1.                                              MON VALLEY CLEAN AIR COALITION, Monongalia County, WV                       NOTE: The following 13 items were submitted to the Monongalia County Commission                       at the regular weekly meeting on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 by Duane Nichols              1. The WV Public Service Commission held a Public Hearingon the proposed Longview II power plant this past Thursday in Charleston.Public comment was limited to only 2 minutes. The local newspaper indicated that Duane Nichols of Maidsville spokeabout the traffic flows on WV Route 53 thru the Ft. Martin community. 2.     2. Duane Nichols is from Stewartstown, but was speakingfor many residents of Maidsville.  Actually,Stewartstown, Bakers Ridge, Pt. Marion and other areas are downwind of the twocoal fired plants and gets more than their share of the pollution.  Now a third plant is proposed but is notneeded. 3.      3. The lawyer for Longview stated to the Public ServiceCommission that the “non-binding term sheet,” which is the financial arrangement of a PILOT agreement from the Monongalia CountyCommission, is actually a binding document; that it is official and formal andcommits the County to the project.  SinceI was not aware of when or where the Mon. Commission had approved this project, Iwas in a state of shock. 4.     4.Since last Thursday, I have learned more about thetraffic in Maidsville and on the Ft. Martin hill. Listen to this: there are approx.300 diesel coal trucks per day hauling Pennsylvania coal up the hill toLongview I; --- there are special diesel trucks hauling Longview I flyash downthe hill and off to a remote facility, often after dark and perhaps during thenight; --- next, there are diesel trucks hauling First Energy flyash from theFt. Martin power plant down to the old Humphrey mine site off WV Route 100; ---next there is employee traffic for the power plants, --- delivery trucks forthe power plants, ---and then resident traffic and school buses. (Now much more is being proposed.)  5.     5. This Commission is planning to permit hundreds ofvehicles MORE for Longview II construction employees AND the large scalemovement of heavy power plant equipment. The Longview CFO told the PublicService Commission that some traffic could be from the north if the Shannopin dockat the mouth of Dunkard Creek is utilized. In my opinion, this is unlikely. So the traffic issues are much muchgreater than we ever were aware.  Ibelieve the residents of the Ft. Martin community deserve more considerationthan they have been given. 6.     6. Residents of the Ft. Martin community have complainedto the WV DOH, to the WV PSC, to the State Police, and indeed to thisCommission. Yet, these challenges keep getting worse.  The residents of Ft. Martin can actually “feel”and hear the truck vibrations inside their homes.  And, driving on Routes 53 and 100 is quitedangerous.(All this traffic is adding to the air pollution.)  7.     7. Longview submitted the following two items to thePublic Service Commission on January 17, 2020 regarding the public roads:PROPOSED CONDITION 8. “Applicant and their contractors and subcontractors,shall not block roads by changing shifts or heavy haul while school buses arescheduled to be on the roads within 1 mile of the site.” PROPOSED CONDITION 13. “Applicants will consult with the DOH onthe advisability and feasibility of constructing a right turn lane on the CR 53approach to the Project site.” This is a puzzle because the project site is tothe left.  Further, right turns arealmost always of no concern since they do not cross on-coming traffic. [This isthe only traffic control item proposed.] 8.     8. NEW TOPIC.  Longviewsubmitted application materials to the WV-PSC on September 12, 2019. Includedin Exhibit 2 on page 17, the last paragraph reads as follows: “To the east,along the new entrance road to the CCGT Facility, the foundation of a homesteadfarm house will be preserved when the access road is constructed through thisarea.  In addition, one of the stormwater management ponds located near the farm house foundation will be convertedto a recreational pond.  This area willbe developed with the addition of a pavilion with picnic tables, a walkingtrail, and baseball/softball field. Signage will be added for the walking trail.  The new Project Park will be considered aspart of the CCGT Facility operational footprint.  