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Utilities urge Congress for clearer MBTA guidance to plan transmission and reduce bird strikes
Summary
Salt River Project and other witnesses told a House subcommittee that voluntary avian protection programs and best practices can reduce bird–infrastructure conflicts but that changing MBTA interpretations create planning uncertainty for utilities building and maintaining transmission lines.
Representatives of large electric utilities told the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries that regulatory certainty is necessary for long‑term planning of transmission and distribution systems and for protecting both birds and grid reliability.
Leslie Swanson, senior environmental scientist at Salt River Project, described SRP’s Avian Protection Program and the practical field measures the utility uses to…
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