Subject: Bowerman EIS
Date: Aug 29 13:03:52 1997
From: Gordon Lewis - 75262.275 at CompuServe.COM


The NUCOR Bowerman Basin project will involve a wide variety of local (zoning),
state (DEQ) and federal (Corps 404) permits. The project will most likely
result in an EIS. Alternative sites will be examined that pose less impacts,
and mitigation and remediation requirements will be attached to the approvals.
However this project promises a 300 million dollar investment and 250 jobs that
will pay an average of $58,000. The existing airport (mostly open space)
requires a subsidy from the city of over $200,000 per year. Given the changes
in timber industry employment and outlook, state efforts to diversify its
industrial base and the positive financial impacts to the local economy, the EIS
may be a bit skewed from a pure environmental view. Have a nice Labor Day
weekend, maybe visit Bowerman.