The Project Park will be open for bothCompany and community functions and events at times approved by theCompany.  The homestead ruins will bepreserved and identified by signage. Trees and shrubs will be planted around the pavilion and along thewalking trail.”  However, these proposalsare absent from the Proposed Conditions of Exhibit JLK-3 submitted on January17, 2020. 9.     9. Consider the existing Ft. Martin Grade School, an oldstructure on Route 53.  It is locked tight,probably has not been opened for 20 years. What are the plans for this school building? Can we consider moving itto a location where it could safely be appreciated, perhaps the Mason-Dixon Park.  There it could be looked after by responsiblepeople.  1    10. Theexisting Longview I coal conveyor could be relocated to the Ft. Martin hill,and with cooperation from First Energy, could be used to transfer coal from theRiver up to the Longview I power plant. Cooperation among the power companies over there would be necessary.This County Commission would serve the county well by facilitating cooperationamong the parties.       11. Regardingthe coal-fired 1400 MW Ft. Martin power plant. Coal arrives by railroad carsbut the ash is conveyed up the hill to Route 53.  It is then trucked down the hill and ontoRoute 100 where it is dumped onto the old Humphrey mine property, if I amcorrect. Now this is very near the Monongahela River, so the surface runoff andgroundwater leachate can ultimately flow to the River.  We should insist that this ash be disposed uptop as originally planned, somewhere on top of the hill or inPennsylvania.  This would remove some ofthe trucks and dust on the Ft. Martin hill.        12.   Dust from the trucks gets on the roadway anddries, then the traffic suspends it into the air as an aerosol where some itsettles out in yards and on the homes of the residents. Some residents keepboots available for walking in the muck at their mail-boxes. 13. Manyletters have been received at the PSC raising issues with a PILOT agreement.The PSC is not forwarding these to Monongalia County.  And, I doubt seriously that the CountyCommission is giving them any consideration. PILOT agreements are quasi-legal,not having a firm foundation in law. So, any PILOT agreement should beprepared, negotiated and approved only with the full and open participation ofthe pubic citizens. (Further, an alternative site should be chosen or better yet, limit the project to an alternative energy project of solar cells.)   Duane G. Nichols, MVCAC Coordinator, 330 Dream CatcherCircle, Stewartstown, WV 26508Date: February  5,2020.   Nichols330@gmail.com; 304-216-5535. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  RE: W.V. PUBLIC SERVICECOMMISSION:  Case 19-0890-E-CS-CN,Longview Power II.Note: This Case will be open for comment until February 24th.Early comments are needed particularly with regard to whether the Ft. Martin site is right for another power plant. This new plant will generate some 4 million tons per year of greenhouse gases, adding to over 10 million already.  A proposed agreement for property taxes in place of routinetaxes, called a Payment In Lieu Of Taxes (PILOT), has been prepared by theMonongalia County Commission and submitted to Longview Power, LLC, for theirconsideration. This was done without the participation of the citizens of thecounty.  A study and report of PILOTagreements in general and this one in particular has been completed by the WVCenter on Budget and Policy, as shown here:  "PILOTAgreements Cost State Millions in Tax Revenue: An In-Depth Look at LongviewPower Plant" - West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy, Ted Boettner,October 15, 2019 https://wvpolicy.org/pilot-agreements-cost-state-millions-in-tax-revenue-an-... of Information, Support or Protest can bemailed to: Ms. Connie Graley, Executive Secretary, WV Public ServiceCommission, 201 Brooks Street, Charleston, WV 25301. Specify the Case Numberand Title: Case 19-0890-E-CS-CN, Longview Power II. B.    Comments Can Be Filed Electronically directly to theWV-PSC: Go to: WV Public Service Commission, choose “Submit a Comment,” choose “FormalCase,” enter the case number; click on the case number, enter the requestedinformation and your comment. Or, try the following link that may take you tothis same screen:   http://www.psc.state.wv.us/Scripts/OnlineComments/formalComments.cfm?CaseID=... May be Submitted Electronically to theMonongalia County Commission: https://monongaliacounty.gov/contact_us/index.php