CLEAR members and friends......

The Cheat Lake Park and Trail "recreation plan" receives a special review every three years; and Allegheny Energy has just released the review document for comment for 2006 this past week. I will find out a.s.a.p. if we can get an electronic version of at least the main text, so we can email it to all our readers.

And, we will request a public meeting near the Lake so all interested persons can attend, hear a presentation by each interested group, ask questions of Allegheny Energy, and receive comment from the general public.

I am going to submit a protest, that the reply to the last three year review was too late in being issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. And, when it was issued, it was held for months by AE before revealing it to the public.

As soon as we get an electronic version out to our readers and the review has been studied, we can circulate some comments and feedback via email. It is important that letters be written to Allegheny Energy reasonably soon, to request a public hearing with presentations and discussion, and that we get the issues out for public awareness.

Thank you Peggy for your email; and, I suspect that you will be part of the letter writing and discussion of this "recreation plan".

Sincerely, Duane Nichols, CLEAR.

NOTE: The Recreation Plan Update dated 2/1/06 is available on the FERC web-site.

Type in: _www.ferc.gov_ (http://www.ferc.gov)

Then select the "eLibrary".

Type in the Project number as: "P-2459".

Then choose the PDF option and click on the report title.

[The report is about 5 megabytes in size, and contains some 70 pages; so it will be almost unrealistic to read in this form unless you have broadband Internet.]