RICHMOND — The State Corporation Commission (SCC) will conduct hearings in Winchester and Loudoun County in early August to hear public comments on an application by Allegheny Energy and American Electric Power to build 31 miles of a 765-kilovolt electric transmission line in northern Virginia. The local hearings will give members of the public more convenient locations to offer testimony as public witnesses.

The first local hearing will be in Winchester on Monday, August 3 at the John Handley High School auditorium, 425 Handley Boulevard. The hearing will begin at 2 p.m. and then reconvene at 7 p.m. It will continue on Tuesday, August 4 at 10 a.m. at the school.

The next local hearing will be in Purcellville in Loudoun County on Wednesday, August 5 at the Loudoun Valley High School auditorium, 340 North Maple Avenue. The hearing will begin at 2 p.m. and then reconvene at 7 p.m. It will continue on Thursday, August 6 at 10 a.m.

The evidentiary hearing will begin in Richmond on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, at 10 a.m. Public comments will also be accepted at the beginning of this hearing in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building at 1300 East Main Street. Any person wishing to comment at any of these hearings should arrive early and sign in with the SCC bailiff.

Written comments on the proposal must be submitted by January 12, 2010. All correspondence should be sent to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118, and refer to case number PUE-2009-00043.

Interested persons desiring to submit comments electronically may do so at the SCC’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Click on the PUBLIC COMMENTS/NOTICES link and then the SUBMIT COMMENTS button for case number PUE-2009-00043.

Known as the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline or PATH Project, the new overhead transmission line would cross Frederick, Clarke, and Loudoun counties. The segments in Virginia are part of a plan to build a high-voltage line from the existing Amos substation near St. Albans, West Virginia to a new substation at Kemptown near New Market, Maryland.

The public may view the companies’ application and related documents during regular business hours at the SCC Document Control Center, First Floor, Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond. Interested persons may also access a copy of the application through the SCC’s Docket Search portal at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

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Case Number PUE-2009-00043 - Application of PATH Allegheny Virginia Transmission Corporation