200 West 17th Street, 4th
Floor
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002
307-777-7369
Kimber.Wichmann@wyo.gov
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